Hello lovely peeps
If you've not seen the news on my Facebook or Instagram pages, I am delighted to say that I was invited by the lovely Nick Roberts to be on the Design Team for Craftascope. Nick is on Hochanda TV today at 10am and 3pm to demonstrate his fabulous new stamps, stencils and dies, as well as bringing back his first collection
I've made a couple of cards with the stencils of men's faces from the first launch.
For the cowboy card I drew through the 'Bailey' stencil lightly with pencil onto watercolour card primed with white gesso. I drew what I'm hoping looks a bit like a cowboy hat to fit on top of the head and also drew in a simple shirt collar below his chin.
If you would like to download my (ahem) cowboy hat for your personal use, please do. I have also added it to my Freebies page so people can find it later.
In the background I used the Monument mask from Clarity Stamp to sponge on some brown paint and then basically just painted everything in with acrylic paint (I say 'basically', but it took me a few hours 😄 - it's the biggest piece I've painted since doing my O'level art many, many moons ago).
The 'howdy' lettering was done with a Tim Holtz 'Typo Lowercase' Bigz die.
In contrast, the other card I made with the stencils (this one is 'Xander') took me about fifteen minutes to make.
I drew zig-zag lines through the stencil with a sharp 6B pencil, always going across the narrowest part of the gap to make it look uniform.
After rubbing out the inevitable smudges I sealed it with a couple of coats of hairspray and stamped a sentiment over the top. Some black buttons finish it off.
I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simply Less is More #391 take 3 (3 buttons)
I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simply Less is More #391 take 3 (3 buttons)
My teamies have made some fabulous samples so I hope you will pop over and pay them a visit too.
Jane Royston blog - Isle of Crafty Creations and janeroystoniow on Instagram
Bryan Evans blog - Geezer Crafter
Natalie Ellis blog - Tilly Anne and lovesplat on Instagram
Cheryl Wall blog - chez101craftywaftydoodah
Nicola Clegg on Facebook
Thanks for stopping by,
Cheryl Wall blog - chez101craftywaftydoodah
Nicola Clegg on Facebook
Thanks for stopping by,
Katrina x
7 comments:
Fab creations Kat, look forward to seeing your samples on the shows.
Fabulous amazing colouring and such a very different design gorgeous love and hugs Carole x
Both of these look amazing Katrina. So different looking and by the sounds of it in the time they took you to make! Nicola xxx
What a fabulous pair of makes. Your technique has held up then, from O levels (LOL). I like the background and the hat is amazing. Such a focal point. Thanks for sharing your wonderful creativity and inventiveness with us at Unstampabelles.
great!
What a fabulous stencil. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us at Unstampabelles.
Thanks for sharing your amazing project with us in the March "Men & Boys" Challenge over at UnstampaBelles, and we hope to see you again next month!
Hugs,
Leslie, UnstampaBelles DT
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