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

Mini Makes

I cut some 4" squares and my dylusion paints and created the above first layers.

Next I chose some stencils, together with a range of DecoArt media translucent paints to create the second layer.

I added some more stenciling in black and white and some bottle top rings for the third layer. But I had masses of fun with the final part. I stamped the harajuku images onto white paper, cut them up, ie cut the head and legs off and some of the bodies in half, then I proceeded to make my own people with the different pieces.

The backgrounds are actually quite a bit brighter than on the final photo but it started to rain, so was dull when I took them!!

CAS Tags

I sprayed my DecoArt media misters in orange and yellow green onto separate tags, let them drip and dry.

Stamped the Harajuku image in black stazon, masked her off, stamped the script at her feet and another of the gothic arches also in black stazon.

Exactly the same for this one except I carried on the arches with black pen and stamped the faces in the circles.

Skull and Arches

More playing with my new gothic arches which I thought might go well with a skull, so here it is.

Close up of the skull which was created with DecoArt white modeling paste through an Andy Skinner stencil.

The arches were stamped in clear ink and embossed with white. Dripage created with DecoArt black and purple media misters.

Journal Pages

My new arches stamps came this week, so I just had to have a play with them.  The background is a mop up of my previous post where I made the mini book, the paints are from the DecoArt media range. 

I stamped the Harajuku image, then used the DecoArt white tinting base to paint over it, then I re-stamped the image using black stazon. I used a micro pen to extend the brickwork on the arches.

And I did pretty much the same with this one except I used a stencil to add some of the media paints.

Again I extended some of the brickwork so the arches met.

Paint, gesso and tinting base are all from the DecoArt range.

Mini Album

I was inspired by Kate Cranes recent TV appearance on Hochanda and decided to make a mini album / book. I set about decorating some pages.

And these are the other sides.  All the paints used are from the DecoArt media range along with gesso and tinting base.

This is the book stood up with all the pages added and the covers.

Now some of you might recognise the layout of this as when I googled mini book and adding signatures loads of threads appeared with Kates name and Wanderlust. I don't subscribe to Wanderlust, but it wasn't hard to work out the process.

I wanted to incorporate ALL my new to me Harajuka figures, so in order to make them stand off the page, I simply stamped them onto plain white paper. Not bad for a lefted handed stamping effort!

I had to wait a couple of days before I could cut the images out though as I couldn't get the scissor hole over my thumb properly.

I went round each one with a black pen.

I wanted to include some images from the Choc Baroque Gothic Fragment stamp plate that I recently ordered, but the order hasn't been processed yet and when I looked yesterday, they were out of stock.

So when they do arrive, I may go back in and stamp some of them, it depends what size they are.

And these are the covers. I used black gesso to cover them initially and then black modelling paste through the stencil. I had to do these left handed and pressed on that hard, I broke the pallet knife!

Once dry, I gave them two coats of media gloss varnish to make the words stand out.

I put ribbon between the cover and first and last pages and this is how it looks tied together.

All products are from the DecoArt media range.

PaperArtsy have a theme of colour mixing for their challenge this week and Country View Crafts have a theme of have fun with circles this month.

Playing along with Kate Crane & DecoArt

Having watched Kate Crane do a fantastic job on the Hochanda craft channel under at times, some pressing circumstances, I just had to have a play. By now it was dark so, sorry, but the photos aren't that brilliant. 

A pop of black was added through stencils.

Black and white doodles were added.

This piece is approx 4" x 4" and I used a Kate combination of quin magenta and yellow oxide media paint and it also created an orange where it blended using the tinting base.

I introduced three colours to this tag, sap green, pyrrole red and yellow oxide, again I used the tinting base to lighten them.

This piece is approx 3.5" x 4.5" and again I used quin magenta and yellow oxide media paint. The face stencil is from the Andy Skinner, Strike the Pose set.

The colour wave used for this selection was dioxazine purple, prussian blue hue and quin magenta.

I edged all the pieces with black to frame them as I think it just finishes them off.

The face image on this tag is from the Andy Skinner Baroque stencil.

This one is approx 4" x 4" and again the face is from the Strike the Pose stencil.

I needed a card, so I decided to use simple matting and layering to mount it.

All products are from DecoArt and these makes were inspired by Kate Crane who did a one day DecoArt Special on the Hochanda craft channel.

Altered Brush #2

As you can see, this paintbrush has seen better days! I gave it a coat of black gesso and then a quick flash of gold media paint as I wasn't sure if it would stick because the handle is actually plastic.

And here she is, my finished brush. Decided to add more gold and gave it a coat of media gloss varnish. Added some TH idea-ology metal stickers, gems, metal gold coloured wings and the Lynne Perrella face with the crown.

All products are from the DecoArt range.