INKY, MESSY EASTER SUNDAY

Hiya Claire here.

A few weeks ago we set a competition asking you to challenge us,

and the winner was Jayne who left us this comment:

"I would love to see more messy inky projects."

Posted by: jayne | March 01, 2010 at 05:51 PM

So we've all been busy getting messy, painty & inky, here are the results:

I've had some canvases I've wanted to play with for a while & this seemed like the perfect project.

Each canvas was painted with pink acrylic paint then again with some Blonde Moments paint, I've inked the edges with Distress ink & doodled faux stitching too.

The chipboard swirls have been painted black & embossed with Ultra Thick embossing powder

& the chipboard h was painted black & finished with Glossy accents, a few crystal flowers were used

& the journaling is on strips.

The heart was originally red, it came with some stash I'd ordered, so I painted it pink,

dipped it in glitter & coated with Mod podge, to stop the glitter falling off, I doodled dots on flower

& the gold crown is Grungeboard (I love this stuff).

I'm really loving the finished set, now I just need to find room on my craft room wall to hang them.

Thanks to Jayne for challenging us, I really enjoyed it & will keep getting inky & painty.

Claire

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  Hi Lynne here

For my Birthday I was given some sequin waste and a make-up sponge by a crafty friend.

I took some cream marbled cardstock, assorted colours of distress inks and a mini-mister to create the first layer.

I then used the sequin waste as a mask / stencil to highlight some areas using the make-up sponge to apply the ink.

Various flourishes were stamped around the edges.

The key was cut using a sizzix die and then distressed.

The final touch was some glitter to the tree of life.

 

Lynne x

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Hello, Eleanor here.

Inky - well, my ink pad was a versamark clear one,

and my 'messy'  was lots of different shades of Blonde Moments iridescent embossing powder,

and micro and seed beads rolling everywhere

while I tried to catch them in clear UTEE and glossy accents.

The purpose was to alter a jigsaw piece, one like this:

into this pendant:

From a lightweight cardboard jigsaw piece I now have a heavy, textured pendant on a thong, with surface beads, partly sunken ones, and tiny ones suspended within layers of UTEE and gloss.

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Mandy here & Oooh... I have seriously enjoyed getting out some messy, painty, inky stash this past week.  Sometimes it can feel like too much bother to 'get messy' (& clear-up afterwards!) but it has been so much fun to PLAY!!  I learned about this kind of messy stuff from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's on-line class called 'Technique-a-Palooza: Paint & Ink 30 techniques' ...

You can find her brilliant blog  here. 

So,  I decided to make a 12" by 12" scrapbook layout about my Husb who passionately loves to make tasty coffee including grinding the beans & frothing the milk etc.  Here's the finished layout, then I'll tell you what I did...

OK... here's what I did...

I used some 12" by 12" cardboard packaging from the back of a pack of papers because these techniques add weight and ordinary cardstock just can't cope!  I arranged some spare chipboard alphas into a vague heart shape...

 

Once glued down well, I used a sponge applicator to cover over all the letters with GESSO which is one of my fave products.  It's a bit like thick acrylic paint but dries matt and is a perfect surface to add paints/inks to.  Wangle the sponge applicator about to totally cover the letters...

 

While the letters are drying, use a pallette knife (or an ordinary knife/piece of plastic) to thickly coat GESSO all around the alpha heart...

 

Then give the alpha heart another coat of gesso. Now, the fun part of imprinting texture into the wet GESSO.  I used a  jam-jar lid to make circles like a coffee cup and a cotton-reel and some corrogated card to add lines.  Packaging from chocolate boxes always makes a fun texture too.

 

Here's a close-up of the wet GESSO to show some texture...

 

Let it dry overnight and it goes matt...

Time to add colour.  First I like to use watercolour paint, unevenly and 'not-too-overworked' ...

 

I used brown & yellow paint and a small amount of green (to tie-in with the Starbucks logo embellie I made)  I deliberately splattered some brown paint drips on at the end ... 

 

Next I got out my inky sprays which were matching colours and sprayed a few test sprays onto some scrap paper.  Then (having put down plenty of newspaper) I 'went for it' with the sprays.  They do run into one another and 'pool' in the indented Gesso background and it's fun! 

The photo doesn't really show how shiny and sparkly it looks in real life.

It doesn't take too long to dry.  Then I finished the layout with a photo-strip, title, ribbon, Starbucks embellies and an embossed metal heart I made and inked.  I love using staples especially on a man/boy page and used my long-arm stapler to emphasise the outline of the big textured heart.  Here's a couple of close-ups...

 

So...I hope you'll agree that it is worth the messy clear-up!

 Mandy

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Hi from Caz!

Well my inky messy play certainly doesn't compare to the AWESOME projects above! I am in AWE of this work and would love to have the guts to give it a go. I guess i'm a little afraid of totally messing it up. So I will stick to my chalk ink, stazOn, acrylic paint and a little Tim Holtz distress ink :)

 

For my project I have covered and decorated a plain 7 gypsies book that I am going use for a little personal project in 2010. A bit about that later though ;)

 

  

 A few years ago I decided that I was over foam stamps and sold off all but 2 sets. And the reason I have those two sets still is because they landed up in my stuff cupboard and I only re-discovered them recently. But boy am I glad I still have them. Foam stamps ROCK!  

Next month i'll share more of this book and a little of what it's all about.

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Thanks for visiting and thanks for the challenge.
IACW girls
xxx

Comments

[Debbie Roberts]

All these posts are absolutely amazing, Im sorry I didn't have time to play too. Guess what I will be doing today?

Debbie x

[jayne]

thought i'ld better post a comment seeing it was me asking if you would do inky messy projects xxx
I love everything and well done to the new girls too xxx
Thankyou...i'm going to get out my inky stuff today x