PA topic #2 Hearts - Heart Box

The current Paperartsy topic is "Hearts" - where to start, too many choices.......in the end I decided to decorate a lovely heart shaped box I've had for ages.  I gave the top and bottom a coat of Space Cadet.  For the bottom I randomly stencilled in Sky and edged with blue gilding wax.

 

 

The top received some wonderful crackles with a top coat of Sky over crackle glaze. I decided the box would be useful to store some of sewing accessories in. With this in mind I edged the lid with some tape measure ribbon and trimmed with an assortment of embellishments.

 

 

 

Thank you for looking x

Transparent Art #2

I'm on roll now, two posts in one day !

the centre piece of this tag is a circle made in a similar way to Wanda Hedges post from yesterday. see it here. I squirted glossy accents and ink onto acetate and sprinkled in some glitter, this was backed with scrunched up tissue and left to dry.

 

I then worked on the tag - a couple of old rub ons were covered with a light coat of Guacamole fresco paint. In a couple of areas I applied crackle glaze and then went over this with Honey Dew when completely dry. I next distressed the edge and stamped a small leaf design in Tumbled Glass distress ink.

My next transparent later was a couple of flowers die cut from blue vellum finished with pretty brads

This is my second entry to the current Paperartsy challenge 

Thank you for looking x

Transparent Art - storage pot

The first topic of the year at Paperartsy is Transparent Art - there are many interpretations of this topic and some great examples can be seen on the blog see here for details

 Now what I pictured in my head and what I ended up with are two very different things. I wanted to paint on glass - never again ! I stamped a butterfly from JOFY 32 onto a small storage jar with Stazon ink - tricky but so far so good.
 

The painting part wasn't so successful but was a learning curve - I used  frescos mixed glaze. Never mind, all good fun and kept mind mind off my cough for a while. 

To embellish the top I got out my never used Melt Pot (one of many unused things😉 I intend to use this year).  I love the fab translucent result and on top of the silver lid the heart seems to glow. 

       

thank you for looking x

PA topic 22 - Masterboards

You can tell by how quickly (for me) I've made my entry for the current Paperartsy challenge how much I enjoy making Masterboards.  I usually stamp random images and colour them in but this time I've braved a spot of brayering.

This is the first couple of layers and where I usually declare it a "right old mess" and give up. 

Any way I carried on adding a couple of lighter colours and stamping, in ink and paint.  Lastly for a Christmassy feel I added a few snowflakes with bonding powder and silver foil - afraid these don't show up very well here.  I can see I need to persevere when making these as I quite like the end result below.

 

 

These are the paints and stamps I've used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                Now the fun part of making the masterboard into cards - I ended up with 4 and a tag !  I might actually end up with enough to send at this rate ! 

 

Thanks for looking xx

PA topic 21 - Abstract

Not a topic I'm ever sure about - either creating or to look at. But after seeing some of the lovely pieces of art people have produced I thought "why not give it a go ".  Hopefully this isn't too simple to be included as I quite liked it at this point and didn't want to spoil it.

Afraid I've no step by step photos as I just went for it - love the foil when it catches the sun.  I might try something like this again as it was fun to do what ever came to mind

Thank you for looking x

Wearable Art #2- Reusable Bag

My second entry for the current PaperArtsy topic of wearable art is partly down to the charge on plastic bags that came into effect this week - I thought if I made something bright and cheery I might actually remember to take it with me 😊

I used a pre made bag and with the new limited edition and blueberry frescos, mixed with fabric medium, stamped the flowers and stencilled the border.  The bag is made of quite a heavy weave cotton so the stamping hasn't come out very clear in places - just adds to the handmade quality. To add a bit more interest I added buttons to the flower centres and sewed a length of ribbon along the top edge.

I've just noticed you can see part of a cushion I made recently so here's the whole thing - I've just rediscovered my passion for sewing so it's hard to fit in everything I want to make at the moment.

Thank you for popping by xx

Wearable Art - Bangle

The current topic over at Paperartsy is wearable art - see here. I've several projects in mind and just hope I have time to work on them this week.

My first entry is a bangle - unfortunately I didn't take any in progress photos. This started life as a plain wooden bangle, which I painted in Honey Dew.  Next I stamped and painted a strip of tissue using a mix of paints and ink.  This was then glued to the bangle and the whole thing cover in gloss glaze.

Thank you for looking x