Hearts

This month the new challenge over at Country View Challenges is hearts.

Here is my take on this.

Initially I found this topic challenging as I don't use 'hearts' in my art. Then I remembered I read somewhere if you are stuck with a creation think of some music and base a creation around that. So I recall in the early 80's a single that I bought that was called Two Hearts Beat As One by U2. 

So I started off with brayering Paperartsy Fresco Chalk Paints in Slate and Zesty Zing. I love this colour combo!!. This plastic pipe with ridges makes a great mark making tool, dipped in some left over Zesty Zing.

I wanted some roundage so I used a stamp from PaperArtsy ELB34 by Lin Brown. Again with Zesty Zing.

The font came from my computer. Mustard Seed and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink brayered onto the card.

I found some of the lyrics, using a white pencil and a white Sharpie added the hand written words.

Brings back lots of memories from the eighties!!!

Altered Art

I was very pleased and proud to receive an email from one of my friends Irena Stefanova this week asking if I would like to be a Guest Designer over on the Kartishok Mix Media Blog.

I have been saving some coffee cans and storing my brushes, pens and mark making tools but have not got around to altering them.

So I came up with this for storing some of my mark making tools!!

My coffee can first had 2 coats of black gesso, the a coat of Pebeo Dyna paint in Silver. I wanted a metallic effect. 

I then played and added more colours from the Pebeo Dyna paint range in blue green, green and green blue!! I found these die cuts so glued into position and added some Pebeo Guilding wax also in silver.

The words were written with a Zig marker and the background I used some colouring pencils.

Fun and useful project, perfect for storing some of my collection of mark making tools. 

Thanks for stopping by, have a creative week!!!

Changing Seasons

Very proud today as I have another project over on the PaperArtsy blog.

My inspiration came from a view from our house. Our village is situated within a 'basin' and surrounded by fields. This is one of the views.

I have often wanted to capture this in some form of art. When I saw the new releases by Lin brown, my fave was ELB34. I wanted to use the leaf stamp as my 'trees' and the rest of the set for the foliage etc as you work your way down the landscape.

I wanted to use this old bit of wood as it has great dimention. I used Grunge Paste and smeared it onto the wood and sprinkled on some In The Navy Infusions. With a wet kitchen scourer made some marks and swirls into the paste. 

I have displayed this in between 2 rooms, so when you walk one way you see spring first, when you walk back winter is in view.

This is my fave bit, you have to lift the flap to see autumn!!. The pieces of wood where whittled from a cherry branch.

Winter, love the feel of the cold with the clear embossing on the leaf..

I had great fun creating this, looking forward to my next post!!!

Wall Hanging.

I have made this using some scrap wood, all the sections were hand cut.

Each section was painted with white Gesso, I used the Sillouette Grasses stamp set from Chocolate Baroque and stamped onto tissue paper. Whilst the matt medium was still wet I sprinkled on some Brusho crystals in Lemon and Yellow.

I also added some chalk paints in grey, love the colour scheme.

Funky piece of wall art, great fun!!!

Fly...

Found this great challenge blog here in Bulgaria.

Kartishok Mix Media Blog 

This month they have a challenge called Fly.

Here is my make..

I painted some wood with some white Gesso, and sprinkled on some Brusho Powders in Lime Green and Sea Green. Spritzed with some water and allowed to dry. The moth is made from scrap fabric, and his body is some wound up wool. Antennea is some copper wire.

Die cut letters and painted with some gold paint.

Rusty Ram!!!

Found Objects is the current challenge over at PaperArtsy this fortnight..

I have found lots of rusty metal and kept them in a bucket. I selected a few just to see what I could come up with.

I came up with this fish type of thing, inspiration came from the fish example that Darcy provided in the intro post.

Then I saw this butterfly??

Then I came up with this, my fave!!!

This piece of wood is also a find, really old and falling apart, I glued it back together and applied some Paperartsy Fresco Acrylic Paint Caribbean Sea, Inky Pool and some Infusions Slime. A good rub with some coarse sandpaper added some age.

Used some nails as eyes, also this holds his head in place, a big pile of 3d glue gel holds the rest in place.

One funky ram!!! 

Folk Art Houses on Wood!!

This evolved this week, there are no step by steps as it sort of just came together. I had created the 3 houses some time ago, they just got knocked over all of the time by the cats!!

So I decided to mount them onto a larger piece of wood and ready to hang on the wall.

Underneath each house I have spread some PaperArtsy Grunge Paste, when dry added some acrylic paints.

I found this little wax seal some years ago, it has my initials BGE, how cool is that!!!

I have set up a little Etsy store, listing here.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the rest of your week!!!