Trick or Treat with Deb Antonick

I love this simple technique for creating “junk” collages. It gives me a chance to use up odds and ends and leftovers from other packages.

Instructions:

- Base coat the canvas and the Graveyard scene with Black Gesso.

- Apply Black modelling paste to the canvas and place in the gears, branch, fence and stars while still wet.

- Let dry.

- Glue on the Graveyard.

Glue on some more stuff!

- Let dry.

- Dry brush over everything with Metallic Lustre Iced Espresso.

- Dry brush again with Metallic Lustre Orange Flicker.

Dry brush with Cosmic Blue.

 Dry brush with Fab Fuchsia and then a little Silver Spark.

Adhere a sticker for the sign.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- 8 x 1o Canvas Board (coming soon)

- Mini Wood Gears

 - Mina Garden Gate

- 9.6"x5.5” Large Graveyard Scene (coming soon)

- Maple Branch

- Sm. Primitive Stars

Other Supplies Used:

- Assorted Halloweenie bits

- Jolee’s Halloween banner sticker

- Aleene’s Tacky Glue

Paints and Mediums Used:

- DecoArt Media Black Gesso

- DecoArt Media Black Modeling Paste

- DecoArt Metallic Lustre’s: Iced Espresso, Orange Flicker, Cosmic Blue, Fab Fuchsia, Silver Spark

Brushes Used:

¾” flat, Soft stipple brush, stiff brushes for Dry Brushing.

Enjoy!

By Deb Antonick

www.paintingwithdeb.com

Canada 150 Tag with Katelyn Grosart

Hey there Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Happy early Canada Day! With Canada Day being tomorrow and a few of us from the design team have created projects for a Canada 150 Blog Hop which started yesterday with Tracy from My Grandma's Tea Cup, Emerald Creek Craft Supplies and a few other designers, I created a Canada 150 tag. Although I shared my finished project on my blog yesterday, I wanted to share with you all a tutorial on how to create my Canada 150 tag at home which features a variety of our wood and chipboard pieces which are embellished with a variety of different mediums.  Grab a cup of your favourite beverage and read below as I share with you how I created my Canada 150 tag.

To start, take the moose out of the Canada 150 Set. Apply two coats of Walnut Stain Distress Paint to the bottom portion of the moose. Once the Walnut Stain Distress Paint has dried, apply two coats of Antique Linen Distress Paint to the top portion of the moose. 

Use the small Abstract Heart Frame from the Abstract Heart Frames set. Apply two coats of Candied Apple Distress Paint to the small abstract heart frame.

You'll need all six maple leaves from the Canada 150 Set. You'll also need to get one more Mini Wood Maple Leaf out of the package. To all seven maple leaves, apply two coats of Candied Apple Distress Stain to each maple leaf. Once the stain has dried, apply Festive Berries Distress Crayon to each maple leaf. Rub the distress crayon into the surface of each maple leaf. Before moving on to the next element, you'll need to apply Candied Apple Distress Crayon to each maple leaf. Rub the distress crayon into the surface of each maple leaf.

Take the large Abstract Frame out of the package. Apply Emboss It Ink to the large abstract frame. Sprinkle Glacier White Embossing Powder over the frame. Emboss the frame with your heat tool. 

Next, you'll need a Skeleton Maple Leaf. Apply Emboss It Ink to the skeleton maple leaf. Sprinkle Glacier White Embossing Powder over the maple leaf. Emboss the maple leaf with your heat tool.

Cut a 3" x 3" piece from the Cherrio Pattern. Cut the 3" x 3" piece in half. Apply Emboss It Ink to each cheerio piece. Sprinkle Glacier White Embossing Powder over each cheerio piece. Emboss the pieces with your heat tool.

Take the Canada 150 Maple Leaf out of the Canada 150 Set. To start, use a VersaMark pen and apply ink to the Canada 150 section of the Maple leaf. Sprinkle Oh Canada Embossing Powder to the Canada 150 section of the maple leaf. Emboss the Canada 150 portion with your heat tool. Let cool. If needed, reapply the VersaMark pen to areas that need it and then sprinkle the Oh Canada embossing powder overtop. Emboss with your heat tool.  Use theVersaMark pen to apply the ink to the outside portion of the maple leaf. Sprinkle Candy Crimson Red Embossing Powder over the outside portion of the maple leaf. Emboss the outside portion of the maple leaf with your heat tool. If needed, reapply the VersaMark pen to areas that need it and then sprinkle the Candy Crimson Red embossing powder overtop. Emboss with your heat tool.

