Paint your dream with Banksy girls

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new tutorial made for VLVS blog.
It becomes harder and harder to make tutorials as actually everything was already made and shown over the web.
 So if not the new techniques, maybe a new arrangement of pieces or just a way I think when I  make a big project that involves Mixed Media art and stamping.
 So this is a tutorial about all of those: my way of thinking when I make a new art piece/pieces; some of my favorite techniques and last, but not least- 4  canvases arrangement into one single art adventure.
I decided to make 4 canvases art piece with 3 Banksy stamps and to connect them all as a part of wall paint art. So  each stamp has it's own small (4*4'' ) canvas and the title canvas(7*7'') it the one that connect all small art pieces to one single " something".
Step by step tutorial:
1. Stamp background over each small canvas with some small background stamps. I picked small stamps and even with them I just stamped on the edges as the central part  intended to be for the main stamped image. I used pigmented black ink (Clearsnap) and clear embossing powder to heat emboss the backgrounds. 4 background were used here: Six Hexagons, Washi Grid, Think to thin round and Grunge circles.
I made the same stamping over the larger canvas using Brick background.

2. For the next step I used a few of my stencils (Memory box this time) and Gel medium. Yes, I didn't use texture paste but a very gentle gel medium that is almost translucent when it's dry. I covered the whole canvas with the stencil, but added gel medium randomly here and there. Let the wet medium dry. It takes time. You can do step 3 while your are waiting.

And the large canvas after stamping and adding gel medium texture:

3. Stamp all three main images with black permanent ink (Ranger) over tissue white paper. As our canvases are very textured, the only way to add good stamped image is to stamp over tissue, to tear the image and to adhere it with the very same gel medium.

4.Mist your 4 textured canvases with a mix of mists, according to the colors you want to see with each image. Wipe the mists a bit as we really want to see the gel medium stencilled texture and our primary background stamping.

5. Adhere the torn stamped over tissue images over  those three small canvases and let it dry.
6. Glue letters over the large canvas to make your title. I used simple stickers and Thickers to make my title. As always the sticky backs are not sticky, so I used my usual trick and it's to make a thin line or a few lines with some clear glaze to connect the letters and to adhere them to the background. The dry glaze looks divine (like water drops) and adds some interest to  your finished piece.

7. Add some drops of color to each canvas and arrange them to your favorite group arrangement.

VLVS STAMPS USED TO MAKE THIS PIECE:
6 Hexagon background Item 19076 Plate 917
Washi Grid Background Item 19074 Plate 917
Thick to thin Round Item 900 Plate 272 Page 279
Brick backround- Item 19077 Plate 917
Grunge cricles Item 19563 Plate 1451
Banksy Rain Under Umbrella girl  Item 19486 Plate 1447
Banksy Swing girl Item 19425 Plate 1443
Banksy Girl Floating with Balloons Item 19421 Plate 1443

Other products:
Canvases
Stencils- Memory Box
Mists: Tattered Angels
Inks: Ranger, Clearsnap
Gel medium
Letter stickers- AC,Pebbles

Her wings- my art: art page tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here and this time I made an art  journal page tutorial.

I know that making art page tutorial is almost mission impossible. There is no right or wrong way to make the art page and there is no workshop that can teach you " copy writing" of those book pages.

So it's just to show you my way to use products and to cluster techniques on one single page  with just  bit of real dimension.

Step by step instructions:

1. Gather your favorite VLVS backgrounds and make  a full letter size stamped piece with them.  I wanted those stamps to stay a background ones, so I used VersaMark ink and white embossing powder only.

Most of the stamps are not even masked, but just stamped one near another.

2. Grab you three primary Staz-On inks (Blazing Red, Azure and Mustard) and ink the stamped page with a mix of them. As you can see those 3 primary colors give us the full rainbow effect. I need to say that this works much better over the glossy paper, but I was short of the glossy one and used the regular Mixed Media thick white paper.

3. Now we need to add some dimension and the best way to do it on Mixed Media piece is with stencils and some paste. The paste I used is our Israeli Sand Texture one, but it's just similar to any non smooth texture paste on the market. I used a couple of Tando Creative stencils around the page and left the central part clean as we are going to add the focal point there anyway. Let the paste dry. 

4. While waiting for the texture paste to dry, I stamped my big focal image using  Whimsical Lettered Man stamp. I know it's a man; so what? It looks like a strong courageous woman to me, kind of an Amazon.

I decided to use pigmented ink and clear embossing powder for this main image: glossy one and durable too as it goes to the front.

5. As I was still waiting for the texture paste to dry I heat embossed a pair of bare chipboard wings with a mix of colorful embossing powders and added a bit of clear glitter too.

6. From this point and on it was just to arrange all pieces over the background and to add whatever you want to add.

So I added a bit of stamped blue images using Solid  circles  stamp and  Butterflies row stamp.

I arranged the hand cut head and the wings over the page. Then I stamped two sentiments with the same Crafter's ink over the sticky canvas (this is a perfect ink  for  fabric stamping and all you need to do is to heat it/iron it to make it permanent). Some splashes of mists were added and my art page was done.

Here are a couple of close- ups to this page:

As you can see this time I decided to make a page according to sentiments. If it says" bold and bright"-  it will be bold and bright, even if those are not my usual art colors.

Thanks for reading my tutorial and see you soon again!

Product list:

VLVS

Whimsical Lettered Man Item 19679 Plate 1457

She lived Item 19673 Plate 1457

Her wings were made Item 19672 Plate 1457

Six hexagon background Item 19076 Plate 917

Dictionary page Item 19015 Plate 890

Butterfly specimens Item 19415 Plate 1440

Washi grid background Item 19074 Plate 917

Large Doily Item 18847 Plate 1427

Thick to thin/Round Item 900 Plate 272 Page 279

Cracked background  Item 16208 Plate 1287

Sheet music background Item 19557 Plate 1451

Design solid circles Item 979 Plate 215 Page 174

Other products:

Chipboard  wings- Creative Embellishments

Stencils- Tando Creative

Cardstock, fabric- Ranger

Inks- Tsukineko, Clearsnap

Mists- Tattered Angels

 Embossing powders- WOW! Embossing Powders

Other- texture paste

Sharing a canvas set...

Hi Stampers! DeeDee here, today! 

I wanted to take the spotlight off me for a little while and show you something an avid VLVS! fan made. If you remember I posted a couple months ago about doing an altered canvas set where we use stamps to help us create a background on our canvases!

Well after a few bumps and bruises we got through the first half of our class yesterday and here's what Michele created:

Now I only showed her how to do the canvases, she took it upon herself to use her knew knowledge and alter the tray that she mounted the beauties in!

We used stamps:
Six Hex Background

Harlequin Background
Writing Background

Chicken Wire

and Michele also used on her own:
Line of Chevrons

and Writing Arrow

All the stamps have been stamped in gesso and then colored with glimmer mist and distress stain.
Then the canvases were altered and layered in all types of mixed media goodness! Michele went even further by altering her tray and adding the canvases as their own complete layer.

You can see a close up of the six hex used here:

WELL DONE MICHELE!!!