Showing posts with label Mixed Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mixed Media. Show all posts

Wednesday 16 May 2018

Cinderella Jar- Inspiration post by DT Vidhi

Hello folks,

                    I am back on the blog with another Inspirational post!!! When you are surrounded by two little beautiful daughters, all you can think about is fairy tales and princesses !!! So this time I am inspired by Cinderella, her beautiful blue coloured dress, and sparkling glass sandals.


This is my first time altering a mini-object. It’s always difficult to alter a mini object as handling it is an issue and the space to be creative gets limited. I have still tried giving textures and put little elements on it. Hope you guys like it.

                    
First, I took a ketchup jar and altered it for my mini project. I started with modelling paste, applied two to three textures through stencils on the Jar with a knife. Then I stuck small pieces of lace on it. Next, I covered the surface with white gesso.


Next, I randomly added mini and mega stones in soft gloss gel to give more depth to the jar. With the hot glue gun, I have tried giving a look of hanging flowers along with some small hearts and twinkling stars


I used texture paste to create a rough surface for the lid of the jar and as a highlight "a glass sandal " on the top. I took a toy sandal from one of my daughter's toys and gave a coat of white gesso. To make it look like a glass sandal, I added silver glitter on it. I used Lindy's magical shakers on the jar to give shades of blue colour, as Cinderella's Blue dress is quite tempting for little girls. In the end, I added some glass stones on the lid near the sandal to make it look like as it was winter and covered in snow. 









Hope you guys like my project and it inspires you to try your hands on your very own alter mini project !!! The jar is even smaller than Lindy's Magical shaker bottle !!!  It's quite challenging but the whole process was fun. 



Supplies:

  • Texture Paste
  • Mini and Mega Art Stones by Finnabair
  • White Gesso
  • Lindy's Magical Shakers
  • Glass Stones
  • Silver Glitter
  • Lace
  • Flowers
  • MDF Hearts & Stars

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Happy Crafting

Hugs,



Tuesday 3 April 2018

Rusty Iron Mask Tutorial by DT Vidhi

Hello Crafty Friends,
How are you all, enjoying the spring or have you already started sweltering under the Sun?
Let me fetch you some breeze with my first ‘Picture Tutorial’ at Rainbow Craftykari Blog as a DT member.
Last Sunday I went with my kids to a nearby garden. As we were walking out of the garden after play time, we spotted a street side vendor selling some toys. Kids had their gala time choosing the toys for themselves. There lay a mask and it captivated me.
The crafter in me awakened and urged me to grab it. I had a thought of giving it a make over… Metal finish with Mix Media Art! Even before reaching home, my mind was searching my treasure trove for trivia and embellishments.










So here is how I made this Rusty Iron Mask...

Enjoy a video flip through and the step by step instructions below

Step1: Priming the base. It is always good to prime the base with gesso, so it holds any further mediums and colours.
I gave it a coat of Black Gesso although it was already Black. I applied it as a primer so that it holds the colours perfectly as the material is plastic.

Step2: Adding textures. Using a stencil, apply modelling paste on the mask randomly.

At some places, I applied Grainy Sand Paste and Fibre Paste to add more depth. Around the nose area, I gave an effect of little scar with the knife.

Once all the textures dry give the entire mask of another coat of black gesso.






Step3: Adding elements to the mask.
I had some leftover chipboards pieces. So I decided to put them to use, I drew some different uneven shapes on it and cut it down with scissor. At some places, I punched the holes with the help of eyelet punch. And at some places I added the eyelet rings. I gave all these pieces a coat of black gesso and once they were dry, I gave them a coat of White Crackle Paste.








Step4: Picking out embellishments.
I used different things from my treasure on the mask as a base, e.g. thread, buttons, wires, screws, broken jewellery pieces, stones, buttons, mdf steampunk gears, bottle caps, pebble stones, broken watch pieces, and broken half of spectacles! I used chipboard shapes as a last step.



