An upcoming weblog matter is the designer give attention to Scrapcosy so we had been every despatched a stamp set and stencil of hers for this function. I made a decision to go along with a classic vibe on my make, tying the mission to the classical Scrapcosy model. The three gadgets additionally included a stencil and a jar of Grunge Paste.
I used the three gadgets to make a adorned reward bag utilizing a recycled brown paper bag as my base. Let’s take a better look how I did that!
Upon receiving the bundle of this stuff, my first concept was to make a card. However I needed to problem myself a bit additional and tried to assume outdoors of my common card/ATC/artwork journal realm. The summer season with a number of events and household get-togethers then impressed me to make just a little adorned reward bag. Thoughts you, you possibly can use the very same steps to create a junk journal web page or a card!
The month-to-month theme of “hidden” is current in two methods in my make. I hid the guide web page, the preliminary layer of the piece beneath different layers approaching high. You possibly can argue, that I hid a number of layers beneath others, too, as I like to construct clusters. Secondly, you may cover the current contained in the bag! Intelligent, eh?
I performed with the concept of doing the stenciled half on high of a transparency, however I used to be a bit hesitant how the paste would deal with such a modern floor. If I had been doing an artwork journal web page, that will not have performed such an enormous half, however because the reward bag is a usable merchandise, I did not need the paste to doubtlessly flake off in use, maybe if the transprency was sanded just a little for tooth …. an experiment for an additional day maybe!
To intensify the grungy look, I added some touches of the paste right here and there throughout the bag.
Subsequent it was then coloring time for these photographs! I opted for 2 ink colours for use like watercolors for the coloring. With the 2 colours I used to be capable of obtain the look I needed as I might layer and blend them. I added extra shade to the hen and the flowers however stored the postage stamps in lighter shades.
Then it was reducing time! I used plain, regular craft scissors for the hen and the flowers. When you have watched one among my YouTube lives, that I favor to make use of scissors over a craft knife as I am manner higher with the scissors and in addition manner quicker. For the stamps, although, I used two totally different scissors. I personal these ornamental edge scissors which have like a perforated edge model design. I additionally noticed Megan Quinlan to make use of thinning shears to make some fake postage so I used these, too. Even within the danger of sounding like Goldilocks, the ornamental scissors had been a bit too huge and the thinning shears too small, I might have wanted one thing in between!
Now that I had my components minimize out, I used the inks I already had in my craft desk to ink across the edges of the cut-outs. I additionally added a little bit of stamping to the bag itself as I felt it wanted extra distinction towards the massive white space.
Lastly, it was building time. I used foam tape so as to add the larger components in and double sided tape for the postal photographs. I additionally added a size of ribbon to a bit of handcrafted paper beneath the focal components.
After securing every little thing in place, the bag was finished and prepared for use!
I actually like how the hen and the flowers turned out. I began the coloring with lighter tones because it’s at all times simpler so as to add shade and distinction than to take it off. Even when the blooms have brown leaves, they nonetheless appear vibrant and alive as the colour palette matches the background and the over all aesthetic.
I additionally actually just like the little postage stamps! Inking the perimeters highlighted the perforated look even additional and made the thinning shears ones look higher.
I hope you loved this little mission utilizing the three gadgets obtained and a pair extra to high issues up. If you wish to see the entire course of in a video kind, keep tuned for a Reel on my Instagram account!
Thanks for stopping by at the moment! Wishing you an inspiring day!
Xoxo Riikka