Don't we all love a bit of texture in our projects and there have been some fabulous ideas and inspiration this week from the team for Texture Week. Today I am mixing DecoArt modeling paste with media fluid acrylic paint to achieve a coloured texture pattern on my tag. Take a look to see how I prevent that from being covered with all the other paint layers I added to it.
To start I took one of the long Tando chipboard tags, gave it a coat of gesso and then a light coat of transparent iron oxide keeping it light and barely covering the whole of the tag.
To get some texture on the tag I took DecoArt modeling paste and mixed it with a little burnt umber media fluid acrylic and with a palette knife applied it through the long flourish stencil, turning it over to apply it at the bottom.
Next I took two different sizes of the grab bag circles and cut a little from each of them and gave them a coat of burnt umber. Before the tag dried I took the circles applied wet glue to the backs and and stuck them into the modeling paste....
.... then I added some texture sand paste around the edges of the circles and the tag itself then left it to fully dry.
Next I took two different sizes of the grab bag circles and cut a little from each of them and gave them a coat of burnt umber. Before the tag dried I took the circles applied wet glue to the backs and and stuck them into the modeling paste....
.... then I added some texture sand paste around the edges of the circles and the tag itself then left it to fully dry.
Once dried I rubbed a candle over the texture paste parts and then stippled with dark grey, cobalt turquoise and cobalt blue and rubbed the colours off of the textured areas.
I repeated again this time adding in some transparent yellow iron oxide.
Next I focussed on the sand texture areas and the edges and stippled in burnt umber, burnt sienna and paynes grey followed by rust in a bottle - a coat of quinacridone gold spritzed with water and left to settle before drying.
I dribbled some watery TYIO through, dried it and repeated with cobalt turquoise to bring the patina colours back into play a little bit.
The seam binding ribbon took the paint washes beautifully.
The crown is a diecut and I glued two together to give it some dimension.
And finally I found a lost relative and painted a star to finish it off.
Thanks for stopping by today and if you pop over to Bumblebees and Butterflies you will find other projects using Tando products.
Have a great weekend.
hugs Brenda xxx
Have a great weekend.
hugs Brenda xxx
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Amazing texture and gorgeous tag, Brenda!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful tag Brenda lovely rich colours x
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