Monday, December 7, 2015

5 for 5 Christmas

Welcome to Day 1 of our 5 for 5 Christmas Blog Event. Today our theme is "Glitter". We are all sharing a project where we used glitter. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Christmas Inspired Project based on a theme. Some of us are offering prizes, so be sure to visit all the links below and leave comments.
Rachel - www.rwkrafts.com
I have been having a hard time getting anything to look like right lately.  When I sit down at my desk, there are a thousand things that I need to do running through my head and I seem to have lost a little art mojo .... luckily, the 5 for 5 Challenges keep me on my toes  ... here is my Glitter challenge!! 

At first, I drew the Believe and wanted to emboss it with glitter but it didn't turn out well.  I had a red background and a mess.  So I used gesso to clean the background.  I scraped it a little to let the red show through.  Then I mixed glitter into matte medium and spread it all over the white.  I used the red paint though mixed with light modeling paste to rewrite Believe.  I added a couple of embellishing stickers, outlined the letters and put the canvas into a silver frame!  It might not be perfect, but it looks really good sitting on my mantle!!



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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #19 - Silver and Gold!

Welcome back for this month's Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!  This month the challenge is an awesome Silver and Gold!!  Plus, the fact that we all had the chance to use Indigo Blu Flitter Glu and their Mega Flakes!! SO much fun and such amazing results!!  You want to win an Indigo Blu Flitter Glu set!!



Here is my project for this month!  I used the flakes in the background, with a stencil.  I also used the flakes to gild the bells and the ribbon!! 



I started off with some easy bell shapes - I thought they would just be perfect for Silver and Gold! (And yes, the whole time I was making this project I was singing Silver and Gold from the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer movie!!)


I painted the background with Indigo Blu Acrylic Paint, Townhouse Teal and Frosty Sky! I also mixed in a little Interference for sparkle, but the flakes really stole the show


I used an ornament stencil.  I used the flitter glu phat foam to apply through the stencil.  Then I used the silver from the Manchester Tart mix to make the stencil shine!


I added the flitter glu and and flakes to the bells - SO shiny!!



Then I made the ribbon paper, doodled and added the wording!! I had a blast making this! And it looks fantastic on my wall!!



Make sure to play with us this month!!  Take a break from the crazy, stressful holiday season and create with us!! Click here to come to the challenge!
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Friday, November 13, 2015

5 for 5 Thanksgiving - Day 5 - Texture!

Welcome to Day 5 of our 5 for 5 Thanksgiving Blog Event. Today our theme is 'Texture". We are all sharing a project where we used Texture. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Thanksgiving Inspired Project based on a theme. 

I have an awesome prize for the 5 for 5 challenge!!  Make sure you comment on each of the designers projects for the week and I will put your name into the random drawing on Day 6 for a $10 Michael's Gift Card!! With all the coupons and sales they have going on right now, you could use that money to restock your favorite color paint or medium!! 
Rachel - www.rwkrafts.com



And here is my texture project!! I started out with a totally different idea in mind.  I knew I wanted to use the Emily Dickinson poem, but I originally wanted to start with tissue paper leaves.  Well, I did start with orange, yellow and red tissue paper.  But I just made a lumpy mess of fun.  Then I covered the tissue paper with different colors of paint, rolling it on with a brayer.  When the tissue paper was dry and the canvas was so horrible and  on the way into my 'recycle this mess' pile, I realized that I really did like the texture.  So I mixed up some heavy body white with some blue and got out a fun circle stencil and the canvas had a second life!! I managed to get in my orange and yellow Indian Summer colors and finished off this small texture canvas!!  

Surprisingly, in real life the tissue paper doesn't show up as much as it does in pictures!!  




So, enjoy the 5 for 5 canvases today, make sure to visit them and leave some love!!  -Karen
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

5 for 5 Thanksgiving Challenge - Turkeys!

 Welcome to Day 4 of our 5 for 5 Thanksgiving Blog Event. Today our theme is 'Turkey". We are all sharing a project where we used Turkeys. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Thanksgiving Inspired Project based on a theme. 

