Fairy in a Jar with Terri Sproul Mixers!

Hi! Lyneen here, with my first post as a member of this fantastic design team!

Recently I was invited to participate on a “Fairy in a Jar" swap.  I didn’t know what one was, so I Googled “Fairy in a Jar.”   OH MY GOSH!  Where have I been, there are so many videos I was amazed. I am sharing my prototype for my swap.

Make the wings first and allow plenty of time to dry.  Using a stamped image for the size of wings needed for the fairy I followed the instructions from Gloriann Irizarry’s Dec 31st post on the Sakura Blog.  Please refer to Gloriann Irizarry’s post HERE to make wings!  I used Crystal Lacquer and Purple Color Crystal Lacquer.

Using Sakura Crystal Lacquer and mixing Mixers Citrine Pearl and Tanzanite resulted in a beautiful green for the bottom of the jar. For the blue sky  paint Crystal Lacquer and Aquamarine on the back half of the jar (not too thick or it will drip.  While the lacquer was still wet sprinkle a little Glitz Effects-Gold on the blue background.  Then with  a gold pen drew swirls on the jar.  Mistake the gold pen was not permanent on glass!!! Thank goodness I have Crystal Lacquer,  I set the pen swirls with clear Crystal Lacquer! 

Once the lacquer has dried drip a few drops of Crystal Lacquer in the bottom of the jar and add some sheet moss. for an adhesive all embellishments (pine cones and roses) are  dipped in Crystal Lacquer as are added. 

The fairy image was printed on copy paper and mounted on chip board, then carefully cut out. Her dress was painted with Shimmer Garnet and then a layer of Purple Pearl.

The wings were painted with Purple Pearl and dusted with Ultra fine GLitter. Wings were attached with Crystal Lacquer.  Then she was crowned.   

Add trim, flowers and button to finish off the top of the jar!

Supplies:

Terri Sproul Ultra Fine Glitter

Terri Sproul Glitz Effects Gold

Terri Sproul Mixers Purple Pearl

Terri Sproul Mixers Citrine  Pearl & Tanzanite = Green

Terri Sproul Mixers Aquamarine Pearl

Terri Sproul Mixers Shimmer Garnet

Purple Crystal Color Lacquer

Sakura Crystal Lacquer

Jar 

Wire for wings

 Image from The Graphics Fairy

Crown - brass Moss from the garden

Sheet Moss

Small Pine cone 

Cloth roses

Bazzil Flowers for jar lid and  a button

Trim for lid

Gold paint pen

WINGS instructions post by Gloriann Irizarry Dec 31 on Sakura Blog

Purchase Terri Sproul Mixers from stampo.com 

Visit my blog for more inspiration!!! 

Dreaming of Castles

The Color Wheel & Terri Sproul's Mixers

One of the most frequent questions I get about Terri Sproul's Mixers is "How did you get that color?" It's simple, I mixed the Mixers! A little color theory will give you all the tools you need to take 4 colors and some Enhancer and make lots of colors for painting! A note to all my artist friends: while these colors are not the true colors to get a color wheel that would result in you being able to make a "mixed" black, it does allow the hobbyist to expand their color range with the Mixers. 

To create *most* of the mixed colors that you see here, I used Shimmer Red,
Citrine Pearl and Tanzanite Pearl. When I started in on the purples, the Shimmer
Red was not getting a purply purple [the dots outside the circle] so I switch to
the Pink Sapphire--a color I had previously determined made a great purple.
From there start with the basics--equal parts of each color to make the secondary:
Citrine+Shimmer Red=Orange
Citrine+Tanzanite=Green
Tanzanite+ Pink Sapphire=Purple

To create the tertiary colors, add equal parts of the following:
citrine+green=yellow green
citrine+orange=yellow orange
red shimmer+orange=red orange
pink sapphire+purple=red purple
purple +tanzanite=blue purple
tanzanite+green=blue green

To make browns, I previously experimented and found that
bronze and shimmer red mixed with some Enhancer made a
lovely shade of brown.

for a darker shade of brown, add more enhancer

Likewise, to lighten a color add a small amount to clear lacquer.

The color on the left is what resulted with the amount of brown
that I added to the lacquer, I wanted a lighter shade still and added
a small drop of the mixed shade to another dollop of crystal
lacquer, this resulted in an almost skin-tone shade of brown.

