Foamboard is 'da bomb'!

I just discovered this foamboard, and it's possibilities are near enough endless. One can build storage space with it, it cut's like butter, is light yet very strong, it embosses and cuts with the thick big dies, and you can paint it and work it with all sorts of art mediums. You may have read about the workshop I did with Andy Skinner some weeks ago in which we workes with this stuff. Now I've already shown you one of the two little projects I made (if you haven't seen it yet, do scroll down a couple of posts and you will find it), so here's the second one. Sorry about the colour of this first picture; it was made at night and the lighting was not so good. The true colour is more like the other pictures.

The background piece and heart were first painted in black gesso, and then I used the Deco Art crackle paint. Now this is a white think paint, which crackles in a manner best compared with the oldfashioned enamels used in ancient times on cooking pans and strainers. Sometimes in grey of green colours. After letting the paint airdry (don't use your heating tool on it, it will crackle, but I find the crackle much better when airdried. I first slightly sanded it to make it flatter and then used blac antiqueing cream by Deco Art. Now you just apply the stuff and let it dry. Then you use a piece of dry kitchen roll and rub it off. After that I stamped it using Ranger archival ink and a dictionary stamp. I then added some Quinacridone Gold which is transparant, to give it a slightly rusty effect. On the edges I covered some of the crackled chips a coat of Burned Umber which makes it look like the enamel has chipped off revealing the metal underneath. Love the effect, it looks so darn real.

On the top piece I started out with white gesso, and after drying I added some sand structure medium. After drying I painted the entire piece with transparant Paynes Grey, which is a blueish grey colour. Because of the transparancy the white of the gesso shimmers through here and there which is exactly what you want. After drying you make a fine splatter with a white acrylic paint. Then the piece is painted with Red Iron Oxide and Quinacridone Azo Gold paints. here and there you can mix some Paynes Grey in to make darker patches.

The heart was also painted with the Crackle paint, but in this case I used Antiquing Cream Green instead of the black I used in the background. I also added some Quinacridone Azo Gold, again to make it rusty looking.

This element was cut and embossed with a Tim Holtz die, also from this foamboard. That make it considerably thinner. This element was given layer upon layer, and the endresult is an effect as if this piece is zink metal which was rusted. It is this piece that I am most happy with. I think the result is very convincing.
So, I'd advise you to check out the new Deco Art line, brilliant stuff and very affordable as well.
Hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=2141
http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-6.html
http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/11/challenge-141-anything-goes.html
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/all-crafts-challenge-octobernovember.html
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/11/ttcrd-challenge-nov11-nov17.html
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.ca/2014/11/ptt-challenge-189-anything-goes-theme.html
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.nl/2014/11/anything-goes-challenge.html
http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/11/challenge-67-mixed-media.html
http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/11/ch-23-anything-goes.html
http://www.flonzcraft.com/vsc/?p=1918
http://anythingbutacard.blogspot.ca/2014/11/whatever-strikes-your-cre8time-fancy.html
http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.nl/2014/11/new-challenge-anything-goes.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

My grandmother when she was young, what a lovely picture!

I found this ancient picture of my grandmother when she was young in a box with old pictures in the attic, and knew I had to do a spread with it. I did make a copy first because I didn't want to use the original.

So this is how the spread turned out. I started with Distress Paints Antique Linen and Tarnished Brass, which turned out much more yellow than I expected. Then I took a stencil and Distress Paint Walnut Stain and Gathered Twigs and made the Fisbones. I used a Kaisercraft stamp and Stazon Orange Zest and made the random smudges on the background. I stamped the double squares with a stamp and Metallic Copper acrylic paint amd here and there I stamped a sewing pattern with a mini Prima stamp. Then I took out Viva Rusty Paper paint and made the butterflies with a TCW stencil.

While that was drying I distressed some strips of paper with an edge distresser and Distress Ink Walnut Stain. I took some plaster bandage and sprayed Dylusions Chocolate and Squeezed Orange over it and let it dry. After drying I frayed the edges, layered strips and bandage and did some stitching on my sewing machine. The same proces was repeated with the strip and cards on the right page. On each set I added a home rusted paperclip.

On some spots I used gel medium and golden microbeads, copper crushed glass and copper mica.

Here's a close up of the Rusty Paper butterflies. The other butterflies are by K & Company.

