Stampotique Challenge- Favorite Quote

Frederick's great at Parkour! but it plays havoc with his crown too!!

Stampotique new challenge to use your favorite quote! How to decide!

you can find more information on taking part here

I love this little Stampotique crown and quote stamp

and wanted to create a grungy graffiti cityscape as Freidrich's new hobby was Parkour!

I applied modelling paste with the CWS Stencil Subway 

 then randomly applied DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Medium Grey value 6, Dark grey value 3

and Diarylide yellow

Stamped Brick road, Upholstered and Barcode in both Stazon Ink Cloudy Sky and Titanium White Acyrlic

Stamped NYNY, Raindrops and Barcode in Stazon Black and highlighted with a white pen and DecoArt Transparent white acrylic

 Freidriche was coloured with Promarkers and his crown with Metallic Gold acrylic

Stampotique Stamps

Freidrich Tries Ballet

Crown

Crown Quote

NYNY

Brick Road

Upholstered

Barcode

Approach with Caution

Raindrops

Word collage

Stampotique Challenge- Put a Bug on it!

I stencilled with DecoArt Crackle paste using Dutch Doobado Stencil, once dry I coloured with DecoArt Media Fluid acrylics wiping back with a wet wipe, I stamped Nether and Mr Stripes onto Card and coloured with Kuretake Pens

You can find more information on the Stamotique Challenge click here

Stampotique Challenge- Put a Bug on it!

 I decorated a small Calico Craft Parts MDF house with DecoArt Media Fluid acrylics and stamped Daisy Daisy, Romantic Text and Oodles of Doodles and topped with Medium Bee

More details on the Stampotique challenge click here

Stampotique Mail Art Challenge

Sent with Love

Second week of the Stampotique Mail Art Challenge, you can find more information on taking part here

This is my first go at Mail Art and I loved it, such a wonderful idea and I would be happy with a plain card if I received some of the wonderful envelope art work that my Design Team Collegues have produced you can see them over on the Stampotique Designers blog

After some research, I knew that I wanted to create something that had lots of colour and overlay patterns with relief highlights of white

I Stamped Lovelyarethesound, Pen, Calender and Tree Topper in Black Stazon

Masked them and stamped Daniels Hearts & Tenticurls with multicoloured Stazon Midi Inks

Colour washed with watercolours

Over stamped swirls and stalks in black ink and DecoArt Titanium white brushed lightly onto the stamps and further highlighted with a white pen

Stamped around the edges of the envelope and the Daniel Torrente styled heart address label with Oodles of Doodles and Black Distress Ink

Stampotique Stamps

Daniels Hearts

Hanging Hearts

Tenticurl

Writing Pen

Stalks

Oodles of Doodles

Lovelyarethesound

Daniels Tree Topper

Calendar Squares Cube

Ribbon Curl

DecoArt Fossil Tag

Andy Skinner's Fabulous Fossil Stencil, it Rocks!

I applied a coat of Gesso to a large MDF Tag from Fernli Designs, and then stencilled with Carbon Black Fluid Acrylic

Once dry, I off set the stencil and applied DecoArt Media Crackle paste

Allow to dry naturally for a couple of hours

I applied Green Gold and Cobalt Teal, blending gradually

Followed by Payne's Grey and Dioxadine Purple, spritzing with water to blend

Once happy with the colour balance allow to dry

 Stamped around with Stampotique Spiral Daydream

Blended Payne's Grey to add depth

and Cobalt Teal and Dioxadine Purple

Highlighted the crackle areas with Interference Paint Violet and Turquoise

DecoArt Peacock Eyes Canvas Tutorial

Peacock Eyes

Tons of Texture and a Mass of Metallic 

Apply torn paper to a Canvas with Matt Medium, I was using an existing canvas that I had already applied colour to which wasn't necessary but it added a colour cast!

 Applying Modelling Paste and Crackle paste through a variety of Stencils

 Apply Modelling Paste directly and texture with a palette knife, allow to dry for 2 hours

 I planned the layout and applied Gesso to the area where the face was going to be located, once dry I stencilled the face with Carbon Black Media Fluid Acrylic

I cut approximately 30 Feathers and applied with 

Matt Medium, and applied a coat over them and the face

 I started by applying watered down Media Mister Violet, darker around the edge with Quinacridone Violet

 Then worked Dioxadine Purple blending one colour to the next

 Repeat with Carbon Black

 Followed with Phthalo Blue working out to the edge of the Canvas

 Started to wipe back the paint on the raised areas with a baby wipe whilst still wet

 If you wipe back to much just brush a little more colour, I also highlighted the tips of the feathers with Cobalt Teal Hue

 Once dry the next step is to dry brush the raised texture areas with Metallic Silver

The colours were toned down with a wash of Carbon Black 

I applied lots of the Silver Metallic to the feathers, building up gradually until desired effect is achieved

Materials

Matte Medium

Modelling Paste

Crackle Paste 

Media Mister Violet

Quinacridone Violet

Dioxadine Purple

Phthalo Blue

Carbon Black

Cobalt Teal Hue

Metallic Silver

Stencil Girl- Pretty as a Peacock by Andrea Matus DeMeng

Spellbinders Peacock Feathers

DecoArt Dandelion