make a new friend

Deco Art Products used:
Ameicana Acrylics in; Sour Apple, Navy Blue, Moon Yellow, Spa Blue, Purple Wave, Snow White.
Americana Decou Page napkin
Digital image:  Make a New friend by Rick St.dennis

The background is made using stencils and an old credit card, the cat is coloured with polychromos pencils.

Next it wast cut out and glued to the page using Decou Page napkin.

hat lady tag

Time for a new challenge again on Sparkle and Glitter, see all details here,

I made a tag using a digi hatlady called Deborah

Deco Art products used:
Deco Art Media Gesso
Deco Art Americana Acrylics in Colornial Green, Vivid Violet, Antique Mauve
Deco Art Dazzling Metallics in Worn Penny
Deco Art Americana Decoupage napkin
Deco Art Media matte varnish
Digi by Rick St. dennis
Stencil Deco Art Andy Skinner: French Elements

For the back ground I use a stencil and gesso, next painted over it using the violet and mauve.

The raised parts of the gesso were pinted using the worn penny paint and got colornial green accents on them and I also used a bit on the tag edges and surface to make it look more vintage.
Then I stamped over the paint and protected it using a layer of matte varnish

The digital stamp was colored using pencisl, cut out and decoupaged on the tag

Itac'17 challenge 5 the Americas

For Challenge 5 for ITAC'17

#itac17 #itac17challenge5 #aallandcreate

Deco Art Products used :

Americana Acrylics: Antique Teal, Blue Grass Green, Midnite Green, Yellow Green, Bright Green, Festive Green, Lamp Black,
Deco Art Decou Page Napkin, Deco Art Media matte varnish
Stencil:  Deco Art Americana Mandala  18 x 18 inch

This wa made on a piec of a cardboard box that was sent to me from US, I kept the the big part of the box to use it in a mixed media project someday, and I thought it was perfect for the Americas challenge.
The Mandala, the eagle and the word freedom are stencils, Lady Liberty is a Stencil too.
The feathers are stamped onto music paper that was painted in the same colors as the mandala.
The text is a rub on. I added some black splatter and black paint on the edges. Finished the piece with a layer of matte varnish

Triptych

Deco Art Products used:

Deco Art Meda Modeling paste, Crackle Glaze,

 Deco Art Media Fluid acrylics in: Cobalt Teal Hue, Quinacridone Gold. Interference paint in Turquoise.  Deco Art Americana Acryclics in: Snow White, Navy Blue, True Red, Indian Turquoise.

Deco Art Metallic Lustres in: Brilliant Turquoise, Black Shimmer, Copper Kettle, Elegant Emerald, Cosmic Blue, Burnished Brass.

Deco Art Americana Decou Page Napkin 

 how to in this video

 this Triptych was made for Challenge 1 "europe"  one of ITAC'17, see details here

#itac17 #itac17challenge1 #aallandcreate

Image Transfer

Deco Art products used: Americana Acrylics in Lemon Yellow, Snow White, Lamp Black, Bright Green, True Red, True Blue, Aqua Sky, Purple pizzazz.
Americana Decor Image Transfer Medium
Deco Art Media Gesso and Matte Varnish
Stencil: Americana Tie Dye

Deco Art products used: Americana Acrylics in Lemon Yellow, Snow White, Lamp Black, Bright Green, True Red, True Blue, Aqua Sky, Purple pizzazz.
Americana Decor Image Transfer Medium
Deco Art Media Gesso and Matte Varnish
Stencil: Americana Tie Dye

For both canvases I used a laser copy of a  Freddie Mercury image found on the internet . I followed the instructions on the jar. It's not hard to do, just be careful because you might remove some parts of the image while rubbing away the paper.

The background was made using stencils over a yellow  and orange background (I added the paint using a sponge and mixed it on the canvas.

Next it is just layering using stencils and paint just like I did in the video on making an at journal here

I worked the same way on this canvas first added red, purple and aqua sky to the background and next used the Tie Dye stencil with green and yellow acrylic.

Next I made marks like in the video mentionned above.




Thanks for visiting

How to make your own art journal; Part 2, use stencils

Part 2 of the how to make your own art journal tutuorial. In this video I show you how to create a background with stencils and some items you can find in your house.  The art journal will be made of envelopes (size 16,2 cm x 22,9 cm.) and in part one  I used the Gelli plate to decorate 1 side of the envelope, so now it's the other side that gets decorated.
Part 3 will be the binding of the book and making the covers. Please subscribe to my channel so you won' t miss it.

