1 Feb 2015

Shiny Stuff

Can you believe it's february already!!! where does the time go??? I really have been a bad blogger lately but life seems to have taken oven (and it's freezing in my shed) even with 2 heaters!!.
We are now into the second challenge on the Paper Artsy blog this year Shiny Stuff. There has been some lovely projects from the design team again and this book cover was inspired by Pam Thorburn you can pop over and see it here.

My book started out looking like this just a cheap notebook from sainsbury's with craft paper inside.



Next I added die cuts,plasterers tape and a charm from my stash just randomly over the cover and let it dry.



Then I added the very sticky plummers tape and smoothed it all down with a large paper stump, making sure to go around all the shapes



 

Next I painted the whole thing in little black dress and left it to dry





When dry I added seaweed and dusty teal. When that was dry I rubbed back all the raised areas and carefully (well kind of ) added green amber and a limited edition Treasure Gold which is a lime green colour. when that dried I buffed it all and added some gems to make it a bit more 'shiny' and used my black big brush pen around the word art and smudged it..



Thanks for stopping by..........

15 comments:

  1. Looks fabulous Lin, loving the greens and your choice of die cuts xx

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  2. love your kind of carefully added colours!! Great cover to your notebook.

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  3. Ooh that's yummy, beautiful colours ! xx

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  4. Exciting to see your step by step photos.
    You really got brilliant results with the gorgeous colors you chose.
    Your notebook cover is really special!

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  5. Love this Lin. The colours are beautifully subtle and I love the addition of the gems they work perfectly xx

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  6. Stunning, such beautiful colours x

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  7. I love it! The greens look gorgeous & you chose a fab selection of die cuts.

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  8. Really love this Lin. Must get some plumbers tape! Crikey, I thought, when you painted Black Dress over your tape. But it worked out fabulously! Xx

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  9. AMAZING transformation, loving how neat you got the plumbers silver tape to lay around your embellishments and then the colours you chose to use are fab. A brilliant project Lin :-) xxx

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  10. Love this, the green colours look stunning X

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  11. Love your version, more subtle and masculine than mine. Good choice of colours too.

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  12. Stunning layout and great effected. xx

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  13. Wow, Lin, what a great effect! I love what you created using this technique - even if the shed was freezing! We have to suffer for the sake of art sometimes! xxx

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  14. Oooh, gorgeous Lin! That tape really gets the texture doesn't it? This looks great!

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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