MAD I tell you! We're all going MAD! That is...MAD for Dreamweaver Stencils! Lol. Welcome to our "March Madness" challenge! Anything goes, and the more outside-of-the-box, the better. This year, we're aiming to play with non-traditional challenges whenever possible. So, break out all of your I-never-quite-knew-what-to-do-with-these-products stash, look at your Dreamweaver stencils in a whole new creative light, and get crafting! Oh, and don't forget to link those creations to the linkytool on the Dream It Up! blog for one of THREE chances to win the stencil of your choice!
If you follow me on a regular basis, you've already seen this project on my blog this week as a post for the Woodware UK team. Considering how mixed the media is on this project, I figured it also fits into the "MAD" category for the March Dreamweaver challenge!
My base is a wood door hanger from one of the local craft stores, which I slapped on a coat of black acrylic paint over the surface. When dry (just a few minutes), I taped my Dreamweaver Large Scales stencil on top, and spread Crackle Embossing Paste over it, removed the stencil to clean, and set aside the hanger to dry.
Meanwhile, I played with my dimensional elements...
First, I pasted on acetate the Dreamweaver Scallop and Nautilus shell stencils with Gold and Pearlescent pastes, respectively. Both were sprinkled with various Metallic F/X powders before heating with a heat tool until bubbly and mostly dry. You can pat down the bubbling a bit after it's cooled. These were cut out and set aside.
Secondly, I dripped Color Solutions over a few white paper flowers and set these aside to dry.
Thirdly, I die cut the Dreamweaver Leafless Tree Die out of orange cardstock to mimic coral.
Finally, I stamped the Stampendous Cling Mermaid on tissue paper and colored her with markers. I used a clear medium to adhere her over the now dry and crackled surface of my door hanger.
Now I could really have fun...I added color to the background using a large stencil brush and my Splendor ink pad with all of it's palette of colors. I traced the Zen Fish stencil over the top using a Sakura Micron Pen, and colored with markers. Then I applied Translucent Paste over the surface of the fish, and let dry.
Once dry, I used Glossy Accents to adhere sprinkles of Stampendous Color Fragments, adhered Mark Richards Pearl Clusters, a portion of my die cut "coral", and my Molten Magic sea shells with my bright flowers.
I love projects like this as you never know quite where they'll take you! Play along with the challenge by submitting your March Madness project on the Dream It Up! site. Need some crazy ideas? Check our "A" team first, and our very special guest designer and Certified Dreamweaver teacher...
Here's my personal act of madness:
If you follow me on a regular basis, you've already seen this project on my blog this week as a post for the Woodware UK team. Considering how mixed the media is on this project, I figured it also fits into the "MAD" category for the March Dreamweaver challenge!My base is a wood door hanger from one of the local craft stores, which I slapped on a coat of black acrylic paint over the surface. When dry (just a few minutes), I taped my Dreamweaver Large Scales stencil on top, and spread Crackle Embossing Paste over it, removed the stencil to clean, and set aside the hanger to dry.
Meanwhile, I played with my dimensional elements...
First, I pasted on acetate the Dreamweaver Scallop and Nautilus shell stencils with Gold and Pearlescent pastes, respectively. Both were sprinkled with various Metallic F/X powders before heating with a heat tool until bubbly and mostly dry. You can pat down the bubbling a bit after it's cooled. These were cut out and set aside.
Secondly, I dripped Color Solutions over a few white paper flowers and set these aside to dry.
Thirdly, I die cut the Dreamweaver Leafless Tree Die out of orange cardstock to mimic coral.
Finally, I stamped the Stampendous Cling Mermaid on tissue paper and colored her with markers. I used a clear medium to adhere her over the now dry and crackled surface of my door hanger.
Now I could really have fun...I added color to the background using a large stencil brush and my Splendor ink pad with all of it's palette of colors. I traced the Zen Fish stencil over the top using a Sakura Micron Pen, and colored with markers. Then I applied Translucent Paste over the surface of the fish, and let dry.
Once dry, I used Glossy Accents to adhere sprinkles of Stampendous Color Fragments, adhered Mark Richards Pearl Clusters, a portion of my die cut "coral", and my Molten Magic sea shells with my bright flowers.
I love projects like this as you never know quite where they'll take you! Play along with the challenge by submitting your March Madness project on the Dream It Up! site. Need some crazy ideas? Check our "A" team first, and our very special guest designer and Certified Dreamweaver teacher...
6 comments:
I love your creations, there are amazing!
This is VERY COOL! I love all the fun techniques you used on this!
Wonderful project Pam! I love all the colors and textures!
Wow Pam! Amazing detail. I loved reading about all the different elements to this design.
You are absolutely unbelievable with the colors on this one Pammie ....they are so striking...Mad Mad Mad coloring for March Madness!!
this is absolutely stunning pam - I luv everything about it. it seems the more you look the more you see. thanks for the inspiration (once again) :)
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