The Crafter's Cupboard April DT

April's DT an ANZAC Tribute

Hello Crafty Peeps,
It's Dannii here again with a little late April Tutorial
April has been a crazy month but hopefully you'll think this tutorial is worth the wait
Once again I have created a double lay-out in my Dyan Reavely ranger journal. I love this new journal. The pages are so beautiful, thick and smooth to work on and can really hold the wet, and the best thing there's no gluing pages together. You can buy them HERE

Now anyone who knows me knows my oldest son has recently joined the Australian Army. This is he's First Anzac day as a service man and I am truly proud of him. Also being that this April we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC's in Gallipoli landing I decided that my page should be a tribute to our Anzac hero's past and present.

So I decided to sketch on the right side of the page an Anzac solider. This was drawn in grey lead pencil

 

Once I was happy with the sketch I went over the drawing with a waterproof fine liner this helps me to keep my basic line drawing when I start painting.

 

 

 I made a few adjustments to the port potions on the face and then when I was happy with the drawing I rubbed out all my grey lead sketch lines.

Now was the time to start splashing some paint around using Southern Skies Fressco paint and a credit card. I blocked in the background and then using Tinned peas I quickly blocked in the uniform and slouch hat. I then used SEMCO flesh paint from my stash to block in the face and neck area

 

 

once again I pulled out my trusty fine liner and went over the facial features again and blocked in the eyes with fresco paint chalk and then started to paint in the shadowed areas with Fresco chocolate pudding

 

 

once the shadows are dry another layer of Semco flesh paint is applied over the whole face and neck

and then I painted in the Iris with the chocolate pudding fresco paint.

 

 

 

 

once this layer is dried I pulled out my Derwent ink intense pencils I lOOOVVVE these pencils and are a must have for any serious art journal.They can be purchased at crafters cupboard

I like to use the earth tones in the ink intense pencils to build the shadows and flesh tones.

 

 and then activated the pencil's with an aqua painter. The pupils where then painted in and lips coloured

 

at this stage. I really just like to keep working and building the flesh tones and building up the features on the face with the ink intense pencils and aqua painter.

I really enjoy this process and will keep adding colours until I am happy with the finished face

 

 

More shadows are added with the purple red tones

and then toned down with a touch of flesh paint

 

 

the slouch hat band  and hat badge is painted in

 

 

Then the final details are added to the hat badge and chin strap and details to the shirt.

Once it is completely dry I added white highlights to the chin, nose, checks neck and forehead with a white charcoal pen and white possca paint pen

I am now happy with the finished details of the face

and now it's time to start on the other side of the page.

starting with stamping and masking a poppy stamp from my stash

along the bottom half of the page

 

 

 

the poppies were then painted with silk paints and pit pens

 

 

once the poppies were finished I added the lest we forget ode.

 

 

I am really pleased with my finished page and hope you all enjoyed my tutorial

hopefully I have done our old Digger's Proud and I know

it is by far my favourite page

till next time

enjoy your art journaling

 

 

crafters cupboard March DT

March DT for Crafter's Cupboard

 

hello Peep's

 

It's Dannii here with another monthly tutorial for the crafter's cupboard.

 

My mum came for a visit last month and we spent a day shopping together. She's such a sweet heart, she brought me a gorgeous hand painted  leather handbag of an Owl. This got me thinking about painting my own type of handbags.

 

So whilst out shopping this week I came across these cheap tote bags and figured it would be the ideal style to give handbag painting a crack.

 

So using some of my new Paper Artsy fresco paints and Jo Sonja's textile medium (thanks Jennifer for letting me know about this medium) for fabric painting from my stash. I mixed 2 parts paint, 1 part textile medium making sure I mixed well with a palette knife.
Then used a credit card to swipe the paint using paper Artsy Fresco Jade over the front of the  bag

 

Then using a fan brush I stippled the paint around the edges, so the background didn't look too blocky.
Then using a soft grey lead once the paint was dry, I used a ranger heat gun to speed up the process and quickly sketched out a face for the front of the bag.

 

Once I was happy with the sketch. I used my flesh coloured paint mixed with textile medium to block in the face  and paper Artsy Fresco prawn to block in the hair.

 

Making sure I gave the face quite a few coats between drying.

Once I was happy with the coverage

I used a Paper Artsy stencil  PS016 and Paper Artsy fresco paint little black dress to decorate the background around the face.

