Friday, October 21, 2016

RUSTY CINNAMON

There are many various ways of doing a rust technique, everything from vinegar and salt, pre-prepared products, rusting items in water and leaving them in there for the naturally rusty look, right through to using other items you wouldn't even contemplate!  Hence the rust in this technique is using cinnamon for both texture and colour.  Starting out with a black base then adding some brown paint (Burnt Sienna is perfect) and maybe a little of another colour (turquoise?), then sprinkling on some ground cinnamon works perfectly!  I have sealed mine when they are dry using a matte medium but you can leave it au natural if you prefer.  Chipboard or metal works equally as well for your base substrate as both will take the colour just fine.  I find the Ranger Distress Paint is best for rusting your metal pieces as it sticks to metal and you can just use a Black Permanent marker to colour in the chipboard pieces as it is instantly dry and ready to use.

"Heart...

"Trapped"...

"Artifact"...

"Superficial"...

"I rant"...

"Live a life"...


This one below is obviously not a rusty piece but one of the samples from the last set of classes using the corrugated card and chipboard, Corrugated Layered ATC's.  Yes I know, there is some pink on it, generally so not me but it works well with the green colour so what the heck!

"Some birds"...

Thursday, October 6, 2016

CORRUGATED LAYERED ATC'S

This class utilises the thicker corrugated cardboard as the background and then other chipboard layers are added on top of this.  Each piece is painted with black gesso (or black acrylic paint if you don't have black gesso) and then assembled.  To attach the chipboard or laser-cut pieces you can use gel medium, glossy accents, good quality double-sided tape if your piece allows for it or as in the case with the wrought iron fence below, staples!  Then a white spray is used, either Dylusions White Linen or Ranger Distress Spray Stain Picket Fence and either while wet or allow to dry, add additional colours.  I've tried to stick to only one other colour or at the most two as these pieces are atc's (2-1/2" x 3-1/2" in size), you can easily muddy the colours if you use too many.  Then other embellishments, wording etc are added.  A bit of a fiddly technique but I love the dimension of these atc's!

"Unpleasant Dreams"...

"Fragile"...

Gardeners"...

"Seeker"...