A bit of midweek mixed media using TICC sealife stamps

 Well, its midweek again and this week it’s an exciting week as there is an amazing 25% off of selected stamps and stencils in the end of season sale over at The Isobel Craft Collection Etsy shop which you can visit here.

 Beware though the sales is time limited and there are only a few left of some designs as this is the last of the years most popular items, they have got to go to make way for some fantastic new goodies, so grab a bargain and have a play!!

I’m using one of the sale items today to create a quick and easy mixed media piece in just two colours. If you want to play along the set you meed is this one, it’s the nautical set and one of my favourites.

So, to start you are going to need a piece of A5 grey board i got mine from Tando Creative  as its the best money can buy in my opinion as you can throw anything at it and it wont warp or separate, you will also need a blue and brown distress ink pad i used broken china and gathered twigs, some gel medium and acrylic paint in light shades of blue and brown, i used decoart americana in serene and primative

I also used a small gelli plate to create a mono print for my background and foreground pieces

I used a tiny pea sized amount of serene blue on the gel plate and brayered over until evenly distributed, i layered the stencil over top and used copy paper over to removed excess paint

I removed the stencil and placed it down again on a different part of the gel plate, used the same sheet of copy paper to remove excess again. Removed the stencil. I laid a sheet of mixed media paper over the top and pulled my first print. I repeated the whole process again using primitive paint and printed into the same print i had just pulled

I repeated this again using a second piece of mixed media card so that i had two pieces very similar, one for my background and one for my foreground. On one piece i stamped the wave stamp three times along the bottom, this was going to be my foreground piece. I them used gel medium through one of the sale stencils on three places on each piece then left this to dry fully. once dry i rubbed over some coloured guiding wax to bring out the texture and framed my piece by running the blue ink pad around the outside edge of my board

 

On a separate piece of mixed media card i stamped all the pieces that i wanted to use in my composition using the gathered twigs distress oxide i then spritzed the images in order to get the ink to run, this would add colour to my images, i heat set them with the heat gun and fussy cut the images out, i went round the edges with more gathered twigs with a blending tool so that there were no visible white cut edges

While i had the gathered twigs out i also ran some along the edges of my grey board and spritzed letting the ink run into the scene

I used red liner tape to secure the ends of some ivory organza ribbon onto the back of my greyboard, i used two pieces one above the other horizontally across the board twisting it in front a d leaving it fairy loose to emulate waves

I then glued a resin frame over the ribbon wearing my seahorse through. I had already spritzed the resin frame with some gold mica spray and highlight the edges with the blue gilding wax. 

I wanted my seahorse to be my focal point but also wanted him to look as those he was bobbing through the waves so i used my foreground piece to create depth. I fussy cut round the gel medium foliage so that it gave the impression of coral and adhered to the from on a domed fashion. I them added all my cut out elements

 To bring it all together i added a few splashes in blue, gold and white, stamped the bubble stamp randomly along the top edge and added some stone texture paste to the bottom edge, this adds a little but of weight and because the front section is domed it allows the piece to be freestanding.

And there we have a quick and easy pretty seaside scene, all at a bargain price. Don’t forget to add yours to your basket and show us your makes over at the crafting with the Isobel Collection facebook group here  and let me know what you would like to see on the blog next time x x