Take the Maple Branch out of the package. To start, use a VersaMark pen and apply ink to the branch portion of the maple branch. Sprinkle Weathered Wood Embossing Powder over the branch section of the maple branch. Emboss the branch portion with your heat tool. Let cool. Using a blending tool, blend Festive Berries and Candied Apple Distress Ink over each maple leaf. Once the ink has been applied, apply Festive Berries Distress Crayon to each maple leaf. Rub the distress crayon into the surface of each maple leaf. Apply Candied Apple Distress Crayon to each maple leaf. Rub the distress crayon into the surface of each maple leaf. To finish the maple branch, apply Walnut Stain Distress Crayon to each maple leaf. Rub the distress crayon into the surface of each maple leaf.

Cut the tag down to 9". Ink the edges of the tag using a Blending Tool and Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Using red patterned paper, trace the tag onto it. Cut the tag out. Distress the edges of the patterned paper tag. Using a blending tool and Vintage Photo Distress Ink, ink the edges of the patterned paper tag.

Cut a piece of postcard patterned paper that measures 5 1/8" x 8 1/4". Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Using a blending tool and Vintage Photo Distress Ink, ink the edges of the patterned paper piece.

Cut a piece of wood patterned paper that measures 4 7/8" x 8 1/8". Tear a bit down of patterned paper in the top left hand corner. Tear a but up of the patterned paper in the bottom right hand corner.  Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Using a blending tool and Vintage Photo Distress Ink, ink the edges of the patterned paper piece.

Adhere the patterned paper to the tag. Adhere the postcard patterned paper to the tag. Adhere one of the cheerio pattern in the top left hand corner of the postcard paper. Adhere the other cheerio pattern in the bottom right hand corner of the postcard paper. 

Adhere the wood patterned paper to the postcard patterned paper. 

Adhere the abstract frame to the middle of the wood patterned paper. 

Using glue and foam squares, adhere the maple branch to the middle of the frame, making sure the branch starts in the top left hand corner of the frame. 

Adhere the Canada 150 Maple Leaf to the Skeleton Maple Leaf.

Adhere the Canada 150 Maple leaf to the middle of the abstract frame. The maple leaf will sit on top of the maple branch.

Adhere the heart abstract frame overtop of the Canada 150 maple leaf.

Adhere one of the maple leaves in the top left hand portion of the frame. Adhere two maple leaves in the bottom left hand portion of the frame, don't be afraid to have some sit on the frame or over the frame. Adhere two maple leaves on the right hand side of the frame sitting in between large maple leaf on the branch.

Here are the last things you'll need to do to finish off your tag, Adhere the moose in the bottom right hand side of the frame. Add a second maple leaf to the top left portion of the frame. Add one more maple leaf to the bottom right hand portion of the frame.

To finish the top of the tag, punch a hole in the tag and tie a bow using white ribbon.

Here are a few closeup photos of the finished Canada 150 Tag.

And here's the finished Canada 150 Tag.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Canada 150 Set

- Skeleton Maple Leaf

- Mini Wood Maple Leaf

- Maple Branch

- Cherrio Pattern

- Abstract Frame Sets

- Abstract Heart Frames

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Oh Canada Embossing Powder, Candy Crimson Red Embossing Powder, Weathered Wood Embossing Powder and Glacier White Embossing Powder

- DecoArt: Modeling Paste - Black

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Festive Berries & Candied Apple, Distress Paint -  Walnut Stain, Antique Linen & Candied Apple Distress Crayons - Walnut Stain, Festive Berries & Candied Apple and Distress Stain - Candied Apple

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Ink - Clear (Dabber) and #12 Giant Tags

- 49 and Market: Sand & Sea - Beach This Way

- Graphic 45: St. Nicholas Patterns & Solids

- Authentique: Harmonize Patterned Paper

- Hug n' Snug Seam Binding Ribbon: White

- Tombow: Aqua Mono Liquid Glue

- Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L:  3D Foam Squares 

- Misc: Heat Tool and Hole Punch

Until Next Time!

- Katelyn

True North Strong and Free Canada 150 Plaque with Deb Riddell

Hello everyone and thank you for stopping by.  It’s Deb Riddell here today and I have a mixed media plaque to share with you that I made to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday, happy birthday Canada!

I used Southern Ridge’s Maple Branch, Fall Leaves and Handrawn Heart in the making of my celebratory plaque but I could have made my life much easier if I had remembered to order some of the pieces that Karen designed especially for Canada’s 150th birthday! Click here to check them, they would be perfect for your own Canada 150 celebratory creations.

The starting point for my mixed media plaque was a map of Canada from 1867 (the year of our Confederation) which I found online and printed out onto 110 lb white cardstock.

The maple leaf is a symbol of our country so I chose the Maple Branch and one of the small maple leaves from the Fall Leaves set and painted them with white gesso.  I then used a multitude of Distress Crayon colours to colour them, adding and subtracting colours and blending with my finger and a baby wipe until I was happy with the result.