If you have noticed, I made a conscious effort to select all the things that could imply masculinity on this project.
I glued all the things one by one on the base with tacky glue. I layered themon top of one another to give more depth. Since the chipboard pieces are stiff, I sprinkled a mix of water+ glycerin solution on them, to shape them as I stuck them.


Step5: Gluing and priming the embellishments.
Here are some close ups of the arrangements for your perusal. After the glue dried, I applied a think layer of black gesso on the embellishments, leaving out the gears.


Step6: Time to add colour!
Once my layers were dry, I gave a coat of Rustic Brown Acrylic Metallic Paint on the layers.

At this stage, a useful tip would be to take a little bit of the colour and to do dry brushing with it.
Second layer was a coat of Red Wine Metallic Paint and it was followed by Gold Amber for highlighting.





Step7: Enhancing the mettalic look.
I wanted my mask to have a metallic finish. For this, I rubbed waxes - Aged Brass and Brushed Iron randomly.

And with that the Rusty Iron Mask is ready!!!




Supplies Used:
  • Plastic Mask
  • Black Gesso
  • Modelling Paste
  • Grainy Sand Texture Paste and Fiber Texture Paste
  • Chipboards
  • White Crackle Paste
  • Finnabair Metalic Acrylic Paints 
  • Finnabair Waxes
  • Tacky Glue
Most of the above-listed materials are available on the Rainbow Craftykari Store and can also be pre-ordered by sending an e-mail at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com.

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Hope you guys liked it. Look forward to hear from you about your variations of this one!
Happy Crafting,

Monday 18 December 2017

Layered Card Inspiration by DT Khushboo


Good morning guys! 

This is Khushboo Gandhi here, with an inspiration post this week. For my project this time, I chose to show you guys how you can achieve layering when you're making cards. Sometimes layering looks complicated, but it's not that difficult. There's a simple technique to it - and it all comes down to balancing out your elements on the card.

So let's take a look first at what I've created.





















Materials used:

  • White cardstock
  • Aqua blue cardstock 
  • Chipboard
  • Washi tape
  • Designer corner punch
  • Glue
  • Designer paper/tags
  • Sentiment
  • Pearl brads
  • Wooden embellishment
  • Lindy's brown spray paint
  • Paint brush
  • Brown distress ink
  • Printer paper


Brief steps for creating a card with layers:

  • Take an A4 sized white cardstock and score in the middle of it - to fold it into two and serve as a base (and the first) layer of the card.
  • For the second layer - take an aqua blue cardstock and cut it 1/8th inch less than that of your white card. Punch the corners with a designer corner punch.
  • Add chipboard underneath it (to give it a 3d effect) and stick it onto the base.
  • For the third layer - take your pattern paper and cut it in the shape of tags. If you want, you can stick it onto a black cardstock before sticking it on the chipboard, and then onto the aqua blue cardstock.
  • Take your brown distress ink and distress the edges of the cardstocks.
  • Curl or distress the edges of your tags to give it more depth and character.
  • For the base line, below the tags, take a thin strip of printer paper and cover it with a washi tape of your choice. Stick it underneath the tags to make the card more cohesive.
  • Stick a sentiment of your choice, with pearl brads at its ends.
  • Finally, splash some brown spray around the card.

Hope you guys enjoyed my creations and the tutorial. Can't wait to see how you add your own twist to this!

Above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Craftykari Store OR you can pre-order the products by sending email at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.comThat's it from me, folks!


Signing out,

Khushboo R. Gandhi

Wednesday 6 December 2017

Winter Mixed media Card by GDT Vinita Jain



Hello everyone!

It's December already now and time to say goodbye to the Year 2017 and welcome the coming year!

This time I am presenting a simple but an elegant card as an inspirational post!


Presenting a true beauty of the Season with all joy and festivity! It is in Traditional colors with a lot of theme challenge elements like stars, glitter, snow! Check out the challenge here.


