Hello everyone! Zoey here for my first post as Designer in this awesome team.
For those who do not know me, I am an Italian mixed media “artist” wannabe who loves playing around with tons of media and dimension! I also love to recycle whenever I can, in fact, for this project I will use one of my favorite “trash to treasure”… cardboard! To start with, I cut a piece of upcycled cardboard and ripped off some pieces here and there. I covered the surface using a sponge brush and Faber-Castel Design Memory Craft® Gesso - I love this gesso because it is very fluid. I made sure not to completely cover my surface.
I grabbed a few pieces of scrap paper from my stash, and I ripped them forming strips of paper. Using Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® Gel Medium I adhered these strips to the background. I also made sure that some strips were overlapping, to create a bit of dimension. When the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® Gel Medium was dry, I covered the surface again with a thin layer of Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® Gesso. This helps to send my text into the background, and preps my surface for mediums.
I heat set the sprays and then I added some more texture. First, I stamped with Archival Ink here and there with one of the Rugged Edge Stamps Limor Webber Designs by Indigoblu – this might be another of my favorite stamp sets! Through the Crafter’s Workshop Template 6×6 – Tiny Circles I added a bit of Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® Whipped Spackle and heat set it to speed up the drying the time. I wanted more colors to help the Whipped Spackle blend into the whole background, so I grabbed some Lindy’s Stamp Gang Industrial Chic Magicals by Limor Webber Designs and with a small waterbrush I applied them to my canvas. I applied the color randomly and when I was ok with the result, again, I heat set everything.
I repeated the same steps above to another small piece of cardboard.Again, I stamped the Ink Splat Butterfly stamp onto a piece of old book page, I added color using the same color combination I used for the background and I fussy cut the butterfly. Over another piece of scrap paper I stamped my quote from the Dylusions Stamps – The Right Words that I also fussy cut. I gathered all my embellishment pieces: cheesecloth, metal embellishment and twine, then began assembling my layers. I use the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® Gel Medium to glue all the embellishments and layers together.Here’s some detail photos…as you can see all of the texture going on!
I love that you can still see the splattered background from the Ink Splat Butterfly Limor Webber Designs Stamps by Indigoblu.
The sentiment had other words, but I only used the parts that I needed…
And here’s the final project :
What do you think about it? I hope you will like it! I had so much fun playing with all these great products that you can easily find in Limor’s Store. See below the complete list of materials I have used! Stay happy, stay creative…till next time!
Complete Supply List:
- Lindy’s Stamp Gang “Industrial Chic”Magicals by Limor Webber Designs
- Lindy’s Stamp Gang “Industrial Chic” by Limor Webber Designs
- Lindy’s Stamp Gang “Tres Chic” Set by Limor Webber Designs
- “Rugged Edge” Stamps Limor Webber Designs by Indigoblu
- “Ink Splat Butterfly” Limor Webber Designs Stamps by Indigoblu
- Dylusions Stamps – The Right Words
- Crafter’s Workshop Template 6×6 – Tiny Circles
- Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® Gesso
- Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® Gel Medium
- Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® Whipped Spackle
