Plastic Model Kit Manufacturers. Decoupaged Dresser – In Memory of My Father — American Paint Company. I couldn’t really think of anything to give my son, Cooper, when he graduated from the University of North Carolina this past summer. I just remember thinking how proud my father would have been. My father, Robert Cooper, was a friend, Cooper’s namesake, uniquely special grandfather, veteran and loving husband.
I went through some old photos of Bob (as he was known by) when he was a young boy in Kansas, and found one special black and white that I fell in love with. I then chose an old chunky four drawer maple dresser that I had in the back of my store, The Mill at Gibsonville in North Carolina, that felt perfect. I measured the dresser and then had the photograph blown up to poster size at our local camera store (it cost roughly $40) big enough to cover most of the front of the dresser. 1) Choose a complimentary American Paint Company color that will blend in with the poster, giving it the effect that the poster and color are blended together.
LINCOLN’S HATA true black. CLAY. Creator's Joy: Hobbit Doors out of Fimo or Sculpey: polymer clay fairy house. Zohar Glassworks: Blown Glass & Fused Glass: Contemporary and Judaica. All You Need. Image transfers are magic to me. The ability to produce perfect lettering on a piece of wood without having to do it freehand is wonderful. There are many ways of transferring, but most use either heat or solvents which won't work on a painted surface. This will work. Think rub-ons. Lori Barker helped me with this. You can view her fantastic artwork here. Materials overhead transparency film 2 painted boards (9"x 12") scotch tape clear spray paint carpenter's glue Tools ink jet printer wooden stick (popsicle stick or bone folder) drill Download "All You Need is Love" here or "Love is All You Need" here. You can compose your own lettering and reverse it (important).
The lettering on the film will be very wet when it comes out of the printer. Turn it over so that the printed side is down and lay it gently on your painted surface. The image is water soluble so any mistakes can be removed with a damp Qtip. Start with a very light coat of clear spray to seal and protect the image. Update: Artangel: Mixed media crumpled tissue technique - tutorial. As promised, a little tutorial on how I made my mixed media canvas (above) for last week's IAE challenge. 1.
Take a sheet of tissue paper (any old tissue paper will do - I save the stuff from old shoe boxes!) And give it a really good crumple so it has tons of creases - the more the better! 2. Glue it to your canvas using a 50/50 mix of PVA glue and water - let it wrinkle and bubble as much as you like, you don't want to smooth out all that lovely texture! 3. 4. 5. 6.Other collage elements I've added are a beautifully aged vintage book page, and a wooden button and letters (these have a very light coat of gold acrylic paint so they glisten a little but the letters still show through).
I've also used some scrapbook paper leftover from an old project, and a fragment of the paper that I had underneath the laundry bag when I was painting it (perhaps worryingly, sometimes I like the scrap paper underneath more than my actual work!) 7. The Technique Zone: Raster Screen. Supplies needed: Masking tape, chalks, cotton wool balls, card stock Tear your masking tape into thin strips and stick on the card Once you have got your masking tape in a pattern you like, lift it off your work area and onto a piece of scrap paper, making sure it is firmly fixed Next apply the chalk in your preferred colour, ensuring you work it into the edges Cover the whole piece, you can use more than one colour if you wish Carefully peel off the masking tape ensuring that you don't touch the card stock Once you have peeled all the masking tape off, bang the card stock on your work area to get rid of the excess chalk You can spray your card stock with a cheap hairspray to set it, but personally I don't bother.
Hairspray Photo Transfer Technique. Gesso and Stencils. Using gesso with stencils is a really fun technique with neat results for journal pages. For my first page I painted it with with water soluble oil pastels. Yes, you read me right – water soluble oil pastels! Water Soluble Oil Pastels First thing you need to do is to place your stencil over your page and apply gesso. You don’t need a whole lot of gesso, just enough to cover the stencil. Gesso covered stencil Then carefully remove the stencil and just like magic the image appears! Gesso on page Before you go any further, wash the stencil right away. For the next directions, I’ll have to show you a different stencil I used. Now that the gesso is dry, wet your paint brush with water and apply to the whole page.
