This weeks prompt was Spread Your Wings; this idea has several different connotations from exploring yourself to actually physical exploring of the world. I wasn't entirely sure where I want to take my interpretation so I did some Googling to try and find an appropriate quote which would fit this idea.
Most of the quotes that I found were about exploring yourself and seeing how far you could take you, so this is what I went with.
The quote that I used was:
Until You Spread Your Wings You'll Never Know How Far You Can Fly
In the Facebook group that I do these prompts with, there are a number of different kinds of artists and crafters so I wanted to do a different technique that they may not have come across or tried before. This technique was Caught in Crystal, which produces amazing different backgrounds every time it is produced.
I have used Caught in Crystal before to create cards so I knew the perfect die cut to use to really highlight the effects. You can see below the effect that it does create.
The materials used this week are:
PVA Glue
Acetate
White Tissue Paper
Brushos - Scarlet, Brilliant Red, Orange, Yellow, Lemon
Mica Powders
I've chosen to go with a warm palette, though this would work just as well with a cooler palette, you just need to adjust the colours or mica powders and glitter to match.
Take a sheet of clear acetate and cut it to the size of your page.
Take your sheet of white tissue paper and cut it to about 1 cm bigger than your acetate and crumple it up into a ball; unfold and crumple your ball at least four times.
Cover your acetate with a thickish layer of glue (say about 3-4 mm). Make sure that you spread it evenly over the whole surface.
Sprinkle the surface of the wet glue with your Brushos making sure to get a good distribution of the colours.
Lightly spritz the piece with some water to activate the Brusho crystals. If you need to add more colour do so at this point to ensure the whole surface is covered with some colour. Sprinkle your glitter and mica powders over the surface to add interest.
Sorry I didn't get a picture of the next step, but what you have to do is take your sheet of tissue paper and gently push it down into the glue so that all areas of the tissue are stuck down.
You'll now need to leave this to dry, due to the thickness of the glue this can take anywhere from a few hours to overnight.
Die cut two copies of your shape, one in black and the other in gold (if using a cooler palette silver would be better).
Once your background has dried trim off the excess tissue paper to neaten the edges, then turn over and see what exciting background you have created.
Before you stick your die cut down hold it over the background to see which end of the background has the most interest showing through the shape.
NB: As the die cut that I am using is quite an intricate one I am using Stickit to glue my shape down.
You want to stick your gold die cut down first as we are going to be using this as a shadow effect against the black. Once the gold shape is down stick the black one down slightly offsetting it from the gold one.
Stamp your quote in black Stazon being careful not to smudge as you do. Once fully stamped give it a quick blast with a heat gun to set.
Finish up by sticking your completed piece into your journal using high tack double sided.
Any questions or comments leave them below and I will come back to you.
Good Bye Until Next Time
Take a sheet of clear acetate and cut it to the size of your page.
Take your sheet of white tissue paper and cut it to about 1 cm bigger than your acetate and crumple it up into a ball; unfold and crumple your ball at least four times.
Cover your acetate with a thickish layer of glue (say about 3-4 mm). Make sure that you spread it evenly over the whole surface.
Sprinkle the surface of the wet glue with your Brushos making sure to get a good distribution of the colours.
Lightly spritz the piece with some water to activate the Brusho crystals. If you need to add more colour do so at this point to ensure the whole surface is covered with some colour. Sprinkle your glitter and mica powders over the surface to add interest.
Sorry I didn't get a picture of the next step, but what you have to do is take your sheet of tissue paper and gently push it down into the glue so that all areas of the tissue are stuck down.
You'll now need to leave this to dry, due to the thickness of the glue this can take anywhere from a few hours to overnight.
Die cut two copies of your shape, one in black and the other in gold (if using a cooler palette silver would be better).
Once your background has dried trim off the excess tissue paper to neaten the edges, then turn over and see what exciting background you have created.
Before you stick your die cut down hold it over the background to see which end of the background has the most interest showing through the shape.
NB: As the die cut that I am using is quite an intricate one I am using Stickit to glue my shape down.
You want to stick your gold die cut down first as we are going to be using this as a shadow effect against the black. Once the gold shape is down stick the black one down slightly offsetting it from the gold one.
Stamp your quote in black Stazon being careful not to smudge as you do. Once fully stamped give it a quick blast with a heat gun to set.
Finish up by sticking your completed piece into your journal using high tack double sided.
Any questions or comments leave them below and I will come back to you.
Good Bye Until Next Time
This is a splendid technique Gareth and I plan to explore it more, inspired by your excellent blog which is so well written and illustrated. Thank you for uploading.
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