Friday 21 March 2014

Something a bit different

This was a mask I bought from The Range last year, it's a chipboard mask and cost 50p. It became one of those projects that is on the ever growing 'To Do / Try' list and so I thought I would have a go at doing something with it.

So, here is the finished mask:




For this project I used:

Acrylic paint - black
Half a sheet of white Vinyl
Alcohol Inks - Rust, Ginger, Caramel, Latte, Cranberry
Anita's 3D clear gloss finish
Circle stickers

I painted the chipboard with black acrylic paint (2 coats). Leave each coat to air dry a day each.

Use the alcohol inks on the white vinyl until you are happy with the results.

Cut out the shapes you want to use (I used the Cameo to do this). I cut the first lot out on scrap card first just to ensure I had cut them at the right size and to help me to decide what layout to use.

Now at this stage I would have used Transfer tape to move the vinyl from its backing sheet to the mask but when I tried this all the transfer tape did was remove a layer of the alcohol inks. So, until I work out what will fix the inks in place I had to transfer the images by hand - not an easy thing to do.

Next I added the circle stickers.

To ensure everything stays in place and to give it a glossy look I painted Anita's 3D clear gloss finish all over the mask.

I love how the alcohol inks look on the vinyl so its something I will definitely be using again, maybe see how it looks in a picture...

I have one more mask to do but I am going to experiment a little with different mediums so it will probably be a while before I post the results.

Hope you enjoyed the post x

15 comments:

  1. Great mask. lovely colours,

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  2. This is absolutely stunning. Lovely to see something different. Just hopping by.

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  3. Wow, this is amazing and such a lot of work.x

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  4. Wow this is amazing. Just hopped over from Do-crafts. Happy crafting Jackie

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  5. Very nice!
    On the hop over from DC x

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  6. Wow - what a stunning piece of work!

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  7. Fabulous project, Angela, and I've learnt something new, I didn't know that you could use alcohol inks on vinyl. Really enjoyed your post this week, thank you.

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  8. brilliant mask love the shapes and flourishes and the alcohol colours against the black-just hopping
    Carol x

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  9. This is lovely! Very viennese! Hopefully this will encourage you to make some more. I have loads of these projects that I want to try but never get round to.
    Kathleen Mc x

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  10. wow love your mask angela ... well done ... now you just need a ball to go to ... just doing a bit of blog hopping thank you for starting the hop off ... happy crafting and love sandy xx

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  11. Hi Angela, I love how your mask has turned out. The vinyl cut-outs are a great job for decoration, and the whole thing looks very professional. Maddy x

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  12. Ooh something really different and cool! Happy leapblogging! Elaine-xxx-

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  13. Wow! A really eye-catching and very decorative item.
    Heike xx

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