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!!

Little canvas

I made a little present for Lee.....again I used the Spotz Botz set to stamp out a robot on to a Dylusions, perfect pearls and swirly paint background and then I cut out the image and used a fine liner to fill in any parts I hadn't quite cut properly.

On the canvas itself I used a stencil and some texture paste which got slightly blue when it mixed with some ink on my craft mat, I left that to dry and then I sprayed on some more Dylusions, and I painted over the 3D area Paper Artsy metallic glaze which gives a lovely shiny effect that you can't really see in the photo. I glued on some micro beads and added a touch more ink around the edge. Although it didn't really want to dry properly probably because I'd made the surface shiny from the glaze so I probably should have used Staz on rather than distress but I've left it as it was for now.

Finally I drew on a few lines for the ground and then glued on the robot to make the finished piece.

P P Pick up a Penguin!

It's letter P this time over at the Craft Barn's alpha challenge

I decided to choose Penguin. I think I must have been influenced after watching Spy in the huddle :)

I had a few goes at drawing penguins and they looked a little crazy so I opted for printing a picture of some penguins and mod podging it down......that's after I had gessoed the pages to my craft sheet and almost ripped all the pages out.....ooops! Once that had dried I went round the edge with Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean distress ink.....I wrote on the word Penguin and then I added some micro beads and glitter....