I Dreamed Again of Venice

Geez, I am waiting for the day when I sit down to put a picture on this blog and it takes less than two days to remember how I did it the last time. You will see from the previous post that the last attempt ended in abject failure.

By that was last time...this time we have lift-off. This little miniature canvas uses the Venician set from Katzelcraft. Now, I am not a huge fan of "sets" of stamps. There will be one I really, really want, a couple of "might use one day" and the rest you could turn into tires for all I care. This set was one of my rare exceptions.

For this piece I used:

1 small canvas
Stampbord: 4 inchie pieces and 1 domino size piece
Etching tool
Stamps: Venician set by Katzelkraft
Black acrylic paint
Black Soot Crackle Paint
Versa Magic Chalk Inks is light to dark shades of blue
Stazon Black
CD Marker pen in red
Crystal teardrop and 2 small crystals
Ultimate Glue or any clear drying glue
Black broad tipped pen
3.0 Artline Calligraphy pen in black

1) Paint the canvas with black acrylic paint and allow to dry
2) Apply Black Soot Crackle paint randomly over sections of the canvas and set aside to dry
3) Colour each of the Stampbord pieces with the same shades of chalk ink.

I tend to cover the whole piece with the light shade of blue and then apply the darker shades to the edges of the pieces. I used shades of blue justed because, but use the colours that you like best. I liked the effect of colouring all the Stampbord in the same shades, but I'm gonna try doing them all differently one of these days.

4) Lay the stamp on a flat surface, ink the faces on the three different masks with black Stazon, place the Stampbord pieces over the faces and press down firmly. Don't be too heavy handed or you risk losing the detail in these images.

Note that the image under the domino piece has been stamped so the square inchie appears as a diamond shape.

5) Etch your chosen potions of the stamped images. WARNING: Unless you want a seriously weird and rather spooky result, resist the temptation to etch eyeballs!
6) Paint the lips using the red CD marker pen
7) Glue any additional elements to the Stampbord and allow to dry
8) Colour the edges of each stampbord piece with the broad tipped black pen the press the edge of the calligraphy pen firmly into the top edge of the Stampbord and draw along each side of each piece to create a thin frame/border.
9) Glue the Stampord to the canvas

and DONE!

I feel something a little different coming on for next time...