Monthly Archives: July 2012

Pass the painting July

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Louise 1st layer: paper scraps and glue, Elaine 2nd layer: gesso, distress ink, butterflies and large glitter (sprayed with spray adhesive), Pauline 3rd layer: hand-drawn bird cage, mod podge + napkin, watercolour background, outline butterflies.

These Pass the paintings are going well.  This is now layer 4 which is my turn and it is really hard to stop yourself from adding more and more but you have to so the next people have something to add.  I did some doodling on the flowers, leaves and bird.  I painted over the title words with Diamond glaze then highlighted that area and some random around the edge with Broken china Distress ink then stamped with green acrylic paint randomly with a texture stamp (if we were not passing it on – what I would have liked to do was edge the entire painting with Broken china crackle paint and doodled over the butterflies and added some bling to the flowers and butterflies and maybe more work on the bird).  This one has another couple of layers to go (Rosie and Pam).

Inks/Paint:  Distress ink Broken china, Acrylic paint Moss green
Stamp:  Tim Holts Urban tapestry
Other:  Diamon glaze, Pitt pens 125,146 and 156, white  Inkssentials pen

Loch Skipport altered photo

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The altered version of the photo above

Well I have made a couple of cards recently but unfortunately  in my hurry to send them I have forgotten to photograph them so I had nothing to blog about until today.
I have been trying to alter photographs to look more artistic and in doing so trying to learn more about how photoshop works.  Using the original photo that Harry took (while on holiday with my mum in Benbecula) I first cropped it to get rid of the car on the right.  Desaturated it and boosted the contrast.  I then added another background layer (from Doug Landreth’s Photomorphis sample texture pack).  Mucked about with opacity then added a border.  It sounds simple when I type it out like that but it has taken me all morning to get it how I wanted it to look.  This one was then printed onto glossy photo paper and inserted into a large aperture card for Fraser’s birthday card.

Gell well soon card

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This is quite similar to one I have made before but I changed the colours of the flowers and background paper.  Even though it is floral I think that using purple makes it a little bit less feminine so it could be given to a guy, in this case for Jamie – hope you get well real soon Jamie.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Marvy le plume pens to colour the stamp flowers and leaves
Card:  white card, purple textured card
Stamps:  Stampin up Hopeful thoughts
Other:  yellow gems, lime green organza ribbon