Hello all, Alison here from Words and Pictures, and I'm delighted to have arrived at Terminal 4 to share June's fourth and final Destination Inspiration project with you.
Packed in the travel bag this month we had:
Main Colour - Walnut Stain
Technique - Layering Stencil and Texture Paste
Substrate - Watercolour Paper
Product - Any Tattered Die
Three of my fellow Creative Guides have already shared their inspiration with you, keeping us all fuelled for the journey (you can see their roadmaps of inspiration again at the end of the post), and now it's my turn. Here's what I came up with... (I had to make this some time ago before life got busy, but I'll do my best to remember how I put it together!)
I started by cutting a large tag out of a sheet of watercolour paper, and applied texture paste through the fabulous Typo stencil before spritzing with Walnut Stain Distress Spray. I tried to keep some whiter spaces, and places where you can really see the delicate splatter pattern from the spray.
I decided I wanted the Typo lettering to pop a little more, so I did some dry-brushing with Picket Fence Distress Paint to highlight the texture.
I'm not much of a flower-maker in the general way of things, but I know where to go when I do want to do some... my fellow Creative Guide Jennie has some amazing tutorials over at her blog Live the Dream, and I almost always go there for help when I'm using the Tattered Florals die.
I followed her Cabbage Rose design for my large flower (I've enjoyed the results in the past, and it didn't fail me this time either) and a sort of half version of the same for the smaller ones. I did less curling of the petals on the small roses as my book pages I was using weren't really strong enough to take it.
So with all my components in place, I now had the fun of adding collage elements and embellishments to finish the whole thing off.
I used one of the brilliant Photobooth photos, and layered up paper scraps and other ephemera to frame it.
I altered my metal embellishments with alcohol ink and some Treasure Gold. I think the clock looks pretty good peeking out from behind the roses.
I particularly like the effect on the WordBand. I thought about applying paint to accent the lettering, but decided I rather liked how subtle the words are like this.
I like the dark Teakwood and Espresso alcohol inks contrasting with the bright gilding.
I needed something a little brighter to carry the eye on a longer journey and capture the light in places, so I grabbed some thick card off-cuts from the Frameworks Honeycomb die which were hanging around on my craft table and gave them a coat of Antique Linen Distress Paint and then one of Rock Candy Crackle Paint.
Once it was dry and cracked, I pressed the pad of my Walnut Stain Distress Stain down onto them to let the ink sink into the crackles to highlight them.
The seam binding at the top has had a close encounter with the Walnut Stain inkpad so that it tones in with the rest of the tag.
And I'm a complete spatter fiend at the moment - can't resist it! You can see the dry-brushing and a little hint of Treasure Gold highlighting the texture here too.
So there you have it... my roadmap of inspiration to re-charge your batteries for the next stage of the journey.
I hope you like it.
As promised, here's a recap of all the Destination Inspiration projects from this month. I love seeing how each Creative Guide uses the same luggage from the travel bag to create such different and individual projects.
As promised, here's a recap of all the Destination Inspiration projects from this month. I love seeing how each Creative Guide uses the same luggage from the travel bag to create such different and individual projects.
Terminal 1 - Jennie
Terminal 2 - Anne
Terminal 3 - Astrid
Terminal 4 - Alison
So there you have it - I hope your creativity is firing on all cylinders after all that. You've still got a bit of time left to come and join in S@ndy's Celebrations challenge, so get cracking!
What will be packed in the travel bag next month? And how will each Creative Guide use the components to fuel our onward Vintage Journey? You'll just have to come back each Monday to find out... Bon Voyage!
What will be packed in the travel bag next month? And how will each Creative Guide use the components to fuel our onward Vintage Journey? You'll just have to come back each Monday to find out... Bon Voyage!
Alison xx