Andy Skinner: Spook Illusionary Artists Stamps

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Friday, 4 May 2018

A walk On the Dark Side Of Life

Stamps Used:

Skuldoggery, Birds and Bones and Unexplained by Stampendous

Morning all, Mark here an I have a couple of quick and easy tags to share today where I have mainly been playing with some of Andy's stamps.

I have used a couple of Mdf tags and applied some patterned papers I had made using my Gel Plate and Decoart Media Fluids along with some of Andy's stencils.

For the skull tag I used a back ground paper where I have used Andy's Fossil stencil, It put me in mind of some tie dye fabric and with the skull it felt very Grateful Dead and psychedelic.

The Devil tag was layered stamping, the bird skull was stamped with an orange archival ink and the devil himself was colored in with a red Copic marker.

The bird skull was a charm I picked up at a craft fair and was aged using some Decoart Antiquing cream.

Thanks for stopping by.x Head back soon to see something new from the DT x

Monday, 16 April 2018

Uncertainty tag by Monika Maksym

Hi all!
it's Monika here! Today I'm going to show you my latest tag with grungy, rusty background. You'll need a brayer ( rubber paint roller) for this technique.

To start with, prime the large tag from the Tagtastic 1 kit with black chalky finish paint. Squeeze a few dots of medium acrylic paint on the craft mat and start rolling your brayer to get even, thin coat, then run it through your tag. ( I've used Decoart Media Fluid Acrylics in Paynes Grey, English Red Oxide, Quinacridone Gold, Titan Buff, Transparent Yellow Oxide) Repeat this step with all of the colours and as many times as you like until you're satisfied with your background.

Stamp your chosen image and word on regular cardstock, then cut them out ( word has to be slightly smaller than your bookplate- measure it ) Using decoupage glue stick them on the tag and seal it with glue. With a small brush and transparent yellow oxide tint and shade your image.

Paint your bookplate, bolts and nuts with Paynes Grey wash, then add Quinacridone Gold on top. Glue them on once fully dry and apply a thin coat of ultra matte varnish.

Thank You for stopping by.
Monika, x

Products used:

Spook Stamp Set by Illusionary Artists

Word Up & Numbers Stamp Set by Illusionary Artists

TAGTASTIC KIT 1

Decoart Media Fluid Acrylics - Paynes Grey, English Red Oxide, Quinacridone Gold, Titan Buff, Transparent Yellow Oxide

Decoart Chalky Finish Paint - Carbon ( you can use black gesso or premium acrylic paint instead)

Decou-Page glue

Decoart Media Ultra Matte Varnish

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Tuesday, 13 March 2018

DO YOU FEAR THE UNKNOWN?

Greetings everyone!

It's Candy with another wild and crazy project using some of Andy's new Illusionary Artists stamp sets teamed with Andy's line of DecoArt Media products.

This time, I was experimenting with some new stamps and playing with colors and textures. This 6'x6" canvas is packed full of images creating a creepy sort of ghoulish scene with an already familiar gargoyle-ish figure I affectionately refer to as "Gary the Gargoyle". He was actually the inspiration for this canvas!

I began by first washing a piece of watercolor paper with a combination of DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Medium Grey Value 6, Dark Grey Value 3 and water. (I also used this combination around the sides of the canvas). Then I brayered DecoArt's Media Black Gesso over this lovely new 6" x 6" Stampendous background stamp. After it was dry, I tore around the edges and glued it onto the canvas using DecoArt Media Matte Medium. Using Permanent Black Ink, I stamped the skulls from Andy's new Spook Illusionary Stamp Set around all of the sides of the canvas and feathered the edges with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Carbon Black and touches of Metallic Gold.

Gary the Gargoyle is such a cute little guy ... if gargoyles can be cute. I first brushed DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Green Gold onto a piece of stamping paper. When dry, I used Permanent Black Ink to stamp Gary in place. I then heat set him, added the shading using DecoArt Fluid Acrylics Viridian and painted his pitchfork Metallic Silver. I backed him with study cardstock and cut him out. He was later glued onto the canvas with Adhesive Pop Dots as were several other pieces to give this canvas a lot of dimension.

I have never been a fan of Ouija Boards. But I have to say that I love this stamp from Andy's Illusionary Artists Spook Stamp Set. I washed a piece of stamping paper with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Raw Sienna followed by Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide and touches of Quinacridone Gold; creating an almost woodgrain effect. The image is stamped with Black Permanent Ink. After heat setting it, I cut it out and rounded the corners with a 1/4" corner punch. Next I added Carbon Black paint to the edges using my finger. I love the way this turned out! I actually looks like a miniature Ouija Board!

Time to experiment with textures and doing what Andy does so well ... making things look REAL that are not!

I washed a couple of pieces of dictionary paper with DecoArt Fluid Acrylics Metallic Silver and Gold mixed with water. Then I stamped the crosses from Andy's Illusionary Artists Gothic Stamp Set onto the paper using Embossing Ink and a granular embossing powder; a dark brown on the gold and a black on the silver. Once heat set, they already had a gritty, pitted feeling. I loved that!

To mimic that very eerie mossy look on old tombstones, I mixed DecoArt Media Texture Sand Paste with a touch of DecoArt Fluid Acrylics Green Gold. I used a very small brush to randomly add the "moss" to the crosses. Next I sparingly sprinkled bits of a gritty embossing powder in a mossy green color. I heat set all of this and the results are very cool and won't flake off.

Then I started gluing everything in place on the canvas with Adhesive Pop Dots. Here you have a more closeup look at the moss. I love the color, the texture and the depth it adds to this piece.

As a finishing touch, I added some tree trash from a river birch tree in my yard, I painted the twigs white using DecoArt Fluid Acrylics Titanium White and added little torn strips of vintage netting among the "trees" gracing either side of the graveyard canvas.

"Fear THE UNKNOWN" conveniently sits side by side on Andy's new Illusiionary Artists Word Up Stamp Set and it worked perfectly for this canvas! I stamped the words onto a piece of paper using Black Permanent Ink and matted it on black chipboard then glued it in place.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you got some inspiration from this piece or from the techniques I have shared today.