How to: Create Coffee Pop Art - Creative Team Thursday Denise Alloca

For the Love of Coffee!!  Nothing too serious … just coffee!  I used Jessica Sporn’s Coffee Stencil to create a series of Pop Art inspired canvases.  I isolated pieces of the stencil and created “master’ sheets to photocopy from.  I then used those sheets to collage the backgrounds for the paintings.

Watch! Be inspired! Enjoy a cup of coffee!

Supplies:
Coffee Stencil
Deco Arts Mixed Media Kit
• Gesso
• Matte Medium
• Fluid Acrylic cadmium red hue
• Fluid Acrylic Primary Yellow

Golden Acrylic Glazing Medium

10x10 canvas

So grab your favorite cup of Joe and enjoy my video on YouTube so you can see how you too can show off your love of coffee.  You can watch it on YouTube here https://youtu.be/6lW9gqv-Fjs

Have you visited our blog hop for Valentine's Day? You still have until Monday to visit all the blogs and comment for a chance to win Jessica's Seven Hearts Stencil.  Make sure to leave comments on all the blogs participating in the hop, for extra chances to win!

With a passion for art from an early age, Denise Alloca turned her interest to photography and later art education. Through her diverse exposure to various art forms, she found her way to mixed media art, where she currently showcases her work on her blog.  Denise has been a Design Team member for Donna Downey’s Artist Gang, creating instructional videos showcasing various mixed media techniques.  Denise's work has also been published in Art Journal Kickstarter, which offers advice and techniques for art journaling enthusiasts.

Thanks Denise!  Make sure to check out all of the Creative Team's wonderful creations and inspiration.

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Easy Distress Ink Stenciled and Stamped Valentine Tags

Last year, I took a wonderful online class given by Marjie Kemper called "Inventive Inks."  I had accumulated lots of beautiful tags as I practiced her inking techniques.  

If you have some pretty backgrounds laying around, here's a quick project to make unusual Valentines.  (Somehow, my Valentines are always quirky, as you can see here.)  

First, over-stencil your backgrounds using a deeper version of the color you have underneath.  I did this with more distress inks, or you can use paint.  (I used my Hearts, Flowers and More stencil but you can use something in your stash.) 

Then, create some embellishments by stenciling or stamping using black ink or paint on music, book or ledger paper.  (I used motifs from my Coffee, Mugs and Love, and Teacups and Teapots stencils on old music paper.) If your paper is fragile, as mine was, first give it a coat of clear gesso or matte medium to strengthen it.

These motifs are from the Build a Villa collection at Rubbermoon.  I painted them with Peerless watercolors.  

Then, let your muse take over as you cut out your motifs, assemble, embellish, doodle and add words.  

You should end up with a stack of funky, quirky Valentines!

Have you made Valentines this year?  I'd love to see them so please leave a link in your comment! 


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Coffee Mugs & Love Accordion Book

Today is day two of my introduction of my 3 newest stencils from Stencil Girl.  Here are step out photos showing how I made an accordion coffee book with the Coffee Mugs & Love stencil, which looks like this:

I had received a box from Amazon (how odd is that??) that contained lots of small rectangles of cardboard to prevent the contents from moving around.  I decided they would make a great book!   I was inspired by this tutorial by Michelle Ward on making an Upcycled Cardboard Journal.  

I took a piece of card stock from my stash and cut it to the height of the rectangles.  Then I scored it and created an accordion fold for each of the pieces of cardboard.  (Here is a video tutorial on creating a hidden hinged binding.... I wish I had watched it before I stumbled through this project!)

 I coated all of the rectangles with clear gesso to seal them and fortify them, and also give them some "tooth."  Then I used white gesso to coat the pieces that would be the back and front covers of my book.

I used the Paisley Floral Repeat stencil to add a pattern to the covers.  I liked it so much that I added it to all the pieces of cardboard.  (Tomorrow, I will share a video showing how I created unique fabric using this stencil!)

Then I adhered one side of each rectangle to the accordion folded card stock using tacky glue.  My two gesso containers were great weights!

 While the book was drying, I spread embossing paste through the stencil onto card stock.

Once the book and all the embossing paste was dry, I got to work collaging and decorating all the "pages." 

I found some great quotes on Pinterest that just rounded out the book.

I'm thinking that a book like this plus a bag of good coffee beans would make a sweet gift!

Leave a comment to be part of the giveaway for one of my three new stencils!  Yesterday's post about the Happy Birthday Stencil is here, and tomorrow I will post about the Paisley Floral Repeat.  All comments over all three days will be in the hat!

4/23 Update -The winners of these stencils are: 

The Birthday Stencil: Jean "Wow-this would be a wonderful stencil to own!!"

The Coffee Stencil: Robin Lorraine Williamson "Love the coffee stencil the best but they're all fun, can't wait to see your tutorials- have a great day." 

The Paisley Stencil: n56leiker "I have missed the paisley print! I enjoyed watching you work with the Derwent Inktense pencils. They are so vibrant! Thanks for the great tutorial."

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