Birthday Triptych with Stencils and Paints and so much more!

Hi Everyone!  It's Sue L. here today to show you a Birthday Triptych I made with three plain chipboard coasters:

This is the inside with all three coasters open.

This is the triptych all folded up and how I will put it in the envelope.

Left side closed - I made the leaves match the inside third coaster.

Left side open, right side closed - again I made the flower match.

Then I started adding Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs Life Quotes 

I LOVE the music notes - wish, wish make a wish

I used more remnant rubs on the front cover - hello friend, enjoy today, best day ever, and her birthdate.  You can also see the TCW Mini Specimen stencil with Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 metallic gold embossing paste - LOVE! and the TCW Chevron Tile Stencil I applied WV Studio 490 white embossing paste through and painted with Silks Acryllic Glaze Sky Blue.  I wanted it to look like book binding.  I made holes and tied it all together with seam binding that matched the inside art.

As much as I hated to because I hate my handwriting, I signed it for my friend with a Fude Ball Black pen.

 

Process photos:

I free hand drew a flower and leaves with a pencil.  I am no artist!  But this shows that YOU, too, can do this!  I went back in and erased the lines I didn't want.  NOTE:  These lines are just a guide and don't have to be perfect.

I closed the left coaster so I could match the leaves.

 

I closed the left coaster and matched the flower.

This is what the back looks like.

I painted the left with Tim Holtz Distress Paints, ( I own ALL of the colors!), Silks Acryllic Glazes, and added Inka-Gold for shine.  Everything was outlined with Adirondack Pitch Black paint.  On the right, I played with Gelatos just to see what they looked like on the coaster.

This shows how I scribbled the gelatos on and what happened when I added water with a wet brush.

Here I painted the leaves and BG with Tim Holtz Distress paint and then went over it with Silks Acryllic Glaze for a Beautiful shine!

This shows the TCW Chevron Stencil with WV white embossing paste.  When it dried, I went over it with Sky Blue Silks Acryllic Glaze.

In this last photo, you can see the butterflies and how pretty the specimens look in gold!

 

Well that's it!  I hope you like it!  My friend is going to swoon because she will KNOW how much time and Love I put into this triptych for her!  Sure beats my usual Birthday Card!

 

Also, DON'T FORGET!  There is still time to link YOUR beautiful creation using stencils to our eclectic Paperie ePlay Stencil Challenge!  It ends May 31st and YOU could win a shopping voucher to the eP Shop!  Come Play with us!

Note to self~Life is Good!

Hi Everyone!  Sue Lelli here today.  The ePlay Wood Challenge is still going on (you have until April 30th to link up!) so I decided to alter a wooden heart I bought on a recent vacation.  This is how it ended up:

 

 I call it ~ note to self-life is good!

All of the words are Tim Holtz Remnant rub-ons called Life Quotes.  The circles were made using Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 Translucent Embossing Paste and the TCW Coffee Splotch stencil.  I thought the joined circles grounded the two sentiment rub ons.

All of the metal doo-dads and buttons and gears are trinkets I keep in a drawer and mix and match when I collage.  Some are Prima, some are Idea-ology, and others are just stuff.  In this photo, you can also see the dots I made inside the circle with Art Anthology Dimensional Crystal in peony.

I painted the metal parts after they were all glued on and dry with white gesso for a base so the paint would adhere.  Then I alternated layers of TH Distress paints in shades of pinks, and Silk Acryllic Glaze in Rasperry Wine and Gold. 

On the left you can see the gold embossing paste I added with the TCW Mini Texturized 6x6 stencil.  I felt I needed some gold on the left, middel and bottom of the heart to balance out the gold Silk paint on the collage down the right.

Here you can see the additional rub-on sentiments from the same TH Remnant rub-on collection.  Note ~  I didn't sand the words on the metal elements because I wanted the

"note to self- life is good" to really stand out.

 

Process photos:

 

Here is what the heart looked like when I purchased it.

But I couldn't leave well enough alone!

I covered it with white gesso and added streaks of TH Distress Paint in pink shades.  I spritzed it with water and let it streak down the heart.

I kept adding more and spritzing with water until it looked how I wanted it to.

 

On the back, the artist who carved and painted the heart, carved his name in it.  I added the gold barcaode with WV gold embossing paste and the WV barcode stencil.  LOVE!

 Here it is, hanging on my art wall in my craft room.

 

Sorry there are no more process photos.  Once I started collaging and painting, I forgot all about photos!  YIKES!

 

Hope you like my art from the Heart!



