Get some texture AVJ

Hi Everyone,

A huge welcome to my new followers I am so excited you have joined me on my crafty journey.  I have a project to show you today that I have had great fun putting together for the current challenge at the fabulous Tim Holtz inspired challenge blog A Vintage Journey.  This month the challenge has been set by Jenny who wants us to Get some Texture into our entries.  The challenge is sponsored by, Country View Crafts who are offering a £10 gift voucher to one winner who will be chosen by the incredibly talented team of Vintage Journey Guides.
 I was not surprised that Jenny chose this title as she is well known for her love of texture in her work, pop over to her blog Pushing the Right Buttons and have a look for yourself at some of her beautiful inspirational projects.

 I am rather last minute with this one as the challenge ends today!! I think I have seriously lost a few days somewhere this week, anyway I  got to work on a canvas hanging for you using the Nautical Blueprint stamps and a fish from the Tiny Things stamp plate plus a few of Tim's techniques.

I started with a background of Tim's paint marbling, using 3 distress paint colours I squished them onto my craft mat, spritzed water and swooshed the card through it.  I held it upright and spritzed a bit more water onto it enabling the paint to trickle down the card and blend.

 

Next came texture paste through stencils technique, I used two to get the effect, firstly with the speckles stencil (top centre), and then the dot fade (bottom).

When dry I spritzed the textured areas with a little water and dropped some shabby shutters and peacock feathers distress re-inker onto the it followed by more water to let the colours mix and blend in and around the texture paste.

I stamped the seahorse, and fish onto separate card stock, I coloured the fish using distress re-inkers and a watercolour pen, followed by a coat of glue & seal to give them a soft sheen.

I used the shattered stains technique on the seahorse as I wanted a bit more texture on him. I spread clear rock candy crackle over the stamped image and when dry coloured with distress stains.  I cut them all out and shaped them on a cork mat with a large ball tool to give them shape.

 

I die-cut the reeds from the tattered pine cone die and coloured them with peeled paint stain.  I made up a solution of perfect pearls sour apple and water in a spritzer and gave the reeds a fine mist which gave them a shimmer.  I scored to add a little detail and shaped them.

The frame was done  using the tissue wrap wrinkle technique, covering the frame with glue & seal, applying tissue wrap and wrinkling as you go, and then applying paint, wiping with a baby wipe, dry and ink over with distress inks.  Unfortunately as you will see in the finished photo later, I lost the detail of the tissue wrap as I kept changing my mind on paint colours!

The bars on the top and the bottom of the canvas started life as 6 of those lovely wooden drinks stirrers you get with a takeaway brew at the service stations.  Two were laid side by side and then one was glued on top to hold all three together.  I wrapped garden twine around them and glued the ends.  Whilst I had the twine handy, I made two knotted ropes for the sides of the frame, and the metal word band at the bottom. The word band word was painted to match and secured with my tiny attacher and 3d pads. I chose enjoy the journey for two reasons firstly because I was! and two because it looked like the fish and seahorse were on a journey through the sea.

 The fish were given a few glossy accent air bubbles

 The die- cut reeds were complimented by real seaweed, shells and a little message in a bottle which unfortunately for the sender is going nowhere stuck in the sand.  The sand is basically a few blobs of glue with antique linen distress embossing powder sprinkled on it but not heated, just left to dry.

Here are a few close ups

 

 

 

and a final look at the finished project

 

I want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone for your encouraging comments on my last post, and if you have got this far, Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today.

Hugs

Mo x