Fungi Fun

Good Morning everyone

Today Im honoured to be guest designer over at creativeartistemixedmedia with fun project using these fab toadstool stamps from pink ink designs.

MDF stand approx. size 7x6"  See below for how i made the background.....I then stamped the image onto white card, watercoloured with inktense pencils and cut out,  then arranged them on the base. Chipboard quote which i cut in half as it was too long but i thought a lovely saying, to find a little joy and cherish the little things around us like the beauty and magic of nature really does lift the spirits.  

I edged the stand with gold paint & I gave it all a coat of mod podge to seal and protect. 

Sadly the photos don't do justice to the cadence dora paints which are super shimmery which i used to highlight the toadstools and background

The background, i first stencilled texture paste mushrooms towards the bottom and dabbed on some texture paste with the spatula to give an earth/ground like effect.  Covered the whole thing in black gesso and then splodged on some acrylic paint, keeping it darker towards the bottom so that Mr Fungi would stand out against a darker background. 

I then cut a foam mushroom in half, cutting the stalk on one to make it a bit shorter and then glued them to the base on the right and a whole mushroom to the left making sure i left enough room for the stamped image.  I then covered them in black gesso and built up the colours with acrylic paint and cadence dora paints so that they were the same colour as my stamped fungi.  I also dry brushed a top layer on the background with dora paints in gold, orange and a touch of fuchsia to highlight the mushrooms.

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I then decided to decorate the back as well with the 2nd pink ink fungi stamp i have, I went with a completely different colour scheme so the recipient can flip it around for totally different art when they fancy a change

I made the background in the same way, just using a flower border that came on the same stencil as the fungi border in used on the 1st one.   After playing around i felt Mr Fungi was a bit short and lost so found this big believe chipboard in my stash which was ideal for him to stand on and help him stand out.  2nd smaller chipboard reads 'today is full of possibilities'

Items Used:

Pink Ink Stamps 'shitake happens' & 'Oyster frills'

Paperartsy stencil 'PS179'

Cadence Dora paints

Pebeo acrylic paints

Texture paste

Black gesso

Derwent Inktense pencils

Chipboards 'art by marlene'

Please do hop over to creativeartistemixedmedia to see the other creative creations and join in - you can join in with cards as well - anything as long as you mix your medias

Thank you all for stopping by once again, i hope you all have a great weekend, Its scary that we are now into February - im not sure where January went too!   Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter this in the following:

https://do-allkreatives.blogspot.com/2024/02/86-alles-geht-opt-mystical-or-vintage.html

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https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/miucb-69-anything-goes-optional-mixed.html

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The gravedigger has risen...

Good Morning everyone

For some reason im on a roll with halloween this year.  This is a little MDF stand as a home decor item.

Approx Size: 7x5"    See below for how i did the background.  I then added cream acrylic for the base layer on the skeleton and arms and added touches of  blue, purple, green & orange to give more interest and depth and pick up on the colours used in the background - I used matt finish paints for this which really contrast to the shimmery background.  I added green & brown paint around the arms to make it look like they are pushing out of the ground.

I dry brushed cadence dora paints in silver & black onto the gravestone to give the effect of moonlight hitting it. 

 Tim Holtz chat stickers attached and glossy accents added to give them an enamel effect.  They read 'as if a tombstone should giggle'

'the dead hour of the night'

& 'The grave digger has risen' on the bottom plinth

 To finish a coat of mod podge to seal. 

You can see the colours better on this one, especially on the skeleton

This is how it started, both plastic skeletons & arms are from poundland,  i cut the end off the arms to make them different lengths and attached them at different angles .  The MDF base came from the works.

I then added texture paste through a hessian stencil and just dabbed some on in places to help give a worn weathered effect and added it around the arms to give the effect of them coming out of the soil.   I then covered it all in black gesso, once dry dabbed on some orange, green & purple acrylic paints to the background and then dry brushed over the top with more black gesso.  

Id love to enter this in the following:

https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/2023/10/welcome-to-creative-artiste-challenge-98.html

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https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/inspiration-station-october-2023.html - inspired by the skeletons, orange and touch of purple

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https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-anything-halloween.html

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http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-challenge-autumn-or-halloween.html

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https://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/09/challenge-06.html

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https://halloweencraftsallyearround.blogspot.com/2023/09/sept-15-oct-14-challenge-8.html

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https://mostmagicaltimeoftheyear.blogspot.com/2023/10/challenge-13-most-magical-anything.html

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Charlotte's under the sea

Good Morning everyone

For each of my nieces ive made a personalised picture for their walls.  Charlotte was a baby during covid lockdowns so we didn't see her much at all.  Since last Autumn she has been staying at my parents a fair bit and we have got to know her well.  She has a real empathy for nature and after taking her out shell collecting this spring i finally knew what theme i wanted to do her picture.  Out came my pink ink stamps and ive used several shells that Charlotte herself collected on our day out at the beach. 

Picture size: 12x9" 

  I first made a background with brusho's, cosmic shimmer pixie powders and stencilling - photos below.

I then stamped out the stamps onto white card and watercoloured with my inktense pencils which are colourfast & cut them all out. I then die cut thick cardboard from a cat food box with a Sizzix bigz die to spell charlotte, painted them black and covered with glossy accents, i adhered them into place with pinflair glue gel.  I then got arranging my scene.

I added a pearl bead in one of the shells just for a bit of fun. I used a mix of shells, little pieces of drift wood & some small pebbles.