 

I also used a piece of bubble wrap to stamp and a paper artsy Electica stamp set EEV06 to decorate the background.
Once I added the background I used paper Artsy chalk and my flesh paints to add highlights to the face.

Then Irish cream and cinnamon was added for shadows.
 

 

A touch of Prawn and flesh was added to the checks lips and throat for blush

and the eyes were worked on with the cinnamon and Irish cream

 

 

Once I was happy with the flesh tones

more work was added to the eyes using Jade for the Iris

and adding more highlights to the face and hair using paints, ink intense pencils and pitt pens

 

 

the face is nearly completed at this stage just a few more details to the eyes adding highlights

and brighter colour to the lips using Posca pens and pitt pens

 

Once I am happy with the over all look of the face. It's back to the background

stamping with prawn and chalk and adding a butterfly from Dina Wakley stamp set

 Scrbbly insects - MDR44499

 to the hairline and colouring it with silks

which is also ideal for painting on fabrics

 

I am pretty happy with the out come of the bag and the textile medium was great to work with as it kept the paint wetter longer so I was able to blend well with the paints.

the paint with the help of the textile medium has stuck down well and appears to have set in to the fabric. I don't know if I will give it a coat of mod podge or not I really don't think it's need.  I have given it a good scrub and wiped it down with a wet sponge with no paint peeling or lifting. So hopefully this tote will be quite useful in carrying my products to art journal class as well as being an original and pretty bag to look at.

All the materials I have used can be purchased from Crafter's Cupboard here

I am off to the shops now to buy a  few more of these bags. There going to be great presents for family and friends

Give it a go this was really an easy project to make

I hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to leave a comment

I love to hear from you all

Until next time

get out there  play, create and enjoy with mixed media.

 

Crafters Cupboard Dt Journal page for Febuary

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

The Squirrel and the fox Challenge #73

#73 Ribbon and Lace

 

Hello peeps,

Back again for another The squirrel and the fox DT challenge

this weeks challenge is sponsored by the very creative

Robyn's Fetish

who is gifting the winner of the challenge 3 free digital stamps from her store

So all you have to do to be apart of this challenge is to use some lace and ribbon

Now how easy could that be we all have a little lace and ribbon or in my case we have tones

in our stash so I expect to see lots this fortnight join the Squirrel and the fox challenge

This is what I came up with using the sponsors image

 

What I cute little image I hear you say! Well I thought so too!

She has been coloured with copics and layered on a few different designer papers. Which came as a freebie with one of the many craft magazines I like to buy.

I 've also added a couple of paper doley's

I have added pleated ribbon and crocheted lace across the card and of course what good card would be complete with out a little bling from my stash.

So Now that you've seen my card get on over to The Squirrel and the fox blog and get cracking on your card for this challenge. It's such an easy one to take part in and don't forget you got to be in it to win 3 Free digital stamps from Robyn's Fetish

I look forward to checking out your cards

Until next time

Happy Card making !

 

 

The Squirrel and the fox #72 Card Challenge

#72 Christmas in July card challenge

                       Hello peeps and Merry Christmas in July well nearly in July!,

                        it's that time again for another squirrel and fox card challenge

Today's card challenge is Christmas in July and is sponsored by the Awesome Sweet and Sassy stamps

               and they are offering the challenge winner 3 free digi stamps from their store
now to win these free digis all you have to do is take part of the squirrel and the fox #72 challenge
                                                                    you can enter here

                                     This is what I come up with using the sponsors image

                                                            
                                                              Isn't it a great image!!
                        I love the fact I have now got my first Christmas card made for the year!
The image was coloured with my copics and I have used my Christmas papers from my stash
                                        and a wood chip sentiment to embellish the card
                                         I look forward to see what you all come up with
                                             enjoy the challenge and thanks for looking

 

The Squirrel and the Fox # 71 card challenge

#71 card challenge- use something metal

Hello Crafty friends,
Here we are again for another The Squirrel and the Fox card challenge

You can find the card challenge here To be apart of the challenge all you have to do is make a card which includes something metal. This is what I come up with using the sponsors image

 

It's a lovely image which I have enjoyed colouring

This image is from our challenge sponsor

 

 

Which has been coloured with my copics and the card was created from papers and embellishments from my stash

Delicious Doodles are offering a fantastic prize of 4 free digi stamps to the winning entry

All you need to do is get onto The Squirrel and the Fox challenge and enter a card using something metal on your card

So how easy is that!

I am looking forward to see what you come up with

thanks for looking