Melt Art

Helllo!!!

I had a play with the melt pot last weekend, haven't used it in ages...so wanted to try out some new things. I had a silicon alphabet mould I hadn't used yet - so I made some letters with various UTEE's and put glitter and gilding flakes and stuff in the mould, and I made a little mini canvas with some of the letters. The background being Dylusions, a bit of detail sparkle medium and black in round the edge. I made some other stuff too but they might show up on future projects ;)

In other news....here is a card I made! Simply it's sparkle medium through a stencil on to black glossy card, and a Craftwork cards greeting.

Just realised there was no stamping involved on either of these either....

Happy Birthday Dad!

Well what to get the old fatherkins (sorry less of the old!) for his birthday.....I decided to procure an alphabet of beer, mostly courtesy of beer hawk, and to accompany it I created a little booklet, here are some of the pages and the beer in all it's glory on the kitchen floor hehe and a picture of the birthday boy himself!!

So the little book itself is mostly a lot of Dylusions ink everywhere! Plus a bit of Distress ink, a few stamps here and there plus an alphabet set for the letters, and good old mod podge for the gluing; and I remembered the merits of a white gel pen on the cover. I punched each page and tied them together with a couple of pieces of twine that I'd also dyed with ink, oh and I added a little sparkle on the front with perfect pearls.

Then to the card which is Distress stains and perfect pearls in the background, then Dylusions on some paper and then I stamped the map stamp which I think is Papermania, and a Tim Holtz Enjoy the journey stamp and tore them out and edged them with ink. I stuck them down with washi tape, oh and I had an off cut where I'd used texture paste through a stencil and inked over it. I took some plain chipboard letters and used alcohol inks and then rock candy crackle paint.

And that I believe is it..........................phew!!!!!!!!!!

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.

Sodium

Well I've finally got around to finishing another element.....well I've had this mostly finished for ages but just got around to adding the writing. So erm I think the background was pastels and them some splodges of distress stain. The Sodium letters are coloured with perfect pearls using them like a paint.

Magnesium shouldn't be too much further behind you can actually see the ink of the letters coming through from the next page....d'oh oh well.....

Picnic anyone?

I had a silicon mould of fruit for Christmas to use with UTEE.....and here are my first results......a UTEE still life.....sort of!! The background is distress stains and the table cloth is painted.....the basket is made from grunge paper painted with brown paint and distress stains. I added some glitter and perfect pearls to the moulds to make the fruit sparkly.....my favourite are the bananas!

Cards

Here are a few more cards I have made.....

The butterflies card I first found the picture from a Graphic 45 pad, then I found the butterfly and dragonfly stamps from a Paper Artsy set and coloured them in using distress inks to match the picture......I cut out a Craftwork cards greeting and lightly went round the edge with I think it was Tea Dye distress ink.

The monster stamp in Stampotique....with a another greeting stamped on his sign and the background I just created using a variety of inks and stamps and a bit of embossing powder and perfect pearls which I then tore out to fit on the card.

The final one I used embossing power through a cogs design stencil./mask and embossed using Frantage embossing powder and then used picked raspberry distress ink over the top. The main image is Paper Artsy and I stamped it in purple archival ink and coloured it with distress inks and then added some ribbon on the bottom and stamped on the greeting.

More Christmas Cards!

Here are my final lot of Christmas cards.......with the robin on the mushrooms being my favourite card this year. The robin is a Little Claire stamp, the mushrooms are dylusions coloured with distress inks, perfect pearls and some glitter, and the snowflakes are a Tim Holtz stamp embossed with white embossing powder and the robin was coloured with distress inks too....using a cut n dry nib; and little bit of fake snowy stuff that I forget the name of.

The penguin card is using distress stains and inks, I forget which set those stamps are from, and I went round the edge with perfect pearls.

The next one I created a background with gold paint and I can't remember if it was metallic glaze of shimmer mod podge, then I stamped the snowflakes and added some ribbon and cut the greeting out using a nestability.

The final one was simply a shape cut out on the cricut and some background paper, another snowflake with glitter on and a greeting.

Some more cards....

Here are some cards I have made....

The top one I just used some pastels to draw in the background, and painted the number one and cut out the elephants and stuck on the greeting.
The next one I drew the little crab, not sure what a crab has to do with Christmas but I thought it turned out OK and I kept to the sea theme with the starfish.
The last one I was pretty pleased with the background I creates using some gloss mod podge through some sequin waste and once it had dried going over the top with the distress inks picked raspberry and I think there is some dusty concord in there too. The I stamped on the stars which was the free cover stamp with Craft Stamper this month and then I sort of splodged on some gold perfect pearls. I decorated the snowflake with pink glue and glitter and then stuck a greeting in the middle.

Oh and just when you thought Distress Ink couldn't get any better.........Picked Raspberry is sent waving a flag of hot pinked wondrousness!! And mowed lawn and salty ocean aren't half bad either! When I first saw the seasonal distress inks last Autumn I wasn't that fussed as they looked pretty similar to existing colours.......and then when Spring came out I thought wow they look nice and then when Summer came out and I saw King Tim himself demo the colours I was like woahhhhhhhh.........bright colours and distress.....the world is now complete!!! And now I have the summer ones I was not disappointed and I got mustard seed to, to add to my collection......brilliant. Above are a couple of creations that I made today.....and even better I also got a Stampotique monster stamp which I have wanted for ages.......

The top one is a distress background - salty ocean and mowed lawn.....a spray of perfect pearls and the bottles stamp is from Paper Artsy and I think the greeting is personal impressions.

The second one is a background of picked raspberry, mowed lawn, salty ocean and mustard seed, plus a spray of purple dylusions ink for good measure, then the monster stamp, a paper artsy greeting and the rest of the trees etc are Katy Sue Designs.....

The bottom one is a little tiny canvas.......painted pink.....then black gesso then perfect pearls.....then picked raspberry on the chipboard shape with a little walnut stain around the edge and the purple star is UTEE with micro beads in it......

Here's a few more cards.....I think I must have had my big shot around this time....as there's quite a bit of die cutting and embossing going on. Also a few perfect pearls experiments too; not forgetting the pro-markers of course! I think the brightly coloured happy birthday was coloured with gel pens.