Hi everyone! I’m Debi Adams and what an amazing blog hop featuring Lindy’s Gang products AND StencilGirl stencils we have today! There are nearly 34 design team member participants (wow!) from both companies who have been creating like crazy to show you what incredible projects you can make from a variety of their products. Additionally we have an exciting giveaway that you can enter. Scroll to the bottom of this post for more details and good luck!
Since I mostly play with stencils, paints and watercolors and I am new to Lindy’s powders and mists, I didn’t have a clue what I was going to create. After a few “magic” mistakes, I figured it all out and then I couldn’t stop! The truth about the Lindy’s Moon Shadow mists are that their true colors show as they dry! Pretty amazing stuff. And Lindy’s gold embossing powder I used, really made my stenciled image pop-out. I can’t wait to show you how fun and easy this project was to create.
I used Arches 140 lb. watercolor paper as my substrate, watercolors and a watercolor brush. I like to add a puddle of water first and then add swirls of watercolors onto the paper. Some variations of colors are good too!
After I let the paper dry, I went back in and misted it with Lindy Gang’s Moon Shadow Mist in Tawny Turquoise (my fav color) and Smoky Sapphire.
Initially when spraying, the paint resembles brown, like a LOT. But, just wait! As it dries the “magic” happens and it changes colors. A chameleon of sorts and definitely a dual personality…lol! Now I wanted some of the brown to be darker in my piece so I came back and misted it again. It was kind of a trial and error for a bit but eventually I liked what happened. If you mist high, you get a fine mist. If you pump slow, you get splatter effects. Pretty fun, huh?And just look at those yummy colors!
Here is a close up of the heavy brown mist as it begins to morph into more turquoise.
Once again, I let everything dry then I came back in and stenciled some words using Let’s Go 1 by Mary C. Nasser using a permanent ink pad and blending tool.
Then I was ready to emboss my main image. I personally love dimension on my projects, so to enhance the embossing, I used texture paste onto my Calligraphy stencil by MaryBeth Shaw first.
Then I removed the stencil…
and sprinkled King Midas Gold embossing powder onto the paste.
A quick shot from the embossing tool lit this baby up! Mighty fine I say!
After that, it was just a matter of using a gold pen on the stencils Urban Insiders Circle by Seth Apter and Repetition by Rae Missigman and a random circle.
And of course, nothing finishes off a project better than some rusty, crackly embellishments and string.
What a fun day of play. Hoping you learned something new here today. Don’t forget to continue down the blog hop road. Plenty of inspiration there. Next up is Tina Walker and she is amazing! And don’t forget to scroll on down to see how to enter the Lindy’s Gang and StencilGirl giveaway! As always, thanks for stopping by.
XO,
Debi
Supplies Used:
StencilGirl Products
Let’s Go 1 Stencil by Mary C. Nasser-L504
Urban Insiders Stencil by Seth Apter-MO57
Repetition by Rae Missigman
Calligraphy by MaryBeth Shaw
Lindy’s Gang Products
Moon Shadow Mist-Tawny Turquoise
Moon Shadow Mist-Smoky Sapphire
King Midas Gold Embossing Powder
Other Supplies:
Arches 140 lb. watercolor paper
Watercolors of your choice
Watercolor brush
Permanent Ink Pad
Texture Paste
Heat/Embossing Tool
Rusty, Crusty Embellishments of Your Choice
String or Twine
24 kt. Gold Pen
Blending Tool
Got lost somewhere along the hop? You can pick it up here!
April 18
Mary Beth Shaw
Gwen Lafleur
Mary C. Nasser
Debi Adams
Tina Walker
Kate Palmer
Cindy Wille
Natalie May
Pascale Bernard
Anat Weksler
Bertheas Peggy aka Nirvana
Elena Martynova
Cindy Gilstrap
Kiala Givehand
Torrie Gass
Janet Joehlin
Valerie Ouellet
Aga Baraniak
Sivan Amedi
Aleksandra Mihelič
Joanna Marquet
Phoebe Tonosaki
Caroline Parent
One lucky winner will receive both a $25 Gift Certificate to Lindy’s Gang
AND a $25 Gift Certificate to StencilGirl® Products!
Enter to win by leaving a comment below.
Then be sure to visit the other blogs in the hop and comment to win.
The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
One winner will be chosen at random from all blog comments!
(One comment per blog please.)
Winner will be announced on
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I just love this piece! The contrast is to die for!! ~Rachel Bell bellbrzs (at) cox (dot net)
… off to see if I have “Tawny Turquoise” in my stash, lol! Thanks for sharing!
Love the turquoise!!