 I hope this helps decipher some of the mysteries of color mixing and allows you to feel free to try it! Mixing colors is a ton of fun and allows you to have a range of colors to paint a fun stamped image or an entire painting!
For the project below, I used my mixed browns to paint the bunny and bear. I painted the star with citrine and gold dust to get that extra shimmer. I painted the flowers with the sapphire pink and citrine centers. Once that was dry, I watercolored the backgrounds with the Mixers as well. To create a watercolor wash that won't rub off on your fingers, mix 2:1 water to Gum Arabic and then add in your Mixer--I used Tanzanite for the sky and added a small bit of citrine for the grass.  The Mixers and Sakura act as a resist to the wash! To stamp the image and the sentiment I used Archival Ink from Ranger which does not smear with the water color washes.

Thank you for looking! I hope you try mixing your Mixers!

My first Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers Post!

Hello all of my blog lovin’ friends! I truly hope that you all enjoy this project today. I was recently chosen as a member of the Sakura Hobby Craft design team and this is my first post as a member of that team. As I’m sure the majority of my followers know, I love to create Gourd Art. So it’s really no surprise that I’ve incorporated a gourd into this first project. To start with though I made a mold using my Amazing Mold Putty. I used a clay lizard that I had and created a mold using equal parts of A and B putty which was well mixed together:

                                       
Once I got the lizard molded, I filled the mold with Creative Paperclay®. While the clay was still semi wet, I popped it out of the mold and applied it to the gourd because the clay could still be bent at this point. See?

 The lizard shows up pretty bright in this picture! But now the really fun part starts! I poured some Crystal Lacquer in a small plastic cup and added just a little Terri Sproul Mixers in it (Bronze) and stirred it up with a small wooden popsicle stick. Using a paint brush I applied the bronze mixer/crystal lacquer to the gourd itself. I did apply more than one coat but did it in very light coats, letting each layer dry before the next one was added. You don’t have to do that though. I think it dried faster in the long run doing it this way plus I put it in front of a fan to dry. I next painted my lizard with green mixer/crystal lacquer mixed up. The color was more turquoise than green I thought but just the right color for this lizard. What do you think of this beautiful gourd? This was a fairly small gourd but it didn’t take a lot of the crystal lacquer/mixer combination to cover it.

       

That little lizard is going to climb right inside that gourd isn’t he? Didn’t you just Ooooo and Ahhhhh over the colors? They are even more beautiful in person. There are just so many uses for the Sakura Crystal Lacquer and the Terri Sproul Mixers !! You’ve just got to get you some of both! They can be purchased from www.sakurahobbycraft.com and also at www.stampo.com . I can’t wait to try even more projects with this stuff!

Barbara

Painting Everything over the Rainbow with Crystal Lacquer and the NEW Terri Sproul Mixers

Hello my name is Susan M. Brown {my web handle is sbartist} and I'm one of the new additions to the Sakura Hobby Craft Design Team. I will be sharing my projects with you on the first and third Wednesdays of each month.

Today I am going to share with you this first part of a TWO-PART post. Make sure to come back and see PART-TWO on March 21, 2012.

Being fairly new to Crystal Lacquer and the new Terri Sproul Mixers from Sakura Hobby Crafts, I needed to play. I have many ATCs and two Altered Books from my local swap and altered book club round robins to work on this month - so I decided to work on applying these wonderful products to my altered art projects. As a result, I have a few tips and tricks to share as well.

First thing I did was to mix up a sample of each color of Terri Sproul Mixers and paint them on the top and side of each pot of glittery goodness.

These are the six pots of Shimmers that I have. The colors look different on dark and light colors so I applied some on the dark lid and also a stripe of the color on the side of the white part of the label.

 

I also painted a swatch of each onto a piece of gloss cardstock labeled with each color and coordinating Sakura Hobby Crafts part number. I realize that my little color cards are not pretty - but they work for me. We would love to see how you make your color cards. Post yours on the Sakura Hobby Crafts Facebook page {CLICK HERE}.

 

These are the six pots of pearls colors and gold dust labeled on top and sides. Aren't they so lovely???

Meanwhile, since I mixed up about a quarter size of each, I didn't want the all the gorgeous colored Crystal Laquer to go to waste. So I got out some leftover papers from cutting out a drawer in an altered book. These are the perfect size for ATCs.

I put down a paper brushed with a little water and picked up the mixer color and painted it on. For most colors, I painted on both sides. This resulted in an aged paper look which has some translucency to it. I repeated for each color I made - this is how I ended up with all the lovely papers at the top of this post. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY: Some of the colors {the green, red, pink and yellow pearls} pigment seeped straight through the paper, saving the step of painting both sides. The backside was lighter and not as strong - but an interesting and surprising result that was totally unexpected.

