Gears & Sweet Memories - A Mixed-media layout

Hi friends,

I am sharing today a mixed-media layout with a vintage feel that I made for my sister-in-law sometime back. As I wanted a gender neutral project, I used MDF gears to embellish my project.

 The MDF gears are from iCraft by The Craft Studio. iCraft has one of the widest range of gears and lots of other designs in MDF cut-outs with appropriate thickness and clean cuts for any mixed-media project. 

For the base, I coloured a 12 by 12 MDF with Wild Honey Distress Ink in the edges and sealed the ink using Distress glaze. I than tore a pattern paper on edges to give a distressed look and gave it a wash with diluted purple and blue. Once the paint was dry, I adhered pattern paper to coloured MDF base. I added some texture using Ranger texture paste and stencils

I mixed black Fevicryl acrylic paint with Ranger texture paint and used it through Tim Holtz stencil to add texture at places. I also dusted some Perfect Pearls on the textured areas to add the gold touch. 

I used gold, silver, blue and purple Fevicryl acrylic paints to colour the gears.  

This is a metal embellishment that I coloured using similar acrylic colours as MDF. I cut the clock from a pattern paper and pasted it on center of the embellishment. I added some micro-beads and Mod-Podge dimensional to finish it.

Sweet Memories is also an MDF from iCraft and it was heat embossed with Ultra Thick Embossing Powder from Ranger 

I hope you liked this layout.

Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta

Crafty Flirtations 

Rocky Roads Art Journal

Hi Friends,

Happy New Year to all of you. In my 1st blog of 2018, I am sharing an Art Journal Spread with a total of 7 supplies (Apart from basic supplies). I absolutely love the quote "Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destination" as its such a huge motivation and confidence booster and this Art Journal Spread is all about it.

Supplies Used:

• iCraft Stencil (rock/ stone stencil)
• Ranger Distress Ink: Picked Raspberry
• iCraft MDF Phrase 
• Sakura White Gelli Roll Pen 
• Sakura Black Brush Pen
• Ranger Gold Embossing Powder 
• VersaMark Embossing Inkpad 
• Basic Supplies: Blending Tool, Heat Gun, Glue

Steps to Create: 

• Ink the MDF phrase with VersaMark Ink and heat set with Gold embossing powder.
• On your art journal, blend Distress Ink with help of a blending tool through a stencil.
• Once you have stencilled on the entire page, colour the negative space using a brush marker or any black pen that is water proof.
• Once the ink is dry, flicker some water to reactivate Distress Ink and create texture.
• Outline each stone using white Gelli Roll pen.
• Adhere the embossed MDF phrase to finish the page. 

Additional Tips: 

As this was a 4 by 8 stencil, there were a few harsh lines where ever the stencil ended. I connected some Inked rocks with help of paint brush & Ink to remove harsh end-lines of stencils and make the page look more generic 

I hope you like my simple page, yet quirky Art Journal Page.

Love,
Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta 

Shine & Bright Coasters

Hi Friends,

Thank you for the warm response to  "Joy Canvas" tutorials. We are here with our second tutorials. This a tutorial for quick and simple coasters.

Materials:

• MDF Coasters
• Acrylic Paints (I used Fevicryl colours)
• Penny black Blooming Garden Stamp set
• Stazon black Ink pad
• Sakura Black micron
• Sakura Red Brush tip pen
• Mod-podge 
• Varnish 

Method:

• Paint the coasters with acrylic paint. Apply a thick coat and use colours that you like 
• Once the paint was dried, I stamped the flower using Stazon black ink
• Then I coloured the image using Sakura black micro and Sakura red brush tip pen
• Next was the most difficult task. To let the whole thing sit for 24 hours to let the ink dry
• Apply 2-3 coats of mod-podge and one coat of varnish to finish the product :) 

Hope you enjoyed this simple tutorial to make some beautiful coasters.

Cheers,
Dr. Neha Sanwalka
Crafty Flirtations