See the stars plaque

 

Hi There! I hope you are okay and keeping well. I've got a little mdf plaque mixed media project for you today. Here is how I made it.

I stuck some mdf pop outs (although these aren't in the online store at the moment, you can get them at The Craft Store here) onto an mdf tag with two holes added to the bottom and painted them with black gesso.

Next I used a dry brush to lightly paint white gesso across the pop outs.

When this was dry I sprinkled with Pretty Gets Gritty Explosion powders in Mermaid, Neptune and Unicorn.

These were activated with water from a mister bottle.

Once the explosion powders were dry I used the unicorn white ink to stamp the border, circles and swirls onto the mdf.

I selected 6 pop out stars and sprayed them with Dina Wakely gloss sprays and left them to dry

I stamped the sentiment using the white ink on to heat resistant acetate and heat embossed it with fine detail white embossing powder.

I stuck the sentiment to the bottom of the mdf using gel medium.

I added some black ricrac through the holes and stuck the stars to it using gel medium. I also gave it a light spray with a spray varnish to seal it.

And here it is hanging on the wall. 

Here are links to the products I used:

• Over the moon stamp set
• La Luna stamp set
• Moon and stars sentiments
• Explosion powders are here
• Black gesso
• White gesso
• Mister
• Hero arts Unicorn white ink 
• Gel medium
• Dina Wakely gloss sprays
• These tags are the same size as the one I used 
• MDF star pop outs are here

I hope you like it. Thanks for looking! 

A journal page for Bee Crafty

 Hi there! Over the last month I have bought a few new goodies with my birthday money, so it was time to try them out! Here is a journal page in my 8x8 dylusions journal using several of them. 

I used:

8x8 Dylusions Journal

Dina Wakely gloss sprays in Blackberry, sky, Ruby and Tangerine

Mandala Inkable #7

Bee Crafty Over the moon Stamp set

Bee Crafty La Luna stamp set

Bee crafty Moon and stars sentiment stamp set

Texture paste

Gel medium

Collage paper

Gold embossing powder

Gold gilding wax

Posca pen

Archival ink

Versamark ink

Gold Liquid pearls

A small piece of black card

Here's what I did:

I applied some texture paste through the mandala stencil to the page and left it to dry.

Next I sprayed it with the Dina Wakely gloss sprays, then left it to dry very thoroughly

I applied gilding wax to the mandala area before setting the journal aside.

I stamped the la Luna and the moon stamps in versamark onto the collage paper and heat embossed with gold powder.

I cut these out and applied them to the page with gel medium.

I used archival ink to stamp some borders and add a few extra details. Some white pen helped to make them stand out a little.

I stamped and embossed the sentiment onto the black card and cut it out.

I added it to the page with the gel medium, and added a few dots of liquid pearls on the circles and at the corners.

This was the first page in my new journal, although it isn't at the front. I want to get used to working on a bigger page before I attempt that. 

If you do a journal page or a tag this month using Bee Crafty products, you can enter it in the current challenge in the Bee Crafty facebook group for a chance to win some stamps!

Thanks for looking! 

Playing with my Gloss Sprays and those beautiful face stamps

 

Last week I treated myself to some more Dina Wakely Gloss sprays and decided to have a play with them for my blog post this week. 

Here is what I used to make my card:

15cm square card blank

14cm square of mixed media card

Dina Wakely gloss sprays in Heather, Mineral, Lime and Eggplant

Faces - Whatever Works stamp set

Inkable Easy frame circle

Inkable big one - Bakewell

Small Words stamp set

Archival ink in Cobalt and Majestic Violet

blending brush

Versamark ink 

White embossing powder

Dark blue scrap of card

First I sprayed the mixed media card with the 3 paler gloss sprays and left to dry.

Next I stamped the face onto the sprayed card with the blue Archival ink. Make sure you use a juicy inkpad for this and don't leave it on the sprayed surface for too long or it will stick. I also stamped the other eye, lining up the eyebrows.

Once the ink was dry I placed the Bakewell inkable and inny circle mask over the face before spraying with the Egg plant gloss spray. I put the Bakewell on the right hand side, leaving an area on the left of the sprayed card not stencilled.

After removing the stencil/masks and putting them into a bowl of water, I used the tubes from the bottles to splatter the colours across the sprayed card.

I used the same part of the bottle to draw some solid lines of the spray where the edge of the big one stopped.

once this was dry I placed the circle back over the face and used a blending brush to add a little extra shading in the purple archival ink around the edge of the circle and the edge of the card panel.

finally I mounted it onto a blank white card and added a sentiment (white embossed onto a scrap of navy blue card)

I can see I am going to have so much fun with the sprays as well as the stamps! 

Thanks for looking!