Altered Photo Frame

 

I decorated an old photo frame with fibre paste and tar gel, once dry I painted with black pearl acrylic paint.  For the inside I embossed a couple of pieces of silver foil tape, covered in black gesso and wiped back.

I used gilding paste and metalic flakes on the embellishments and I coloured the skull with liquid acrylics.  The words are T!m Holtz chipboard quotes.

Polystyrene Sculpture

 

Using up some more of the polystyrene, I cut the above piece in half.  Coated it in the remainder of the grey powertex from the skulls.  Once dry I added crackle paint and fibre paste to the left side piece and tar gel to the right piece.  I left it overnight to dry, then used my soldering tool to make the holes and finally I coloured it up until I was happy with the result.

Texture Atcs

I threw everything at these atcs, modelling paste, white crackle paste, white crackle paint, tar gel and corrugated cardboard to create a background of texture.

Once everything was dry I used Dazzling metallic paints for the base layer, second layer was several colours of metallic lustres until I liked what I had. Lastly I added a touch of black carbon media paint.

Painted a wooden cog, added a prestud and a metal charm

Close up of the texture, using the carbon black to hi-light

Wooden ruler painted silver, metal embellishments and a mini bulb added

Again, carbon black added to hi-light the textures

All products are from the DecoArt range

The Eye Sees Everything

I cut part of a face out of a magazine and glued it onto a page in my journal. Using the DecoArt chalky paints, everlasting, timeless and delicate. Randomly added tissue tape and then painted from the media range with transparent yellow oxide, translucent white and raw umber watered down to make it transparent. Stamped various images in timber brown stazon until I was happy with the layout. 

Added more translucent yellow oxide to help to blend the stamping into the page and coloured the white of the eye with a sharpie pen. Next I mixed raw umber with tar gel and dripped it onto the page. 

Once dry, (I left it overnight) I added interference gold to the dark splodges and gave the page a coat of soft touch varnish to seal it.

PaperArtsy have a theme of paper piecing this week.

Playing with new stuff

I've been so engrossed with cutting up images and making new ones that I've neglected some new things I recently purchased, so today I decided to play with them all!!  I scraped fibre paste through an Andy Skinner stencil, once dry added some Lindy's sprays, I recently got the French heritage set. I added some gold DA media fluid acrylic to some golden tar gel. This wasn't actually as drippy as I thought it was going to be, so unfortunately I ended up with bigger blobs than I really wanted, but hey ho.

I added some stamping to the background in iced spruce distress ink. Stamped in timber brown stazon the Dina image and Clarity word on separate card, cut it out, glued it on and outlined it with dark brown pencil along with some of the stencilled area. Used bronze pan pastel over the textured fibre paste. This photo was taken outside in the garden.