Monday 21 January 2019

Inspire: Create ART...

Hello friends and welcome...

Hope you are all well and had a great weekend! Today, I'm back with another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge piece and this week our theme is called ALCOHOL: DRINK or INKS and we hope you will join us, share your projects using this fun theme and play along!

For my project, I die cut circles of Yupo card, inked with various colours of Alcohol Inks to create an art tag and also added alcohol ink to my metal idea-ology pieces. Hope you enjoy the creative process behind this vintage style piece and enjoy reading how I bought this to life, adding layers and dimension.
So, let's begin and here's how I created this project...
 

To begin with I created my circular panels and for this I took a piece of Yupo card and applied drops of alcohol inks onto the card. Colours used: Lemonade, Butterscotch, Rust, Stonewashed Denim, Teak, Mushroom and Sepia. Once the inks were on the card, I then dropped small droplets of the Blending Solution over the top and just allowed the solution to do the work and blend those colours to make some amazing patterns.

Taking the inked card, I used the Stitched Circles die to die cut a selection of circular discs of various sizes and set these aside to use later.

Moving onto the tag, I applied a coat of gesso over the top to prime the surface and then used Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap Distress Paint to add a wash of neutral colour to the background. I didn't want too much colour as I wanted the circles to pop and be the main focal point.

Over the top of the dried paintwork, I then randomly applied layers of Crackle Paste and allowed that to dry and work it's magic.
Whilst the crackling is doing it's thing, I started work on the framed section and used one of the Baseboard frames and attached a piece of paper from the Dapper Paper Stash behind the aperture, again applying layers of Crackle Paste over the surface and also adding some Vintage Collage Medium to create a more vintage look to the paper. I then inked the edges of the paper.

I attached the frame to the tag using foam pads to add dimension and then using my splatter brush, I splattered Black Soot Distress Paint over the tag and the frame section. I also added some shading around the outside edge of the tag using the Black Soot Distress Crayon.
Now to build up the focal point and add my discs ~ I layered five various sizes of the circles, using foam pads to add various depths to each piece and placed them across the bottom section of the frame.
I then attached my paper doll which I'd colour tinted with some Distress Marker Pens, again using foam pads to add another layer of dimension.

In between the circular discs, I placed some Sprocket Gears which are all altered with some Patina, Rust and Gold Mixative Alcohol ink, applied to the metal using a Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool.
I then placed the gears amongst the circles and added a 'Create Art' Quote Chip as a final layer.
To complete the frame I added Hex Fasteners to each corner.

...and placed some Vintage Melange Pebbles in the top right hand corner, together with a Snippets Ephemera piece...
...and attached a Parcel Post Ephemera piece to the left.
As a finishing touch to the tag, I alcohol inked a Hinge Clip...
...and attached some chain to the clip to hang one of the older Tim Holtz idea-ology pieces with the word Inspire written across it and a clock key, both of which I had in my craft stash.
So, that complete's this week's project and if you keep on scrolling down to the end of the post, below is a list of all the products I've used to make this piece.

Don't forget, you can find more inspiration from my talented teamies over on the challenge blog and every week, one lucky random participant has the chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says StampYou have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in and good luck....





Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by today and hope to see you again soon, love Emma xxx

Recipe for project:
Distress Paint: Antique LinenFrayed Burlap

15 comments:

  1. STUNNING tag Emma! I love how you layers all of those circles, such a lovely and clever idea and the background and all of the details are perfect!! LOVE it :-)

    Hope you have a great week!
    luv
    Lols x x x

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  2. Emma, Emma! Does that brain of yours EVER run out of new ideas? I'm always so impressed at the new techniques and compositions you come up with. Love the circles and how this piece balances bold color with softer tones.

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  3. Love the juxtaposition of the vintage against the brightness of the alcohol inks, what a stunning combination. Makes a statement. thanks as always for sharing.

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  4. OMG those colorful circles! What an amazing detail doing all the work here. I just love this idea od popping them up. Love the soft and neutral colors on the tag and the crackles here and there.

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  5. Emma, you have such a masterful touch with your layers and design. This is such a beautiful tag, and I love how you made circles with the inks and have her holding one of them. Gorgeous! hugs, Maura

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  6. Hi Emma, I always check out your blog but do not often comment...I love the Alcohol Inked Circles and the way you use the Paper Dolls, looking forward the seeing what you do with the thicker Paper Dolls. I have a question, please...there was a project at Creatavation, it is on an Etcetera Tag and used the Potted Bigz Die and the new Florals Thinlits and the scrolls, I think it is called Adorned, Adornment??? Will you be doing a tutorial on that project??? PLEASE!!!

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    1. Thank you so much for your lovely comment Sherry and I’m so happy to hear that you’ve visited my blog before, I really do appreciate it! I will be doing tutorials for all my Creativation projects, so please keep checking back and I really hope to see and hear from you more, I’d love that! Thanks once again and have a great weekend... <3

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    2. Squeal!!! That was me, squealing with excitement, LOL...I will definitely be checking back, I do so often...And, I will make an effort to leave comments with more frequency...thank you...so excited!!!

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  7. Stunning work, as ever, Emma. The neutrals of the background allow the fabulous inky circles to really shine - what wonderful colour combinations and blended patterns. Love this!
    Alison x

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  8. Such a great challenge theme and what a fantasic interpretation you have created . Your art tag is superb and such a fabulous example of how to mix the vintage with the more contemporary and do so to great effect. Yet another one to LOVE .
    Sending you some big weekend hugs xx

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  9. Just gorgeous Emma, adore the Stitched Circles die cut from the Yupo and layered up, they look amazing! (when I first saw your picture I thought they were old CD's!). Gorgeous layers and perfect embellishments as always, thanks so much for sharing this fabulous tag, Deb xo

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  10. As always your ideas are absolutely brilliant! used Alcohol inks to create these fabulous circles for your background is amazing! Barbara

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Thank you for all your comments and messages, they are all appreciated and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon...
Emma ~xx

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