Hanging on

This is a project I made for Craft Stamper Magazine, it's in the March issue (available in February 2017)

MATERIALS LIST


Stamps I used... “Hanging On” digital stamp by Rick St.dennis  free download at Craft Stamper Magazine (march 2017 issue)
Clearstamp “Rocks” Kaisercraft

Other materials..
Deco Art Products:
Deco Art Texture Stucco, Deco Art Media Fluid acrylic paint in ; Pyrole Red, Quinacridone Magenta, Primary Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue Hue, Dioxazine Purple, Carbon Black. Deco Art Americana Acrylic paint in; Grey Sky, Neutral Grey, Navy Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Lamp Black, Snow White. Deco Art Traditions acrylic paint in Red Violet. Deco Art Media Ultra Matte Varnish.
3D canvas 30 x 30 cm. Watercolor paper 300 g. Noch Deco Moss Autumn Mix. Chipboard 30x 30, Battery operated candle, 3D foam, Scissors, Craft knife, Tacky Glue, paint brushes, old tooth brush and coloured pencils (I used Prismacolour)

I started making the background on watercolor paper using the Deco Art Media fluid Acrylics thinned with water to get a watercolor effect

The Background was bigger than the frame but that's ok, you can cut it to size



When the sky was ready painted the mountains and used a tooth brush to splatter with white paint to create the stars

The castle was colored and cut out, it's in many layers to create a 3 d effect

I cut the background to fit the frame

 the frame was covered with tecture stucco on the bottom part, when dry the tecture stucco was painted black

the upper part of the frame was painted to look the same as the sky

the background was glued to the frame and the castle was added inside the frame

 there is a litle light in the turret, it shows better in the video above
I dry brushed the stucco texture with greys to make it look like stone, and added some moss

 here some pics with the light

 and a better look at all layers

 a detail of the fame

and a bit sky

Grande Hotel Paris

I had a play with some paints stamps and stencils, and made a video of the process :-) (see below)

Deco Art Products used:

Americana Acrylic Gesso, Americana Acrylics in : Snow White, Lamp Black, Aqua Sky, Traditional Burnt Sienna, Navy Blue, Media Fluid Acrylics in Yellow Oxide, Coablat Teal Hue, Quinacridone Gold. Ultta Matte Varnish, Texture sand, Black Modeling paste, Metallic Lustre in Iced Espresso.
Americana Decor stencil; Vintage Keys. Andy Skinner Stencil French Elements.
Andy Skinner Curiosity Stamp set.

Other prodcts used : Tim Holtz stencil Argyl, Kaiser Kraft stamp keys, Do Craft Steampunk background stamp

I am entering the following challenges

http://blog.canvascorpbrands.com/diy-photo-frame-a-project-for-the-november-challenge/

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/  triotastic challenge, I used 3 stencils

Skullie art journal page for #lovesummerart

I made an art journal page using the Rick St. dennis  Lux Eterna Skull,  and did a video for the #lovesummerart event while making the page, check it out here, you can see how I made this from start to finish in the video.

 Deco Art producs used: Americana Acrylics in Vivid Violet, Snow White, Sweet Mint and Orange Flame.  Traditions Acrylics in Carbon Black. Media Fluid Acrylics in Burnt Umber. Glasspaint marker in white. Andy Skinner Stencils Industrial elements, Code Breaker and Tornado. Andy Skinner Industrial rubber stamps

there is also a video how I coloured the skull here

check out the skull digi sheet here, an awesome collection of skullies :-)


I will enter the following challenges

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.nl/2015/07/challenge-87-3-of-kind-with-sweet-pea.html

http://foreverdark2.blogspot.nl/2015/07/challenge-2.html

http://dreamindarkness.blogspot.nl/2015/07/now-it-is-time-for-our-3rd-challenge.html

June bugs the Finnabair way

For the challenge June bugs at Haunted Design House it was my turn to make an inspiration project, it had to have bugs, gems and be scary ofcourse (read all the rules, see the winners and other inspiration, and enter the challenge here), can;t wait to see what you all come up with

So here it is a Finnabair inspired alterd tray, well the back of the tray is the part that got turned into a canvas :-)

The digital image is a digi by Rick St. dennis specially made for these kind of projects, you can find her here, this pretty lady is called Countess Von Finnbair .

