Friday 31 October 2014

A Vintage Challenge - Bountiful Harvest

Fabulous new challenge over at A Vintage Journey

Sandy is the host and here's her challenge description
With Halloween's passing we step into fall.  For this challenge let's think about the harvest.  
It seems that pumpkins, wheat, corn and even the Harvest Moon could be in order. 
For us in the US -  a Thanksgiving theme could work but not necessary

A beautiful and bountiful time of year for all, with an abundance of produce in fabulous rich colour tones. I have used a bounty of Tim’s Dies and texture fades for my project

I had a wonderful frame that was designed and cut by the lovely Lisa at That Craft Place; she will cut any shape and has a huge variety of products and materials available

I started by applying DecoArt Crackle paste around the edge
Then started arranging the embossed die cuts, I used Tattered Leaves and embossed them with Textured leaves texture fade, the other dies were Holiday Greens and Weathered Clock
These were applied to the frame and then I applied my bounty of mini pumpkins, these are Pumpkinos, Pukka seed pods and mini pine cones and acorns and leave's made from paper clay
Detailed with half pearls for the berries all applied with Liquitex Heavy Gel medium, one dry I covered with DecoArt white Gesso
 I applied DecoArt Carbon Black, Black Plum and Plum from the bottom to the top graduated

 One dry, I dry brushed with Titanium white, and repeated until I was happy the the coverage

Once dry, I applied Quinacridone Gold acrylic, which is a wonderful transparent but highly pigmented paint, repeating and building up the intensity in areas, particularly the leaves, pumpkins and pine cones
I hope you have enjoyed my project, please pop back to A Vintage Journey to see more of the fabulous Design Team Projects

Jools : )

19 comments:

  1. Wow Jools! This is beautiful - the thickness of the paints and gesso looks wonderful - love the purples, white and gold - thanks for sharing all of the steps in the creation of this lovely harvest project!

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  2. Stunning yet again Jools, fantastic paint effects and I love the paper clay embellishments (as well as all the die cuts of course). The colour combo of the purples with the Quinacridone looks fantastic, I would never have thought of that, - magical!

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  3. Wow Jools, I just love this, the colours, the mini 3D embellishments and the overall design. Gorgeous.
    hugs Brenda xxx

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  4. Wow, I'm really impressed and speechless!! That's absolutly gorgeous, such a harmony magic colour schema and a great 3D effect. One of the most beautiful autumn compositions that I have ever seen!!! Kerstin

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  5. Absolutely Epic! Fantastic pictures and explanations! Totally amazing. Fabulous colours! xx

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  6. This is so wonderful Jools, the texture is to die for and I just love the color combination that you used.

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  7. Just AMAZING and soooooooo BEAUTIFUL, I'm speechless Julie... Coco x

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  8. Absolutely amazing Jools - fantastic step by step too. Your colour choices and textures from the layering of all those die cuts is just mind blowing! Have a lovely weekend x

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  9. Completely gorgeous Jools. I love how those paints have blended and highlighted so beautifully to bring the whole panel together. Jenny x

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  10. A fantastic frame to start off with - but all your additional texture and colours are amazing. Nikki x

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  11. Hi Jools, I absolutely adore this and what a keepsake for you, knowing that you designed your own frame. The colour shading is so perfect as is every die cut and embellishment placed on it. Fantastic.
    Have a great weekend, Julie x

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  12. Jools, I love how you work those Deco Art products. Gorgeous texture and colors. Applying the Quinacridone Gold for a highlight is brilliant! Love this much! Enjoy!

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  13. Love your BH make Jools...wonderful painty layers and texture.
    The colours are stunning and I love your embellishments
    Hugs Annie x

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  14. Gorgeous project! Love all the texture and gold highlights!

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  15. This is just delicious, I love the colours and the 3d effect, great work x

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  16. I like the effects of all the stages another brilliant piece. Dee x

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  17. Oooh I love this!!! I love both the knocked back with the white and the additional layer of the gold acrylic. Fantastic work xx

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  18. You are really, really talented.

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