Showing posts with label Cosmic Pixie Powders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cosmic Pixie Powders. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

POWDERED PIGMENTS & COFFEE FILTERS

 Powdered pigments are little jars of fabulous that have multiple colours in them that burst into life when spritzed with water. The assorted colours of tiny pigments in each container make up that particular colour if you mix them together in say a paint palette, but when they are just sprinkled and then spritzed, you get to see all the various colours that make up that specific colour. Black in particular is amazing with lots of shades of blues, oranges, deep purples and others that go together to make black in this format. The brands that I have and use are Brushos, Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals, Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders and Nuvo Shimmer Powder. I sprinkled the powders onto a dry coffee filter, then spritzed to get the colours to show. You can then decide whether to pick up the wet coffee filter and place it onto your glossy photo paper or you can press the photo paper directly onto the wet coffee filter for a different effect. The photo paper absorbs the colour immediately so you can't spread the colour around as it grabs the colour. This is another of those techniques where you can't replicate anything, each individual atc is unique. Glossy photo paper is a great substrate and takes either black Stazon ink well if you choose to stamp or you can use Black Soot Distress Archival Ink, allow both inks to dry though so as not to smear them.

"Half spent"

"Too many tabs"

"So goth"
(The black bats in the background are black
opaque texture paste by Ranger through a
bat stencil.)

"Life is short"

"Grow with the flow"

"Furry"

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

LAYERED GEL PLATE BACKGROUNDS

 There are so many ways to use a gel plate; for this class, pigment powders are the base for this layered background technique. Stamping, stencils, acrylic paint, and dies are all used to add further interest to the gorgeous coloured backgrounds. I used Nuvo Shimmer Powders, Lindy's Magical Shakers, Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders and even my Ken Oliver Liquid Metals on the gel plate to create my samples. Then it's multiple layers of all the other products that are added to finish them off.


"Live your story"


"I'm so goth"


"Fake"


"Ringtone"


"Go+See+Explore"


"Digging in the ground"


Tuesday, September 28, 2021

BRUSHOS & OTHER POWDERS

 Highly pigmented powders like Brushos, Cosmic Pixie Powders, Nuvo Shimmer Powders, Lindy's Magical Shakers etc have been around for a few years now and they are always a quick and easy way to create a background.  You can use them as they are, just a few gentle shakes, spritz with water and you get wonderful explosions of colour, or you can spritz your watercolour card first with water and then add. You can also just mix a single colour by itself on a piece of acetate to create one colour and use that for painting your background or your stamped designs. I've used a few different ways to create these backgrounds, including bleaching out a stamped image and then re-colouring with the pigment powders!

"Soul food"
(background & leaf shape coloured with Brusho
& Lindy's Magical Shaker powder)



"Soar"
(background created with Lindy's Magical
Shakers, trees stamped and Twinklets Diamond Dust
under the trees for extra sparkle)


"What the flock?"
(background using black Brushos only, then
bleached the stamped birds and re-coloured
with Nuvo Shimmer Powders)


"Curiosities"
(background with Nuvo Shimmer Powders and
Cosmic Pixie Powders, stamped skulls bleached
and re-coloured with Nuvo Shimmer Powders)


"If lost"
(background with Lindy's Magical Shakers &
Cosmic Pixie Powders, octopus stamped, embossed
and bleached)


"Wild side"
(background with Brushos and finger-painted
to blend, then Amsterdam Bronze paint applied
roughly on the bottom, overstamped with rocks
stamp and Amsterdam Pewter paint added. Tree
is JAC paper die-cut with brown foil applied)


"Let's party"
My granddaughter (7) wanted to do one herself
so this is her version of my What the flock?  She used
my stamp positioner so stamping was easy, I did the
bleaching for her and showed her how to colour
the birds with the Nuvo Shimmer Powders. She's
going to gift it to a friend at a holiday park we
are going to next week. 🥰