I started by choosing the wooden papers from Papericious, distressed the edges. Applied vintage photo DI on all 4 sides and lay them on a Kraft CS. For the focal panel, At the bottom added a crochet lace and tied a golden string with a pipe cleaner.
Die cut some pine boughs leaves out of green glittered sheet, added some pom-poms, star buttons, rose mulberry flower along with glittered leaves.

Now at the top, I added a big jute flower along with 2 more small jute flowers and decorated them with adding different leaves, pom poms, string.

Now die cut star shape from glitter and burlap sheet and added the star-shaped chipboard on it and created all the layers. Love the intricate design of star showing all the layers!

To finish it up added some snow paste a and crystal clear powder.
Love the snowy and frosty look! Don't you!!!

Some more pics with close-ups!











Supplies used:

Cardstocks: Textured Kraft CS, Textured snow effect sheet in cream color
Glittered green foam sheet, Burlap sheet
Pattern paper: Wooden Collections from Papericious
Crystal clear Powder: Papericious
Aleene's True Snow paste
Glittered Star-shaped chipboard
Artists Gesso

Dies: Pierced Stars from Spellbinders, Pine boughs from Poppystamps

Other supplies:  White pom poms, red mulberry tiny roses, jute flowers in 2 styles, crochet lace, golden string, green felt leaves, red pollens, red color pipe cleaner and star-shaped wooden buttons

All supplies are available at the store or you can pre-order.


Hope you all enjoyed my this term as a GDT at Rainbow Craftykari with loads of inspirations!


Have a wonderful day!Vinita Jain



Monday 20 November 2017

Mixed Media Wooden Piece Tutorial by DT Priya


Hello Crafty Folks,

A very good morning to all of you.I'm back with a Picture Tutorial for a Mixed media Wooden Piece. Here I have explained how I have made this piece totally out of scrap. Except for colouring and glueing you don't need any supplies to make this kind of a project.
Here is what I made....










 

So let's Start...


Step 1:
I had this wooden plank which is about 2.5 feet in length. You can take any base be it wooden or canvas, Procedure will be the same. I used some masking tape on corners and sides to fill the uneven parts. Also attached a hook at the back so that I can hang it on my wall.



Step 2:

I gave it a coat of white gesso.




Step3:

Here you can see the things I have used on the base to create textures. Some negative of chippies, Gauze cloth, Twine, some nails, buttons, tissue paper, pista shells, broken pencils, tags, broken toys etc.


     


I cut and glued the negative chippies on the base as shown in the picture below and also tied some twine on desired spaces.



Step 4: 

Then I arranged some gauze around the chippies and adhered some corrugated sheet here and there and also attached lace at few places.



Step 5:

Then I arranged tissue rolls, some chipboards, metal charms, tags, broken pencils and other embellishments using 3d matte gel.



Here are some close-ups of the arrangements in case you are interested.









Step 6: 

Then I gave a coat of white gesso on it after all things dried up. Also used a light coat of Decoart crackle texture paste here and there.






As you can see I arranged some broken jewellery pieces on it to add more textures and finally added a butterfly chipboard to give some height.

Step 7:

Then I started colouring this after it is fully dried. Firstly I gave a coat of Chalk paint Sailing sky and Mint green Patina Paste. Then I started dry brushing with Rust and Brass Patina paste mixed together. Also rubbed blue patina paste here and there for the effect.





Supplies Used:

Wooden PlankPapericious White gessoFinnabair Patina Effect Paste ( Mint Green, Blue, Rust, Brass)
Deco Art Crackle Paste

Rangers 3D Matte Gel

Acrylic paint Rust

Papericious ChipBoards

Corrugated sheets

Laces
Gauze


You can get all the above-mentioned products from Rainbow Craftykari Shop or can pre-order by sending an email to rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com.


Also, do not forget to participate in our ongoing challenge here and check out other gorgeous projects and tutorials from our awesome Design Team.

Hope you like my project.

Hugs,

Priya