Going Green

April just started and the first monday og the month it is Haunted Design House Challenge time, them is Going Green, interpret the way you like (Re-cycle, zombie skin, the color green, green eyed envy monster, whatever as long as it it scary as well). Can't wait to see your makes, mean while check out what the other Minions made here (you will find the link to enter there as well)

I went for the re-cycling part of going green, save the earth stuff :-)

The recycle part is the card this is made of, the back of a paperpad and the diecuts are all from pizza boxes (the frozen pizza's, but you can also use cereal boxes)

DECO ART Products used:

From the Deco Art Media program : 

fluid acrylics in the colours; Phthalo Green, Phthalo Blue, Paynes Grey, English Red Oxide, Cobalt Teal Hue, Yellow Iron Oxide.

Texture Samdpaste, Tinting Base, Crackle paint, Black Gesso.

Misters in the colour: Primary Magenta, Yellow green, Turquiose.

Antiquing Cream in Titanium white and Carbon Black

Americana white Gesso and Matte Varnish.

Traditions Acrylic paint in: Phthalo Blue, Carbon Black, Opaque White and Naphtol Red.

Metalic Lustres in: Lavish green, Cosmic blue and Radiant Red

Andy Skinner Mixed Media stencils: Industrial Elements, Made to Measure, Incognito, Code Breaker.

Stamps used: skull stamp from the Morte set from Smeared Ink, designed by Rick St.dennis.

Crackle stamp from Lost Coast Designs

Tim Holtz Alteration dies: Gadget Gears, Vintage Globe, Graveyard.

A flourish and Spider die and the Sizzix Cosmic Flourish #2

Ranger Archival Ink

Babywhipes and kitchentowel, you will also need some paintbrushes and a sponge.

the finished project

The how to video

some detail pics

I will enter the following challenges

http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.nl/2015/04/paper-players-challenge-239.html

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/aprils-challenge.html

http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/april-already-soon-be-christmas-lol.html

http://doodleartifacts.blogspot.nl/2015/04/recycle-re-purpose-re-invent-april1.html

Aloha

Another Rick St. Dennis progressive challenge starts today, this is part 2 and if you entered part on in march you will ge a free image to work with.

Rick chose Aloha Nui to be the free image and she is so cute, so you will lots of fun working with her.

I coloured the image using Faber Castell Polychromos pencils ,  the tag is card board, gessoed using Deco Art Acrylic Gesso, than painted a layer Sea Breeze Americana Acrylic and stamped the flower using a Foam Stamp and Americana Acrylic in Purple Pizzazz and Lemon Yellow. Used a Bit of Traditions acrylic in Red Violet for the edges and sponged a bit over the tag to finish.

Hope to see your entries soon,  here


I am entering the following challenges

http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/challenge-128-anything-goes-with-twist_29.html

http://craft-deebowz.blogspot.nl/2015/04/april-challenge.html

http://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

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.

how to create a galaxy background

Another how to this time a mixed media canvas using the Rick St. Dennis digi a 1000 stars (this week free when purchasing something in Zibbet or Etsy)

Products used :

A piece of cardboard

Deco Art products:

Americana Acrylics in Purple Pizazz, Ocean Blue, Lamp black, Snow white, Dragon Fruit

Ameriana Acrylic Gesso

Glamour Dust Glitter paint in Silver Bling

Craft Twinkles in Crystal

 The how to videos are below the pictures of the finished project, in the video is explained how the back ground and the letters are made.

Everyting starts with colouring the image ofcours , Faber Castell Polychromos used on this one

The dress was covered with Craft twinkles after colouring, the cut her out of the background and the rest is in the videos below, Enjoy

 tried to make the sparkle visable but hard in pictures.
here a scan

I will enter the following challenges:

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/march-challenge.html  this is made of a piece of cadboard it eas the back of a writing pad

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2015/03/challenge-49.html

http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/challenge-14.html

spring easter challenge

today the new Rick St.dennis Progressive challenge starts, theme is spring /easter

I made a very pinkish card using the  Easte Tangle elements digi stamp by Rick St.dennis. It was fun to colour the tangled background.  And it ended up being a card

this week you will receive a free digi called a 1000 Stars with your purchase on both Rick's zibbet and Etsy shop, she is gorgeous so hurry before she is moved to the shop and no longer free

I will enter the following challenges:

http://inthepinkchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/challenge-63-cute-as-button.html

LOVE HATE thing

Still time to enter the challenge over at HDH, theme is love / hate sooooo I used a heart lol


here is my project

Deco Art products used:
Traditions artist paint  I used the paints from the samples set, you can find it here , Americana Acrylic Gesso and Acrylic paint in Neutral Grey and Deco Art Media fluid acrylics in  Quinacridone Gold and

Burnt Sienna

I started with a white plastic frame ans I forgot to take the befor pic, but here is the backside of the frame so you can see

the hear is a glass christmas ornament that did not survive a cat attack, the littel hook broke, so it was perfect for my project

the heart is glued on a piece of cardboard from a box, painted using the traditions artists paints in several colours.  The senti is a rubber stamp it says My Heart Beats For You.

here some close up pics of the frame

can;t wait to see what your entry will be you can find the linky here

and another thingie to show you

I have made a card using one of Rick's Hat ladies, she is called 1935 hat (yep I agree not a very ladylike name lol)

anyway thoght vintage ws the best way to go, so distressed and made it look old, gave it some pearls and feathers because I thought the hatlady would like that and voila, a vintage card it is

the image is coloured using faber castell polychromos pencils

bloody valentine day 3 and winner

sorry a bit late , but my PC decided to give me a hard time........

The winner of the stamp give aveay will be below, just as the blog roll, project first LOL

For today I made an art journal page in my small leather bound journal, it's about atc size, a little bit bigger.

I used a stamp frop the haunted places set designed by Rick St.dennis, you can find them in the Smeared Ink shop


the border stamp is a clear stamp by my paper world, the blood splatter is also a clear stamp I think by Joy designs. The background colours are distress ink and the heartbeat chart is drawn by me (no it was not that though using a ruler, lol). So here it is, small and simple but I like how it came out

and now the drawing of the lucky stamp winner (remember day 1). I could not decide myself so wrote the names of the people that said they wanted to have the stamp on pieces of paper, crumpled them and put them in a box. Shook the box, opened the lid and let Diva our baby cat decide , here a video to show you the result (not Oscar material, but hey I am a newbie in the world of video)

so congrats to the winner I will send it to you asap (email me here for your addy) this stamp was given to me by the Stempelwinkel if you'd like to buy it you can find it here

enjoy the rest of the hop

Black Dragon
Julia
Monique
Jessica
Nan B
Jane
Susan S
Susan R
Lisa
Teresa
Leigh
Fiona
Rebecca
Lady Brayton
Sharon
Kristy