Don't forget to fly with DecoArt fluid media background

I've said it before but I love old photos and especially the photo booth pictures. When I saw this lady I immediately thought of Amelia Earheart, it's the leather jacket she is wearing - perfect for those  daring adventures during the pioneering days of flight.

Using the DecoArt fluid acrylics and Tim Holtz ideaology I have a tag over at the Country View Crafts Project Blog.

It would be lovely if you could pop over and see the tag in it's entirety and how it was made.

Thanks for stopping by. I thought I would add this quote as it seems to be me again at the moment.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

Have a great weekend.

hugs Brenda xxx

Updated to add the detail from CVC

I love using the photo booth pictures and this beautiful lady made me immediately think of Amelia Earheart, I think mainly because of the leather jacket she seems to be wearing - perfect for those  daring adventures during the pioneering days of flight.

I am using the DecoArt media range today and particularly these gorgeous fluid acrylics. They are highly pigmented and formulated to deliver professional artist performance at all skill levels and at an affordable price. Fluid Acrylics are flexible, intermixable, durable, and permanent.

I began by covering the tag with media gesso and then when dry added some small spots of paint on my craft mat and took the Tim Holtz chevron stencil and a small piece of blending foam.

I already had an idea for a layout so I kept my design in two places only.

I could see I needed a pop of colour so using a splatter stamp and cadmium orange hue stamped some small random areas.

Next some strips of tissue tape ...

.... and bring in some watery colour for the background, I use a babywipe to apply it.

Add texture with some patterned and text stamps using black archival ink.

Add somne more to the design if needed, including remnant rubs and splatter with walnut stain distress ink.

Finish by adding the focal photo and embellishments to complete the tag.

Lots of Idea-Ology and the fabulous new punches from Tim Holtz.

Thanks for stopping by .....

.... I hope you are inspired to fly with your art this weekend.

hugs Brenda xxx

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A Visual Journey #28

Windows on life.

This began with a coat of gesso and when dry I stamped some old la blanche stamps on the pages and on spare paper and used removable tape to add them as a mask.

I love laying my first layer of colour down using a babywipe, it can give a very soft blended hue or be applied much heavier to give that deep and vibrant blend of colour. I used rusty hinge, barn door and vintage photo distress paint.

After drying the light layer of paint I didn't want to waste what was left on my craft mat so I sprayed it with water and dipped and dried the pages several times.

Whilst the stamped images were still masked I used DecoArt white crackle paste and laid down some brick texture adding in some more of the colours used in the background.

This produces fabulous crackles in quite a short while.

I used my own made up misters to add colour depth around the textured areas.

Then removed the masks to 'paint' in the images using distress markers and inks.

Somehow I omitted to take photos of the next two stages where I added some stencilling using DIs and some light stamping using the new hickory smoke DI. A typed and printed quote added to finish it off.

People are like stained - glass windows. 

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,

but when the darkness sets in, 

their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Have a great end to the week.

hugs Brenda xxx

Destination the world

With the die-cut letters spelling 'destination' left over from making my AVJ challenge sample I set about using it and a few other bits that were on my desk or waiting in a box to be used.

I started with a piece of card that had been gessoed and stamped for another project that never made it off the starting board, but waste not want not as they say. In fact I think it worked quite well for this particular tag.

I collected elements to use, in fact I die-cut the globe three times from off cuts of card already made and used for other projects, the same with the aeroplane.

The ring fastener and word disc were given a coat of alcohol ink and treasure gold inspired by Alisons destination inspiration post at AVJ.

I also felt I needed something else to layer up so took a kraft mini tag from a box, inked and dipped it in walnut stain and stamped with one of Tim's texture stamps using picket fence distress paint.

The outer part of the globe was cut from a piece given the foil industrial treatment.

This fits in nicely with the July challenge at A Vintage Journey and it would be lovely to see you over there with your destination/travel projects.

Thanks for sharing in my artistic journey.

hugs Brenda xxx

Luggage Tags for CVC

Welcome everyone, I am sharing my second DT project for the Country View Challenges July theme of  'on your travels' and I have made two luggage tags.

I began by using the wrinkle free distress technique on two tags using frayed burlap and antique linen DIs. Using black archival ink I stamped various images using Tim's 'documented' set

I made up two small tags and used Artistic Outpost stamps from two or three sets to create these minis to go over the larger backgrounds. I used a water brush and DIs to colour both the images and the backgrounds.

A couple of words to add to the mix.....

 ..... and we have two luggage tags for the journey. 

I hope you can join us at CVC this month - the theme really fits the holiday season in the northern hemisphere.

Have a great weekend and hopefully enjoy some creative time.

hugs Brenda xxx

A Visual Journey #27

DT sister Trace was so kind when she die-cut and stamped the fresh brewed coffee stamps and dies from Tim Holtz and she sent me several sets of each so I am happily using them in my projects. There just had to be a page in my journal as I LOVE Starbucks frappuccinos, in fact it has to be a caramel one, they are my secret treat. There are even some days I will go without lunch just so I can have one and not have to worry too much about the calories (and I have lost a stone since the new year!!!!).

After gessoing the pages and leaving them to dry I daubed distress paints ( antique linen and frayed burlap) onto the pages, spritzed them with water and dabbed them over with an artists sponge and heat dried.

using the two same colours of paint and some foam I blended the paints through a mask.

I decided that with the die-cuts I was using I needed to 'ground' them so I darkened a strip at the bottom with walnut stain distress ink and stamped with pine needles DI. I used the same pine needles to blend through Tim's typo stencil, this has to be my favourite at the moment.

I cut out the stamped images I wanted to use and thought I would paint them with a mix of distress paints and distress inks so I thought I would show you my palette - I always use a piece of craft mat.

I typed and printed some extra coffee words and a quote, inked the edges of everything with walnut stain and adhered it all to the pages.

When I look back over this journal in the future, these pages will always raise a smile from me I'm sure, simply because of my love of frappuccinos. 

Although I called this painting it is really adult colouring in but I believe totally in this quote.

“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh

Thanks for sharing another week of my visual journey.

Take care.

hugs Brenda xxx

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