Deco Art products used:
Americana Acrylic Gesso , Modeling Paste and Americana Acrylic in Lamp black.  Media Fluid Acrylics Interference paints in the colors: Violet, Gold, Turquoise, Blue, Magenta and Green. Andy Skinner stencils: Shedded and Snake's web. Metallic lustres in : Silver Spark, Majestic Purple, Elegant Emerald, Cosmic Blue. Glamour Dust Glitter paint in Black Ice

you will also need  a wooden tray, plastic bugs and some dies: Tim Holtz; Gadget Gears and Tatered florals, Graveyard and a movers and shapers Bat. The web is from Memory Box

I started by colouring the image, I used Prismacolor pencils ( the 75 yrs anniversary set, it has the 50 most popular colours in it so a bit different than the 150 I was used too, but turns out 50 is enough lol)

So just colour up the Countess and cut her out, the big bold head will be covered with all kinds of stuff sooo just have fun with this

Meanwhile I had gessoed the back of the wooden tray and used the stencils and modeling paste to create some texture. (tip  make a mask the shape of the head so that part of the canvas gets no modeling paste on it, makes it easier to glue the image on)

Let dry.

Next paint everything black, (you can also use black gesso and black modeling paste both also by Deco Art). the trick with the interference paints is that they show up much better on a dark background so that is why I painted everything black ( all bugs and stuff that is glued to the head was also gessoed and painte black first)

So now it is time to go crzy with the interference paints, they are like magic, shake the bottle and put a bit on a pallete, and you will see no matter which colour you take, what comes out of the bottle is white and you see a shine in the colour that is on the bottle. When you paint this over (dry) black paint the colour comes out and the shine, soo much fun.

 just add the different colurs randomly, if you dont like the result, use black paint to cover, let dry and start over :-)

Next is is time to collect emmbelishments, I used die cuts and some keys, bugs light bulps , skulls and Skellie hands, charms, flowers anythingnyou like, I painted everything before glueing it on.

the spiderwebs in the cormer are made from black cardstock covered with Metallic Lustre in different colours. I used soem Silvdr to adde to the gears and the flowers (made of die cuts and embossed before painting them, to give them a metal look, I used the sizzix embossing folders diamond plate and riveted metal)


Glue the head in the on the canvas and make a nice composition with all embellies, (take a pic with your phone, so you now where you have put everything and start glueing)

Hope you like the result,


BTW check out the RSD fb group Rick is asking for your ideas for rubber stamps, so all input is welcome, if you would like to see Rick's darker images as a rubber stamp please go here and let him know what you are interested in.

I will enter this in the following challenges

http://mixedmediaworld.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/mmw4-masculinefathers-day.html

http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/all-crafts-challenge-junejuly.html

Tags made using Andy Skinner Stencils

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I have been trying our my new Andy Skinner stencils and made some tags, :-)

Deco Art products used:
Media Fluid Acrylics in colours: Ultramarine Blue, Primary Magenta, Cadmium Orange Hue, Hansa Yellow Light, Cobalt Teal Hue, Diarylide Yellow, Transparent red iron oxide, Yellow Oxide, Cobalt Turquoise Hue.
Traditions Acrylics in Carbon Black and Naphtol Red.
Metallic Lustres in Radian Red, Orange Flicker, Majestic Purple.
Andy Skinner Stencils: Code Breaker, Incognito, Industrial Elements,Tornado, Day of the Dead,Whirlpool, Accessoires, Vogue,Sunburst, Burning Rubber,Srike the Pose, Old fim, Baroque, Hippy chic, Children, made to measure, Shedded.Serendipity.

Also used some Distress Inks ( Dusty Concord, Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Broken China, Barn Door, Mustard Seed, Vintage photo, Walnut Stain, Rusty Hinge, Aged Mahogany.

I made a video how I did the first 4 tags, they all are made the same more or less, just a combination of stencils, inks, paints and stamps

I will enter the following challeges


http://tagalongchallenge.blogspot.nl/2015/04/tag-86-its-girl-thing.html (there are several girl tags in this post )

http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.nl/2015/04/stencil-mania.html