Three hearts from the Handrawn Heart set were basecoated with Americana Bittersweet Chocolate acrylic paint and a coat of Weathered Wood was applied over the paint.  Once it had dried, a top coat of Santa Red was painted on.  Love watching the cracks appear!

Tim Holtz’s Layered Leaf was die cut from Distress Mixed Media Heavystock and coloured with Distress Inks in shades of red.  The maple leaf was then embossed with the accompanying Texture Fades embossing folder and the embossed areas emphasized with some darker shades of red Distress inks.

I stamped a banner with a Forever In Time Banners stamp onto Mixed Media Heavystock and then die cut the number 150 into it with Tim Holtz’s Alphanumeric dies.  The banner was fussy cut and shaded with brown acrylic paint.  Another piece of Heavystock was then embossed with Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Canada embossing powder and adhered behind the die cut 150 numerals.

The phrase ‘true north strong and free’ from our national anthem has always touched a chord deep within my heart so I decided to incorporate the words ‘true north’ onto my celebratory plaque as well.  The words were die cut with the Alphanumeric dies again and another piece of Heavystock was embossed with Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Salted Raven embossing powder.  The words were cut out and the embossed card placed behind the die cut words.

The ‘true north’ reference also made me think of a compass heading, so I stamped Tim Holtz’s Compass Blueprint onto Heavystock with Hickory Smoke Archival ink and clear embossed it.  The compass was die cut with the accompanying die and then watercoloured with Distress inks.  I used Distress ink colours that echoed the colours of the vintage map of Canada that was to be the background for my plaque.

The 1867 map was cut out and the edges distressed and inked with Vintage Photo Distress ink.  I adhered the map onto a piece of kraft corrugated card with Therm O Web’s Permanent Tape Runner XL, leaving a ¼” reveal around the edges of the map.

The map and corrugated card were then adhered onto a piece of black cardstock with the Tape Runner XL, leaving a ¼” reveal again, and a Tim Holtz Small Easel was die cut from more black cardstock and adhered to the back of the plaque for displaying it.

And then the components were adhered onto the plaque.  The words ‘true north’ were mounted onto black fun foam and adhered to the top right corner.

The compass was also popped up on fun foam and adhered onto the bottom right corner, along with one of the crackled hearts.

The Maple Branch was adhered to the background on the left side of the plaque and the die cut Layered Leaf was positioned overtop of it with bits of fun foam underneath it as necessary to stabilize it.  The 150 banner was positioned over the stem of the Layered Leaf on the bottom left with fun foam underneath it as well.

And finally, the last two crackled hearts were added to the upper left corner.  The small Fall Foliage maple leaf was adhered on top of one of the hearts and the plaque was complete.

I hope that you have enjoyed seeing how my True North Strong and Free Canada 150 plaque came together.

It will be proudly displayed in our home as we get set to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday on July 1st, what a celebration that will be!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Maple Branch

- Fall Leaves

- Handrawn Heart

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz/Sizzix: Layered Leaf Die and Embossing Folder, Compass Blueprint Stamp and Die, Alphanumeric Dies and Small Easel Die

- Tim Holtz/Ranger Ink: Distress Ink, Distress Crayons, Distress Archival Ink and Distress Mixed Media Heavystock

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Canada Embossing Powder and Salted Raven Embossing Powder

- Therm O Web: Permanent Tape Runner XL and Mixed Media Adhesive

- DecoArt: Americana Acrylic Paint and Weathered Wood

- Forever In Time: Banners Stamps

- Miscellaneous: 110 lb white cardstock, black cardstock, kraft corrugated cardboard, fun foam and clear embossing powder

As always, thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope that I’ve inspired you to create a celebratory home decor piece for your own country, no matter where you live.  Happy creating!

Deb Riddell ~ Paxton Valley Folk Art

Giant Embossed Easter Egg by Karen Bearse

Karen Bearse is back on the blog today to share a fabulous Easter Project for you and to give you some inspiration for our current challenge, which you can find all of the details here.

With the Easter Bunny readying his eggs I thought I would get in the act.

This project was surprisingly pretty quick to make. I covered a plastic jumbo egg using

embossed metal foil and acrylic paint. Markers quickly covered the pretty maple leaves, while Glimmer Glam added some shine & shimmer. A touch of metallic copper paint to distress was all that was needed to finish the leaves off. I carefully glued my leaves to the egg using Glossy Accents and some constant pressure. I have to say I was a bit surprised they stuck on so well. Using the beautiful Easter sentiment and various spring colors of embossing powder seemed a good way to make my title. Sadly the egg is not solid chocolate but that means I have a decoration I can pull out next year. I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend!

Southern Ridge Chippies Used:

- Happy Easter Welded Word

- Maple Branch

 Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for joining me!!

-Karen