Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal 4

Hi friends - it's S@ndy here with you at Terminal 4.  It has been quite the creative journey this month with our three previous guides.  Astrid, Tracy and Amanda have shared so many great techniques and projects with us, so inspiring.  Thank you. 

My project today is inspired by one of my team mates on the Pop it Ups Designer Challenge Team, Shelly Hickox, who made a fantastic journal cover for a challenge.  I loved it so much that I decided to do my own take on it for a summer travel journal.  We are traveling abroad this year and I want to capture all the wonderful memories in this journal with photos and notes.

Before we get started lets have a review of the items in the travel bag - they are:

Product:  Sprays or Brushos

Technique:  Gesso Resist

Color:  Blue

Substrate: Card
 

Let's get started-

I started out with an art journal from 7 Gypsies

The journal cover was given a coat of Distress Picket Fence.  Not full coverage - rather hit and miss.

Add a length of lace across the front near the bottom edge.

I used watercolor card - 2 pieces, both torn on the bottom edge. 

Using gesso and a color blender - the gesso was dabbed through stencil.  I used two stencils from Karen Burniston, the Flowers Stage It Stencil on the bottom portion of the panels and the Partly Cloudy Stage It Stencil  near the top for a couple clouds.

Since I don't have Brushos I used these Nuance colors from Magenta which work the same way.

 It takes very little powder (shown by the arrow) to make lots of color.  I sprinkled the powder on the paper and then misted it with water - boom - it's like an explosion of color, in this case, blue.  Set aside to dry or if you don't like to wait, use your heat gun.

I used the excess color left on the non stick mat to color my ribbon.  Idea - ology Crinkle Ribbon was used here.  Simply cut your length of ribbon, wet it, drop in color, making sure all the ribbon has color on it.  Then dry with heat tool. 

After the blue color dried, Peeled Paint Distress Ink was added to bottom portion.  Next a light buffing over the gesso to reveal the white.  Then comes a little Distress Vintage Photo Ink on the edges.

I added the ribbon next and tied a bow.  Next the two panels were added with the longer one on top of the ribbon.

I die cut the Eiffel Tower from the Eiffel Tower Pop Stand Die and a hot air balloon from the Hot Air Balloon Pop Up Die both from Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.  Double sided foam adhesive was added to both pieces to give dimension.

Add tower and balloon to card and then add some splatters using watered down gesso and a fan brush.

 

Then came some leaves and three small flowers from Prima near the center. I then added three groups of white dots made with Crystal Drops from Nuvo (shown in the circles above)  These dry dimensional.  I also dressed up the tower with some rein stones.

Some corners from my stash were added to the top corners of both panels.  The finishing touch is a tag with a stamp from the Just a Note Clear Stamp Set that says Bonjour.

 

Thanks for joining me today for this leg of the journey, I hope you are as inspired as I was and will be making a journal for yourself.

Have a creative week,

S@ndy

Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal #3

Hello Everyone and Welcome

Its Amanda here hoping you'll join me on the third leg of this months Destination Inspiration. Before we set off lets just have another quick look inside the travel bag to remind ourselves of the contents :

Product: Sprays of Brushos

Technique: Gesso Resist

Colour: Blue

Substrate: Card

and now for the creativity.

I have made a card using one of my favourite Indigo Blu stamps as the focal image and creating a faux 'whitewashed' brick wall using the gesso resist technique . 

I actually made a few resist backgrounds to see how the technique worked and the results it gave and I guess it was during this creative time that I thought of the idea of trying to create a whitewash wall effect - why whitewashed walls should pop into my mind at this point when I was 'full on colour'  I have no idea?!!

So with the idea fresh in my mind here's what I did .
 I cut a piece of mixed media heavyweight paper to 6x4inches and embossed it using Tim Holtz brick wall embossing folder. Then using a dry piece of natural sponge I applied gesso onto the embossed brick wall panel
 and left to dry - doesn't take long .... 

.... when dry I then spritzed the panel with Distress Spray Stains and a touch of water to help distribute the pools of ink. At this stage you can see the gesso beginning to resist the ink as the inks are water based and one of the features of gesso is that it will resist water based products.

When dry I used a lightly water spritzed cloth and rubbed over the surface of the embossed panel to reveal the full effect of the gesso resist technique. Though I don't claim to be an expert with this technique I was happy with the result and continued to make a few more panels. 

 I chose this one to use on my card as I felt it had the closest resemblance to a whitewash brick wall due to its lighter tones and rough texture.

