The Buddha experiment

DECO ART Products used : Americana Acrylic Gesso, Americana Acrylic paint in colours: Lamp Black, Lilac, Indian Turquoise, Sea breeze. Crackle Texture, Metalic Lustres in Fab Fuchsia and Brillliant Turquoise.


I had seen these plastic Buddha wanddecorations in the store a few times, and I

kept thingking ther must be a way to make them look better. So I bought 3 different Buddha's and started to play with my Deco Art goodies.

This is the kind of Buddha deco I started with

It's thin shiny plastic that was supposed to look like metal, but screamed metal all over,

I took a canvas, gessoed it and glued the plastic Buddha on. the Buddha was smaller than the canvas and to hide the edges I added Texture  Crackle  over the plastic edges and the the rest of the canvas. It was a thick layer of Crackle Texture, so let it dry overnight.

When dry I applied a layer of gesso the plastic Buddha. Let Dry again. Next layer was Lamp Black, painted the whole canvas black and made sure the black went into the cracks.

Then I started to add the other Americana Colors with a paint brush and a sponge to give it a bit of an aged look.

The Buddha was painted Indian Turquoise.  When paint was dry I added the Metallic Lustre to the Buddha, started with Brillliant Turquoise, next was the Fab Fuchsia, onlu put on the raised parts.

Also added some on the crackle paste, just a bit to give it some shine.

The quote wass tamped on painted cardboard and glued to the canvas.

I like how it turned out.

Macabre monday ancient evil part 2

Theme of the challenge at Haunted Design House  is Ancient Evil, I did have to think abi aot this one, but finally got an idea,

The Evil Eye.


I used a tin and lots of Deco Art goodies to alter it.


First I covered the tin with Texture Crackle let it dry and painte it using Deco Arts Media Fluids (Naphtol Red and Primary Magenta) after drying added a layer of  Media Fluid interference in Gold. To protect it  used Triple Thick Gloss Glaze.. the text was written with the glass paint marker
The eye is a rubber stam p by de Stempelwinkel and the skulls in the back ground is also a rubber stamp by Smeared Ink (designed by Rick St.dennis)

the inside, same product used

Loads of pics:

here you can see the gold of the Media Fluid interference

the little skullies came from Michaels (Palmsprings)so is the spiderweb stamp , The eye beads were a gift from a collegue who went to Turkey, they are used as protection for the evil eye

Hope you like this little shadow box, go and see what the rest of the minions made here.

Can' t wait to see all your entries, have fun

I will enter the following challenges


http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/09/challenge-47-fairytales-with-delicious.html (just LOC themed lol)

http://www.flonzcraft.com/vsc/?p=1637

http://cateredcrop.com/2014/09/28/seeing-red-recipe-swap/

http://a-step-in-the-darkness.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/challenge-11.html

31 days of halloween day 6

This is day 6 of 31 days of Halloween (for details click linkie)  organized by Smeared and Smudged. Blogroll in the sidebar

And I am also a Cryptkeeper in the countdown to Halloween, see the list of the other 192 participants here

I have a canvas to show you,
First prepare the canvas using Primer/sealer, then I used Americana acrylic paint to paint the canvas  Red,  and added a layer of Weathered Wood crackle medium, top layer is lamp black  americana arvylic paint.  Then a layer of matte varnish to protect the crackle.
Next I cut a stencil using my Cricut (the witch silouette from Happy Haunting cart). and used Texture crackle in DeepTuscan Red  (all products are Deco Art).

The spiderweb is a Martha Stewart punch, black cardstock and Metallic Lustre silver spark, to finish I added some rhinestones

 

and a  little bonus project (have to stop doing this, I will end up making 62 Halloween things this way LOL)

The card is made using the vintage cabinet card die from Tim Holz.

The masked lady is a rubber stamp designe by Rick St. Dennis and you can get yours at I Brake for Stamps here.

 

The barbed wire is also a rubber stamp and the bats are made using a punch.

Background is distress ink

 

 

Getting quite a collection of Halloween projects, so thought to put them on the mantel , more will follow, lots of days to go.....

 

 

see you for day 7.