Applying water to page Then take the oil pastel, wet it with the paint brush and slide across the paper. And the finished background. Finished background Here is the other stenciled page. And another one. I am just learning to use the oil pastels. Yesterday we had some strong winds. Most favorited last week. How to Make Elmer's Glue Spray. 39 Easy DIY Ways To Create Art For Your Walls. The Technique Zone: Adirondack Acrylic Dabbers. Supplies needed: Acrylic dabbers, black permanent ink pad, medium gel, splodger (or an old credit / store card), tag / card stock, text from an old book, peel offs, rubber stamps, heat tool, craft sheet Apply a thin coat of the medium gel to the tag / card stock using your splodger (or an old credit / store card) Stick you tag / card stock to the page from an old book Give it a quick blast with the heat tool but don't completely dry it Take hold of the excess paper and gently pull You will end up with something like these Cover the whole of the tag with the lightest of your chosen colours Heat set Add peel offs (I'm sure you own more interesting ones than I do!!!)
Cover the peel offs with a darker colour, adding further colour where you would like. Remove your peel offs This should reveal the lighter colour you started with Add another colour if you wish Use the dabber to 'ink' up your stamp Stamp the image but be sure to clean your stamp straight away Stamp your images onto your tag / card stock. Crackle finish with Elmer's Glue. Thanks to Dollar Store Crafts for featuring this post! For years whenever I wanted a cool crackled effect on my painted projects I used the very expensive (to me) crackle medium and even bought some paints that were supposed to crack on their own. Because of the cost I did not do anything large and I was sparing in what I did do. Well, thanks to this cheap alternative, I can go a bit crazy and experiment because I found out how to get the crackle effect with Elmer's Glue!
It's alot less expensive than any size bottle of crackle medium and just before school it's downright CHEAP. I've been doing this for awhile but if you go to the Elmer's faq site, you can see the instructions towards the bottom of the page. On their page Elmer's used wood glue. So this tutorial, as requested, will have lots of pictures and step by steps so you can see what to expect. I painted this piece of foam board with flat black acrylic. Approachable Art by Judi Hurwitt: How- To: Making Your Own Stamps! (Hearts Afire, 12" x 12", hand-carved stamps on heavy watercolor paper, 2007) (This tutorial can also be purchased as an e-book from both Amazon.com and Barnes and Nobel.)
Every artist needs primary source material. Primary source material is original images, sketches, drawings and photographs that the artist herself has generated without the aid of any outside sources. In other words, the shot you snapped of light reflecting off water, the sketch you made of your kitty, or the watercolor landscape you painted a few years ago is your primary source material. Finding PSM becomes challenging (and often disheartening) if you're an artist like me who doesn't draw. That very fact alone nearly stopped me dead in my tracks years ago, when the desire for making art began to bubble inside me in earnest. So how does an artist who can't, don't, or won't draw get original imagery into their art? Let's get to it. Corrugated Cardboard Stamps What You'll Do: To Clean: wipe gently with a damp cloth Voila! Spirit of Creativity Tutorial & Tips Blog: Rubber Stamping Tutorial #1 - Ink Pads & Inks.
These are just a small sample of my ink pad stash! Many people are put off rubber stamping by the huge array of ink pads that are available. Trying to find the right ones for what you want can be an expensive matter of trial and error so the object of this workshop is to help you to find the right type of ink for the job you want it to do. Although I've given the names of some of the brands as I've talked about the different types, this is by no means an exhaustive list of what is available and is just intended as a guideline. DYE - WATER BASEDAdirondak, Memento, Memories, Marvy, Impress, Kaleidacolor, Big & Juicy, Ink it up These are just some of the water based dye inks available.
Most of them I have used and some not, but they all behave in similar ways. They are available as single colours and some, such as Adirondak, Kaleidacolor and Big and Juicy also do a range of multicoloured pads which are wonderful for brayered backgrounds. DYE - PERMANENTStazon, Whispers PENS. Watercolor Tutorial by *Loonaki on deviantART. 4th of July Napkin DIY. 4th of July Napkin DIY By The Paula Deen Test Kitchen Are you looking for a whimsical way to dress up your Fourth of July table this year? The Deen Team has a fun idea for dazzling your guests by creating your own tabletop fireworks. Check out how to make your own homemade firework napkin! Step 1: You will need some bleach, a pencil with eraser, a pencil sharpener, toothpicks, and some fabric or linens.
We happened to have some great navy napkins from our last shoot handy but any fabric or dark colored linen will do. Step 2: Add the bleach to a small jar. Step 3: Use the pencil sharpener to make the tip of the pencil eraser smaller. Step 4: Dip the eraser into the bleach. Step 5: Press firmly onto the fabric letting the bleach soak in. Step 5: Dip the toothpick into the bleach. Step 6: Make curved lines coming from the anchor. Step 7: Use the tip of the eraser to embellish the firework at the end for a finishing touch. Happy 4th of July, everyone! Read More From Holidays and Entertaining. Pinterest. A Glimpse Inside: Guest Post: Shelby from Just Because I said I do.
