{"id":22153,"date":"2017-02-07T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=22153"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:18:42","slug":"love-jessica-sporn-designs-bloghop-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/love-jessica-sporn-designs-bloghop-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVE (Jessica Sporn Designs bloghop & giveaway)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to this\u00a0 blog hop for the Jessica Sporn Designs Creative Team – and yes, THIS BLOGHOP COMES WITH A GIVEAWAY!<\/strong><\/span> Read on to learn everything about it.<\/p>\n

\"00-bloghop-2017-02-07-badge\"<\/a>Today I\u2019m hopping along with Denise Alloca<\/strong>, Sherry Canino<\/strong>, Karen Gaunt, Kristin Van Valkenburgh<\/strong> and Jessica Sporn<\/strong> to share our LOVE creations using Jessica Sporn Designs<\/strong><\/a> stamps & stencils and DecoArts<\/strong><\/a> products.<\/p>\n

LOVE: of course that had to be the theme for today’s bloghop because it is almost Valentines Day. I understand in the USA it is common to give\/send Valentines cards to all of your friends, but here in The Netherlands the focus lays on your partner and\/or the one you have a (secret) crush on.<\/p>\n

As you may know, when I refer to my partner I always use the word “beloved” so it’s obvious I love him very much, but we both are not the clich\u00e9 roses-candles-fireplace romantic types (we are ‘romantic’ in our own weird way…) Creating a Valentines card was out of the question then… so what to do with “Love”??<\/p>\n

I thought a bit more about the theme and reflected on ‘falling in love’ – and how I hated it to fall in love when I was young… well, ‘hate’ is too harsh a word, but I did not like the feeling either. I didn’t like how “some guy” could take over my logical working brain and be on my mind all the time, I despised how I acted silly and were not able to control my thoughts. There were happy and energetic moments too, I agree, but the overall feeling was “can we skip this part, just be together and go back to normal please.” I’m so glad my beloved and I love each other deeply without all that butterflies and pink bubbles….<\/p>\n

And so I decided to create a face of a person who just fell in love and add the sentence “It’s just a silly phase I’m going through<\/em><\/span>.” Yep, that’s a phrase from a song. Not the best song if you ask me, but it totally fits the feeling I want to express on the page.<\/p>\n

Before I take you to my creating process let me tell you that you can find the giveaway at the end of this post… read on and you’ll get there \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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First: preparations… I create different elements that I will combine on the page to collage a character\/portrait. I start with creating a design that I want to use for the guy’s sweater.
\nI use DecoArt Fluid Acrylics<\/a> Primary Yellow<\/em>, that I smear on a blank piece of paper.<\/p>\n

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I like the design of the Dots and Dashes stencil<\/a><\/p>\n

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By mixing\u00a0DecoArt Fluid Acrylics Primary Magenta<\/em> with Titanium White<\/em> I get a nice, pink color…<\/p>\n

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… resulting in this design.<\/p>\n

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I want a little texture on the background so I use Jessica’s Hebrew Calligraphy Hamsa Stencil<\/a> and smear gesso through it (small, white photo.) When it’s dry, I spray some DecoArt Shimmer Mister<\/a> Turquoise<\/em> on the page and use a baby whipe to tone the colors down.<\/p>\n

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I want to add at least one heart to the page… to use as an eye. I search high and low in boxes and closets and I finally come up with this little chipboard heart BUT… it has two holes in it! (I remember a few years ago it was a trend to use all kinds of buttons and ‘button-like’ embellishments on your scrapbooking layouts… this piece must be a left over from that time.) However, it is the only heart shape I have so I go with it.<\/p>\n

I paint the chipboard (Titanium White<\/em>) and when it’s dry, I paint the heart again with DecoArt Antiquing Cream<\/a> English Red Oxide.<\/em> Do you know that stuff? You can give things an antique textured surface with it and create a distressed, aged effect.<\/p>\n

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There’s a tutorial video on how to use Antiquing cream (by Andy Skinner) here<\/a> but in short: paint a background. When it’s dry, paint again with Antiquing Cream. Use a damp cloth to wipe off as little or as much ‘cream’ as you like. Seal it with a varnish.<\/p>\n

My heart ends up looking like this.<\/p>\n

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Now it’s time to combine my elements… I cut a sweater from the earlier designed paper. I cut a head-shape from old left-over painted paper and position the ‘eye.’<\/p>\n

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Now it’s going fast…<\/p>\n