January Catty Pink your life Whisper friends

Hi Everyone I have a project for you that I did for the 

 Stampendous's  January Catalog.

I Started with cutting the plaque from the foam board what 

I would say is I would use Tando substrate next time as it

doesn't buckle although this effect did add to the piece in 

the end. Crackle paste was used around the edges with

a palette knife.

I then painted the board with gesso followed by the crackle paint.

this was followed by the Prussian blue hue, along with titan buff,

&  phathio turquoise. This was randomly applied along with the 

wax I kept knocking it back until I was happy with the result.

A final wash of quinacridone gold pains grey and ultra matt 

medium (Andy Skinners dirty wash) was put over the top to 

age it all. Translucent paste was put through the Picasso

tool and sprinkled with chunky gold embossing

powder, and heat set.

The pink your life people, houses and mushrooms were 

stamped onto black card then clear embossed and 

coloured in using the prisma pencils.

These were all attached to the plaque so that they stand 

slightly proud not flat against it.

Products used 

1. Stampendous products used :- Pink Your life stamps used were Mushroom rubber stamp,Whisper friendship rubber stamp, Whisper houses clear stamp. Picasso shield/stencil tool Dream weaver translucent paste, & crackle paste, dream weaver palette knife, Gold chunky & clear embossing powder
2. Deco Art:- Media white gesso, Crackle paint, acrylic paint in the following colours Prussian blue hue, Colbolt turquoise, Quinacridone  Gold, Paynes gray,  titan buff, white tinting base, ultra matt varnish.
3. Prisma colour pencils along with Sansador and paper stubb, Foam board A4 sheet cut 1/3 of the bottom cut to make the plaque, hair wax, mod rock, and some gold handmade paper & black card.

Introducing Andy Skinners new Creative Team

Hi everyone - so excited to have been asked to take part in Andy's new Creative Team and to have been selected to work along side such talented Artists. 

That being said there is nothing like jumping in at the deep end as I kick it all off today over on 

Andy's blog. So here we go with a little teaser of my first post for this exciting 

new Team.

So pop over to see the full piece and don't forget to let me know what you all think of 

my first piece for this very talented team.

Cheers Dee x

Guest designer over at a Vintage Journey

Hi everyone! I am very proud to have been invited as a Guest designer over 

@ A Vintage Journey and this month Challenge is

"The Magic of Three" 

Here are the challenge details :

"Using Three of something adds more interest and power whether it is a conversation, art or numbers. Let us see you use three of something in your challenge project (numbers, techniques, stamps, colours, words, products - the list is endless!) 

Let us know what your magic 3 components are and ensure your project is in our vintage; shabby; mixed media; art journaling; industrial, timeworn or steampunk styles that we favour".

If you pop over to the blog I have done a full tutorial 

over on the Vintage Journey blog.

There is also more photo's of my interpretation of this months 

theme.

I hope you all like the piece that I have created and as always please feel
free to leave me your thoughts and any questions that you
may have.



Cheers Dee x

Anything goes over at Tando skulduggery

Hi everyone I have a post gone live on the Tando creative blog today 

why not pop across and take a peek.

Thanks for popping by
Cheers Dee x

SASPC Aprils challenge

Hi everyone I have for you today a piece of steampunk

art that I did for a retreat weekend at (MOM)

Ministry Of Mixology

As you all know I love my Steampunk and I love 

Deco Art products. 

So I used my Steampumpkin stamp from Stampendous

to stamp into my gold embossing powder.

 The tag was gessoed with black gesso followed by

crackle paint.

 The edges of the Tando tag were scraped with texture

Sand paste.

 Distressed harlequin stencil and modelling paste were 

used along the left hand side of the tag.

 Washes were used to age it all with burnt umber and 

Quinacridone gold really watery

The wings were made from paper clay and a mould

then painted gold and patina antiquing cream

applied and knocked back.

 Various embellishments from my stash were used to

finish off the piece.

Same stamp and technique different shaped 

heart.

I really hope you all enjoyed my tag for you today

and hope that you all have a great Easter.

Please feel free to ask any questions and

let me know what you think.

Kind regards Dee X

Embossing crystals

Hi over on the Tando blog this week embossing crystals are

 being explored by the team.

 Today is my turn and i have a few samples of the effects you can
achieve with them.

Cheers Dee x

SASPC

Hi folks! I have a tag for you today.

I used lots of lovely Deco art products to create

this steam punk tag.

I used a Tando tag to showcase the Boozy Bear

piece.

I enhanced it with micro beads.

Antiquing creams in carbon black and Patina.

Treasure gold was used to showcase the main focal 

point.

A large glass bead was used to cover a stamped 

image.

A close up of the stencilled background.

I hope you all have enjoyed my piece today 

please feel free to let me know what you 

think.

Cheers Dee x

Cracks and crevices over at Tando hearts

Hi everyone! Dee here with my take on Cracks and Crevices

 over at Tando creative

Why not pop across to the blog and check out what the

 team have done.

Cheers Dee x

Anything goes over at Tando

Hi everyone Dee here with my post for anything goes over at Tando creative.

Why not pop over to the Tando blog and see what the team have created.

Cheers Dee X

SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges New/forgotten stash.

Hi Folks its that time again! Team B are showing their 

pieces for this month challenge.

New/forgotten stash.

I started go with my media board and applied silver embossed

card to the base of the board. 

I then applied a graphite paste to the top of the board

to which I applied my new stash of mica powders.

For the heart I used foam board which i painted with

Deco art titan buff and stamped using Andy skinners 

INDUSTRIAL rubber stamp set.

i distressed the edges with raw umber and archival ink

finishing off with wire and die cut cogs.

Finally I added my forgotten stash the wings and crown.

Thank you everyone for popping by and I 

hope to see you all join in with us.

Cheers Dee x

Love and Hearts Over at Tando creative

Hi everyone Its my turn over at Tando Creative With the challenge being 

Love and hearts.

Why not pop over to Tando and see what the team have created so far.

Let us know what you think

Happy Valentines day.

Cheers Dee

Paper Artsy Challenge

Hi everyone just a quick post noticed the challenge over at Paperartsy

having a rare opportunity to visit their website.

 So I thought lets play along

The theme is 'Orange and Pink'

 Well couldn't go to girly so a bit of black and gold 

accents to complete.

All created with fresco paints Jo Firth stamps and a 

Paper Artsy stencil. 

  Well thats it folks i let you know if I get any where 

speak about last minute.

Cheers Dee x