Holiday Tutorial from Teresa Abajo

Hope everyone had a fab Easter.
Take care driving home if you are away.
When you do get home you have to have a go at this new tutorial from our fav local artist
Teresa Abajo.
Thanks so much Teresa xx

Hi folks! Teresa here with the results of a play date with my new Dylusions paints:

Here's how it happened:

 I created a quick and easy background by scraping very small amounts of paint across my piece of Bristol card. I used  Lemon Zest and Squeezed Orange:

 Then I applied a thin layer of Bubblegum Pink, and while it was wet, I laid the stencil over it and wiped the paint off with a baby wipe.

Here it is as soon as the stencil is pulled off:

I dried that off then stamped one of the images from the Dina Wakley Silhouetted Women set (out of stock at the moment, but just drop Karen an email and she can order it in for you).

I then added some ink spatter with Dylusions White Linen and Black Marble sprays, and outlined the image with black and white journaling pens:

I stamped Stampotique's Be Your Own Superhero stamp  and added doodling to the words and the border of the card:

There you go - some good clean fun in a one layer card!

Thanks for looking!

Teresa Abajo Tutorial

Hi folks! Teresa here with a bit of a gruesome card. Gruesome, but perfect for a teenage boy who is into these things!

I stamped the zombie image from the Zombie Casanova set onto some Bristol card, and coloured it with Distress inks and a waterbrush pen. I kept the colours pale on purpose. I stamped the image again onto a larger piece of Bristol, stamped the hearts in the background, then mounted my coloured zombie over the top with some white gauze under it.

The little spatters of blood were made with Distress Spray Stain - here's a little tip - Aged Mahogany is the colour that gives the most realistic blood spatter.

Thanks for looking!

Guest Artist Teresa Abajo Tutorial

Hi folks! Teresa here with another tutorial for you.

This one is a page in my art journal:

I have linked the products I have used as I went along. Here we go:

I started by creating a bunch of Gelli prints. I used  Dina Wakley acrylic paints on the little 3 x 5 inch Gelli plate.   This is a fantastic size if you're short on space and it's so easy to keep neat and tidy. The paper I used was medium quality photocopy paper:

 I used a few of my favourite stencils and after a few minutes I had this lovely bunch of prints:

 I stamped Carol's Flower stamp by Stampotique using black Archival ink:

 and cut them out:

I tore up a few book pages into little pieces, and glued them down flat to my journal page:

When all the little pieces were glued down, I covered it all with a thin layer of gel medium to make sure it was stuck down and as smooth as possible. When that dried, I drew a border with a thick black texta and shaded inside the border with a water soluble graphite pencil:

I stamped the Stampotique XOXO image and drew a box around that before adhering all the flowers to the page with gel medium. I then gave the whole page a little spatter with Dylusions White Linen spray and when that was dry, I spritzed the whole page with Perfect Pearls Sunflower Sparkle:

I hope you've enjoyed seeing how I put this page together. It took a couple of hours and wasn't technically difficult - a perfectly relaxing project!

Thanks for stopping by - stay arty!!

Tutorial #2 from Teresa Abajo

Hi there folks! Teresa back again with another card using the Sweetmoves stamp from Stampotique:

For this card I used Dylusions ink sprays to make my background. This is such a simple technique - here's how I did it:

Remove the spray component from the bottle, and use the siphon tube to draw a circle onto a clean craft mat. Go round and round and round, spreading the ink as much as possible:

A little bit of ink goes a long long way! The more ink you use, the less defined the little droplets will be. When you're satisfied with your circle, place a piece of cardstock over it to pick it up:

 and voilà! An ink droplet circle:

I repeated the process with another couple of coordinating colours  (I used Pure Sunshine, Fresh Lime, and Funky Fuschia). I made sure each colour was dry before I added the next:

Then I stamped Sweetmoves over the top using a waterproof ink (Jet Black Archival) and coloured the image in with  Copic markers:

You can find an awesome range of Stampotique stamps in stock here.

Thanks for looking - hope you've been inspired to create some art today!

Guest Artist Teresa Abajo

Hi Everybody
I am very excited to introduce you to my very first guest artist, Teresa Abajo.
Teresa's work has been published many times & is also on many design teams.
Hop on over to her blog "The Tamarisk" & have a browse.
I just looooove these samples Teresa has made absolutely Fab !!!
Grab your supplies & create this funky card
Enjoy !!!!

Hi lovely crafty people! Teresa here with a card using the very awesome Sweetmoves image from Stampotique:

There are a few very simple steps involved - here goes!

I tore a few strips of old book page and adhered them to a piece of cardstock with Tombow glue.

Then I spread little dollops of Dina Wakely paints with the edge of a credit card until the whole piece was covered. I allowed each layer to dry in between, so that the paints wouldn't mix to create a big brown mess:

Once that was thoroughly dry, I applied some Whipped Spackle through a Stencil Girl stencil (Fade Horizontal):

While that was drying, I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Sweetmoves:

I then stamped the same image onto my background, and glued the cut out right over the top.

I added some black shading around the image with a Generals Graphite Pencil and a water brush:

The border was done by drawing a white line around the piece with a paint marker, outlining it with a black marker:

 then drawing in some dividing lines and colouring in between them:

The piece was then stuck to the front of a card. The sentiment was computer generated, stuck onto scraps of chipboard, inked with Black Soot ink and adhered to finish the card:

I hope you've found this tutorial useful!