Andy Skinner workshop.

Hi everyone, I had a great weekend at the Craftorij retreat. We did two workshops, one by Andy Skinner from Deco Art and one by France Papillon. Now here's what I made with Andy; love love love the Deco Art line; the fluid acrylics are brilliant and I just love all their mediums. We had a go at trying out a lot of stuff, and I really like the effects you can achieve.

Now this project was made with presentation board; it's a hard foam covered on both sides with black paper. It weighs next to nothing, you can cut is easily with a craft knife, you can diecut and emboss it.
So the wings have been diecut from this material. I made some faux rust on it by firstly putting down a layer of white gesso,after which you ass Sand Texture medium just here and there, not to much. Then you paint it with Paynes Grey acrylic, splatter it with a white acrylic mist, and then paint with some Quinacridone Gold and for the darker spots mix some paynes grey in. The ribbets (which are actually sticky pearls) were done in the same manner. 

Now the background was a printed paper which I glued on after which I used several colours of paint in a drybrushing kind of way.
I sanded the edges and added some rubons which I protected by covering them with mat gel medium.
The top layer was first covered in black gesso. I then added a layer of crackle paint which is white but can be tinted as well. You best let this airdry which does take a while. After drying I slightly sanded it in order to flatten it out enough to stamp on it. I then coverend the entire plaque with black antiqueing cream and let that dry before rubbing it off with a baby wipe. After drying it again I stamped the bicycle on.  As a final touch I used a Burnt Umber to make faux chipped pieces on the edges of the plaque. 

I added some Quinacridone Gold to make some faux rusty drips to make the piece look like a rusted metal enamel plate. Love the effect! As a final touch I added some rusted wire and burlap. I really like this piece. I made another but will make a separate post for that one. Have a great week, hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.ca/2014/10/ptt-challenge-187-anything-goes-theme.html
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/10/ttcrd-anything-goes-oct-27th-nov3rd.html
http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.nl/p/new-challenge.html
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/challenge-115-anything-goes-spooky.html
http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/challenge-5.html
http://stampedblessings.com/2014/10/amusing-challenge-anything-goes-12/
http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2014/10/anything-but-card.html
http://treasuredtimesrubberstampschallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/10/challenge-27.html

Do you love Halloween too?? I do, especially this one, the vintage way!

I made this spread in my Round Robin album again. Love that side of it, it's just large enough but not that large that you sometimes don't know how to fill the pages. Anyhow, I get some lovely printables each week from Ephemera's garden which I really really love, and this weer there were these gorgeous vintage tags, and I couldn't wait to get started with them. I printed them, glued them to cardstock and distressed them. I just love Halloween, but here in the Netherlands it's not really celebrated. These vintage tags have this wonderful atmosphere and I did my best to have that feeling in my spread. Quite happy on how it turned out. I started with a sheet of Prima paper for a background and added gesso on part of it, followed by some Viva Decor Crackle Paste through a stencil.
Then I sprayed some LSG Gossamer Gold spray on the crackle and it turned out gorgeous. Love love love the effect!

My friend Astrid gave me some gauze like stuff, very hard and sturdy but when wetted you can sort of pull it apart. So I coloured it with Distress Stains in browns and oranges.So this is how the spread turned out.

I added glass glitter in copper colour and some orange beads here and there with gel medium. The lace was coloured with black Dylusions. As a final touch I added some LSG Fuzzy Navel Peach drippage and splatters to gett some orange in there.

I hope you like my Halloween page. Have a great week, hugs Frea
Challenges :
http://pictureandscrap.blogspot.nl/2014/10/udfordring-83-brug-dies.html
http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/october-2014-challenge-halloween.html
http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/dt-call-dt-calldt-call.html
http://agirlwhocraftschalengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/spooky-special-challenge.html
http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/albc-boo.html
http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/u-is-for-unique.html
http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/sisters-of-craft-october-anything-goes.html
http://www.themirrorcrack1d.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/2-body-beautiful-something-featuring.html
http://sandee-and-amelie.blogspot.co.at/2014/10/steampunk-couture-october-challenge.html
http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.nl/2014/10/october-challenge-august-winner.html
http://myartisticadventureschallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/10/my-artistic-adventures-challenge-10.html
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/october-challengehalloween-or-not.html
http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/sisters-of-craft-october-anything-goes.html
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/10/ttcrd-anything-goes-challenge-october.html
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/all-crafts-challenge-octobernovember.html
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.nl/2014/10/anything-goes-good-morning-sweet.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.nl/2014/10/anything-goes.html