Tiny Canvas

 

Check out this tiny little canvas! It is 2 x3 inches! It is my first mixed media canvas so I thought I would start small …lol. Actually I just received a tiny 2 x 2 inch canvas from one of my groups and when I saw these in the art store the other day I thought I should have a little practice before I do the one I am to send in.

I have had several ask “how did I do that” so here is how that was done … LOL

First I painted it with black gesso and then the next day I painted it with one step crackle. It did not crackle though. Maybe I did not wait long enough, I can be inpatient at times :)) I had never used that stuff before so I must have done it wrong …anyway…I did not like the glossy sheen it gave so I painted it with sparkle glaze. Once that was dry I put glue on the area I wanted sky and used two colors of blue embossing powder and embossed it. Then I glued on some Judikins Spring Meadow speckles for the hillside. Then I cut out the lady from one of my photo art sheets and glued her on. The little glass circle over her face is a test cut from our circle cutter. We just got the new bits in to cut them and they will be available at Inka Stamps eventually. I hot glued the circle on and sprinkled it with foil flakes. When it was cooled, I brushed off the excess flakes and glued on the star and saying. Then I added some gold texture paint to the bottom edge and called it done.

ATC workshop ... Lesson 3

This week was magazine paper techniques. The first one you layer some images for the background and then layer slices of your composition, add a little color and finish your edges. I just sanded my edges. The second one you paint your magazine image with white gesso in a cross hatch pattern making sure to leave it a little transparent. Then you define areas with an ink marker and then add paint to alter and highlight. The last one was really cool. You just dot the image with glue here and there to define the image. When that is dry you just rub it down with Never Dull metal polish. Then you replace the color you just wiped off with pastels. I also finished the edges by brushing with a rust inkpad.

Japanese Valentines

This is a couple of Japanese Valentines that I did as RAK's for a few of my OSA club members :)

ATC workshop ... Lesson 2

This week we did Leafing Pen Resist, Inky Layers and Stencils. The leafing pen resist is done on watercolor paper. You squiggle some leafing pen onto the paper then paint on watercolor spreading it around with a brush. For inky layers, layer on several different papers and then paint with a glaze. Then just dab on some pigment ink smudging it around. Once that is done you use an smudge it with iridescent ink. I used Doc Martins and I loved the way it looks, however the scan really doesn’t show how nice it looks.

Valentines ornament

I used scans of two of my valentines collage sheet to create this :)

ATC workshop ... Lesson 1

 

I did these for an ATC workshop I am in that is designed to get you to try different techniques every week. The first one is called Intuitive watercolor technique. The idea is to drop watercolor on paper and when it dries, use your imagination to see what forms you can make with the blotches. The secound one is watercolor on a babywipe once dry, you can put whatever art you like. I did not want to cover up the texture so I stamped on acetate and layerd it over the babywipe and added some embellishments. The third one is Lumier paints on a papertowle then stamped.

Valentines & Chocolate

Today I made some Valentines for the ladies at my local stamp club. I killed my diet and had a chocolate bar because you just can't have Valentines without chocolate .... lol

Fairyland Theater

 

I have been working on this little theater collage sheet. It is a scan of a Tuck & Sons original. It has puppets for Puss & Boots, Beauty & The Beast, The Prince & Cinderella and The Wolf & Red Ridinghood too in the original form. I offer it in my little etsy store with my Buttercup fairy but you can request a special listing for it with the original puppets. Just click on the convo link when you get to the listing page.

Charm & Ornament Swap

 I finally got home after making a rush trip to California because hubby's mother passed. Thank you all for the wonderful condolences. I removed the post because this is a new year and we are trying to look forward. I hope you all can understand. Anyway when we got home the Charm and Ornament Swap was in my mailbox. I loved each and everyone of them. Because time is so short and Christmas is almost here I put them on a little wire tree for now but the ones that are small enough for a bracelet will be made into a bracelet for next year

Snowballs and Santa Claws

I figured you all are tired of seeing all my soldered ornaments so I thought I would show you some other ornaments I have been doing. I have been making the snowball for a couple of years now. I make a few more each year. First I covered Styrofoam balls with air dry clay. Then stamped snowflakes into the soft clay. Then I cut the mouth into the ball with a knife and stuck on some balls of clay for the nose and eyes. Once dry, I sprayed them with spray glue and glittered them with translucent glitter and a few flakes of fake snow. The hangers were just glued on with E600 … I love that stuff!