After painting - I set aside to dry on waxed paper - this absorbed
the excess moisture and kept my little colored pages from sticking.

Another experiment: I made a test of just Crystal Lacquer on the book page to see if I could achieve the same look of an oil or resin coated paper. The result is YES!!! I poured about a quarter size of Crystal Lacquer on the page and spread it out on both sides. I let it set for a couple minutes, then dipped the tip of my brush in water {very little} and brushed it over. The Crystal Lacquer soaked through the paper and became translucent with the feel of vellum when dry. This will be a nice starting surface to work on for altered projects.

This piece above is two pieces that I laid on top of each other

and were fused before I could pull them apart. I love how the

translucency of the two papers are visable.

OK - on to the next burning question:

CAN YOU MAKE AN IMAGE TRANSFER

using CRYSTAL LACQUER???? 

YES!!!

In part two on March 21st, I will go more in depth with a full step-by-step of this process. Basically I followed the same process as you would with an acrylic gel medium. Paint four or five layers in alternating directions {horizontal, then vertical, then horizontal, then vertical, etc.}, letting each layer thoroughly dry before adding next layer. Then after waiting 24 hours to dry, soak in a shallow dish of water and in a circular fashion, rub away the paper fibers from the back side of the image until paper is removed. Then you let dry ANOTHER 24 hours. TOO MUCH waiting to dry! I will say - with Crystal Lacquer - this process is accelerated by not only hours...but days! I love making image transfers, yet the process of it is so dragged out unless you do a box tape transfer {with this you are limited to the width of your tape and you get a super high gloss sheen from the tape}. I will be doing this so much more now! So I made a couple image transfers one of me at about 2 1/2 and the other of a photo of my father and I.

 Image transfer being removed from water after paper is rubbed off.

With the painted papers and the completed image transfer I created a tag. All items are adhered down with Crystal Lacquer {you may want to wear gloves for this - its quite sticky}. **A TIP** I use a plastic heavy-duty brush that I purchased at a beauty supply store - the kind that is used to apply hair-coloring at your hair salon. These sturdy plastic brushes don't break down from adhesives and are really durable. If the Crystal Lacquer dries in this brush - no worries - I let it soak in water ovenight, then scrub it with my dishbrush to get the glue fibers off. And no bristles to be picked out of my work in the process.

On a base tag - I glued down three of the painted
papers with Crystal Lacquer.

The Crystal Lacquer dries relatively quickly. I added some white pastel in the area where the face of my image transfer will be placed to mute some of the text. I brushed over with Crystal Lacquer, then after misting lightly with water, I applied the image transfer and gently rubbed into place with Crystal Lacquer on top as well to seal. I mixed up some more Voilet Shimmer Mixers and painted in the background around my adorable self. I learned to paint at a very young age...my first paint being Chocolate Cake!

A couple unexpected BONUSES!!!

The paper towel I had been using to dab off my painted papers dried to be a lovely shimmery pastel modeled gem to be used in the future. This will be lovely as a background in a vintage fairy altered book I will be working on very soon. Nothing goes to waste in this studio.

 AND....look at what was left from rising my brush after each color...

a beautiful pearly mixture of Crystal Lacquer, multiple mixer colors

and water...A GIFT!!!!

Introducing my very own HAPPY ACCIDENT...

Terri Sproul MIXERS MIST!!!!

   

I just poured my paint liquid into an empty spray bottle

and I have a lovely, sheer shimmer spray. YAY!

I hope you enjoyed today's post. I encourage you to take a look around through the projects from the other Sakura Hobby Craft Design Team members for some great tips and ideas! Make sure to come back and see PART-TWO on March 21, 2012.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment, select receive e-mail follow ups on comments and I will respond. If you would like to see more of my creations, please visit my blog sbartist : painting in the dark by clicking here.

Have a wonderful Wednesday : )

Diorama with Sakura ®

I hope this little tutorial help you create OOAK dioramas.

I love to make these the inspiration for this project was my Dad he love trains and railroads. So I created this special project and found out

how amazing Sakura is to create unique designs.

It can be use on Railroad Layouts, School Projects, Displays, or Any Other Diorama

the possibilities are endless so Happy Crafting !

Sincerely ,

Gloriann Irizarry

www.byglori.com