'Normal is Boring' by Elisa Ablett

 

Hi Crafters,

Elisa here from Ink Art Designs design team with my latest inspiration for the month of June.

I created a bit of an abstract art journal page using gelli plate prints, image transfers, bright blue and yellow Dina Wakley Acrylic Paints and a quirky stamp set from Dina Wakley called 'Weird is Good'.

I followed along with the talented Birgit Koopsen on Instagram recently in a month long gel printing challenge. I just love her simple yet super effective technique on magazine/laser jet image transfer. I used a magazine transfer of a large fingerprint using the Lapis Acrylic Paint and two other laser-jet images with the Lemon paint. I then combined all the prints plus stamping and black soot Watercolour ink to finish my art journal page. 

I really love how it turned out and will be using this technique over again!

Here is a close up.

Here are some of the products used plus all the links in the Ink Art Designs shop - 

dina-wakley-media/weird is good stamp set

product/dina-wakley-acrylic-paint-lemon/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/versafine-claire-ink-pad-nocturne/

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you pop on by the Ink Art Designs Stamping Playground group on Facebook to keep up to date with all the new releases.

hugs 

Elisa x

I'm not insane...by Elisa Ablett for Viva Las VegaStamps!

Hi everyone,

Elisa here from the design team with the first of my creations for March, a colourful card/journal page with some interesting mixed media techniques!

Let's take a closer look before we start the step by step tutorial..

Here are some of the great stamps I used to create my project by Viva Las VegaStamps:

 

https://vlvstamps.com/i-m-not-insane-1-3-4-x-1-1-2.html

https://vlvstamps.com/musical-note-calligraphy-1-1-4-x-1-1-4.html

https://vlvstamps.com/crackle-background-4-3-4-x-5-3-4.html

https://vlvstamps.com/banksy-wall-singer-2-3-4-x-3-3-4.html

Step by Step Tutorial:

First step is stamping onto a sheet of Acetate, I use Staz on black ink and I tap the ink over and onto the large background stamp and not the other way around. I ease the stamp over the top of the Acetate and press gently, you don't want to press down to hard onto the Acetate.

The next few steps cover making your background with Alcohol inks and pure Alcohol of 96% or more which I purchased from the Pharmacy and distilled into a Fineline Applicator bottle. 

Using a paint palette, squeeze a few drops of your desired Alcohol ink colours into your palette, then squeeze a fine line of your pure alcohol onto your yupo paper down the bottom like the first photo. The add your colour using a paint brush. Repeat with your different colours, you can also add more 'cells' to the background by squirting with your pure alcohol. Work in a ventilated area!

If you want to blend the straight lines a bit, while you have the alcohol on the page tip the paper up and back to make the colours blend a bit.

Using a distress tool and once your background is dry, ink gently around the edges of your background. Stamp your musical notes and title onto cardstock.

Using distress oxide ink pads, smoosh your favourite colours onto a craft messy mat and spritz with water and dip your white cardstock into the different colours spritzing the cardstock as well to create the oxidising effect on the paper. 

Once dry, stamp your Banksy Wall Singer stamp using Black Archival ink over the top of your background. Also stamp your stamp onto white cardstock. 

Fussy cut your two Banksy Wall Singer stamped images, then cut a few pieces off the coloured stamped image and using 3d foam mounting tape, stick them over the top (don't forget to line them up).

Attach your stamped acetate, I used staples and then adhere your black and white stamped image on the left hand side of your card/journal page. I then also cut a few of the coloured off cuts and adhered them so they continued up above the stamped image.

Then adhere your fussy cut musical notes and title to your page and some last minute edging with a fine black marker and you are done!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave some love in the comments.

Hugs 

Elisa x