A mixed media piece

A mixed media piece

Sunday 17 April 2016

Saturday Afternoon's play

Hi everyone had a play yesterday afternoon after coming back
from Ministry of Mixology and had a lovely time
using Kate's technique's.
 I was very lucky to do the running in her class on the Sunday
so listened very carefully and hoped that my mind would 
behave and remember how she created her
note book.
I must add that in itself is no mean feat as my family say I 
have a memory of a goldfish "How Rude" I alway's think
 while secretly agreeing with them.
 But luckily while waiting for my train home from Coventry 
I jotted down the steps.
 Kate gave me a page from the notebook that she had been demonstrating 
to the class for me to refer to how lucky am I.
So now I have A Any Skinner original and a Kate Crane original 
in my art room.
Well that's it for today hope you like my efforts I think it might
 be a bit busy but I like it anyway and loved the creative
 process it is very therapeutic.
Cheers Dee x


Saturday 16 April 2016

Watercolours Over at Tando

 Hi everyone Dee here with my piece for this weeks challenge
use water colours over at Tando Creative. 
Thats it for today why not pop over to the Tando blog to see the
step by step and join with us in the challenge.
Cheers Dee x


Friday 15 April 2016

An Altered Box For The SASPC Challenge

Hi everyone Dee here with my latest post for the SASPC monthly 
challenge. I have an altered wooden box from left over
Christmas Confectionary.
I started by gessoing the whole box followed by stencilling the 
words & pattern to the corner of the lid with with modelling
 medium next a coat of black acrylic paint.
Once dry I applied weather wood in area's this is done to increase 
the size of the crackle.
Next a coat of crackle paint all over the cover and put
aside to dry
Meanwhile all the Boozybear pieces I coated in powdered rust.
apart from the clock which I used Deco Art texture 
sand paste on.
I left the numbers untextured and coated it all in a coat of Paynes Grey
and Raw Umber Deco art media acrylics,
Once the crackle paint on the box had dried and crackled I applied
very watery washes of Prussian Blue Hue till I was happy 
with the colour.
A further wash of Andy Skinner's dirty wash was applied over the top.
I set the rusty clock on a background of a circle and painted it with
Tourquoise and covering in Deco art Liquid glass.
Inside the box I used about 5 different techniques one would
develop into the next then the next till I was happy 
with the result.
You can just make out the stamps that are used on the base of the
box prior to being painted with crackle paint.
Prussian blue hue was spritzed and run down the sides.
It was all finished off with treasure gold. I hope you have 
all been inspired to join us this month
the challenge is anything goes.

That's it for this month from Sandee & Amelie's
steam punk Challenges.
Cheers Dee x

Tuesday 12 April 2016

Triple Embossing with Dee




Triple Embossing with Dee

CAUTION THE MOLTON EMBOSSING POWDERS MAY BURN YOU.

1. Swipe your substrate/card with embossing ink then pour your chosen powders over the area.
2. Tip the remaining embossing powder back into its pot & heat set your embossing powder with your hot air gun until melted.
3. Follow the above steps with chunky clear or ultra thick embossing powder.
4. Follow the above steps again with your base colour this will be your final layer of embossing powder.
5. Ideally you will have picked out your stamp that you want to emboss with and will have inked it up with a pigment ink pad I tend to use versa fine.
6. For this step you need to heat the embossing powder until it is molten you will be able to see this and working quickly press your inked stamp into the molten embossing powder & allow to cool prior to peeling your stamp off.

7. If working on a substrate it might be best to paint it or colour it with your chosen medium.

As promised Cheers Dee x

Monday 4 April 2016

Distress Elephant.

Hi everyone I hope you are well I have a sneak peek for you on
my latest post over at the Artistic Stamper.
Why not pop over to the blog and see how I made this card.
Thats all for today folks hope you like my card please
feel free to let me know what you think.
Cheers Dee x


Friday 1 April 2016

AS Distress challenge


Hi everyone Dee here with my latest post over at the Artistic
Stamper for this months Challenge Distress.
So with this in mind I used some of The Artistic stampers
 new stamps and a old background Stamp.

I seem to be having a problem with centralising my 
words. I used the distress splatter tool.
It all looked to pale for me so I sprayed with vintage photo
distress stain spray.
A little triple embossing and a sprinkle of white embossing 
powder.
Distress marker in spiced Margold was
used to colour in the flowers.
That's it folks.
cheers Dee

Wednesday 30 March 2016

1 stencil 2 stamps 3 flowers by Dee

Hi everyone hope you are all well Its my turn
here is a couple of photo's.
Pop over to Tando to see how I created 
this piece.
Cheers Dee x

Saturday 26 March 2016

anything goes

Hi everyone Dee here is a sneak peek at my latest post for
Tando Creative.  This weeks
theme is anything goes.


Why not pop over to the blog and join in with us.
Cheers Dee x

Tuesday 22 March 2016

Kiki

Hi everyone I have a new project over on the Artistic Stamper Blog.
Why not pop over and see how I created this piece.
Its an unusual twist on the Neil Walker Kiki stamp.
Cheers Dee x

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Anything goes over at SASPC


 Hi everyone I hope you are all well and joining in with us
over at SASPC
this month for a chance to win some seriously
awesome mixed media supplies.
 I have a journal page/spread (new to me but seem to
be doing a lot of them) to inspire you this month.
This layout was inspired by France pappilion and an article she did 
in craft stamper magazine.
So I started with a layer of Deco Art gesso, a layer of gel medium, another 
layer Of gesso on card. 
Next I took my heat gun and heated the mediums till they bubbled 
up and created a lovely texture.
 I used black modelling paste put through a 
distressed harlequin stencil.
The above pic shows the tag with my acknowledgement to France Pappillion
 for the inspiration I got from her art. 
I sprayed the surface with distress stain sprays till I was happy with 
the results
While the black modelling paste was still wet I used powdered rust
A stampers anonymous classic script stamp inked with black
archival ink and stamped randomly over the two pages.
Vintage photo distress stain was used to colour a piece of 
cheese cloth. 
Treasure gold in spanish topaz was used to highlight
the bubbles created by the heat gun
Deco arts black modelling paste was used through a CWS 
Some ideology tissue tape was used under the dyed cheese cloth.
a few die cut cogs were used to finish off.
Thank you for popping by today why not
 come and play in a world of 
steampunk.


Cheers Dee x

Wednesday 9 March 2016

Texture paste

Hi everyone I hope you are well and doing lots of crafting!!
Our theme this week is texture paste over at
Why not get your pastes out and maybe a stencil or two.
Come along and play with us.
Or just pop over to the blog and see if we can inspire you 
or just to see the step by step here.
Cheers Dee x

Friday 4 March 2016

Playing with dylusions

 Hi everyone time for sneaky peek over at 
Why not pop over and see what I created with 
Dylusion paint and Artistic Stamper stamps.
Cheers Dee x