Crafters Cupboard DT
Hello Crafty
Friends!
Danni
here today to blog my first DT Tutorial with Crafter's
Cupboard. A tad excited I might
add, and hopefully you'll find it inspiring as well.
Unfortunately I have been tied up
with work this month and haven't been able to get
down to the Awesome Crafter's Cupboard shop to check out all the lovely new
releases from Paper
Artsy.
You can check the new releases
here. I cant wait to get my greedy little hands onto
some of those exciting new stamp plates and the wonderful range of paints.
Till then, I will have to make do with my last
purchases at the Crafter's Cupboard which were a few of Dyan
Reaveley's Dylusions stamps.
I 've been pondering over
them for quite a while. I would say that they have been calling my name every
time I enter the Crafter Cupboard shop, but they are just a little out
of my comfort zone so I had been resisting them.
Last month I found myself in front
of Angus's perfectly arranged shelf of the Dylusions stamps, and once again
wondering what I would create with them. So,
this time I bit the bullet and brought a few sets home with
me!
Believe it or not, todays post is
all about these wacky and fun stamps. I managed to create a fun double journal
page and I quite surprised myself with the finished project.
Now I know there was quite a few
Dyan Stamp set's left on the shelves at Crafter's
Cupboard shop that I will now most definitely need to get!
So my journal page started as they
all do - blank. I picked a few stamp sets that I wanted to play with
Bits of these -DYR34605, Ruby
Rainbow-DYR34377, Shrooms-DYR44529
And I had a few more stamps on
standby just in case .
Next was to pull out my
Dylusions spray's - another product that's a little bit out of my
comfort zone, but that I am pushing myself to use as I quite like the
effects.
Once colours were
sorted, I grab my handy dandy spray booth - a chips box from
Aldi
( a wonderful tip I got
from Jennifer)
and sprayed to my hearts content
also adding a water spray over the top to help with the blending of the
colours
Once I was happy with the coverage
on my pages I whipped out a stencil
as I wanted to give ghosting a
try.
This is a method that
Dyan is well known for when using her Dylusions sprays. It involves spraying
your background, placing your stencil down and spraying water through the
stencil. This causes a reaction to the dylusion inks so when you lift
your stencil and dry the area with paper towel you are left with a ghost print
of the stencilled image.
as seen
here
This was a really cool technique
that I would try again . But next time I will make more of a
feature with the technique.
The next step once the page was
completely dry was to stamp the little flower stems from the elements
of Shrooms-DYR44529 stamp set with archival ink.
and then using other
stamp elements that come from the stamp sets to compose my lay
out
Once I was happy with the overall
lay out it was time to try another technique!
I had been hanging out to try this
one which involves colouring with aqua painters. I filled
each one with the Dylusion ink sprays straight from the bottle so that I could
use them to colour my stamped images.
The colours are so vibrant and are
not watered down so you can get direct colour into small paintable
areas
Once all the images were coloured,
I stamped out the crazy little bodies and heads, mix matching from one stamp
set to the other onto 300gsm water colour paper.
I then used the
aqua painters to again colour the images up.
For the skin tones I used my copic
makers E50, E51, E53 and E93
Once they were completely dried, I
fussy cut around the stamped images using a craft knife for the really
small areas.
The larger figure needed
hair as her head finished at her eyes. I had contemplated using the leaves but
that would have just gotten too busy with the leaves that were already
stamped around the boarder of the pages.
So another dig through my stamps
and I pulled out
Dyan's Surivor- DYR44550
...
and stamped the survivor head straight
down onto the journal page
I then proceeded to matt medium
the fussy cut stamped images down onto my pages
Once they were in position I felt
the page needed a bit more black as the bright and intense colours were a
little too overwhelming.
Another dig around in my stamps
and I found Clearly doodle parts
which has a few solid leaf stamps.
This was stamped around the boarders of the page to frame the figures
and to also pull all the colours together.
I actually think the
extra black on the page makes the Dylusion inks pop
So now nearly finished …
.. I used a posca fine paint pen to make highlights on the leaves and to put a
Dottie pattern through the hair of the larger figure and
then finally,
using another Dyan stamp- Clearly
quotes
(Who Knew I had so
many sets!) I stamped out two quotes that I liked and thought were
appropriate for my images.
They were
stamped onto white cardstock and then I cut them out and used matt
medium glue them to the pages…..
and voilà a finished
double spread.
I hope you have enjoyed this
tutorial as much as I enjoyed making it
if you have any questions please
leave a comment I would love to hear from you
Until next time enjoy what you do
and keep on creating
crafty hugs
xxx
