Swirlydoos Scrapbook Kit Club: Altered Arts

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Saturday, April 29, 2017

Altered Artist Palette by Kim

7:07 AM | Posted by Unknown | | Edit Post

Hey everyone Kim here, today I am sharing a video on how I created this altered artist palette. We got the palette in the Swirlydoos November *Market Street* monthly kit. I've been holding onto it for just the right project and this happened to be it.

I dug deep into my stash for some items on this project. I also dug deep into the Swirlydoos store and some of my past Swirlydoos kits. No worries, I also added some of the latest and greatest goodies on here as well.

I really love how this turned out. Here is another close up:

You can see my full process by watching the video:

That's all I have for now, so thanks for stopping by. Don't forget, if you’re ready to start getting perfectly coordinated, top of the line scrapbook kits delivered to your door, please visit us at www.swirlydoos.com. Mention my name (Kim) when you subscribe and you’ll receive 10% off your first kit, AND a coupon good for 30% off your entire purchase in the Swirlydoos.com store!

Labels: Altered Arts, Mixed Media, Prima, tutorial | 3 comments

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Saturday Tutorial with Peggy

2:48 AM | Posted by Peggy Giovanetti | | Edit Post

Good Saturday morning, Swirly Savages!

Time to grab you favorite stencil and dig into that pile of canvases that you bought on sale - we're going to create a quick and easy (I promise!) wall hanging with the February "Love Letters" kit!

I've created a tutorial on Snapguide; here's the link.

And a few closeups...

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If you’re ready to start getting perfectly coordinated, top of the line scrapbook kits delivered to your door, please visit us at www.swirlydoos.com. Mention my name (Peggy) when you subscribe and you’ll receive 10% off your first kit, AND a coupon good for 30% off your entire purchase in the Swirlydoos.com store!

Labels: Altered Arts, Canvas, off the page, Swirlydoos, Wall Hanging | 0 comments

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Saturday Tutorial with Ginny

2:48 AM | Posted by Ginny Jones | | Edit Post

Happy Saturday!! I'm so excited to be sharing my first post on Swirlydoos blog with you all today, as a Guest Designer this month!

Question, what do you do with all your left over embellishments and paper pieces when you've finished doing your layouts from your latest Swirlydoos kit? Put them in your stash for another day?

I want to encourage you to firstly, use those left over embellishments up and secondly, get making some Altered Art!!

The beautiful embellishments and flowers we get in our Swirly kits are perfect for Altered Art/ Off the Page projects and personally I love creating them. Sometimes its nice to not have the restriction of trying to fit your colours and designs around a photo and instead create a beautiful gift or a lovely piece of home décor to be pride of place in your home.

Today I'm showing you how I make my home décor Plaques. I hope after you've looked at this you are inspired to go and create something wonderful for your homes and friends.

So here is what I'm creating....

Take a MDF ready made plaque and give it a coat of gesso on both front and back and sides. Allow to dry. The back may need more then one coat as this stays visible.

To cover MDF choose a 12 x 12 paper. I chose Blue fern Studio Deja Vu Fripperies from a previous Swirlydoos kit. Cut to required size. Mine was 26cm x 10cm. I used the other side of the paper as well, to fussy cut some elements out to use later.

Using a wet glue, stick your paper to one side of the MDF. I always make sure mine is well stuck down by running a brayer over it. Use a craft knife and trim the rounded corners, and punch through the hanging holes. At this point I also give the back of the MDF a coat of Mod Podge. This gives the back a nice finish and protects it from marks and scratches whilst being worked on and when hung on the wall.

Next choose some main pieces to add to your plaque design. This is where I have used some remains of previous Swirlydoos kits - the picket fence and a chipboard frame. Cover the picket fence with a coat of Distress crackle paint 'picket fence' (very appropriate !)

Cover the chipboard with embossing powder. I used gesso first to make colour coverage better. When the gesso was dry I used 3 different embossing powders, one was a Stampendous frantage Antique white to add texture.

Next step is to add some stencilling to the centre area of the plaque. I used a Dreamweaver Crackle texture paste and Prima mask.

Cut a 5" doily in half and ink the edge with some Frayed Burlap distress ink.

At the same time ink around the edges of the plaque.

Next add a lace trim to the bottom edge. I layered two pieces of lace and then added a pearl trim on top.

And now the best bit! Choose some embellishments! :)

I raided my Swirly embellies and began to play. Try different arrangements until you find a design that works before sticking down.

I wanted to use this vine, but it was too much as a whole vine, so I cut off the flowers and the wire twirls and used them separately.

Now stick away!

I like to use a Pinflair type glue. This makes it very easy to add height and dimension, also because it takes a while to dry it gives you plenty of time to move or adjust the positions of anything. It will dry solid over night. I added baubles of Pinflair under my frame to lift it off of the plaque and small blobs on the ends of any pieces I'm trying to poke into a cluster.

Use a length of chain to hang the plaque with. Thread the chain through the holes in the plaque. Then use a short length of seam binding ribbon passed through links in both tails of chain to tie into a bow. Repeat on the other side of the plaque leaving enough chain to hang it at a nice height.