Its difficult to make out in the photos, but i found a pack iridescent green strands in my stash ive had for years, i added a few of them, just pushing the ends into the glue gel behind my images and shells so that they float freely and catch the light when it hits them. 

I stencilled on seaweed using green acrylic paints & cadence dora paints which really shimmer when the light hits them.

You can really make out the glittery stencilled 'bubbles' here.  I also stencilled on some fish with oxide inks

Just showing it in its frame.  I found this wooden box frame in the charity shop, gave it whitewash with white gesso, added some rope around the inside edge and added a lovely large shell which also hides the rope ends. 

Items Used:

Tim Holtz Bigz alpha die

Pink Ink stamps 'pinky inky' 'sea turtle'

Various foliage stamps

Foliage & circle stencils

Stamperia stencil - fish

Brusho powders 'turquoise' 'sea green'

Cadence dora paints

Derwent inktense pencils

Thank you all for stopping by. I hope you have a good week.  Emmaxx

Id love to enter the following:

https://theoutlawzchallenges-saturday.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free.html

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https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/2023/09/welcome-to-creative-artiste-challenge-97.html

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http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2023/09/194-use-stamps.html

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https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/09/miucb-67-anything-goes-optional-make.html

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https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2023/08/make-scene.html

 

 

Shell Nymph

Good Morning everyone

I was honoured to be invited to be a guest designer at creative mixed media challenge

........  I got this lovely pink ink 'shell nymph' stamp for Christmas and decided to make a little wall art with her.  The idea to do an alcohol ink background onto the glass of a picture frame came to me in the middle of the night - I love the effect so think i will be trying it out again. 

Frame approx 7x5"  I first stamped and watercoloured my image with inktense pencils and cut her out and sealed with glossy modge podge.   I then took the glass out of the frame and used alcohol inks on the back of it with colours to co-ordinate with my image, adding some blues and green that you find in the sea.  I stencilled some seaweed onto the front of the glass with 'diamond' cadence dora paint which has an amazing shimmer finish when it catches the light. 

I put the decorated glass back into the frame and started building up my scene, adding shape to the nymph and attaching onto the glass with glue gel.  I then dug through my collection of beached combed items to add some shells, sea glass and small piece of driftwood, i also added a couple of stamped shells from the stamp set.

Too finish i added touches of glitter glue to her wings and tail.  I now think this will make the perfect present for my eldest niece when her birthday comes around. 

I added white paper behind the glass in the frame to really help the alcohol ink colours pop

this is the glass once decorated with the alcohol inks on the back and stencilled seaweed on the front.  This dora paint is really sparkly but hard to capture in the photos

and just showing it in the frame before decorating.  The recess of the frame is nearly 2" deep so a good platform for my little scene.

Items Used:

Pink ink stamps 'shell nymph'

Foliage stencil

Ranger alcohol inks

Cadence Dora paint 'diamond'

Derwent inktense pencils

White posca pen 

Shells, driftwood, seaglass

Please do pop over to https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/ to see the gorgeous design team creations and join in.

 Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you all have a lovely Easter weekend whatever you get upto.  Hugs Emmaxxx

3 Portholes

Good Morning everyone

Another sea themed mixed media project today, using 3 mdf circles that i turned into portholes for lots of my sea creature stamps to reside in. 

This shows all 3 joined together, i used my crop'o'dile which easily punches through mdf and used some jump rings to join them together.

I took 6" mdf circles, then using my grand circle dies i cut frames from an old cardboard box, to this frame i added 4 screw top brads.  I then covered it all in texture paste to give a rough finish and then coated in black gesso. I then built up the rust effect with acrylic paints and cadence dora paints - just dabbing them on lightly, adding more black here and there until i was happy with it - be patient, this takes time to build up.

I die cut a circle of acetate and attached behind the frame.

I had some left over tile grout which i used as texture paste through stencils onto white cardstock, once dry i added brusho's & cosmic shimmer pixie powders in shades of green, blue & purple.  Once dry die cut into a circle and adhered to he middle of the mdf base.

After stamping,colouring & cut out all my images I started arranging them in the 3 portholes. I added them with glue gel for some dimension.  Once the glue had dried completely I then added the acetate frame over the top with 2mm foam tape. 

This first scene is using funky fossil weird fish stamps

2nd porthole has a complete mix of stamps, the octopus was a magazine freebie years ago and some pink ink shells left over from previous project, the 2 little fish are from the funky fossil weird fish set.

You can really see in the photos but the pixie powders in the background really shimmer and shine in the light, I had also dry brushed over the stencilling with 'diamond' cadence dora paint.

and scene 3 using pink ink turtle stamps, in the background i used a turtle stencil - which i think is a funky fossil stencil but i can't find it at the moment to confirm

Items Used:

Funky Fossil stamps 'weird fish'

Pink ink stamps 'sea turtle'

Octopus stamp - magazine freebie

Lavinia Stencils 'foliage'

Circles stencil

Turtle stencil

Brusho's 

Cosmic shimmer pixie powders

Derwent inktense pencils

Cadence dora paints

Black gesso & acrylic paints

Thank you for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a good week, I think its half term so i might get to see my nieces.  Hugs Emmaxxx

Id love to enter the following:

https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/2023/02/welcome-to-creative-artiste-challenge-90.html

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https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/2023/02/february-challenge.html - stencilled backgrounds

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https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2023/02/challenge-71-anything-goes-with.html

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