Halloween Placards

 Halloween Placards

Yield: 1 small Etcetera tag

Wet Ingredients:

Ink – Alcohol Mushroom, Vineyard; Archival Black Soot; Distress Scorched Timber

Other – Collage Medium (matte); Grit Paste (translucent); Mixative Gunmetal

Paint – Silver Acrylic (any kind will do)

Spritz – Distress Crushed Olive

Re-inker – Distress Oxide Crushed Olive, Mowed Lawn

Spray Stain –Distress Crushed Olive, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness

Dry Ingredients:

Tag/Structure – Small Etcetera Tag

Card Stock – Kraft Heavy Stock, Distress Watercolour Card Stock

Hardware – Screw Heads

Other – Chipboard

Ribbon – Hemp Rope

Tools/Equipment:

Other – Brayer (small), Media Mat, Distress Spray Bottle, Splatter Brush, Sanding Disks

Dies – Bigz Cameo Frame, Witchcraft

Embossing Folders – A5 Cracked

  

The chipboard cracked, this won't matter in the end.

  

  

  

   

The layers of paper need to be sealed, and sealed very well. 

We are going for waterproof! I run a bead of collage medium along

the edge and work it in with a paintbrush.  Simple shapes are easier

to seal (those broom bristles were very challenging).

  

The little nubbins that get left by the dies will show in the final piece,

now is the time to remove them (if there are any).

  

  

I have a variety of silver paints in my paint box, all of the paints pictured above, 

have been used for this technique, and they work great.  

Dollar store paints don't have enough metallic pigment in them, 

and Distress Paint is too fluid for this next layer. 

  

   

  

   

   

 

 

You are looking for the translucent grit paste to look like melted sugar.

Those little sugary clusters are going to hold on to the pigments.

You may speed up drying here with a heat tool, but I let it air-dry.  

 

  

  

Waterproofing success!

  

  

I picked these colours based on the background colours, I am using.

This technique works best if you use 1 or 2 colours from a similar colour family.

  

Add more water than you think, all that waterproofing is about to payoff.

This needs to sit and air-dry, there is no short cut here, just time

DO NOT: use a heat tool to dry, do not touch or try to control the outcome.

It is worth the wait, now let's make the background.

  

 

  

  

This is the reward for your patience and letting it all 

air-dry as slowly as nature required. Remember those cracks 

in the chipboard...me neither.

  

  

Same process, different colour combinations.