Trenouths Crafty Creations: port hole

Monday, 13 February 2023

3 Portholes

Good Morning everyone

Another sea themed mixed media project today, using 3 mdf circles that i turned into portholes for lots of my sea creature stamps to reside in.

This shows all 3 joined together, i used my crop'o'dile which easily punches through mdf and used some jump rings to join them together.

I took 6" mdf circles, then using my grand circle dies i cut frames from an old cardboard box, to this frame i added 4 screw top brads. I then covered it all in texture paste to give a rough finish and then coated in black gesso. I then built up the rust effect with acrylic paints and cadence dora paints - just dabbing them on lightly, adding more black here and there until i was happy with it - be patient, this takes time to build up.

I die cut a circle of acetate and attached behind the frame.

I had some left over tile grout which i used as texture paste through stencils onto white cardstock, once dry i added brusho's & cosmic shimmer pixie powders in shades of green, blue & purple. Once dry die cut into a circle and adhered to he middle of the mdf base.

After stamping,colouring & cut out all my images I started arranging them in the 3 portholes. I added them with glue gel for some dimension. Once the glue had dried completely I then added the acetate frame over the top with 2mm foam tape.

This first scene is using funky fossil weird fish stamps

2nd porthole has a complete mix of stamps, the octopus was a magazine freebie years ago and some pink ink shells left over from previous project, the 2 little fish are from the funky fossil weird fish set.

You can really see in the photos but the pixie powders in the background really shimmer and shine in the light, I had also dry brushed over the stencilling with 'diamond' cadence dora paint.

and scene 3 using pink ink turtle stamps, in the background i used a turtle stencil - which i think is a funky fossil stencil but i can't find it at the moment to confirm