Now for the stamped focal image - 'Lost in Thought' by Indigo Blu. I've had this stamp for a while as it was a definite 'must have' for me when it was first released but shamefully it has remained un-inked until now.
I LOVE HER!
 She's inked onto white card stock using black Archival ink and painted using distress inks as watercolours. I even gave her some 'lippy' and painted her nails!

  I then fussy cut around her

and adhered her using dimensional glue against the wall on the finished card. For the shadow you can see around her I used pumice stone distress marker.

The quote, from Tim Holtz stamp set 'Warehouse District', is stamped onto white card stock with Black Soot distressed edges using black Archival ink  

Splatters of Stormy Sky and Black Soot distress paint on the brick wall and some gem topped hex nuts add some simple touches of detail to complete the card.

 Thank you for accompanying me today on the 3rd leg of this months Destination Inspiration. I hope both I and my fellow Creative Guides Astrid (Terminal #1) and Tracy (Terminal #2) have given you some inspiration to keep on creating. 

Be sure to stop by next Monday to see whats on offer at Terminal #4 ,the final stop for Mays Destination  Inspiration.

Our current challenge is 'Sew Special' and we welcome you to join in with us. There is still time as the challenge runs up until the beginning of June 2016.

Time now for me to go and pack the supplies back into the travel bag so I'll wish you all a great week ahead 

Take care 

Amanda
xxx

Destination Inspiration -All aboard for May Terminal 1

Hello, hello and happy May!! This is Astrid with a little project to hopefully inspire you....

 It's time to jump aboard for yet another leg of our Destination Inspiration journey. We have a lovely collection of things in our travel bag this month, - let's have a peep inside:

Product: Sprays or Brushos

Technique: Gesso Resist

Colour: Blue

Substrate: Card

What a fun collection to start playing with, so come along on the journey and I'll show you what I made:

As you can see, it's a little triptych with three different card panels. 

Below you can see how I put this together:

I cut a piece of blue card to 6" by 12" and scored it at 4" and 8" along the 12" side.

I then cut  three separate pieces of white card just slightly smaller, so 5.75 by 3.75 ", and decided to use the gesso resist technique by scraping gesso through 2 different but similar stencils and also by using a background stamp.

For those of you who are new to this technique, - gesso will act as a resist to any water based ink or spray as it resists the water/ translucent elements in these products. So when you add colour, the gessoed areas remain much lighter. You can use stencils, stamps or even just scrape on the gesso over your substrate. These are the stencils and stamps I used: from left to right: Tim Holtz Shattered, Memorybox Lathenai and a stamp from Local King Rubber Stamp.

Here is the first one, after I added colour. I used Tim Holtz Distress Spray Tumbled Glass and Cobalt Blue Brusho. I sprinkled on a bit too much of that, so it got quite dark in the centre.

Here you can see the next stage, - I lifted some of the Brusho off again using a baby wipe and then added more blue using Distress Inks in Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire around the edges and also did some background stamping using various Tim Holtz stamps.

The next two panels were done in a very similar way:

The one on the left used the Rubber King stamp, the one on the right the Memorybox stencil. As I used a little too much gesso on there, some of the detail of the stencilling got lost.

Time to finish the different panels.

For the fhe first one, that became the middle panel, I just adhered a large Petaloo flower from my stash to the centre and also a little Tim Holtz word band.

For the next one I used one of Tim's Thinlet dies with matching stamp, - it was coloured with Derwent Inktense pencils and I also did some further stamping in Black Archival.

Finally for the last one I used the Dragonfly from the Classics 1 set by Stampers Anonymous and stamped it first straight onto the card, and then stamped the wing separately again.

And below the finished card after adhering the wings to the dragon fly, - again coloured with Inktense pencils and a little gold Aqua Tint for a bit of shimmer.

Now, it was at this point that I decided to make the triptych into a little booklet, so I made a cover for it, putting some ribbon in a matching colour underneath, so it could be tied shut.

The paper I used for the cover are papers I designed myself, - you can find them as freebies on my blog here if you are interested. The words Artist Journal are again from the Classics 1 set. As I had printed the papers on rather glossy paper I sanded the surface a little so the stamping would adhere better, I also added a little gesso behind the stamping to give it more tooth.

And here is the finished booklet, ready to give to someone as a special card.

I hope you have enjoyed this first leg of the journey, like I said, if you like printed papers, just head over to my blog (there are several others there as well), and don't forget to come back next Monday, when it is time for the second leg of our journey. Do check out our current challenge also (link in the side bar) and of course there will be several Inspiration Journeys too during the rest of the month.

Thank you so much for visiting today and have a lovely month of May!!

xxx

Astrid