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Great Layout

Talented Vickie Doswell took last weeks flowers and made a beautiful layout with all sorts of cool ephemera.

 

Today is my last Wednesday project as the Ten Seconds Studio Guest Designer for the month of April.  I have really enjoyed using the Ten Seconds Studio products in creating these projects and look forward to using them in the future.

 

Today’s project is a canvas that I made using some of the flowers that I made for last weeks project.  I once again chose Graphic 45 papers and built my canvas around those and embellished with  Ideology products.  I apologize for the quality of the photographs but  I couldn’t seem to get the lighting right to get the flowers the more copper color without washing out everything. They just had to be red for some reason so everything is warmer!

 

The canvas is an 8x8” canvas covered with paper from the Once Upon a Springtime collection from Graphic 45.  I love the postcard and vintage feel of the paper and it fit well with my theme. 

Another picture of the metal/paper flowers that I stacked on top of some paper flowers that I sprayed a peachy color to match up with the copper. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the way the butterflies turned out today.  I cut them out of the copper and embossed them before adding that patina.  Each one seemed to turn out a little different some turned more green than another one. 

Thank you Vickie for creating some really cool projects this month. Megan and I really appreciate your work and that you got everything to us in a timely manner.

FYI:

Where did Tuesday go? We shot a video for Tuesday but the day just got away from us so it may become more of a "sometime this week video". Have patience because Megan will get it done sometime this week. We've been working hard getting all the orders out for the VerDay Paints and copper metal. People seem to be going nuts with the video ideas and working with those paints. We just got in another shipment so if you were waiting, the paints are instock.

Flowers By Vickie Doswell

Vickie Doswell has outdone herself for today design team challenge. It's all about Flowers

I have been having a lot of fun making flowers and I received a lot of comments about a flower I made to put on a canvas.   I LOVE VerDay Paint and Patina and have used it in making flowers from card stock, metal, and on canvas.  

The first thing you want to decide is what kind of flower, what color of metal you want it to be or look like and what dies or punches you will use to cut it out with.   This could turn into a rather lengthy post so I am going to try and condense it breaking it down into metal or cardstock. 

Use any type of die cut machine and texture plates. I used a Sizzix dies called Flower Layers, Daisies and a Sizzix die called Tattered Flowers.   I used copper and brass sheets and the Flower Layers die to cut this first flower out.

I also used a flower punch from Stampin Up! to cut out a couple smaller flowers using copper but the brass metal sheet was too thick for the punch but worked fine with the dies.  The metal flowers can be embossed after cutting with either the molds from TSS or embossing folders.  I found embossing them gave the VerDay Patina something to hold on to get a better oxidization.

After approximately 24 hours you can take a sanding block and sand the pieces lightly to make the metal shine above the patina.  Take the flower pieces and stack them together and secure them with a brad and start forming the petals.  The metal that has been embossed has to be manipulated by hand curving and turning it to make the petals. If you didn't emboss you can use the metal working tools from TSS to turn the petals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To make the paper VerDay flowers I painted the bronze and copper paint on white and brown cardstock drying it well before cutting it as I did the metals.

The cardstock will curl as it dries but it is just paper and you can flatten it out easily. 

Next cut the flower pieces using the dies or punches. 

 

Place pieces on the foam from the Mat Set and using the TSS metal working ball of the ball and cup tool gently use circular motion on the back side of the flower to make the petals curl.  Depending on how much curl you want depends on the size of the ball.

Here I just used the erasing tool to curl the center to make a cup to fit the pieces together.   I then lightly sprayed the flower parts with VerDay in a fine mister to start the oxidization process.  There is a VerDay Patina Sprayer available from TSS but it has a coarser spray and the flowers need a lighter touch. 

The next step is to put the pieces together to form the flowers and I hit them with another mist of VerDay and let them sit a day to oxidize. Attach in the same manner as the metal flowers.

VerDay Q&A

 On today's video we show another technique and answer some questions. The one biggest tip we can give is to just play with these paints.

After a couple of hours this is what the chipboard ended up looking like. You can see a slight change in the iron with a little of the iron coming through.

 

 

 

Here is a closeup of the aluminum after a couple of hours. The VerDay just bubbled up and dried with a hazy look on top. So do not put it on aluminum.

Hope these ideas have answered some questions and inspired you to "play".

Send us some photos of what you're creating, we love to see what our customers do with these products.

On Wednesday we will show what Vickie has been working on for our design challenge for April.

Our blog winner for last week's comment is Sue Wilke. Email me your address and I'll get your mail box out to you within a month.