12 Days of Christmas - Day 10 - Creating with Silks Acrylic Glazes!

Oh my goodness EPeeps!! Only 2 more days of the ePaperie 12 Days of Christmas . . . but boy, do I have a fun product today!! 

Silks Acrylic Glazes!!

 I am IN LOVE!!  Colors, shine, and SO super versatile!  I stamped with them, I embossed with them, stenciled with them and just plain painted with them!! 

Make sure you use the code:   12DAYS10 when checking out to get your discount!!  What's the deal today? Silks – Buy 3 for $15.99   What a deal because normally buying 3 is $21 ... I know I will be adding to my collection today!! 

I had so much fun that I ended up with a ton of little experiments that I loved . . . yikes, what to do . . . so I cut them up and sewed them together as my patchwork Christmas quilt canvas!!

So, honestly, I had the flu when I started on this project. I sat in bed and watched a ton of YouTube videos about Silks Acrylic Glazes.  There were SO many ideas out there.  My head was swimming (and full of decongestant) so I just experimented!

I stamped - circles and hearts . . .

I put the Silks Glaze on my craft sheet, dipped my stamp into it and stamped it down! I painted the watercolor paper with one coat of Silks Glazefirst!

 I stenciled with embossing paste too.  First I painted one color of Silk onto the paper and after it dried, the snowflake is painted through a stencil! No bleeding under the stencil! (And the stencil is made from paper) 

I embossed - by mixing the Silks glaze with Wendy Vecchi translucent embossing paste and pushed it through stencils! Love the shine and the texture!! (I think this was one of my favorite techniques!!)

To Create the 'quilt'  I cut up all my little experiments and wrapping paper squares into 2x2 squares.  I glued them down to a piece of cardstock paper and let it dry.  Then I took out my sewing machine, and zig-zag stitched around all the pieces. 

Then I decided the 'quilt' needed a home ... so I got a canvas ready.  I put Christy Tomlinson coffee filter paper around the edges down with matte medium.

I painted the edges of the canvas. The Silks are translucent, so you can see every word from the paper underneath! I also got a little crazy with the embossing technique around the edges too . . . and then I glued it all together!!

This was such a fun project!! I hope you enjoy playing with Silks Acrylic Glazes, I think they might be a new favorite around here!!

HINT HINT!!  Now I was also practicing for my ETeam picks challenge ( using wrapping paper in your project.) So make sure this holiday season that you are keeping scraps of wrapping paper to use in a project with me in the future!!

New Goodies = Playtime!!!

Greetings!
Teresa Jaye is here to play!

I just got a pile of new goodies from 

the eclectic Paperie online store

and couldn't wait to try them out!

I was excited to try out every single thing I got so I just ripped out a piece of ledger paper from my Great Aunt Sandy's grade- keeping book from the class she taught in 1958 and got started!

(click on photos to enhance and enlarge)

Here's a picture of the new products:

And I know you are all jealous of my ledger paper so here are a couple of pictures of that too! -Yes, 1958!!

I tried out every color of the new Wendy Vecchi line of Ranger Archival inks - they're so yummy! Her new background stamps "Vintage Mesh" and "Reverse Dots" are fabulous too! Of course I had to use my favorite Unity Stamp Co. "She Script" stamp as well! The Prima "Riley" Stamp is precious, her hair is colored with various Faber Castell India Ink Markers topped off with Silks Acrylic Glaze in "Ginger Peach". Her dress is stamped with the "Reverse Dots" stamp in "Cornflower Blue" topped off with Silks Acrylic Glaze in "Sky Blue". The gorgeous Silks glazes add just the right amount of sheer shimmer - so pretty.

Stencils used are: Balzer Bits "Number Bits", Wendy Vecchi Stencils for Art "3 Flourishes", The Crafters Workshop "Mini Climbing Vine". On the top right corner I used Wendy Vecchi Gold Metallic Embossing Paste through the Christy Tomlinson "Vintage Lace Mask". The ferns at the bottom are White Embossing Paste applied through The Crafters Workshop "Mini Four Ferns" stencil.

Rub-ons used are Christy Tomlinson "Doodle Flowers" and Idea-ology Remnant Rubs "Words" and "Numbers".  I'm just kicking myself because I was going to use white doodle flower rub-ons under the black words in the center of the piece and I forgot - believe me, it looks cool when you do this so try it out! 

 I'm not sure what will become of this piece but  I sure had fun trying out my new stuff!

I hope you are inspired to get inky - if you don't have Wendy Vecchi's new line of Ranger Archival inks, you NEED them (just sayin')! 

Thanks for stopping by today,

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