TERRI SPROUL INSPIRED TECHNIQUE

I am sharing a Christmas Card I made for SinCity Stamps today.  I used a technique I learned from Terri Sproul's Tuesday night show.  She does a live "Art Journal" show every week and she shows us many techniques!  Click her link above to find out more.

She showed us the technique I used for this card several times but I never tried it until now.  It is awesome and I know it will be in my "favorite techniques" file for sure!

Supplies:

• SinCity Stamps "Steampunk'd Christmas" Stamp Set
• SinCity Stamps "Fish Stencil"
• DecoArt Media Paint "Cadmium Red"
• Stewart Superior India Ink

This technique is like reverse stenciling.

I took out my stencil, paint and baby wipes.  I loved the flourish of the fish's tail so I taped off the rest of the fish.  I painted my whole piece of paper and let it dry.  I put my stencil on top and used the baby wipes to wipe off the paint that was inside the stencil.

How cool is that???  I can't believe I didn't try it sooner!  The flourishes look like flowers, I think.  

I stamped the Merry Christmas directly on the reverse stenciled, dry, paper.  I love how crisp these stamps are!!

I also stamped the postal stamp on some patterned paper to add to the top right corner.

I matted the reverse stenciled and stamped paper and added a bow with a button.

I hope you try this technique.  If you do be sure to let Terri know, I'm sure she'd love to see!!  Check out her Art journal group, All Things Terri Sproul!

xxDaniella

A Christmas Clock with Walnut Hollow

Hello, and welcome to my first Sin City Stamps post for December.  This month, we are proud to have Walnut Hollow as our sponsor.

I began my project with their rustic wood ledge.  It is quite rough, but instead of sanding it, I covered it with a good, thick coat of white gesso.  I wanted to maintain the texture without getting splinters.

Next, I covered the front and sides of the box with the green gold texture paint.  This paint is very thick and needed to be applied with a palette knife.  After spreading a medium thick coat, I dabbed the paint with the side of my knife to obtain this cool texture.

Mist entire box with Turquoise Shimmer Mist, then Primary Yellow, dabbing some of the excess mist as you go.  Let dry.

Apply Patina Gilder's Paste to high spots with your best tool, your finger.

Mist entire box again with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist.  Let dry.  Can you see the pretty gold flecks?

Apply German Silver Gilder's Paste to the high spots, leaving some of the Patina showing.  Now I am really loving it.

Drill  a hole in the center of the wooden snowflake large enough for the clock hand shaft to go through easily.  I also stamped snowflakes from Penguins on Ice set with Versamark ink and silver embossing powder.

Paint the wooden snowflake with the orange yellow metal color paint.  Let dry.  Use a baby wipe or damp paper towel and gently remove the orange yellow paint from on top of the embossed snowflakes to reveal the silver embossing.

Adhere two Clock Die Cuts together for extra thickness.

Heat emboss the clock die with Versamark ink and silver embossing powder.  Two coats of embossing powder were needed to get a smooth, metal look.

Adhere clock face to front of wooden snowflake.  

Paint the metal pendulum with the orange yellow metal color paint.  Let dry.  The photo shows just the hanger painted to show you the difference.

Measure and paint two ¼" wooden dowels with the orange yellow metal paint and adhere to lower half of box along the sides.

Put clock parts together and adhere wooden snowflake clock onto box at the top, just above the two dowels.  Adhere glittered snowflake to pendulum, and three rusty metal snowflakes to inside box.

Adhere reindeer ornament and holly sprig to bottom of box.

Select four matching scroll die cut pieces from the Clock Die Cuts, cover with Versamark ink, and heat emboss with a rust embossing powder.  The photo shows the one on the left "rusted".

Adhere to the sides of the box in the center.

Another look from the front and side!  I really love how this turned out.

Supplies:

Sin City Stamps:  Penguins on Ice rubber stamp set; Clock Die Cuts; Clock Die Cut
Walnut Hollow Rustic Wood Ledge
Other:  white gesso, Green Gold Texture paint; Versamark ink pad; wooden laser cut snowflake; Primary Yellow and Turquoise Shimmer Mister; Patina  and German Silver Gilder's Paste; Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls Mist; Orange Yellow Precious Metal Color; Clock with Pendulum parts, rusty metal snowflakes, Christmas ornaments

I hope you enjoyed my project today.  I know it was long, but mixed media usually is.  In any case, I hope you are inspired to make your own clock, whether for Christmas, or as a gift specific to someone you know.

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to visit Sin City Stamps and the team for all your stamping inspiration, and gift giving, products.

Have a super wonderful weekend!

Barbara

Countdown To Christmas

Countdown to Christmas

I can't believe it's December already. 

There is no snow here so it's hard to get into the Christmas spirit.

I decided to make a Christmas canvas to get me in the spirit.

This canvas is kind of a prelude to my project in two weeks.

(You will have to come back and check it out!)