Card/Box Combo

Vickie Boswell has taken our VerDay Paints to new heights with this weeks project. I'll let Vickie explain it in her own words.

 

Today I would like to share with you a card I made as a guest designer for Ten Seconds Studios  (TSS) featuring VerDay Metal Paint and VerDay Patina.  There will be a materials list at the end of the post if you are interested in any of the products used in the making of this project.

 

I wanted to create a rusted metal box look for this easel card so I combined the easel card and a match box card box to get the look I wanted.  I used the dry brush technique in creating the mat for the front on the card.  I love SteamPunk and have a lot of fun doing it my way!  The papers used here are from Graphic 45 SteamPunk and Old Curiosity Shoppe Collections. 

Inside the card!

Don’t you love the way the old rusty gears turned out?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drawers opened and the card folded flat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a closeup of the side with the card open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Materials used:

 I would first like to talk about the VerDay Paint and Patina that I used.  When Cheryl and Megan first showed us the video’s of the VerDay line I wasn’t too impressed to begin with but as they continued to show us the line I fell in love with all the possibilities that the paints could give me in my crafting endeavors. The first time I “painted” with the VerDay I was won over forever!

 The VerDay Paints come in bronze, copper, metal, and brass and can be painted on just about anything then you allow it to dry and paint the VerDay Patina on and allow it to cure and the magic happens!  Being new to the project I had to play a bit with it before I started making anything so here is what I found out by using  the TSS  Big Daddy mold 7a as an embossing

plate.   Awesome mold BTW !  The front side is a plate full of gears and the reverse side has different knot and cornice patterns that I plan on using in future projects  ( it is flat and resembles a letter press plate and you can run it through your Big Shot without worrying about it breaking.) 

To play with it I cut black cardstock into 6”x6” and ran it through the Big Shot with the BDAD 7a mold to get the gear/cog look. One piece I painted before the embossing, one after the embossing and the third one I just dry brushed.  I was surprised at the differences achieved in each process. 

I painted the VerDay Metal paint on the box then went back and dry brushed the VerDay Patina around pretty heavily.  I think it definitely created a rusty box look.

Graphic 45 papers from the SteamPunk Debutant and Olde Curiosity Shoppe Collections

 Stampin’Up! Products:

• Basic black, Very Vanilla, and More Mustard Cardstock
• Favorite Thoughts Stamp set for the sentiment
• Basic Black Ink Pad
• Grogain Ribbon
• Match box die

 Tim Holtz

• Ideology  min gears and pen nibs
• Mini Gears dies
• On the Edge die SteamPunk

Dew Drops for the feet

Mulberry paper roses

BoBunny brads for drawer pulls

Black Gems from Michaels dollar bins

Hope you like the card as I really enjoyed making it!  Vickie Doswell

 

Mailbox to VerDay or Not to VerDay...that is the question

I love mailboxes and have quite a few in my collection. Megan and I made a trip to our favorite home improvement store and bought a bunch of stuff to paint. One of the things was, of course, a mailbox.

On today's video I show how easy it is to paint.  We did this video over a week and when we were spraying it with primer we were about two hours away from the tornados that came through our area last week. In fact after I sprayed the primer on the heaven's opened up and dumped water all over the backyard of the studio. Luckily the box was dry...kinda! To say that was a cluster____ would be an understatement.

 

Enjoy our project and be sure to post a comment and on Friday I'll pick a winner who will get our fab creation.

Weekend

Hope everyone had a beautiful weekend celebrating with family and sharing in the Easter spirit.

It's always nice to just relax and spend quality time with those you love.

Design Team Vickie Doswell

We want to introduce Vickie Doswell, our featured artist for April. Since Vickie has gotten her package of VerDay paints, she has been a busy gal. I've been trying to upload her entire tutorial for the last two days and for some reason I can't load pics onto this blog. It seems like since I got back from LA, everything changed on my computer....I know nuts. I can't even do a paragraph on this. So, please go to Vickie's blog where her computer likes her and is cooperating. I'll try and put favorite hubby on this problem tonight, where he will say "I don't know what's wrong with it."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Canvas Bag to the Max

You asked for it and we did it. Here is the video on how I did the canvas from a couple of weeks ago. We take one stencil + VerDay Paint + VerDay Patina = COOL BAG. I'm going to finish the bag on the other side and then send it off to this week's winner...and that winner is Penny A. Penny email me your address and your bag will go out to you as soon as I finish it. Post a comment on this blog entry and I'll pick 4 winners who will receive one of squares shown here. We've also got a special going on this week and will be posted in tomorrow's WUW for the bags.