Monthly Colour Arte Challenge

I used just twinkling H2Os and a oil pastel for the table and blue wall... I am entering it in the challenge below.. My picture doesn't show the shimmer and thats my fave part!!

This Month challenge is super easy

We want you to make a project using Warm Color

ColourArte and Art Journal Color- Challenge

This was made for ColourArte's Challenge #5 - Fall Colors

 and the November Challenge over at **ART*JOURNAL*JOURNEY*


Had fun wetting my pots of Twinkling H2Os.  Let the water sit for a few moments and applied with a waterbrush, in case i wanted or need to keep the color wet and mobile. The birds are from BloomGirls from Prima.. by Jaylynscraps. I love those birds.. I love more that a create new color for birds that might not exist!

I took a heart shaped canvas board and added gesso by decoart.  Then I took the radiance gels and created a sky,  love how it is a dimensional paint and I was able to add texture with it..

Day 87- #90daysofblogging (TWINKLING H2O)

Sending this ATC off to Grumbacher for their swap challenge .

and 

ColourArte's Orange is the New Black challenge.

Hey just love spritzing my Twinkling H2O with water and laying down colors on this bristol atc.

Leaves have always been hard for me, but using the twinks and then going over them with a unibal waterproof pen and hinting a bit of line seems to work.  What do you think?

The quote says Mother Nature has the BEST box of crayons, but Colour Arte ain't far behind!!

Day 12- #90daysofblogging

Today I was in a bit of pain so I was in bed much of the day.  I did a little bit of playing time with my Twinkling H2Os from  Colour  Arte, my Derwent watercolor pencils, I stamped my images with archival ink pad because it permanent. I used water color paper and just played.. Sometimes with water brush and sometimes with a regular artist bristle brush. Here are a few pictures.

These are images from stamps I got from SinCityStamps.com called Madame   As you can see I did a bit of scribbling swatches on my water color paper direct.. to avoid leaving pencil mark lines on my images,  I hate that.. (ilk) These derwent pencils seem pretty perm once dry.  I couldn't go back and move color from my swatches of color.. so i learned.. just pick up a little at a time.  Plus it was more then enough to accommodate the small spaces I was working on.

and these are from Terri Sprouls newest stamps..  also from Sin City Stamps found here.  Here I used more of my H2Os.  I like to add shimmer to their clothing and shoes whenever I could.. They all look like glamorous girls, don't they?  Love my little pots of shimmering goodness!

Both are fun to play and color with.. whether it be water color paints and or pencils!

I definitely won't need a coloring book for a while!  

Might even use some of those on my post for Sin City this coming Friday.. :)

Anywho.. enough for this post.. I could go on for a while longer.. but ha.. I have over 70 more days of yacking to do!! :)

In the mean time.. if your up to reading.. check out my girls right here.. :)

Sharon Estes 

Yvonne Armitage Gebauer 

Sandee Setliff

Sandy Beach
Donna Lueders

I want to be a part of the Colour Arte DT :)

The Company store and products can be found here!!

What can I say.. creating makes me VERY happy!  I absolutely LOVE color.  While I personally don't wear a lot of color.  I do LOVE to play with it! I think its the ONE thing that I am NOT afraid of in my art. If anyone were to ask me what my favorite color was.. I would say NEON, the brighter the better!! ::chuckle:: and probably narrow it down to a tanzanite or plum.  While both may be a shade of purple, they are very distinctly different!  Let NO ONE tell you otherwise! (smiles & laughs)

Anywhooo.. I am here today because I would like to be a part of Colour Arte Design Team and here is my project! Mixed Media Tags:  On the Left we have- Create Imagine Make Believe; On the right- Remember You Are Loved

  

 I cut a few hearts out an old pizza box.  I figured I could do it free hand.  Would look more MEKOish if I did.  I pulled pack the first layer or paper to expose the corrugated texture then I rubbed some gesso on it and let it dry as I prepped my tags.


I waited for the gesso to dry, I opened my pots of H2Os.. and grabbed whatever colors spoke to me at the time..No real reason or plan besides making a tag with a heart on it.  You should mist the pots and let them sit about 2-3 minutes so that water seeps into and all that colorful goodness!

     

 As the pots started to get a moistened and pasty, I just brushed color on the hearts.  Gesso may not have been the way to go.. but the H2Os are transparent, so I should have expected more white to show through.  I didn't use my paints so it wasn't really needed after all. On the left is a picture of some hearts I decided to color, just because I like to color hearts.  ::tilts head:: (laughs)  Don't my paints looked loved?  Took lots of use to get them that way.. Got to love them!

While these were drying I decided to go and work on my tags.  I had one large tag Prima doll tag and I had a smaller tag I received in Happy Mail that I knew I wanted to use. That tag had been hit with the #heatgun and embossed with some clear embossing power.  As you see in the next picture.. it creates a resist against the H2Os.. Cooooll Right? I think so!! (smiles) 

I saturated the tag in about 3 colors,.  

Don't they just look gorgeous! Blue Zircon, Pumpkin, and wild plum.  Then I worked on the other tag because I knew I had at wanted to make another one with a different technique. I painted the second card, but I got it extra juicy.  I wanted to add one more step to it before it began to dry.

So with my second tag.. I threw some rock salt on it.  I love how that turns out in the end.  Because not to drop any on the floor especially if you walk around with NO SHOES.. LIKE I DID! ::sigh::  Anyway, (smiles) here is a picture of that tag with salt on it!

I then decided, what they hey.. and tossed some on the embossed tag too!!

After I brushed the salt off I decided I wanted some color back on the second tag.  So I dropped some Deco Art Media Line Fluid Acrylic in my DA Molding Paste and stenciled a few spots.

  

While that was drying I decided I would hand write my quotes to go on my tags and I wanted to use some faces my daughter got from a dear friend of ours. (smiles.. HI VON) I painted the faces and did a quick wash on water color paper that i planned to cut up for my words.

After adhering my bits to my tag with my favorite Helmar Super Tac Glue. I finally added some scraps of ribbon and I felt like I was done.. :)  

My finished tags came out like this.. :)  I was pretty pleased with them.. Here they are once again!

  

 

I hope if you haven't given H2Os or other Colour Arte products a try that you will!
They not only provide you with QUALITY COLOR, but also AWESOME shimmer!  Grab a few and a brush and some water and give it go!! Have a GREAT WEEK!! ::waves::