 I hope you enjoyed my spread and the description on how it was made. Have a great week, hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/09/anything-goes.html
http://www.craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.nl/2014/09/september-challenge-at-crafty-bloggers.html
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2014/09/challenge-37.html
http://2cuteinkchallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/09/challenge-115-fall.html
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/all-crafts-challenge-augustseptember.html
http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/challenge-02-and-dt-call.html
http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.nl/p/new-challenge.html
http://melonheadzfriends.blogspot.nl/2014/09/autumn-colors-challenge.html
http://www.lunagirlmoonbeams.com/2014/09/new-creative-challenge-theme-autumn.html
http://lexiscreations.blogspot.nl/2014/09/challenge-125-and-winners-of-124.html
http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.nl/2014/09/anything-goes.html

An art journal Round Robin

This is a spread made in somebody elses art journal, a little scary, but I think it worked out alright. this is a Round Robin that I entered into. Every 2 weeks I will receive somebody's journal to work in, whilst my own journal is also traveling. If all goes well, I will get my own journal back in September with a load of lovely spreads in made by other people. Love that idea!!
I went for vintage, started out with T.H. tissue paper glued down with mat gel medium. Then I coloured it using D.I. Rusty Hinge, and Vintage Photo around the edges. Then I took some black thread and stitched around the edges twice. With a T.H. mask and Archival ink I added some compasses. Then I took the leftover of a Tim Holtz cut out Typewriter alphabet and used it as a stencil. I coloured some modeling paste with black gesso and added letters here an there.

The suitcases are an image I downloaded form the Internet and they are placed on a (part of) a sticker with the word travel on. I glued it all down with mat gel medium and added shades all around with a brown Faber Castel Pitt pen.

On the other side of my spread I wanted one of those antique photos, so I started browsing the Internet and came up with this one which seemed rather appropriate with the travel theme. Before adding it to the spread I took some gauze and coloured it with a mix of Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress inks. After drying I first glued down the gauze and then stitched the photo on, again with black thread.

Pf cpirse my spread needed a quote, so hurray for the Internet, I found this one. I took a regular kraft lable I bought at a bookshop, (the're so much cheaper then the ones you buy in the craft stores and work fine), crupled it up, had a go at it with my vintage photo ink pad and wet it through and through with a mister. Then flattened it out again and dried it. I distressed the edges with a Heidi Zwapp distress tool and made sure I would tear it here and there. Then used some Walnut Stain around the edges to make it pop against the background, and used some seambinding I coloured with D.I. to give it a bow. Then glued it down with Tacky glue.

So, that was it, hope you like it girls!! Hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/01/ttcrd-challenge-january-14-january-20.html
http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/lej-designs-challenge-no-85-anything.html
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.nl/2014/01/anything-goes.html
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/all-crafts-challenge-decemberjanuary.html
http://www.bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/january-challenge-stitching.html
http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.nl/2014/01/challenge-77-use-some-ribbon.html
http://www.creativecreationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/welcome-back-and-anything-goes.html
http://lexiscreations.blogspot.nl/2014/01/challenge-107-and-winners-of-105.html
http://scrapbookstampsocietychallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2014/01/challenge-32-anything-goes.html

I love vintage!!

Went to the demo days of Doe@Ding yesterday, and of course bought loads of good stuff, which just hád to be used. To I made this vintage layout in my Donna Downey journal. I started out with to shades of Blueish green acrylic paint. Then I glued down dome pieces of design papers with mat gel medium. I then took my brandnew Lindy's stamp gang Starburst sprays and sprayed some yummy colour and glimmer on the spread.

Lots to see on this spread, so here are some detail pictures.

Here you see the left and right page enlarged.
















Now my sister Annika found some of that corny plastic lace used to decorate shelves in your kitchen. I took some texture past and added acrylic paints in order to make it off white and smeared that through the 'lace'. After that I sprayed some Glimmer Mist Suede on to make it look even more vintage.

Also brandnew is this lovely stuff I used for the heart. I stamped with Perfect Medium a heart on my spread, and then added embossing tinsel, bronze glass glitter and tea stained mica flakes from a set by Stampendous called Frantage Encrusted. Love the result. You'll see all sorts of new stuff on this layout which I bought yesterday on the Doe@Ding demoday. I added some shading around the heart with a black Faber Castell Pitt Pen.

Then I printed out a digi I won once on a challenge blog. Can't for the life of me remember which one (blush). I coloured her up with my copics and paper pieces the dress and parasol with papers from K & Company called Ancestry. I added some shadow in the pleats of the dress and underneath the parasol as well. Around the image I added shadow with a black Faber Castell Pitt pen.

I hope you like this one, I sure enjoyed making it! Hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2013/09/challenge-163-anything-goes.html
http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.nl/2013/09/r143-anything-goes.html
http://c2cu.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-3-week-1texture-with-twist.html
http://digitallysweetchallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/09/dsc-55-anything-goes.html
http://asimplefive.blogspot.nl/2013/09/inspire-me-fridays-122-anything-goes.html
http://designedtocolor.blogspot.nl/2013/09/challenge-20-anything-goes-with.html
http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.nl/2013/09/challenge-113-sparkle.html
http://craftingmusketeers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/welcome-to-challenge-5-vintage.html