The adorable Shelby is here today with a great tutorial for you all. Take it away Shelby! I am so excited to be on Allison's blog today and we all hope that her move is going smoothly as we all can attest to the fact that moving can get crazy! So I have a quick tutorial for you on how to make paper with an old fashioned look. I aged and painted a hutch I had and needed some decor for the inside. So this what I did to add a little summon, summon to the hutch. Here are the steps that I took- again really simple but they worked for me.
Old book for the paperCoffee or tea ( I used instant coffee and it was a lot simpler for me)Cookie SheetsOvenHow to Age the Paper: 1. 3. 4. 5. 8. Hope you enjoyed it, come visit me anytime at Just Because Thanks again Allison! Thanks so much for guest posting for me Shelby! Katies Rose Cottage: Mercury Glass Family Fun. Birgit's Daily Bytes: How to make your own Alcohol Inks, Shimmer Mists, Mod Podge and more. As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been experimenting with some more cost effective alternatives in the crafting/scrapping/art journaling area and I want to share some of those with you. 1. Alcohol Inks and Spray Inks. They are easily and cheaply made with every day ingredients. They may not be of the highest ingredients, but they work for what I need them for! The first one I want to show you is the cool aid spray! Get yourself an empty small spray bottle either from the dollar store or from Target (Pharmacy department.)
Place the cool aid powder in the bottle, fill it up almost to the top with rubbing alcohol. Of course you can add more or less powder, depending on how intense you want the color. The other option is the RIT dye alcohol inks. And of course, food coloring, egg dye and re-inkers can be used too! And then there is the Gelato way! Incidentally you can also use the gelatos to color modeling paste. 2. Love the stuff, but after a while it can get quite expensive. 3. 4. Water. Distressed Eat Sign. As you know, I was a contestant in Round Two of Crafting with the Stars. Did you vote for this project? :) I still don’t know if I’ve made it to the next round as the polls closed right before I posted this.
The theme for the second round was “paint” and we could pretty much do whatever we wanted! My first thought was to redo this bookshelf that I have, but it wasn’t really floatin’ my boat, if you know what I mean. Then I suggested to Amy, my fabulous star partner from Mod Podge Rocks, that I use some of the totally cool glitter paint she sent me. UPDATE: Because so many people have asked, I have decided to list my Eat Sign on Etsy. Pier 1 coat hook rack – taken on cell phone, sorry it’s so crappy So I showed Amy a picture I snapped on my cell phone about a week ago of the HOME sign you see above. So anyway, Kristen and I were walking around checking out the ornaments and I was snapping pictures of the ones that I liked and thought I could duplicate. The colors I used were: T = Aqua.
Brayer Techniques. Acrylic paints are pretty much my number one pigment of choice, be it cheap craft paints or the higher-quality, artist-grade acrylic paints. I’m always on the lookout for new and exciting ways to use it. Using a brayer to apply acrylic paints to your artwork can have all kind of interesting effects – it’s a bit of an adventure because it can be very hard to predict exactly what will happen, but I’ve rarely been disappointed. (The only times were when I used too much paint – a little acrylic paint goes a LONG way with a brayer, it can be far too easy to use too much and end up with a muddy mess.) Probably my first encounter with using a brayer with acrylic paint was during a the first annual retreat for my local ATC group. One of our members led about fifteen of us through the exercise “Mail Art To The Self” from the book Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity .
Click on the image, it will take you to the full image of this page so you can see all the details. 20 minute crafter-DIY photo canvas. First of all...I apologize for the quality of some of these photos. I was full expecting this NOT to work so I didn't even bother getting out my real camera until the end. It looks too easy, but I promise that it IS easy and quick. And the result is darling. Want to save several dozen dollars and make your OWN photo canvas? Do you have a printer? Do you have a canvas? First, I trimmed down regular tissue paper to standard paper size (8 1/2in by 11in). Then, I did my best to iron it flat. I then ran the tissue paper through the printer like regular paper. Then I put a thin coat of mod podge on the canvas... ...gently laid my tissue paper over the canvas and quickly centered it...then working from the inside out...ever so gently pressed the tissue down and pushed the bubbles out towards the sides. Keep working until you get them all out...when you are done trim the edges.
When that is done...gently add a light layer of mod podge on top. Allow to dry. I'd love to see if you try this! P.S. Yours Artfully: Liquid Leaf Luciousness In More Detail. How to Draw Human Faces in Profile Side View with Easy Method Tutorial. How to Turn Wine Bottles into Tumblers. Silk.