Supplies:

Sin City Stamps: Clockworks by Terri Sproul

Different Christmas papers

glitter, acrylic paint, Aileen's snow

I covered a canvas with tissue paper..

I would have loved to had music notes but this is what I had.

I stamped on some music notes.

I also stamped some in red later.

I tore the paper I wanted to use.. 

I did two different sizes just to see what works best.

I got the tree glued down and added the roman numerals

(made by Terri Sproul)

I then added acrylic paint around the edges

and glitter just inside that..

added the words.. Countdown To Christmas.

I added doodles around the tree.

I added the star (cut from Cricut cart)

I decided I couldn't see the numbers very good..

I stamped the numbers again and cut out

and added to my canvas.

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The Stockings Were Hung By The Chimney With Care Christmas Card

Hello everyone!  Can you believe it is December already?  My how time flies when you are having fun.  And speaking of fun, I am having so much fun with Pam Bray's new Christmas stamp sets.  

If you know anything about me, you know I love dimension, and I found this fabulous pop-up fireplace card on my Silhouette.  It was just what I needed to hang my stamped Christmas stockings and place my gift box.  Yeah, only one gift so far, but it is early.  LOL

Here is the front of the card.  I folded a print card stock in half to make a 5" x 7" card, stamped and colored  Santa onto white card stock and cut around him, adhering to a 3" doily.  Dear Santa ... was stamped onto a note card from the paper collection, and a Santa definition from my Silhouette added.

And here is what you see on the inside.  Isn't this fabulous?  I cut the pop-up out in full once, and two more times in the parts I needed so I could have the base (beige), the red bricks (red), and the wooden mantel (tan).  I ran the tan mantel piece through a woodgrain embossing folder and darkened the grain with a brown ink.  The red piece was embossed with a brick embossing folder and highlighted with a white ink.  Now to hang the stockings with care, and set the first present nearby.  

Here is a view from above.  You can see the stamped sentiment from Pam's Christmas Collection 2, stamped in green StazOn and die cut with a fancy labels die.

Here is a close-up view of those cute stockings and present that I stamped onto white card stock, colored and cut out to hang on the mantel.  I used a red Pico embellisher pen to make the berry dots on the garland, and on the stockings.

Supplies:

Sin City Stamps:  Pam's Christmas Collection and Pam's Christmas Collection 2
Spellbinders Fancy Labels die
Card stock:  white, beige, tan, red, 
Copic markers in reds, greens, yellows
Ink Pads:  Green StazOn, Memories Black, brown distress, white chalk 
Irresistible Pico Embellisher: Love Letter Red

Thanks for stopping by today, and please be sure to check back often.  I am going to be sharing some more fun Christmas cards using these two stamp sets, and of course, there is always so much more inspiration from the rest of the team.  

Have a wonderful, creative week!

Barbara

Christmas Journaling Fun

Hello! Peggy here to show you a two page journal with a jingle kinda theme...I'm just in that kind of mood lately ya know with the tree an all already up. Haha So, this month we are partnering with Cottonwood Arts. 

B2 Coldpress Notebook (6.75x12)

Sin City Stamps - Terri Sproul Art Journal 2

Molding paste

Stazon blue ink

White gesso

Gelatos 

Water colors

Cardstock

Dictionary paper

Copics

glue or matte medium

The first thing I did was sketch out a santa face so I knew approx. where he would be on both pages. Then I got out my stamps and white gesso. I stamped randomly with my unmounted stamps using gesso as a resist. Next I watercolored a blue background.

I used red gelatos to bring out that resist. More background stamping this time with blue stazon ink.

Time for texture! But before this stage I used dictionary paper for a mustash. Next the molding paste. Like icing a cake! 

 I used copic markers to color his face

 More stamping with white gesso, rolling my stamp over the page with a brick background. And now embellishments with some fussy cutting and glue.

I hope you have enjoyed my goofy side as much as I had fun making it! Thank you to Cottonwoodarts our november sponsor

I hope I have inspired you to create your own goofy side!.

Thank you for joining me! Stamps and Stencils and much more can be found at Sin City Stamps

Terri Sproul,  Peggy Oliver, 

Butterfly Canvases

Hello! It's Gracie. This month Sin City Stamps has partnered with Cottonwood Arts. I've used their excellent canvases for various projects of mine, and today I want to share a set of butterfly canvases I've colored and embellished.


Though I have presented these canvases individually, I had the intention of coordinating their design to hang them together as a set. I used 6"x 6" round corner canvases.

Check out How to Make a 3D Embellished Canvas With Pan Pastels by Gracie CH on Snapguide.

Check out How to Make a Shabby Chic Canvas Using a Gelli Plate by Gracie CH on Snapguide.

I hope you are inspired to get some Cottonwood canvases to try out some or many of the techniques we've been sharing with you this month! If you have any questions feel free to leave me a comment here or at my blog!

Thanks for stopping by.