Products used:
Deco Art Americana acrylics in:  Bright Green, Aqua Sky, Snow White, Ultramarine Blue, Purple Pizzazz, Lamp Black, True Red, Baby Pink, Orange twist. .Deco Art Stencils by Andy Skinner: Distressed Digits, Time Warp, Bubbles, Code Breaker, Alphabet Spagetti, Half Tone, Fossil.

Part 1 can be found here:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNg0bLSm9CI

Sunrise Art Journal page

Deco Art Products used:

Deco Art Media Fluids in : Phtalo Blue, Quinacridone Magenta, Primary Magenta, Cadmium Orange, Diarylide Yellow, Hansa Yellow, Phthalo Greenblue, Phthalo Turquoise, Raw Umber, Quinacridone Violet. Deco Art Matte Medium. Americana Acrylic in Lemon Yellow

Rubber stamp: Silhouette style barre tree by Sin city Art Stamps

Music sheet and book page.

In the video below you can see how this page is made

Family

Digital image: Euro Clown Troupe by Rick St.dennis
Products used: Deco Art Media Line Black Modeling paste. Americana Decou page napkin.
Deco Art Americana acrylics in Tue Red and Lamp Black
Deco Art Dazzling metallics in Teal

Here the start to finish video about making this page:

here some close up pics
 

Valentine art journal page

http://decoart.com/products/Deco Art products used:
Americana Acrylics in Grey Sky, Spiced Pumpkin Snow White.
Glamour Dust glitter paint in Emerald
Glamour dust Sprinkle on glitter
Americana Decou page Crystal glitter
Andy Skinner Stencils: Code Breaker, Burning Rubber
Digi : Flowers and Hearts Euro Clown by Rick St, dennis


See how I  made this page in the video below

Some scary tags

Hi all

I was playing with my new SinCity Halloween stamps and thought o make some tags

Deco Art Products used:
Americana Acrylic in Lamp Black
Americana Neons in Scorching Yellow and Torrid Orange
Deco Art Media Gesso

Sin City Stamp sheets used:
Halloween Bingo set
Skeletons Halloween set 


First Gesso the tag and paint it using the neon yellow paint, let dry. Take a bit of neon organge paint and use the dry brush technique to add a little orange over the yellow.

Use archival in in aqua to stamp the bingo card and use Archival jet black to stamp the skellie on the broom and the senti.

Using a paintbbrush age the edges by painting it black

Add a ribbon and skul charm

I show how to make the broom in the video here

Next tag is made using distress paint to stamp the ornate metal work stamp using orange distress ink, next stap the rest of the images in black. Add a ribbon and Skull charm

I will enter the following challenges


http://dreamindarkness.blogspot.nl/2017/02/fabulous-februaryseth-apter.html

http://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.nl/2017/02/welcome-to-creative-artistes-challenge.html

Valentine tag

Almost Valentines Day so here some inspiration for a Tag, using a Rick St.dennis Hatlady

Deco art products used : Americana acrylic paint in Lamp Black,  Boysenberry Pink Tomato Red.
Americana Multi Surface Chocolate metallic. Americana Decoupage Napkin. Deco Art Media Gesso
Deco Art stencil  Urban Ink Beliefs.

Cut the tag out of chipboard and gesso it. Next paint it red and use the stencil with the pink paint to make a background.

Next use the stencil to make the hearts in Chocolate metallic. The Follow your heart senti is also stencilled using black paint

Color the digital stamp of a hatlady by https://rick1949.zibbet.com/Rick St. dennis, cut it out and glue to the tag using Decoupage napkin.

Add a ribbon and charm.

The Reaper.....(again)

Digi used : the Reaper by Rick St.dennis
Deco Art Products used: Deco Art Media Shimmer Misters inTurquoise and Violet, Deco Art Americana acrylic paint in Snow White and Lamp Black.
Americana Decou Page Napkin

For Rick St.dennis Craft Team we got an assignement , saying make a project that exemplifies you as a crafter,,,,'''

I did not have to think about that very long (I did google exemplifies first lol) ,,, I just had to use my old frined the Reaper, I just love that image soooo much. It has everything I like in a digi. It;s scary , and still it makes you want to color him and get make him look like he is moving and his cloak is moving in the wind. Ofcourse Rick St.dennis did the most work to get that working in drawing all those great folds and add a bit of the shades in allready .

