NEW! UNDERSEA SILHOUETTES KIT

New Undersea Silhouettes kit

Available from my Etsy shop HERE

Some sample cards made using the kit .

MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is to create something new to you

This is my entry...working on black. Made at an Inkymits Crafts workshop.

MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is a Tic Tac Toe

I chose Patterned Paper, Stencils and Glitter

This is my entry

Difficult to photograph but you can just make out the glittery trees.

I tore and pasted patterned papers and some Christmas napkins. Then sprayed with Permajet to fix the colours. A bit of white alcohol ink for mist.

Then texture paste through a Sweet Poppy stencil and sprinkled prisma glitter on before it dried.

Then added embellishments.

MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is to use stamps.

This is my entry

You will need:

Small canvas....5 in.s x 7 ins.

Black gesso

Stamps from Sheena Douglass...Koi and Water Lillies from A Little Bit Oriental range

White Brilliance inkpad

Bronze Staz-On inkpad

Texture paste

Acrylic paints and brushes

Small shells or as used here paper clay shells

Matt and gloss varnish

1.  Mark a half inch border around the edge of the canvas with pencil.

2.  Paint black gesso inside the 'frame'. 

3.  Stamp the ripples with Bronze Staz-On ink and the fish with the White Brilliance ink.

 

 

 

4.  Paint the fish with acrylic paints. Optional...you can mold some texture paste on the fish's body before

     painting to make it stand out more. I used an orange stick to make the fish scales.I copied the colours

    that were on the stamp set pack.  

 

     

5. Apply texture paste to the frame area of the canvas and press the 'shells' into it.

6. Once dry, paint with black gesso.

7. Dry brush acrylic colour on to the frame...green for the main area and bronze on the shells.

8. Brush the whole canvas with matt varnish and then the fish, ripples and shells with gloss varnish. Or brush

    just the inside of the frame with gloss varnish...couldn't decide which.

 

MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE OCTOBER 2014

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is to use ribbon, twine or fibres.

This is my entry

A brief 'How to'

1.  Canvas board painted with white gesso and left to dry.

2.  Liquitex Acrylic ink (put in spray bottles) sprayed top and bottom. Board tilted so the colours ran down

     the board. Colours: Sap green and Cerulean Blue. While still wet water was flicked on to the board to

     add some texture. Dried.

3.  Leaves from my rubber stamp set Natural Elements (not on my website...contact for details) using 

     Brilliance Cosmic copper inkpad. Dried and then the canvas sprayed with Permajet Permafix to

     stop the ink running with following products.

4.  Masks used with B&Q Flexible Filler for the swirls and birds (Crafter's Workshop and Peerless 

     Designs).

5.  Matt Medium was used to stick the fibres, skeleton leaf and lace cloud to the board.

6.  When dry the canvas was sprayed again, this time with Moon Glow...Azure Sea Asters and Ponderosa

     Pine Olive.

7.  The edges of the board were darkened using Walnut Stain Distress ink and a fan brush.

8.  Fabric leaves were painted with white gesso and then Liqiuitex Rich Bronze and Bright Gold inks.

9.  The tree stencil from Sweet Poppy Stencils was used with Sparkle Mediums... Light Copper, Antique

     Bronze and Welsh Gold (Imagination Crafts). Sparkle medium was applied to the birds and swirls.
10. The windy swirls were made using a brush and water, blotted with kitchen towel.

11.Finally, the fabric and plastic leaves, sequin flowers and beads were glued to the board.

NEW AUTUMN OVERLAYS DIGIKIT

We have a new digikit...Autumn Overlays 1

This kit has 10 Autumnal Overlays, 5 colour backgrounds and instructions.

High quality jps at 300 dpi.

Cost just £1.50

Some samples created by placing an overlay over one of the colour backgrounds and then altering

 the Blend Mode.

MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE SEPT 2014

This month's Mixed Media Challenge is Colour...with a photo for inspiration

This is my entry

I started by spraying black card with water and then randomly dropping Bright Silver Liquitex acrylic ink
over it. Then drops of white Dylusions ink (as I had none of the Liquitex). Card dried.
I then mixed Magenta Liquitex ink with some Flexible Filler (B&Q) and then Cadmium Yellow ink with some more filler. These were then applied through a mask (Dahlia from Peerless Designs).
Then I mixed black ink with filler and applied through another mask from Peerless Designs at the top of the card. Left to dry.
I then applied more of the magenta and yellow using a crumpled piece of kitchen towel along the middle area.
Finally, the word Dahlia (using letters from CaroLines' Oriental Alphabet Die Sheet) was stamped with black Brilliance ink and embossed with a clear glitter embossing powder.