I have an awesome prize for the 5 for 5 challenge!!  Make sure you comment on each of the designers projects for the week and I will put your name into the random drawing on Day 6 for a $10 Michael's Gift Card!! With all the coupons and sales they have going on right now, you could use that money to restock your favorite color paint or medium!! 
Rachel - www.rwkrafts.com



So, my favorite Turkey ... is the Hokie Bird.  He is the mascot of my favorite college - Virginia Tech!!  This little canvas did not photgraph well.  The canvas is an orange and titan buff with an image transfer of the Hokie Bird.  It was fun to make ... it was hard to get it just right and there are many different versions hidden under the final orange paint!! Although, he looks better in person, I just wanted to share my Turkey with you all!!  
Here is a closer pic of the Hokie Birds Head! 


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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

5 for 5 Thanksgiving - Day 3 - Sentiments

 Welcome to Day 3 of our 5 for 5 Thanksgiving Blog Event. Today our theme is "Sentiments Only". We are all sharing a project where we used sentiments. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Thanksgiving Inspired Project based on a theme. 

I have an awesome prize today for the 5 for 5 challenge!!  Make sure you comment on each of the designers projects for the rest of the week and I will put your name into the random drawing on Day 6 for a $10 Michael's Gift Card!! With all the coupons and sales they have going on right now, you could use that money to restock your favorite color paint or medium!! 

 


Rachel - www.rwkrafts.com

Here is my project for Sentiments Only .... I really tried to not include a picture but I just couldn't leave it alone!! (But the back of the block is words only!!)




The Thanksgiving Day poem - all time favorite!! I used tissue paper and copied it on my copier.


The old block, that has been begging me to use it  ... I removed the staples and lightly gesso'ed it!



Then using brown Archival Ink, I rolled scrolled script over the whole block.


Then I found a wonderful sentiment for the front, made a paper tree and some fall colored hearts for leaves!

Now, make sure to visit the rest of the 5 for 5 designers, leave comments and you might just win my Michael's Gift Card!!  Have fun!!

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

5 for 5 Thanksgiving - Day 2 - Pumpkins!!

Welcome to Day 2 of our 5 for 5 Thanksgiving Blog Event. Today our theme is "Pumpkins". We are all sharing a project where we used pumpkins. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Thanksgiving Inspired Project based on a theme. Some of us are offering prizes, so be sure to visit all the links below and leave comments.
Donna - www.donnascraftyplace.com


Make sure you stop in here tomorrow ... I will have an awesome prize giveaway!!!  
 
Here are my pumpkins for Day 2!



 I started out with scrapbook paper and brown paper as my background.  Then I grabbed a couple of stamps and added some texture!


I found an awesome little saying and printed it onto tissue paper! 


Finally, I cut out my pumpkins and used a little piece of sandpaper to rough them up! I can't get enough of pumpkins in the fall!


And the final piece!! Love it and put it right in the front hall!  
 

Make sure to stop by and give some love to all the 5 for 5 designers!!
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Monday, November 9, 2015

5 for 5 Thanksgiving!

Welcome to Day 1 of our 5 for 5 Thanksgiving Blog Event. Today our theme is "Watercolor". We are all sharing a project where we used watercolors. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Thanksgiving Inspired Project based on a theme. Some of us are offering prizes, so be sure to visit all the links below and leave comments.
 


Here is my watercolor project!! I did a little watercolor, added burlap and really weathered pallet wood slats to create this piece for my wall!


I started with burlap and frayed the edges up ...

Then I covered the entire piece of burlap with matt medium.  It makes the burlap stiff, but it dries translucent so that you cannot see the matte medium.

Then I tried swomething new ... I used matte medium on both sides of a piece of tissue paper and attached it to the burlap.  I wanted to watercolor on the tissue paper, but of course the paper was just going to suck up the water.  So the matte medium helped the watercolor stay on top instead of soaking in. And since the paint sat on top of the medium until it dried, it also gave me the opportunity to take off any watercolor goofs, of which there were many!!


After I watercolored and erased a lot of the goofs, I used my Pitt Pen to write the word Thankful! I was pleasantly surprised that my handwriting turned out as well as it did! 


 I finished watercoloring and doodling, I took out two old pieces of pallet wood.  These pieces look so rustic and awesome, I have been just waiting for the right minute to use them!  So I attached the watercolor to the boards and used some twine to hang them together! And I have a new rustic Thanksgiving decoration!



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