I added vintage photo ink blotches and used my Silhouette Cameo teacup stain stencil with black archival ink to create teacup stains (oh, what a messy Chemist) on brown cardstock. Did you ever watch the 1960-ish video in Chemistry class warning students about the dangers of eating and drinking in the lab because they may accidentally drink the chemical concoction in lieu of apple juice. And how students should never, never ever, use the beakers for apple juice even though all that chemistry makes you down-right thirsty? I think my Chemist is a bit of a badass and might just drink his earl grey from a beaker. Tough-guy. I added bricks with the mini brick stencil by mixing red and brown acrylic paints into gel medium and then highlighted the bricks with copper metallic paint when the medium dried.
I wanted to create multiple physical layers and so I cut out the centre of the card and taped in a sheet of watercolour paper that I ran through watered down distress inks (tea dye and weathered wood). This is still one of my favourite go-to techniques. I stamped the formulas onto the watercolour paper and distressed the edges of the centre with black soot.
I had opened the card to work on the front to minimalize the colouration on the inside and the back of the card and decided to decorate the back as well. Looks like my Chemist did a bit of over-mixing and had an explosion in the lab. Oh Chemist.
The Chemist was stamped and embossed onto a large Prima tag. The Prima tags are pre-scripted which gives a nice background and the colouring is perfect for the pale-skinned Chemist who hardly sees the light of day.
The jars of chemicals were coloured in with watercolours using my distress inks and markers. I coloured in the Chemist with markers.
Now that my dad and brother's visit has come to an end I'm hoping to ramp up my crafting time. With Chanukah, Christmas and more birthdays around the corner I have no choice but to roll up the crafting sleeves and get busy.
Happy crafting everyone.
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