A Seth Recap

So now you have seen all the samples that I made for the Seth Event I can show you what I actually made during the event. 

We started with a large canvas board, and added 2 colours. 

After more colours and some paint transfers it morphed into this. 

We also worked on a smaller board and 3 tiny pieces. 

These went through several changes too. 

I love it at this stage. 

The smaller bits had lots of layers too. 

We had a fabulous buffet lunch, it was a nice time to catch up and chat with people and for everyone to go shopping. I had laid my samples out for people to see. 

 Next we added stencilling. 

and the smaller board got the stencil treatment too. 

 We added stamping , more stencilling and die cuts, and the smaller boards were glued to the larger canvas. 

This is how it looked at the end of the day. 

I worked on it a bit more at home and this is how it looks now. 

I love that Seth signed my canvas for me. 

During the day Seth wanted his left over aint adding to his shirt, so I obliged and look how cool it turned out. 

 He is so lovely. 

So that was day 1, on day 2 we did it all again, this time with a folder and pages. 

Mine started like this. 

Went through this stage. 

on to this stage.. 

and then to this, doesn't look much, but just wait for the doodling. 

Love it now..

 As you can see my pages are still blank, not had chance to do those yet. 

 Both days were just fantastic, and I love this final shot from Saturday with everyone being silly. 

Darcy x

Seth Apter Tag 1

Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying a few nice summery days. I have been squirreled away in my room creating samples for a special weekend hosted by PaperArtsy. This coming weekend 3rd/4th Sept, PaperArtsy is hosting the fabulous Seth Apter. Two days of workshops, it is going to be fabulous!

The second of the two days is just for retailers and teachers, and I will be there along with other PA designers, where we will be doing short demos during the day. 

I have several samples prepared ready, and over the next couple of weeks I will show them to you. 

In each sample I have used a mix of Seth Apter's products ( stamps, dies,stencils) and also other PA products, including my own stamps and stencils. 

For this first tag I cut down some old patterned paper to a tag size. I wasn't sure if I wanted the original paper t show through, in the end it didn't, but started with the text in the background gave me a great first layer. 

I added PaperArtsy Fresco paints in Teresa Green, Turquoise, Dolly Mix , more Teresa Green, and then a little Captain Peacock. These were all brayered on. 

The next later was Seth's bubble wrap stamp using Granny smith paint. 

To this I added his French script stamp using Dolly Mix and his spotty stamp using Green Patina Archival ink. 

To knock all this back I used one of his stencils and Snowflake paint. To finish the background I used my edging stencil PS030 with slick stix in blue and black.

Onto smoothy card I stamped my feather from EDY09, this remains one of my favourite stamps. I used Cornflower Archival ink, and then fussy cut the whole thing out. 

On black card I stamped Seth's square and small scratch stamp using Slate paint, overlapped these two now become an inkwell. 

The layered Splatter Proof die is crunchy wax paper. I like using crunchy as the bottom layer as it is so thin it adds very little bulk and so top layers glue gown nice and flat. 

The bottom spikey layer is crunchy painted first white and then with Bougainvillea. Over this I used the Robo ring die and smoothy card painted with Dolly mix and a little Bougainveillea. The centre is the Take Flight die, painted with Cpt Peacock and a little dry brushed white. 

I added some more stencilling just down the centre using Seth's Timeless and Past,present,future stencils. i then started to add some detailing using black and white pens. 

The right side looked a little bare so I added Coffee ring halves, painted in Dolly Mix. I overstamped some of the die cuts with black archival ink for more interest. 

I will have another sample for you on Friday. 

Darcy. 

No Walking For These Boots!

In wee hours of Sat 6th, I received a message from friends. they were due to go to a workshop at Art From The Heart in Harrogate, unfortunately one of them wasn't feeling well at all and had to pull out. they wanted to know, could I fill the place. At the time I was travelling back from a 5hour music gig. 

I hadn't seen these friends in ages so I said yes... and then it occurred to me I had no idea what the class was or who was teaching! It turned out the teacher for the day was the gorgeous Karen Hayselden. 

After frantically getting home, searching for and sorting travel arrangements and packing a pack, I didn't get much sleep, before having to be up and off to the shop. My lovely friend Marie was already there, so we had a quick catch up and the Catherine arrived... so ,so good to see them both. Bonus was that Jayne was on her way too.. 

Later we also met up with Chris and Linda, amazing who you bump into, so nice to catch up with people that we usually only see online. 

Here is everyone hard at work. 

During the day we practised blending techniques, tried out lots of different paints, and generally got all painty and messy. 

This was our first project, the birdhouse was finished during the class.. 

I added the stamped text once I got home. 

Originally the house had a loop of cord at the top, I cut this off and added the twist of wire and the heart instead. 

This is a Stampotique girlie, stamped onto plain card, also onto book page and also onto painted card, then all the bits assembled. 

The 2nd project of the day was to make this single boot on a stick. Karen showed us her tips and trips for forming the shape. Mine took a couple of days to dry out properly. 

Using my new frilly flowers, I created this layerd flower. I used the large one twice and the small one once. Between the 2 larger flowers I glued a metal clip. it is completely hidden by the flowers. 

Once the boot was dry I could paint it and the stick. 

Love it, You can see the  larger flowers sit either side of the stick. 

The flowers are stamped onto card that I had painted and blnded while in the class. 

The clip inside is perfet to hold this photo of me and my lovely friends from the day. 

and here are both projects together, what a fab reminder of a great day.. 

Darcy x