Santa Claws
This was made with a pattern I designed. I used white card stock for the basic lantern. Then I stamped it with holly and sprayed it with spray glue and glittered it with translucent glitter (gotta sparkle for Christmas) then I used red stickels for the berries and glued on some holly leaf confetti for a little extra glitz. I then hung a little Santa dog inside :)

Christmas Q

We will be decorating our tree tomorrow so I made this little ornament for my little grandbaby's first Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving!

There are so many things I am thankful for ... family, friends and that we finally found that dang turkey!

I believe :))

And the winner is Mavis!

A Christmas ornament, the rectangle part measures 2 inches by 1 ½ inches. I made several of these for an ornament swap I am in.

Gettin Junkie

 

Now that I have my soldering iron and a few tools, I wanted to try something more artsy fartsy … lol I want it to be something weathered and rusty … something that is totally outside my comfort zone. But where do you find the junk! I tried the local building salvage and everything I found there was too big. The antique stores want to much so I turned to the thrift stores. The problem with them is that anything junky they throw out because they don’t think it will sell. So as I was digging through the good stuff and I came across this little candle holder …. and it hit me… I could take it apart and rust those leaves. Then I found one of those cheep vanity mirrors with the lacy metal edge. Well I am gonna take that apart and rust it too. I guess this is a good first step … to start looking at things just a little different.

Wrapped up

Just some little gold wire wrapped earrings I made and gave away for blog candy. 

Christmas Eve House

Ok … the little house … or church you all have been waiting for…this is my first attempt at soldering something dimensional…it was a learning experience for sure! But for my first one, I am pleased. I put a little battery powered tea light inside it and it looked great but it did not picture well. The battery tea light is smokeless so you don’t have to worry about having a way for the smoke to escape or it getting to hot, yet you still have the ambiance. I will have the kits for this and for one that doesn’t have such a steep roof available soon. I will also have the house shapes to sandwich images between. Smaller houses for charms will come with the small circles when the thinner glass arrives. They have to be made from the thinner glass.

I am calling it my Christmas eve house as that is the big day in our family. That is the day we have a huge party, open our gifts and Santa comes :)) By Christmas day it is all over with but the eating … lol

Most of these are made by sandwiching your images between two sheets of glass and then soldering it like you would a charm. This one is made of a single panel of glass. I don't have a lot of storage space so I wanted to be able to change the images for the season. I used "Tack-it-over-and-over" glue just on the edges of each collaged image so it only hits the soldered area. This way it can be removed and saved for next Christmas. The Number also has the "Tack-it-over-and-over" glue. Then I have saved the backing paper after I used my xyron so that I can store the images sandwiched between when the time comes. I have already started the "Valentines" images and eventually I will have a set for the entire year.

:o Total Bummer

While on a hunting trip my son totaled our Jeep today. The doctor says he will be fine, just sore for a while. He also has hearing loss in his ear from his head hitting the side window when it rolled. The doctor says it will come back and that it is like he had his ears boxed but the eardrum is ok.

Fairy House Charm

I love this little fairy house charm but decided to part with it for blog candy:) This one is done with mica instead of glass.

House of Q

You all are probably getting pretty tired of my photo houses but I am hooked on these … lol. Here is the latest addition to my block party. It was really hard to get a good scan of it as the chain did not want to hang right on the scanner. It features no other than the mighty Quinton himself.

Well you know me … I kept walking past the house of Q in the hallway and I just felt it was not finished so I pulled it down for a “redo” … lol I added the rusted curlies and another rusted snap and it made all the difference.

These can be made any size but the measuring tape on mine are accurate.

Swap Charms

I have recently been in several charm swaps. So I thought I would share my ideas.

 

 These I made for a couple of scrabble tile swaps but I did both sets the same or just about. I glued clip art inchies on the tiles (available in the free printable section of my website) then I printed the sayings on velum cut them out and glued them on and stamped them with some swirls Once that was done I covered the entire face of the charm with diamond glaze. When dry I wire wrapped them.

 

 

These were for a shrink plastic swap. I made a wire wrapped spiral and then sewed on shrink plastic buttons with metallic tread. Then I glued coins on the opposite side.

This picture is of page pebble charms. I made these last month for the monthly project on my website but as I always do, I made two of each so I would have a set for a swap too. Unfortunately they went missing in the mail. Although I missed the deadline for the intended swap, I still hold hope of getting them back as it has only been two weeks. There is a fee online workshop for the pebble charms ... just click on the link on the right hand sidebar