Hi everyone,
Ruth here with this weeks ATP Exchange day. This week I've been having fun with
Golden Glass Bead Gel....which
some may have noticed I rather like using! I've created two journal
pages, incorporating a couple of my 'explorations' that I'm going to
share with you. Warning this is a photo heavy post...
Golden
Glass Bead Gel is another way of creating texture in your projects.
It's an acrylic medium that incorporates tiny glass beads in it. If you
zoom in you can see how small the beads are. It dries clear and is
surprisingly flexible once dry. It still has some 'spring' to it,
probably because of the gel medium it's in. I even managed to stitch
through it on the journal pages.....going very carefully mind you.
I started off by spreading it through stencils onto
plain manilla tags. I used
TCW stencil Garden Gate and the
Prima doily stencil and you may notice on the first tag that I hadn't cleaned my stencil very well!
You can see how it's starting to dry clear in this next photo.
Once dry they can be coloured in a variety of ways.
On this tag I've used a wash of
Fresco paint in Beach Hut. Inks or translucent paints will still show the base of whatever is underneath the bead gel.
Some of the paint will pool around the gel creating more definition.
On this I've used
Distress Inks in tattered rose and salty ocean but decided I wanted more colour and used
Prima colour blooms in Iris and Glistening waves on top.
A nice effect is created because the Distress Inks react with water based products.
Of
course anything opaque will cover up whats underneath but can also give
more definition to the beads. I've used treasure gold on half the tag
and I have to admit this effect is a favourite.
Lastly on translucent's you can colour the surface below and then accentuate with a darker ink. I had some
Cinnamon Brown Luminarte silk acrylic glaze on my mat and swiped 2 tags with it, one is slightly lighter as I had mixed some water with it to mop up.
Using walnut stain Distress Ink on the tag on the right.
Stamped
images can also be seen clearly as the bead gel is so fine. So fun with
translucents but something I hadn't tried before was mixing it with
paints. So a small amount of various paint was mixed with bead gel.
Sorry bit of a blurred photo. The left hand tag has on the left
French Roast (translucent) and bottom right
Squid Ink (opaque). The top right of the tag has
Golden acrylics Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold (!). The right hand tag, top left
System 3 gold acrylic paint and bottom right is cinnamon brown Luminarte silk acrylic glaze.
This one textured but matt....going to change that.
Lovely shiny finish but going to improve that as well.
I've
painted the black part of the tag with some gold acrylic and used a
dark spray on the gold and a gold spray on the cinnamon brown. The
sprays are a mix of dark -
Dylusion chocolate and Nutmeg
Luminarte primary elements and
Lemon Zest Dylusions and Sunflower
Luminarte primary elements.
I used some
Chocolate Pudding Fresco paint on the centre of this tag. I've also highlighted the peaks with some
black archival.
Hope you can zoom in and see the lovely texture. These are only my
first 'experiments' and I am no expert but hope you've enjoyed seeing
the possibilities of this product.
Hope you've stayed with me as I'd just like to quickly share the journal pages I created.
I have to say this is inspired, influenced by a France Papillon recent Journal on Monday she did.
2 pieces of
Chatsworth paper cut to fit my
Finnabair vanity Journal. The blue is kitchen roll that was used to mop up some
Turquoise Dylusions and then stamped with
Sarah Naumann stamps (sets ESN10 and ESN11) in walnut stain and vintage photo
Distress ink. The man is from the
Tim Holtz Mercantile set.
A wash of snowflake fresco first, some
matte medium through TCW chicken wire stencil and
Rock candy distress glitter on top, dried and then sanded back slightly. Beach Hut paint then over the glitter.
Another
lace stencil from Finnabair (lace
doilies and glitter on a mans page?...I think so!). I tore a piece of
copy paper in half and then framed the area I wanted to stencil and
placed the stencil on top. I've used the same cinnamon brown bead gel
mix. various stamping in the Distress Inks mentioned. Some drippage with
the sprays used earlier. Fresco paint splats in white, little black
dress and beach hut. I've also used
Prima Blooms glistening waves drips.
Chit chat stickers
and unfortunately I picked up a thick posca pen before I'd realised so
the outlines are quite bold...no mistakes in art though! Some dyed
ribbon.
The tag finished off with some string,
TH vintage ephemera,
and a blog friend kindly sent me some doilies and I've used a piece at
the base of the tag (thanks Julie!). Hope you enjoyed a rather long post
and are tempted to explore some of the more unusual texture pastes.
Don't forget another week to enter our
Halloween challenge.
Thanks for
stopping by.
Ruth
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