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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::
