bloody valentine

Hi all, this is my piece for the bloody valentine hop on the Airless Chambers blog, I made an Art Journal page using a Rick St. Dennis digi called  Vampyr Masquerade 2. I coloured the vampire using Derwent colour soft pencils. The background is a gelli print.
To make the gelli print I used DecoArt Americana Acrylics (Tomato Red, Winter Blue, Ocean Blue, Purple Pizzazz, Lemon Yellow) The letters are made using my Cricut to cut out a Vampire font. I traced the letters and painted them using Americana Acrylics Cherry Red (thought that was the best colour to look like blood lol), also used that for the little blood dripping from the Vampyrs mouth

here a pic with the paints used

and a scan to get a better few of the page and the image

and the Vampire a bit closer (careful he can bite )

I will enter this in the following challenges

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/02/challenge-203-lovevalentine-theme.html

Happy Heart day

Today the new challenge starts over at Sparkle and Glitter, the only rule is to use the Rick St.dennis  February monthly image, which is ofcourse Valentine themed :-)

This little cute chap is called Happy Heart Day and you can fnd him here, the good news is that he is free if you buy an image in Rick's shop till February 15th.

 Happy Heart Day is coloured using Derwent Colour Soft pencils

I made an art journal page using a gelli print and DecoArt Americana Acrylics, colours used: Lemon Yellow, Red Alert, Purple pizzazz, spiced pumpkin.

The letters are stamped using Making Memories Valentine foamstamps and Americana Acrylics, colours used : Lamp Black and Cherry Red

if you go to Sparkle and Glitter you can see all the different coloured images using Happy Heart Day by the rest of the Elite Design Team.

I also have some coloured mages to show you,

Rick drew an amazing Mad  Wonderland set of images, Alice, the Tweedles, Queen of Hearts, March Hare, The White Queen, The Duches and of course the Hatter, and they are all slightly mad.....

so far I only had the chance to colour the hatter (I used Caran dáche Luminance 6901 pencils for the hatter), here he is

the other images I got coloured are Etoile (Caran dáche luminance pencils used but not completly finished) and Glinda the Good (Derwent colour soft)

I will enter the valentine aj page in the following challenges

http://notrealstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/valentine.html

http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.nl/2014/01/weekly-challenge-anything-but-card-love.html

http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.nl/2014/01/challenge-204-valentines-day.html

Dare to be different

The Rick St.dennis freebie challenge image this month is the super cute Baby Bacchus.

He was attached to the newsletter,  to sign up for the newsletter see here.  If you missed it, you can find this little guy in Rick's Zibbet shop.

The freebie challenge starts today on the Sparkle and Glitter blog, you will also find a lot of insiration from my fellow teamies there

We all coloured the digi and made a project out of him.

Baby Bacchus is a little Satyr,so he is partly goat, and it would be obvious to make his furry legs brown, or another goat colour. But cause of his name Bacchus, who is the god of wine, I thought to make him look sparkly and colourful , I think that part worked out fine :-)

I really like how he turned out with his rainbow coloured legs and hair, next was the AJ page I wanted to make.

The plan was to add some kind of wine quote, but after colouring it just had to be "Dare to be different"

The background is a Gelli print, the flowers are a Deco Art Americana mixed media stencil Oopsy Daisy.

The  paint used is Americana acrylics (colours: Baby blue, Lilac, Carousel Pink, Tangerine)

The letters (except the "different" cause that' a marker) are foam stamps (Making Memories)  and Americana acrylics Lamp Black.

Below a closer look at the Rick St.dennis image

 

I will enter the following challenges

 

http://craftyhandsdevon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/anything-goes5th-challenge.html

http://polkadoodle.blogspot.nl/2014/01/week-1-challenge-anything-goes.html

http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.nl/2014/01/happy-2nd-birthday-to-us-challenge-52.html