Boom!

Hello........

Here is a canvas I decorated at the weekend....just required some erm structural integrity work before it was finished!!

It started off as an experiment about texture, with some ideas I'd seen and the new texture mediums I'd got.

Basically the background is a whole sea of paint, paint mixed with gel medium, paint mixed with pumice medium, a piece of string dyed with ink and glued and painted down, tar gel medium mixed with primary elements, more paint, some archival ink, some tiny beads and that's about it I think.

I then decided to add the word boom in the foreground, for some bizarre reason I decided to make it from paper.....in hindsight not the best idea but I didn't really think it would work out but in the end it did work. So I drew the letters and then sprayed dylusions and used a paint marker round the edge of each letter. I cut it out and mod podge it all. Then I used two springs and used silicon glue to attach it to the canvas, but because it was paper it was all floppy so I had to add in some additional stilts; and a little remedial work with some gel medium to sort of strengthen it a little. Then I decided that was about as good as I was going to get it and so there you go......BOOM!!

Path

Hello, this time around the words for the Craft Barn challenge are path or horizon. I found this sonnet by Edward Thomas and as well as containing the word path I thought it was quite appropriate as it happens to be July.

I created the background with a variety of paints and distress stains, I stamped some leaves in the corners as well. Then I wrote on the quote in white posca pen.

Happy Valentine's

Here is the card I made for Valentine's Day this year.

I got a set of alphabet masks, so I used those to create the love, and I used a heart mask in place of the V as well, using distress ink over the top of the masks. I stamped a heart in the background which was a free one from Craft Stamper. I used part of a stencil to create the X's with some acrylic paint and I added a few fibres of Hessian and glued it down with a gem on top. Of course inked round the edge as well :) Oh and there's a little silver gloss paint on there two, looks white on the photo though!

Somewhere beyond the sea...

Hello!

Well it's my birthday and of course that meant new craft goodies.....so here's a little creation I made mostly playing with new stencils to create the background......using various mediums - texture paste, paint, distress ink and Dylusions sprays. I cut the pictures out of a magazine and used gloss mod podge to glue them down - haven't used glossy in a while and I keep seeing things on other blogs where people use things out of magazines and then I forget to try it out and I finally remembered.
 I also used some gilding wax on the turtle. Finally I stamped various stamps and added a touch of white gel pen here and there. Really love Stencil Girl designs - and when I saw Seth Apter had designed some a few month's ago I couldn't wait to get hold of one - just my cup of tea.

Nonsense

Well well mighty be the day only unicorns beep beep, totally unnecessary believe me.....take it out the oven, oh no only on Wednesdays.

And that my friends is a load of old nonsense!!!

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