' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Enjoy The Journey

Wednesday 8 April 2015

Enjoy The Journey

UPDATE: Several of you have had trouble with my explanation with the glass stamping. A video is much better to explain so here's Jennifer McGuire own explanation in images!

Today I am showing a tag that combines several ideas I wanted to play with.
Better warn you this is technique rich but design poor as I kept changing things as and when problems arose!

The Katzelkraft challenge wants us to use stencils so I started with an hexagonal stencil. I hesitated between white acrylic paint which would have given me a resist or white pigment ink and plumped for the latter. This is what gives a faded look to any subsequent layers of Distress (Chipped Sapphire and Forest Moss) as they all get absorbed!

I stamped the car from the Katzelkraft Transportation plate in black and masked the image before over stamping with a variety of images. In white the brick walls from the same set and a wall texture (Prima). With Walnut Distress 1st and 2nd generation of sections of COM004 Time, and the tiny wording from one of the image from The Journey CMS021 set (both Stampers Anonymous).

Finally I tried this technique where a stamp inked with Archival ink is applied to glass which has been alcohol inked. A soft cloth is supposed to remove  all the inks from the glass leaving a transparent impression. This probably works better for organic, bold shapes... I had 2 goes and this is far from perfect but you get the idea...
By the way, I used a piece of mirror as you can see from the left hand photo.
A dash of chicken wire stencilling in black, a bit of inking around the edges, some pencil highlights on the car and a piece of twine finish the tag.


Aujourdh'ui je vous montre un tag qui est le résultat d'une fusion d'idées. Autant vous avertir... il y a beaucoup de techniques mais la composition laisse à désirer à cause de mes changements de cap à chaque problème rencontré!

Le challenge Katzelkraft souhaite que nous utilisions des pochoirs et j'ai commencé avec un pochoir hexagonal. J'ai hesité entre une acrylique blanche, qui aurait donné une technique de resist et une encre pigment, j'ai finalement choisi cette dernière. C'est cette encre qui donne un ton delavé aux couches successives de Distress (Chipped Sapphire et Forest Moss), car elles sont absorbées!
L'automobile de la planche Transportation (Katzelkraft) a été tamponnée en noir et masquée avant de tamponner d'autres images. En blanc le mur en briques, de la même planche,  et une texture "mur" (Prima). Avec de la Distress Walnut les 1eres et 2emes générations de petites sections du tampon Time, et la phrase minuscule d'un des tampons de la planche The Journey (les deux COM004 et CMS021 par Stampers Anonymous).
 
J'ai enfin essayé cette technique où l'on tamponne à l'Archival sur du verre paint au préalable avec des encres à l'alcool.  Un chiffon doux est supposé enlever toute trace d'encres, laissant une "impression" transparente. Cela marche surement mieux avec des motifs plus larges... C'est mon deuxième essai et loin d'être parfait mais bon, vous voyez la technique... J'ai utilisé un morceau de miroir au liey de verre comme vous pouvez voir sur la photo de gauche.

Un soupçon de grillage au pochoir, un peu d'encre sur les bords, quelques traits de crayon blanc pour mettre la voiture en valeur et un bout de ficelle et voilà!

Merci de votre visite,
Thanks for coming by,

Also entering the Vintage Journey, Artful Times and Country View Crafts challenges.

11 comments:

  1. Love your tag! I clicked on the photos to see the details of the background better, and I really like what's going on there :-) The white brick walls behind the car is a very nice detail! So is the extra white you added to the stamped car. Makes it pop out! Thanks for sharing :-)

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  2. Loving your design Christine and your colour palette. Not sure if i have understood the alcohol ink on glass technique so will read again later.

    The white additions work brilliantly and pop the car right off the page.

    Thank you for sharing your play:-) xxx

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  3. Fabby tag Christine with lots of yummy techniques going on. I too will have to pop back later for a better read.

    Warm crafty hugs from Shirl x x x
    ShirlsCards.

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  4. Very beautiful tag with a wonderful background

    Love Chrissie xx

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  5. Great tag! Love the techniques - and I have used the one you mentioned with the glass on glass slides. Makes for an interesting look.
    Thanks for joining us at Artful Times (Gosh, I am impressed with the translation at the end - very good)
    Hugs, Neet xx

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  6. What a lovely transportation themed tag - love the multiple partial background stampings - thank you for joining us in the AVJ Through the Looking Glass Challenge!

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  7. What a beautiful tag with super techniques. Thanks for joining in the challenge at A Vintage Journey and good luck.
    Julie x

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  8. Ton tag multi-techniques est super chouette!!!! Bravo et merci de cette belle participation encore au challenge Katzelkraft. Par contre je n'ai pas trop compris l'histoire du miroir.. Il faudra que j'essaie cette technique dont tu parles avec les encres à alcool, connais pas... :)

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  9. I love the grungy effect you have created here.

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  10. What a wonderful tag! I LOVE the vintage car and thanks for the tips from Jennifer McGuire, great tutorial. Karen.x

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