A Tray Full of Rust- Fiona Randall

 

 

Morning Fiona Here bringing you a Rusty Treat for this weeks theme on the blog RUST.

 

 

I decided to add a Rusty treatment to this Kate Crane Divided Box Kit using my favourite colours of DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics. The combination of colours used gives that rusty patina effect that I love with added grunge as a bonus. A nice little tray to store tags on my desk.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Stay Safe

Fiona xx

 

 

Products Used.

 

 

Tando Creative Kate Crane Divided Box Kit

 

 

 

 

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics

 

Quinacrodone Gold

 

Burnt Sienna

 

Cobalt Turquoise Hue

 

Titan Buff

 

Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide

 

Raw Umber

 

DecoArt Media Texture Sand Paste.

 

DecoArt Media Antiquing Cream- Patina

 

DecoArt Media Metallic Lustre- Burnished Brass

 

 

 

 



Embossing folder texture

Hi it's Brenda here.
I thought I would create a textured media board for embossing folder week and I liked it so much I decided it would become my 'Make and Take' project at Ministry of Mixology last month. (I was well ahead of myself with projects as I had a holiday coming up and wanted to get loads of projects scheduled well before hand).

I adhered a few pieces of torn/cut left over embossed card randomly onto a media board using matte medium and left it to dry between wax paper under a heavy box.

Don't worry about gluing the pieces over the edges, you can remove these when it's perfectly dry.

Next I scraped over some texture sand paste and heat dried it.

Paint a coat of white gesso to give it some tooth for the next layers and then spend quite some time spritzing water, dipping media acrylic paints into it, letting it move around a little and drying it. I repeated this step lots and lots of times using raw umber, quinacridone gold, burnt sienna and carbon black.

I wanted to highlight the textures a little more so I took a palette knife and white gesso and lightly scraped it over keeping the blade flat to the surface.

The White gesso is very stark so mix a dirty watery wash of paynes grey and quin gold and paint over the whole surface, dry it and seal with a varnish - I used soft touch.

I took some elements I had already rusted and a word (I have no idea why I chose the word 'waiting' although there is something special we are waiting for later in the year - that's my unconscious mind taking over perhaps!) and I put it together to finish it off. I'm really happy with this.

The textures from the embossed card are random and give a completely distressed look to the background.

If you have a try with this technique please let us know.

For now have fun creating.

hugs Brenda xxx

Supplies

Media Board

DecoArt media acrylic paints

DecoArt media gesso

DecoArt media texture sand paste

DecoArt media varnish

DecoArt media matte mdium

Cogs (from various kits)

Embossed card (my own supplies)

Colour scheme week

Hi guys Liz here, with my take on our colour challenge!!

Now believe it or not the colours are all there, only some have hidden themselves, lol

I took one of the Arabian style layered arch  with inner arches, I used two outer arches to build up some  depth and painted them with Deco Art  white Gesso, when dry i made a puddle of bundled sage distress ink into a old margarine tub and added some water, till i had the colour I wanted for the main frames,

 on the back piece behind Santa I used the snowflakes mask with some Deco Art modeling paste then before it was dry sprinkled on some glitter,

I then glued it together,

all the other colours were made using my copics on this older Magnolia stamp, I thought the frame made Santa look like he was reading his lists on the run up too Christmas, looking at him through his window,

Yes my mind does go off in it's own mysterious ways sometimes, lol

I made the window pane effect by using some acetate which I scored with my Scor Pal, then added some Deco Art  texture sand on the bottom edge to look like frosty snow, to finish it off I added one of the mini leaves 1 coloured with distress ink too,

Hope this has inspired you to have a go at our colour scheme, just click  on the link above,

Happy Crafting!!

Hugs Liz xx