 

I will enter the canvas in the following challenge

 

 

http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.nl/2013/09/hdh-177-macabre-monday-dimensional.html

 some more dimension for ya  LOL

 

http://punkyougirl.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/challenge-5-halloween.html

31 days of Halloween day 3

This is day 3 of 31 days of Halloween (for details click linkie)  organized by Smeared and Smudged. Blogroll in the sidebar

And I am also a Cryptkeeper in the countdown to Halloween, see the list of the other 192 participants here

Another Art journal page and also a tag,

For the AJ Page I used  Deco Art Americana acrylic paints, the digi is a Rick St.Dennis image called Count Calabaza, the quote (from the net) is written using an Edding 8400 DVD marker

 

I will enter this page in the Craft Barn Dictionary challenge letter J ( Jack -O-Lantern)

 

next is a tag, using a stencil and Deco Art Texture Crackle, colours Neutral and Deep Tuscan Red, first prepare the tag using Primer Sealer, let dry and add the texture crackle. When drying the crackle appears. I painted the tag using Deco Art Traditions Carton Black. When dried I added some So soft fine glitter paint colour Sizzling red over the texture crackle ,wiped it in the crackles  and removed most of the red. Fininshed the tag with a layer of Triple Thick gloss Glaze.

The bats and the senti are stamps , stamped using white stazon.

 

I wil enter this tag in the Haunted Design House challenge 177 Dimensional Halloween

and in the Smudgy Antics challenge broken heart

 

 

have fun hopping and see you tomorrow for day 4

 

 

experimenting on ATC's

I was kind a curious how the DecoArt Texture crackle would work in real life, I did see a nice pic of crackles on the jar, but had never tried it before.

Also wanted to play at the ATC challenge at Smudgy Antics and the Fun with ATC's challenge black/white/red , I have the texture crackle in Deep tuscany Red and neutral, which is kinda white, and cut out 4 atc's of cardboard, so I was ready to go.

But where to start LOL, I usually don't read the instructions and just start, but for this one I thought I'd do some reading first (I am so proud of myself LOL).  The package didn't say much, apply DecoArt primer/sealer let dry. Open jar  and apply the texture crackle with a palette knife and let dry.......Easy hey, so followed instructions and dried the texture crackle with my heat gun, worked great. (be careful not to boil it though)

I used the red Texture crackle first and when dry I did notice that a thin layer gave fine cracks and a thicker layer bigger cracks, I had just put on some of the texture crackle without taking care of it being even on all spaces. I wanted an aged look so it doesn't matter if things are even.  Some of the cracks made the card shine through and I didn't want that.

and cause of experimenting I thought to see what would happen if I put the neutral texture crackle over the red,cover one atc completly and a small part of another one.

I hoped that the cracks in the white would show the red layer beneath, but that didn't happen. It still looked very nice though. For the challenge I needed black/white and red, so covered the atc's with Americana acrylic lamp black paint (DA067), let dry a bit and then cleaned them using a babywipe, making sure the black would go in the cracks and leave a bit of black over the whole surface.

i used the palette knife to get some of the neutral texture crackcle of, of the ATC that was completly covered in neutral texture crackle.  and rubbed some sizzling red So Soft Fineglitter paint (DSSG03) over the atc just as I did with the black,same treatment paint let dry whipe and get it in the cracks.

Now I was ready to stamp LOL.  Not easy stamping on cracks but it's do able. I added some of the glamour dust glitter paint DGD21 Black Ice on the edges and this is the result

 

 

 

I love the cracks, but the stamping (all stamps used are from de Stempelwinkel) didn't show very well, and  I wanted to see if I could get the stamps better visible by applying DecoArt Triple Thick gloss glaze.

 

A little tip from me, make sure your stamp ink is waterproof LOL

the black was.................

 

the white wasn't, the ATC with the white skull and tree got smudged,......... disaster........O well it happens I and sometimes things can be saved.

 

I let the gloss glaze dry and stamped with black over the smudged white skull  and tree, then I added black Ice (DGD21)  glamour dust paint over the Grave Tidings senti stamp

 

here the finished atc's including the one that got smudged and stamped again, the triple thick gloss glaze made it hard to take a pic, gloss reflects light can'tbe helped.

In real life it make the stamps come out much more and gives the ATC's some depth.

I really liked how they turned out, the glitter paint looks awesome IRL, and you can see the cracks real well throught the gloss glaze. Experiment succeeded :-)