Today, I'm going to show how I created a beautiful fountain for a page. First I took an ordinary chipboard fountain from KaiserCraft
I then painted a basecoat of off-white Gesso. No real reason for the off-white except it was what I had at hand. Next was a coat of Red Oxide acrylic paint. It was a generic paint brand, and the colour is a red/brown. I took a cloth and softly wiped away the excess so the Red Oxide was softened.
Hopefully that colour is easy to see. And now the fun bits!
I used A watermark stamp pad from Versamark and sponged it on the top section, the middle section, and the bottom section. Sounds like I sponged all of it, doesn't it? I left un-sponged the parts where the water would be held in a real fountain. When you see the next picture, you'll get a better idea of what I mean.
I took some Chunky Metal Seasonings Embossing Enamel from Stampendous and sprinkled it on the parts where I'd sponged the watermark stamp and heated it up. Don't make the mistake I did and over-sprinkle this stuff. The top section there bubbled too much when I heated it up...
The top section has been heated, the middle section is waiting for the heat.
After this, I watermark-stamped the remaining two sections and used some random sandy-looking embossing powder I had hanging around - there is no brand on it, and I'm not sure where I got it from. I sprinkled this lightly on the the two 'bowl' sections. I did this so the Red Oxide paint could be seen through the powder. Heat gun!
Stick the fountain on the page now, as the next bit needs to be done there.
Glue... make it liquid glue, so that it runs well. Hold the page vertically, and slowly pour the glue so that it pools in the 'bowls' and runs a little down the page. You want the end result to look like water coming over the sides of the 'bowls'
Now the finishing touches. I bought some Pebble Rock from Michelle Grant Designs recently at Paperific in Melbourne, and I've been wanting to use them in interesting ways.
I chose these three for this project. The one on the left is Mix: Opaque Blue/Black. The middle one is Glass: Transparent: Joan Indigo. The one on the right is Glass: Transparent Jen Aqua. I used one of these at a time, and sprinkled small amounts of them onto the glue, setting them in place with a toothpick. Get yourself some toothpicks for your scrapping table - you'll need them for all those fiddly things.
The finished product!
Enjoy.
I then painted a basecoat of off-white Gesso. No real reason for the off-white except it was what I had at hand. Next was a coat of Red Oxide acrylic paint. It was a generic paint brand, and the colour is a red/brown. I took a cloth and softly wiped away the excess so the Red Oxide was softened.
Hopefully that colour is easy to see. And now the fun bits!
I used A watermark stamp pad from Versamark and sponged it on the top section, the middle section, and the bottom section. Sounds like I sponged all of it, doesn't it? I left un-sponged the parts where the water would be held in a real fountain. When you see the next picture, you'll get a better idea of what I mean.
I took some Chunky Metal Seasonings Embossing Enamel from Stampendous and sprinkled it on the parts where I'd sponged the watermark stamp and heated it up. Don't make the mistake I did and over-sprinkle this stuff. The top section there bubbled too much when I heated it up...
The top section has been heated, the middle section is waiting for the heat.
After this, I watermark-stamped the remaining two sections and used some random sandy-looking embossing powder I had hanging around - there is no brand on it, and I'm not sure where I got it from. I sprinkled this lightly on the the two 'bowl' sections. I did this so the Red Oxide paint could be seen through the powder. Heat gun!
Stick the fountain on the page now, as the next bit needs to be done there.
Glue... make it liquid glue, so that it runs well. Hold the page vertically, and slowly pour the glue so that it pools in the 'bowls' and runs a little down the page. You want the end result to look like water coming over the sides of the 'bowls'
Now the finishing touches. I bought some Pebble Rock from Michelle Grant Designs recently at Paperific in Melbourne, and I've been wanting to use them in interesting ways.
I chose these three for this project. The one on the left is Mix: Opaque Blue/Black. The middle one is Glass: Transparent: Joan Indigo. The one on the right is Glass: Transparent Jen Aqua. I used one of these at a time, and sprinkled small amounts of them onto the glue, setting them in place with a toothpick. Get yourself some toothpicks for your scrapping table - you'll need them for all those fiddly things.
The finished product!
Enjoy.
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