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 8- #90daysofblogging

TGI Friday..

Announcements first.. my blog post will be available on the Helmar blog some time today by clicking here.  Should be available sometime after 9am EST in most cases..

In the mean time, here is a sneak peak..
at my artistic process..

I took this corrugated board piece from Michaels and added book papers to I used Helmar's Decoupage paste to adhere book papers and the other half was Deco Art's Acrylic Gesso.  Then I colored using some Neocolor IIs.

I covered more than half the letter with neo IIs..   Took a wet brush and washed the color a little.  Painted the base of the letters with Deco Art's Multisurface Satin Black Tie.  I also sprayed my project with 1:1 Water to Ultra Matte Varnish to kina help act like a workable fixative for the water soluble crayons. I know i wanted to possible be able to stamp  and doodle on top of the letters.  I edged my letters with my Faber Castell, black gelato.   Once that was done, I decided to try my hand at someflower clustering.I adhered an assortment of flowers to the letters with Helmar\s Craft and Hobby PVA.  I actually clustered flowers.  I know I can do better.. but this was fine for this was fine for this sign.  Let me show you one of my clusters.  ::smiles::

  Well that's enough for now.. I need you to go to the Helmar blog and see it.. and leave me a NICE comment so I know you came by.. :)  I do appreciate YOU and YOUR TIME!!

Now I am on my way to check out the other lovely ladies of the #90daysofbloggin challenge:

Sharon Estes 

Yvonne Armitage Gebauer 

Sandee Setliff

Sandy Beach
Donna Lueders

Helmar DT Teaser.. StarBook

Good Day All!  Here in the United States we are experiencing winter time and frankly I am tired of it! (smiles)  We have quite a bit of snow and the cold temps mean, it won't melt anytime soon!  In the meantime I have got to transplant myself into something that makes me happy!  I looked around my room and I decided I would play with something that had been hoarding.  ::hangs head low::  I just love these papers by Susan K Weckesser .. they make me happy!  With them, i decided I would create a star book!

I cut my papers in sets of 6.  4x6in; 4x7in; and 4x8in.  I then got out my Helmar's Craft & Hobby PVA Glue and lined up each of the 3 pages and glued the edges on the 4 inch sides only.starting with the longest sheet (4x8) and ending with the shortest sheet (4x6)

  

Since the 4x6 pages are the decorated card stock I decided to add some cool *color and bloom* related quotes and fussycut some of the flowers. I wanted my quotes to attach quickly because I didn't decorate the page BEFORE I attached it to the book (kicks myself) so I used Helmar's Super-Tac Glue to embellish the pages quickly.  Then I wanted to decorate cover and add a fibrous ribbon for closure.  I used my Helmar's ZapDots to add dimension the title page.

I am sure as my daughter and I sit back and read the quotes.. We will embellish the book further with faces, paints and doodles because, that's what we do.  We complete books together.  We make up our own stories and use these dreary wintry spring starved days like today to remind us color still exist within us.. :)    Would love for you to check out my finished project by CLICKING HERE and leaving me a bloggy love to know you came by.. I would also like to do the same for you!!

Thanks for dropping by!!!  Have a great week!

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::

My TIffany Inspired Post Cards

Hey folks.. Just giving a little background information of my Helmar post for 10/20/2014.  I was first inspired to make my own Tiffany Inspired Post Cards from the lovely and talented Tiffany Golf also known as SoutherGalsDesigns!  You can find her YOUTUBE Channel here.

The video that inspired me to play is this one here..

She has been my total inspiration behind these cards.. I wish I could put more on my Helmar's post, but it pulls away from the Company's product, So I post here.

Things I used on my postcard includes:

• Americana Acrylics 
• Multi Surface Satin Paints
• Helmar Decoupage & Craft Paste 
• Helmar Tacky Craft Glue
• Helmar Crystal Kote Gloss Varnish
• Various pens for doodling- specifically- Unibal Signo Broad (UM-153) in white and silver; The Ranger Fude Ball ; and a white correction pen
• scrap papers in torn in small bits
• junk mail and card stock
• various stamps
• black archival ink
• glue/paint scrapper
• paper cutter

Here are a few pictures from the process of some other postcards I have in the making.. 

To see my finished project please click here! It will direct you to the Helmar's blog!  Would be nice if you left a little bloggy love, this is my first post as memeber of the design team. I am so excited! :)  I will be doing these again with variation of colors and designs.  I can't wait to send off the ones I created in the mail to my swap partners in the Artful Mail Group and a few other folks! :)  I also love the response the folks at the counter of the USPS when I drop off artsy mail. :)

Anywho.. THANK YOU for your time.. and Don't forget to stop by the HELMAR BLOG or the FB page to say hi! 

Have a great week!

Paper Beads for my Inspiration Station.. Jennibellie Inspired :)

Decided I was going to make some paper beads.. like the ones I saw in Jennibellie's Inspiration station.  I was going to use some of my favorite papers , in my favorite colors first..  Then i just started picking all kinds of papers I liked.. and after a little bit.. I had a small collection.. The glue I used was Helmar's Tacky  Glue and Ranger's Glossy Accents.  :)

Check them out..

Got a lot of inspiration from this Jennibellie's YouTube video here..

You can start out making these beads with a toothpick or skewers to roll your papers on.. but I later bought a bead roller from JustJennDesignz here.  

Thanks for looking and have fun making those beads!!

Dress Swap 4x6 for Arsty Mail

Today I am sharing with you a 4x6 post card I did for a group.  I had to have a dress on it and it had to be 4x6.  You could put the dress on it any kind of way you wanted to and believe me I thought of at least 2 dozen ways to do so. :)  I told myself to use what I had!  Don't go out buying things.  You have more than enough supplies to pull this off.. Now sit your behind down and figure out what method you plan to use.  I thought about painting directly on the page and collaging papers; I thought about origami folks since I had just done over 80 dresses courtesy of a video I just watched by Michelle aka The Paper Addiction, but I also decided to just attach them to the backs on my postcards and envelope my cards instead sending them like postcards.

 

 

 Anyway.. I decided to do some mixed media painting on a watercolor paper with my DecoArt Acrylic neon paints..  A little lightweight stenciling with some punchinella with black Stazon and high lighting with my white Signo gel pen. added bling and adhered to a black dress form, with my favorite Helmar Craft Glue, then I  also added more doodling on it..

I placed it on top of a book page I gessoed with DecoArt Gesso and again using the neon paints, black stazon stamp pad, and white gel pen, in the background.  I also added the black Gloss Enamel paint on the edges to  loosely {frame} it where I again doodled!  This was fun to work with!!

My swap partner Terri .. I didn't know much about her.. so I looked on her FB page and saw she spent a lot of time at BSU.. (colors are Blue and Orange; adhered this dress with Helmar's Craft Glue to back of the other dress)  Hope she likes this.. :)  Especially since I am soooo not a dress chick.. lol!

Thank you.. for stopping by!!