Hello and welcome to my contribution for the February colour challenge.
Here are the colours provided and it is up you if you choose two, three or all of them the choice is yours.
I chose to use three.
Hello and welcome to my contribution for the February colour challenge.
Here are the colours provided and it is up you if you choose two, three or all of them the choice is yours.
I chose to use three.
February Colour Challenge Tag by Bernadette
Good Morning Crafters :)
I have had a couple of days off work this week so thought I would make something and give the colour challenge a go. Actually trying to match up some colours was a challenge in itself! As the colours pictured in the Creative Zone on the Facebook page are only a guide, I chose what I had that was as close as I could be.
I don't really have many paints, Those that I have, I've collected when I've seen a make that I really like, usually a gelli plate print. I've got a few different brands and the ones I used for this project were Tim Holtz speckled egg, uncharted mariner and rusty hinge and a midnight blue colour from Americana.
I used a Tando size 10 greyboard tag (my favourite) https://www.tando-creative.co.uk/TAGS120X60.html and covered it with some white gesso and let it dry.
To add some texture, I chose some stencils and stencilled over the gesso using a smooth white texture paste and let that dry.
I added the colours starting with the lightest then adding bits of the darker colours randomly. I did quite a few coats letting colours dry in between applications. I used a stencil brush and my fingers for dabbing bits of paint over the textured areas and wiped bits off using a damp piece of paper towel to give variation here and there.
Piece the paper doll is sitting on, I used an off cut piece of greyboard and added a stamped ruler piece with glue then blended some dark blue ink around the edges. I coloured the paperdoll's dress and basket using Tim Holtz watercolour pencils.
The stars are from the from the Tando mini stars pack https://www.tando-creative.co.uk/TMSTARS.html
I painted the stars in the midnight blue paint, using my fingers, and gave them a couple of coats. I then added the bronze paint over the top, again using my fingers. I stamped the words from a sentiments stamp set, cut then out then added some blue ink around the edges before gluing them to the tag.
To finish, I used a blending tool to add black ink around the edges of the tag and tied some dark blue ribbon through the hole at the top of the tag.
Bye for now, Bernadette xxx
I’ve already made a lighthouse and a haunted windmill so this time I went for a derelict heater- skelter.
Using the basic hexagon tower I decided that rickety old fairground rides would need to be built with boards, so my collection of coffee stirrers got put to good use.
Rather than cut the ends neatly I measured and snapped the stirrers. To make the planks look even older and more decayed. I used a sharp craft knife (being very careful, of course) and took a few chunks out of the edges. To vary the design I made some joints and some missing and loose planks.
This was a long job and took maybe 150 planks from around 50 stirrers. I used PVA to stick them to the tower.
The top of the helter-skelter is make from Tando Creative birdcage shapes I had lurking. I cut out the centre cage bars and trimmed the top and bottom to be straight. I stuck five of them together using small hexagons as a former. The roof is made of thin card, curved to make a cone shape.
The broken slide sections are cut from Tando greyboard offcuts, with coffee stirrer sides.
I used DecoArt Modelling paste to add texture to the rotting roof. When dry it was painted black, before adding the other colours.
I painted the red diamond shapes on the tower with a diluted Santa Red, to give the patchy, peely look. The sides of the slide are in Forest Green, with Burnt Umber for the slides. The sides were aged with diluted washes of Burnt Umber and Lamp Black.
To add the mouldy, stained look I used DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics; Quinacridone Red, Paynes Grey, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide, and Green Gold.
All finished with a distressed ‘Hell-ter Skelter’ sign.