ATB Retro Beach
Guest Designer Craftyfield here with an inspiration piece around the Retro Beach set.
Summer is nearly there and I am longing for a beach holiday so this is my way of getting there earlier!
I created a cube of images with a 3" (7.5cm) Calico Craft Artist Trading Block, the perfect size for these images.
Since a cube has six sides, it is almost enough to show off all the stamps in the Retro Beach plate In fact I only left out one stamp!
On 3 sides I used Brushos and Infusions [1] powders on top of the stamped images (Versafine black) and on the 3 others I used coloured inks (Versacraft) as well as the black Versafine on an untouched watercolour paper.
After drying and flattening the squares as much as I could, I applied several coats of DecoArt Ultra Matte varnish to protect them.
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Then they were glued (I used Mod Podge for that) to the MDF cube parts. You can pop over to my blog if you want to know more on how I put together the cube.
On the left you can see the 6 sides before I made up the cube.
And a look at the other side of the cube:
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I hope you will like this project as much as I enjoyed making it! And the best part is I can now look at beach scenes and dream of summer...
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[1] Infusions are a mix of walnut crystals and dye colours, similar to the Bistres powders.
Comments
Hugs, Anita
Hugs, Susan
C&S. Bravo Christine.