Hello Everyone! I hope those of you in the U.S. had a wonderful 4th of July celebration! Today, I have the third and last project I created for the Stamper's Anonymous Curations Summer/Travel YouTube Live, featuring the stamps and stencils of Tim Holtz, as well as the launch of the Curations Oceans Horizons Thickboard pieces, that I've used here on this Beach Tag. I had this crazy idea of trying to create a beach horizon view with crashing waves from multiple angles using the pieces. It ended up taking me 1 1/2 packages of the set to complete and quite a bit of time, but I was very happy with how it came out. I hope my step outs don't confuse you much, lol. Enjoy!
I
used two Thick Board Mini Tags...One to plan out my strategy that will go back
into the package and one that will be the actual project, just to help me in
planning. I used two packages of the Ocean Horizon Ornamentals because the Mini
Thick Board is wider and this size is better to show the scene. I removed every
piece from the first package except the large sun and the half pieces sun. In
the other package I only used some of the waves. The tag hole will be the
umbrella. In this picture some parts are painted white already, but I will
cover that in the next step. This step is all planning the scene and having it
gradually slant slightly from the horizon.
Using Picket Fence Distress Paint from Ranger, I painted over the Mini Tag size
thick board, tag hole, sun, and 4 clouds (back and front on the clouds) that
will be large waves. They would make good rocks too. Using Tumbled Glass, I
lightly painted over the white in the sky area so it looks like thin clouds are
about and continued on until I got to the bottom portion of the tag and stopped
about 1.5" up keeping it slanted. I painted the bottom portion with
Antique Linen Distress Paint. This will be the sandy beach. FYI...the spongy
paint dabbers make this a lot easier instead of the flip lids on the paint.
It's nice to have both for certain projects.
From
the Mini Layering Stencils Set 38, I used the sun rays stencil, laying it on at
the top where the sun would go, and pounced on Antique Linen Distress Paint
with a Mini Ink Blending Tool, and cleaning that off onto the sun piece. Then I
added Scattered Straw Distress Paint to the center part of the rays and cleaned
that off towards the center of the sun, and finally Fossilized Amber Paint to
the top rays and cleaned that off in the middle of the sun. I knew I used a
little too much paint and could feel it moving under the stencil, but I'll fix
that in the next step.
I
laid the hole piece where it would go as a guide and added Tarnished Brass
Distress Stickles (YES, I still have some!) first to the top edge where the
blue meets the sand to look like wet sand that is darker than the dry sand.
Then I added Antique Linen Distress Stickles to the rest of the area around the
hole piece which would be the umbrella later. The Distress Stickles are more
matte and not as shiny as the regular so I thought they were a good choice for
the sand, and I needed to use these up as they are running low anyway. To fix
the rays where the paint spread under the stencil, I used more Tumbled Glass
and a detail paint brush and just brushed between the rays carrying the blue out
a little further. It probably looks a little too Heavenly, but I like it.
This was my process for the all the waves from the Ornamentals sets...working
top and then bottom to hopefully meet in the middle while looking even, and
adding extra length of wave from the second set of Ornamentals, gluing it
together and adding a small piece of tissue paper to help hide the seam,
painting the waves, stenciling the waves, and finally adhering them. So I
started on the horizon top piece, cut about 1/4" piece of extra wave using
a ruler and craft knife to help cut, adhering the two pieces together with
Collage Medium and adding a strip of tissue to cover the seam with the Collage
Medium. I did the same to the bottom wave but angling it to fit above the sand.
This was quite tedious until I got into a rhythm.
I
painted the horizon piece with Prize Ribbon and then Picket Fence on the top
edge. I stamped the linear dots in Glacier White Pigment Ink here and there
along the top of the horizon piece, from the THMM122 Mixed Media Set. On the
bottom shore piece, I painted it Tumbled glass, and then added Picket Fence to
the top edge carrying it over. I also added Picket Fence to the edges of the
sand where it meets the water. Then I stamped the bubbly splats in Glacier
White over the edge of the waves. I adhered the horizon piece in place at the
top with the straight edge up....this will be the only straight edge piece, and
the rest will be wavy. Then I adhered the shore piece in place at the angle,
using Collage Medium.
