Encore - Dippy Wooden Diptych

Hello all!  I'm so glad you liked my Last Days of Summer tag.  It reminded me of this diptych using the same Tim Holtz stamp, made back in January 2017 for Destination Inspiration at A Vintage Journey.  Since we've also had another diptych recently, I thought now might be the time to give this project its Encore here at Words & Pictures.  (See the end of the post if you don't know what I'm on about.)  So here's what I wrote back then...

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Hello all, and thanks for joining me at the first stop at Destination Inspiration for 2017.  We're at Terminal 1 with a whole new bag full of goodies to play with, and here's what's in the luggage this month:

Substrate - Wood

Technique - Wrinkle Free Distress

Product - Crackle Paint/Paste/Glaze

Colour - Hues of Blue

And here's what I've cobbled together whilst waiting for the next stage of the journey...

I need to show you inside as well as out, though the contents of the travel bag are all involved in the exterior, as it happens.

I started with a little wooden diptych.

On the outside I used the DecoArt Chalky Finish paints and crackle.  First a coat of Relic - a.k.a. dark grey...

... then Crackle Glaze - the one designed to work with the Chalky Finish paints, and eventually Everlasting - a.k.a. white - over the top.

On the inside I put just a coat of the Everlasting, and then blended Pumice Stone Distress Ink over the top to highlight the wood texture.

I left the crackling to do its business overnight so that it would be thoroughly dry, and then I put Stormy Sky and Chipped Sapphire onto my craft mat, with just a touch of Wilted Violet, and dipped and smooshed my diptych into the water-spritzed inks until I liked the look of it.

It's one of my all-time favourite techniques.  I love the random splotches and blotches...

... though of course it's not entirely random - you can encourage certain effects, just as you can manipulate where the colours go on the mat.

With the travel bag contents dealt with, I decided to keep the rest nice and simple.  I added some of the fabulous Tim Holtz wild grasses.

They're stamped in Versamark and embossed in Wow Bark powder.

And around the edges I blended on some Vintage Photo Distress Ink followed by a touch of the darker Ground Espresso.

Well, it wouldn't be very me to have blues without any browns, would it?

And on the inside it is, if anything, even simpler.

The grasses are there again, this time stamped in Potting Soil.

The texture of the wood means you get a roughness to the stamped image which gives it a nice rustic feel I think.

And the sentiment is one of my favourites too...

a Tim Holtz stamp, taped so that I could stamp each half separately.

Again, I've used the Bark embossing powder

to give it extra presence against the wooden background.

So that's my stop at Destination Inspiration.  A simple stop, but worth it, I hope you'll agree.

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So there it is - the same stamp as on last week's tag, but a different mood.  And it's easy to see why it's one of my favourite stamps, I think.  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I'll be back later in the week with something brand new for you to enjoy... and I think you will!  Have a great week in the meantime.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Encore Posts

Projects which made their first appearances elsewhere for Design Team duties or Guest Designer opportunities, but which only had a sneak peek here, are being gathered together in the pages of my virtual scrapbook while I'm away.

As always, the Encore Posts are formatted differently from the regular ones, so that you can easily spot them.  Please don't feel that you have to comment all over again!