Such a stunning effect on this watercolour page! Thank you for sharing your process and looks like you sure are going to have fun with your Lindy’s:)!
WOW!! Super gorgeous!
Love the gold embossing
Just love the rusty texture and the amazing colors…
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Beautiful. Love your colors and textures!
fabulous texture!
I agree, Debi, MIGHTY FINE!!!
Love the colors in this! And the embellishment is perfect
I definitely want to try those sprays. Here’s hoping I win!
Love how you used the embossing powder
That certainly is magic, I can not believe the brown morphs into turquoise! Love the way the gold embossing contrasts the deep color and draws attention to those gorgeous rusty pieces!thanks for sharing
Wow
Beautiful embossing with amazing stencil design.
Perfect combo.
Love
Riddhi
Wow…amazing project Debi…loved your Colors and using of calligraphy stencil with embossing…very nice👌💕
Hugs
Rituparna
Really like how you combined colors and showed how to use these products with watercolor. Very interesting
Nice project!
I love this, Debi! The colors, the gold embossing, the string,…. everything! Thanks so much for sharing!
Looking good. Love the sprays and all the texture you added!
oh my gosh! I love everything about this!
The greens/blues, layers, dimensions, embellishment, and gold!
Amazing!!
Fab idea using the texture paste and the embossing powder, thanks for sharing! kmkblogan(at)hotmail(dotcom)
So many cool techniques.
Love the grungy goodness & the patina look!
Nice to see embossing powder!
Lovely useful details..♥️♥️♥️♥️adore ur creation
beautiful background and this script stencil is wow.
I love your process. I thought I had enough stencils but I see now that I do not….
This is so beautiful & I just love that touch of gold calligraphy 💗💗
Sally
Attention to detail really paid off!
Fabulous! Love the texture and your choice of colours!
I love that you embossed the texture paste. I have never thought of that! Awesome piece 😀
I absolutely love love love love this. Your finished project is fantastic. Thank you for sharing all the step-by-steps, too.
Happy crafting!
xo
SuZeQ
Beautiful background and colors1
Wow! This is fabulous! That gold is eye popping!
neat idea. Bailey(at)BaileyFiberArt(dot)com
Wow beautiful love it. Its amazing . Sumply gorgeous page !!! Thanks for sharing and inspiring dear 😊
Fun background technique! Amanda (at) meadowdance (dot org)
Thanks for the inspiration. I already have the stencil and rusty objects so I’m ready to go!
Beautiful project and I love the colors especially with the embossing. So interesting!
OMG I am loving that shiny gold next to the rust. Great Piece. Thanks for the clear instruction.
Beautiful! I love the background and colors. The embossing is gorgeous too!
Gorgeous work. Might have to do something similar on the cover of an art journal I’m making!
Beautiful project
This is gorgeous!
Great colors–very much like Japanese Raku pottery!
Love the build up of layers on this. Just gorgeous
awesome work
Wow, I love the colour combo on your project and all that texture, fabulous!
i love your project and those crusty, rusty embellishments, oh my!!! TFS
Such a cool background. Lovely stencil
Love the embellishments at the end, I’ve been binge watching Star Trek and the final product reminds me of some spiritually significant alien text!
Totally fun! I need this stencil now!
Totally loving your entire project and the end result!!
Thank you for sharing and for this hop, it has given me an opportunity to get around more and see some of these fabulous projects. Great inspiration!!
I have never used embossing powder with paste–I will try this –thank you for the idea!
I love the colors and texture, especially the embossing on top of texture paste! I’d have never thought of that. I’m learning so much from following this blog hop.
Oh boy, another technique that’s new to me! I never thought of using embossing powder with texture paste. Thank you for your excellent step by step details.
So dramatic and elegant
Hi Debbi, I love your page. The colors, the stencil, everything! Thanks. Dee
I love the gold embossing powder on the texture paste! And your background colors are beautiful!
This is truly beautiful. I love that you just tried things and it came together beautifully. Thank you for sharing. Lisajake
The Lindy’s colors are to die for and make the perfect backdrop for the stencil girl stencils! Your piece really is magical!
Thanks for the warning about how the colors change as they dry – very helpful! Fun project!
This is wonderful! It looks like it was so much fun to make! I love all the color and elements. It looks great. Love it!!!
Gosh! Love turquoise and brown! Great piece!
Your piece is amazing, Debi! I love the watercolor background and the rusty bits that you added to the middle of the piece. Gorgeous piece of abstract art.
Kate
Love the calligraphy stencil.
Fantastic piece.
thanks for sharing
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Gorg, Gorg, Gorgeous!
Such a stunning textured work! Thank you so much for sharing your inspiration!