Collage

Edwardian Gentleman

January 24, 2011 By Glenda 22 Comments

The creativity has not been flowing well in the last few weeks and I know well enough to be gentle with it, not force it and allow some freewheeling playtime. At the weekend I came across my old wax pot – a gift from Adrian about fourteen years ago when I used it for silk batik. It had some beeswax in, so I fired it up and dug out a collage box of bits and pieces. This is what I came up with (click for a larger image).

I coloured the tag with Distress Inks (Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge) and stamped a script from the Edwardian Gentleman plate in the background. I stamped the man onto tissue paper and stuck all the elements down with the hot beeswax. I put quite a dollop of wax on the top and let it cool enough to stamp into with a crackle stamp, then when it had hardened, I went round the edges with a little gold, red and blue Inka Gold to highlight the texture. The little propellor actually spins round, but I could do with a long fastener as it has popped off the wax a couple of times and will probably come off again if I don’t fix it in place.

So I’m feeling quite pleased that I managed to get some playtime in. I did come up with some other bits and pieces too, but I’m keeping those for a Craft Stamper article for June so you’ll have to wait a while to see those.

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Image Transfers

June 27, 2010 By Glenda 10 Comments

Ok, so I’ve been a bit quiet this week, I know. But I have been creative. Look at the state of my table on Wednesday. I nearly submitted this to that challenge page that I can never remember the name of – the one where you show the state of your work desk on Wednesdays.

I don’t buy many magazines these days (no time to read them!), but recently I bought some wedding magazines to do some research for our wedding fayre, so I have a bunch of glossy magazines sitting around. Well I decided to try some image transfers from the magazines, then I got the paints out, and one thing led to another.

I found a page of shoes – with trusty Golden Soft Gel Matte in hand and some good quality watercolour paper (the paper really makes a difference), I managed to do some direct gel transfers and after a wash of fluid acrylics, it’s looking like this.

It’s still a work in progress, I’m really not sure where it will go from here, but I’ve added some pencil shading to each of the shoes and shadows under – just with a 4b graphite pencil, nothing fancy.

Some of the magazines transferred beautifully, some didn’t work at all. I tried tags too and love this one which was done on a brown kraft tag

I stuck on some dictionary paper at the top and the words are from the packaging from a 7 Gypsies product. The colour is fluid acrylics again and I am looking for some fine wire to use to attach that lovely charm using the holes top and bottom.

This tag has a transfer of sugared almonds – I think they look like eggs!

There are two collage pieces that came out of this play session that I’m really pleased with, but don’t have photos of yet. They are a balanced pair really, one dark and mysterious, one light and frou frou. I promise I’ll be back with those soon, but in the meantime – when I was downloading these, I found some mystery photos on my camera that Adrian must have taken.

He really is obsessed with those black rabbits!

This one’s out of focus, but so darned cute I had to include it.

Hmm, I think perhaps we should tidy up all the pots that succumbed to the frost this winter.

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There's candy in them thar hills

February 7, 2009 By Glenda 18 Comments

Blog candy that is. Yep, the Butterfly Daisy Collage and the Butterfly Poppy Collage themeplates are up for grabs over on the Elusive Images Design Team Blog.

[Important note to Guild members - this is your new offer of the month, both singly and as a multi-buy. See the Guild Page for more info.]

By all means leave a comment here to let me know what you think, but if you want to be in with a chance of winning, you need to head over to the Design Team Blog and leave a comment there. You can also find out over there how blog owners have a double chance of winning – yes, it pays to blog!

If you’re feeling super helpful, you could vote below on which one you like best. If one is going to out perform the other, it really would make my Production Team’s day if they knew which one.

You can see these stamps in action on Tuesday 10th Feb, 1.00pm in my NEW TV show, Glenda’s Colourful Collage Stamping on Create and Craft. It’s almost presenter-free (sorry Nigel).

I’m back off to my grungeboard flowers and stacks of drying Glimmer Mist tags. My fingers are a pretty sight!