The next four pieces are wide pieces, 2 for the top and 2 for bottom. The two
top pieces will be waves facing up and gradually slanting down to the left and
are painted with Mermaid Lagoon and Picket Fence on the waves, then stamped
with the linear dots in Glacier White after the extra additions are added with
the tissue covering the seams. The bottom two pieces are waves facing down and
gradually slanting up to the left and painted Salvaged Patina and Picket Fence
on the waves, and then stamped with the linear dots again, after the additional
length was added. It's the same process, with really only the direction of the
waves different. I also clean the brush of blue color on the before or after
waves to help blend the next blue into the other for more cohesiveness. I only
glued down the first piece top and bottom to figure out spacing and angles. See
the next step to see what I mean about the angles.
Before I glue down the second Mermaid Lagoon top piece and Salvaged Patina
bottom piece, I laid them out and added the rest of the middle pieces on to
figure my spacing, placement, and top to bottom angles. Then I glued those two
down only using some spacers to help me, i.e. paintbrushes. I had to let this
dry a while before moving on.
I
was so busy concentrating and cleaning up the glass mat, that I did not get a
better step out photo, but on the last 4 waves and big waves (clouds), same as
before, adding extra length additions, tissue covering seams, painting Broken
China Distress Paint this group, and Picket Fence edges. Once dry I just played
with the configurations and tightness of adding them all in so that it would
like rolling waves coming in, before adhereing. They are sort of bunched up,
but ultimately I like the look. To finish all the waves off I used Frosted Lace
Stickles which are more opaque and a little less glitzy than most other white
Stickles. I added it to all the edges and then on the big waves I tried to draw
movement scrolls. I adhered the sun on and added a little Glossy Accents on top
to for some sheen.
I stamped the bullseye from THMM Set 139 onto the smooth side of Distress
Watercolor Cardstock in Barn Door several times to make it nice and bright,
using a Stamping Platform. I added two sided tape to the back, and cut it out
around the last white circle. I used a black fine permanent pen to add the
lines and then I tried to fold it along the lines but the two sided tape made
that a bit difficult. I snipped the edges of the white along the lines and
folded the borders in so that it looks like the sides of the umbrella hanging
down. I adhered the hole piece to the beach portion using Collage Medium and
stuffed some left over tissue in the hole trying to make it pointed and cone
shape . I removed the backing of the tape and stuck the umbrella on. I had some
Mini Starfish Bezel Fillers that I thought were the perfect size for the beach
so I stuck them down with more Antique Linen Distress Stickles. I wanted to add
the sentiment 'some beach somewhere' but I didn't see a good place to add it.
Supplies:
(Paint
Brush, Scissors, Mini Ink Blending Tool, Ruler, Craft Knife, White Tissue
Paper, Stamping Blocks, Stamping Platform, Two Sided Tape, Black Fine Point Pen)
-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Etcetera
Thickboard Mini Tags
-Stamper's Anonymous Ornamentals (2
Sets): Ocean Horizon
-Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Picket Fence, Tumbled Glass, Antique Linen, Scattered
Straw, Fossilized Amber, Prize Ribbon, Mermaid Lagoon, Salvaged Patina, Broken
China
-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz
Collection Mini Layering Stencil: Set 38
-Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Fossilized Amber, Barn Door
-Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Stickles: Tarnished Brass, Antique Linen
-Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte
-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Mixed
Media Stamps/Stencil: THMM122, THMM139
-Ranger
Glacier White Pigment Ink
-Ranger
Stickles: Frosted Lace
-Ranger
Glossy Accents
-Tim
Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock
-Blank
Slate Mini Starfish
Thank you truly for stopping by and for all the kind words and comments. I hope to be back in the near future. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!
