Craft Stamper – August 2019

Beachy

Blooms

Create vibrant wall art full of stamped blooms!

By Clare Messenger

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any of us love using floral stamps on our cards, tags or in our journals.

I also love seeing them incorporated into larger mixed media pieces to

decorate the home. Stamps are ever-growing in size. We can use them in

our larger art journals, but why not take them off the page and onto a piece of your very

own wall art?

The beauty of this project is that the background can be as simple or as complicated

as you want to make it. My background is relatively simple if you get the proportions

right!

I started my canvas by masking off the horizon and pencilling in the sweeping tide,

this allowed me to look and sometimes photograph to check if I have the desired

landscape. At this point I haven’t committed myself by using any paint and I can easily

change the ratio of land, sea and sky. Before using masking tape make sure your paint

is dry, you don’t want to lift off any paint!

Designer

tip...

Save those remnants of

leftover, textured wallpaper.

When painted and pressed

directly onto your art work it

leaves fabulous depth and

texture!

Go Shopping!

JoFY stamps, stencils, Fresco Finish paint are available from That’s Crafty!,

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk, 01708 344146

Materials

Stamps Clare used...

•   PaperArtsy: JoFY 74; 76

Other materials...

•   PaperArtsy Stencil PS132; PS

•   PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic paints: Antarctic; Mermaid; Lake

Wanaka; Peacoat; Glass Blue; Vanilla; Cheesecake; Zesty Zing; Nougat;

Cherry Red; Cerise; Coral; Tangerine Twist

•   Loxley 12" x 12" canvas board

•   PaperArtsy Grunge Paste

•   VersaFine Ink Pad: Spanish Moss; Olympia Green; Onyx Black

•   Faber-Castell Polychromo pencils

•   Ranger: Liquid Pearls; Stickles Glitter Glue

•   Foam brush sponge

•   Masking tape

•   Palette knife

Meet the Designer,

Clare Messenger

“I’m an Outreach Support worker
who loves letting go & getting messy
with stamps, paints and inks. I also
draw, paint and adore playing with
anything mixed media!”

Explore her work online:
http://www.instagram.com/clarecraftsalot
http://www.facebook.com/
ClareMCraftyMoments
http://www.craftyclarey.blogspot.com

Project: Floral Wall Art