Southern Girls Texture Challenge

The new challenge over at Southern Girls Challenge is to create a project with "Texture".

For this challenge I played with doilies and Powertex to create a canvas.

 

I began this project with a chipboard heart from Imagine If NZ which I painted black.

 

I then layered a doily and lace over the heart and then I built up three flowers using more dollies and fibres.  The leaves are also made from doilies.  I used pearl buttons for the middle of the flowers.

 

 

 

 

 

I then decided to make a canvas to display the doily heart. I covered a 12x12 canvas with tissue paper, then I used crackle texture paste and texture paste through a harlequin stencil to make some texture on the canvas.  I then painted everything with black gesso.  Once the gesso was dry I drybrushed the canvas with red and copper Acrylic paint. 

 

 

 

 





 

Imagine If - Canvas

Here is my latest project for Imagine If.  This is a couple of canvases that I have put together with some of the gorgeous chipboard pieces from Imagine If.

I began with a rectangular canvas and glued on some tissue paper.

I then added some crackle paste, some string and pieces of chipboard.  I also glued a second smaller canvas to the first canvas.

I glued a Prima Artefacts heart to the bottom of the canvas and added some seed beads mixed with gel medium in places.  I also glued seed beads over the heart.

 

 

I then painted everything with white gesso.

Once the gesso had dried I covered the whole thing with a wash of black paint.  After this had dried I gave the piece a wash with Deco Art Quinacridone Gold.  Once this layer had dried I dry brushed the piece with more black paint then dry brushed with Inka Copper.

 

Now I just need to find a picture of my grandson to put on the small canvas and it is finished.  I hope you enjoyed seeing how this project was put together and please check out Imagine if for some of their gorgeous products to make your own version.

 

Imagine If - Hinge Plain

 

 

 

Imagine If - Large Cogs Set

 

 

Imagine If - Cogs small set

 

 

Imagine If - Angel Wings

 

 

Imagine If Steampunk Lightbulb - ex Twiddleybitz

Imagine If Corner - ex Twiddleybitz

 

Imagine If - Prima Artefact Heart

 

 I am entering this in the challenge over at SanDee and amelie's Steampunk Challenges

 

 

 

 



Imagine If DT Art Journal Cover

I have been playing around with colour today using an old book cover and some of the chipboard pieces from Imagine If.  Here is the finished project and below is the process.

I took an old book that I wanted to make into an Art Journal and covered it roughly with texture paste coloured with blue, yellow and red acrylic paint. I was not precise in applying the texture paste I just slapped it on randomly using a palette knife.

I added green coloured texture paste through a stencil to add more texture.

 

For more visual interest once the paste was dry I stamped randomly over the cover. Then because I find it hard to stop I added circles in dark blue and white and splattered watered down orange paint over the whole cover.

 

 

 

I then took the chipboard from Imagine If  and altered it using paint and paper.

 

 

Beginning with the tag which I first painted with white gesso I took a stencil from Imagine If and coloured the tag with two shades of blue paint.  I wanted to tie the tag into the cover but I also wanted it to stand out a bit from the background.

Again to tie it in I added some stamping and some orange paint splatters.

 



 

The female figure I covered in book paper and used spray, crackle paint and stamping to decorate her. The wings I painted with white gesso then I sprayed and stamped them.  The heart was painted with white gesso then red paint and I stamped into using bubble wrap.

 

 

I assembled the tag, the wings, the woman and the heart, then I glued them to the front of the cover. I wanted the petals of the flower cutout in the tag to frame her head and I wanted the star from the painted quote to sit just over her head, so I took all of this into consideration when I glued the pieces down.

I hope this has given you some ideas for different ways to use the amazing chipboard pieces and the stencil that Jo stocks at Imagine If. both on line and at her physical store in Morrinsville.  Jo also stocks the paints and mediums required for altered art, mixed media and art journaling.  Until next time Happy Crafting.

Altered Paintbrush

This week I have been working on altered Paintbrush using Twiddleybitz chipboard from Imagine If.

Here is the finished project:

I began with a paintbrush which I covered with tissue paper and then painted with acrylic paint.  I used brown, blue and white paint to get a verdigris patina effect on the paintbrush and on the chipboard.

I used some small cogs, a gorgeous steampunk butterfly and a banner from the Twiddleybitz range as well as some metal cogs and clock hands, a prima clockface and a small metal handle.

Here are the assembled and painted chipboard pieces.

 

These were attached to the paintbrush and I added some more metal cogs on the butterfly and some cogs and clockhands as charms to hang from the bottom of the paintbrush. I threaded a ball chain through the top of th paintbrush added a metal gear and the piece was finished. This was such fun to make and the Twiddleybitz chipboard is just gorgeous with such fine and intricate cuts.   I hope you will check out the range that Jo has on offer over at Imagine If. And check out the blog to see what the other Design Team members have been up to and catch up on the news from Jo.

 

 

Southern Girls Challenge - Anything Goes

For the challenge over at Southern Girls this month I have a little mixed media piece using an altered jumbo playing card which is part of a swap I am involved in.

I brayered paint on to the gelli plate and then put the card face down on the paint to get the background print. I then used other gelli printed paper to make the little birdhouses using a Tim Holtz die.  The birds are also cut from gelli printed paper and then I used a Spellbinders die to cut the flower and grass at the bottom of the birdhouses.

With the challenge being an anything goes challenge it would be nice to see what everyone comes up with so please feel free to join in the challenge by popping over to the blog and adding your projects.

Words

The challenge at Southern Girls this month is 'Words'. I thought I might try something a little bit different for this challenge so I have been playing with resin. I love this stuff. I used recycled pieces from a Scrabble board to make a magnet and some scrap paper to make a little hanging. I glued everything down then gave both pieces a coat of clear resin. Pretty simple really. Check out what the girls from the design team have been making over at the blog.

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge - Love

For my DT project over at the Crafty Cardmakers blog the challenge is "Love". Although the blog title is Crafty Cardmakers all types of projects are accepted so I decided to make a small mixed media canvas.

I began by making a background on chipboard.  I mixed blue, green and yellow acrylic paint with texture paste and then using a spatula I spread the colours randomly over the card.  Once the background was dry I stencilled orange paint and texture paste over the top and then stamped randomly to give a bit of visual interest.  I then splattered some burnt umber over the whole background.

Using strips of paper and a small heart frame I began to build up my canvas using embellishemnts, dies cuts, flowers and beads.

Once I was happy with arrangement I glued everything down using 3D gloss gel and added some micro beads.  I then found a small canvas, painted it with white gesso, and layered on some crackle stencil paste.  Once this had dried I soaked an old crochet doily in Powertex and then I draped it over the canvas and allowed it to dry.  Once it was dry I glued the mixed media piece on top of the doily and the piece was finished.

Please pop over to the blog and check out the projects made by the rest of the talented Design Team and I hope you feel inpsored to enter the challenge with your own project.