The challenge was using my new Twinmarkers, they are a cheap brand alcohol marker and I only have a few colors so in the end I had to use some pencil too to get a better effect.

So here it is my art journal page

 The reaper digi can be found here

First I used both misters to get the base color on the background, it has great shimmer but you can't see it on the scan, in the picture you can see the colors much better but the shimmer is hard to get in a photo. Next I used a stencil and black paint.
The imagae was cut out and glued to the background using Decou Page napkin, that  is a product specially made for glueind thin paper and it works great, no wrinkles and it makes the image become one with the background, Also it has no horrible glue smell so that is a big plus :-)

The Reaper  is also in a coloringbook here
and on a T shirt here

to see more of Rick's Craft team 's work chekc out the facebook group here 

I will enter the folowing challenge
http://dreamindarkness.blogspot.nl/2017/01/january-1.html

travel

Here  a page for #halfanhourofart, a facebook group that challenges you to make a project in an half an hour, it's about being creative and not about making a masterpiece, an half an hour is not that much time so it should be easy to squeeze in our busy daily schedual and have some crative fun. Helps balancing the stress :-)

Anyway here is the AJ page I  made, remember it's all done quickly and without much thinking, just went where the paints took me :-)

I started by glueing down some decou page paper that had a world globe on it, I used Decou Page matte for that, and that's where the travel theme cam from. I know you can't see it very well now, it got far in the background in the process, but IRL it's still a bit visable, you can see the texture it makes anyway :-)


Next was a layer of Media fluid acrylics in Cobalt Teal Hue and Hansa Yellow Medium. I used a babywipe to get the paint on the page and mix it into the green.

Next I used the Radiant Rays stencil wi th Lemon Zests Americana Satin acrylic to get a back ground for the city sillhouet (also a stencil and Americana Lamp Black acrylic paint).

Next I used black gesso to make the edges darker and make the vocal point stand out. For the words I used an Andy Skinner stencil and black gesso, the harlequins are a stencil made of a Tim Holtz Thinlets die.

I went around the edge of the words using a white inktense pencil and used some orange inktense pencil on the yellow rays.

I like how it turned out, it looks a bit gloomy and I like that :-)

Deco Art Products used:
Media Fluid Acrylics in Cobalt red hue and Hansa yellow Medium
Deco Art Media Black Gesso, Americana Decou Page matte, Americana Multi Surface Satin Acrylic in Lemon Zest. Americana Lamp black. Stencils: Ameriana Radical Rays and Industrial Elements by Andy Skinner.


I will enter the following challenge

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.nl/2016/12/decembers-challenge.html

http://www.happylittlestampers.com/2016/12/hls-december-mixed-media-challenge.html

Christmas cards

This weekend I started on my Christmas Card, a little late, I know,,,........

 Deco Art products used:   Americana Acrylic paints in : Snow white, Lavender, Wisteria and Aqua Sky. Dazzling Metallics in Shimmering Silver. The girls stamp is by Gorjuss.

It has been a while since I made some cards and because I startd late I thought to do some quick one layer Chrismas Cards, using stamps, stencils and Intenense pencils.

First I stamped the image and made a mask  to cover it, next made the background and when paint was dry I removed the mask and coloured the image. Both card are made using the same concept, just a different image and a little different background, but same colours were used..

See below a video of the making of the snowman card

Hope you like the video, please subscribe to my channel and eave a thumbs up if you do :-)

I will enter the following challenges

http://cagichallenge.blogspot.nl/2016/12/christmas-challenge.html

http://lauralcraft.weebly.com/dragonfly-dreams-challenge/christmas

http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.nl/2016/12/decembers-creative-challenge-christmas.html

31 days of Halloween ; day 7

day 7.........

another AJ page

Deco Art Products used: Americana acrylic paint in neonlight green energy, americana Multi Surface paint neon pink. Americana Decopage Napkin.  Stencils: Americana Segmented Swirls, Andy Skinner Snake.s web. Deco Art Glass paint marker in black
Digi by Rick St,dennis and die cuts

First paint the background in the neon light color and add the stencelling, next glue on the diecuts using Decoupage  napkin, color the digi and cut it our , use decou page napkin to glue it on the page. Next write the senti

and another page of the junkjournal, this is a little enveloppe pagr and it has a tag in side

The backgtound is Deco Art Media fluid acrylics , stencils and a stamp by Andy Skinner, the black lace is a rub on, 31 is a Tim Holtz die