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!!