Sponsor Spotlight - Stampington

Hi everyone - Julia here.....Today it's my turn to share a Sponsor Spotlight project using some wonderful ephemera images from Stampington who are generously sponsoring our challenge this month. For further details of our latest challenge and Stampington's sponsorship offer, please click here.

I have chosen to work with a set of images by the talented Debrina Platt and you can find them here.

I'm not completely in my comfort zone when using digital images but these certainly caught my eye and I've had such fun playing with them!! Here's what I made along with details of the steps I took:

To start a piece of foam board is cut to size and given two coats of titan buff fluid acrylic. Images are then stamped and stencilled in prussian blue fluid acrylic in a random fashion.

The chosen image is torn out from the sheet which is printed on a laser printer - you can use an inkjet for image transfer but the results are much better with a laser printout. Make sure you tear and not cut the image out. This prevents hard edges when your image is transferred. Matte Medium is used to transfer the image and you can find the method here.

 This image shows how the stamped and stencilled background is clearly visible through the transferred image. Even the colour on her cheeks has transferred perfectly - I'm so pleased with my new printer!

Some of the printed images are glued to mount board scraps and some cog shapes are die cut. The white edges are inked with the marker.

The cogs are stencilled randomly using a mix of titan buff and a tiny amount of prussian blue fluid acrylic.

A piece of plastic tube is used to stamp some small rings in gold metallic fluid acrylic. The centre scrap from the die cut is finished with a little aged gold embossing powder. The edges of the cogs are also finished with a little of the same embossing powder.

One of the smaller cogs. I love using embossing powder in a random way like this.

The rusted mesh in this image is a die cut which has been given a quick paint rust finish and then applied over the base. A cog is then attached to the mesh.

The edges of the foam board are painted and stamped as described earlier. The little black dots near the top of the image are rub ons.

An extra piece of foam board has been added using rusty wire at the top and the bottom of the project. The foam board has been treated in the same way as the main background with paint, stencils, stamps and mark makers. A section of a die cut clock has been rusted using paints and texture medium then applied.

This image shows the bottom piece which is attached with rusty wire (just visible below the letters B and Y) and the die cut mesh which extends from the main piece. 

The letters are die cut from mount board which has been covered with sections of the Stampington images. They are given a thin coat of quinacridone gold followed by crackle glaze and antiquing with raw umber. 

The rusty wire is curled around the letter base as described earlier.

Detail image.

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I hope you enjoyed seeing how I used this fab set of images. I will certainly be going to Stampington again to choose some more images to work with - I'm a convert!

Thank you so much for visiting today.