Your Fearless song art canvas

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share a large canvas that I made just for challenges.
Once or twice a month I take time to free myself from any DT job and I scroll the challenge blogs to find the themes that I love. Then I make a pretty large project and try to combine a few of these challenges.
So here is the first one for September and you should read a bit about this project to understand the concept.

As you can see I made a tribute to one of the most famous all time artists- Sir Elton John.
For a few last days/weeks there were a lot of TV shows that remembered  Princess Diana who passed 20 years ago.
So one of the things that made me to make this canvas was  Elton's version for " Candle in the wind" that he made for  Diana's funeral.
This canvas has a lot of items that are connected to his songs: you can spot the yellow brick road, the candle over the tags and even this English rose from Diana's version of the song.
The title says Create your fearless song and is actually his  all time most popular "Your song".

I made this page with different stencils from all possible companies.
The paper and stickers are from 7 dots.
The chipboards are also from a few companies, but mostly from Creative Embellishments.
The background stamps are from Unity.
And the paints? Whatever I had.
I really love the outcome of my love to this artist and even the photos were scanned from the CD covers that I own.
 I think that I would do some more art pieces in the same style and maybe John Lennon will be the next one.

7 dots- Favorite Artist


More than Words- Grungy and word Fearless



Journey for Scrapki-wyzwaniovo- and this is my artistic journey to my early years that  I make these days.
John Lennon will be the next canvas and so on.

Unicorn dream altered canvas

Fancy altered canvas made for some web challenges.

The background is made with stencils , stamps (Unity), mediums and Lindy's Stamp Gang mists. 

The chipboards are mostly from Creative Embellishments, but some are just the old, no name pieces too.

Flowers are made from Foamiran material with different dies and painted over with gesso and misted with Lindy's mists.

I enter this art piece to some web challenges:

 Lindy's Stamp Gang- June color challenge

I made it with (lucky me- I had those colors in my stash!): 

Alpine Ice Rose Starburst

Shabby Turbine Teal Starburst

Bonjour Butter Flat Fabio mist

The dark teal color is acrylic paint to get some darker shade to the art piece.

Scrap and craft- Anything goes and I added some kind of a string.

 

Foamiran flowers for Studio 75

 Crafty life challenges- Flowers

 Mixed Media Place- inspiration, mostly from the right low photo- colors and flowers

 Words and Paintery- Inspiration

Hello life twinchies set

 Some stamped and die cut 2*2'' pieces I made awhile ago and were already in print.
Made with Unity stamps (Ann Butler) and different dies with heat embossed black pigmented ink and gold pigmented ink.
So easy and so fancy! Don't you think?

Love of nature twinchies set

Set of inchies that was already in print and was never posted i my blog.
Made with Unity stamps and a lot of heat embossing and water colors.

Just Love card with Unity

Sometimes I have a spare time to make some web challenges.
 So this Mixed Media card is made for Craft Stamper MITI February Anything goes challenge.
Just something monochromatic made with tons of Unity stamps, dry embossed and rolled vellum, heat embossing on cardstock and vellum, stickers stitches to cover the torn line of wet cardstock and inks and mists all around.

I enter it to Craft Stamper challenge
Card concept- Vintage
 Love to scrap- Who loves you, baby? with stamping
 Dream in Darkness- Anything MM not cute

Live, Laugh, Love Mixed Media layout

Once in awhile I have spare time to make some web challenges.
So I pick a sketch, a mood board , a theme and try to make one piece to a few of web challenge and on the way to scrap some good photos that I keep for this special reason.
So this layout is this kind of creation: made with Clique Kit February sketch, with Creative Embellishments for their Rainbow Love challenge, with rainbow colors for 13 Arts using some of their mediums (the ones I have), connected to the rainbow part of a mood board for Paper Issues and using the Love theme for Altair Art.
I hope some of them love this page as much as I do.

I used Scrapmatts new A4 size stencil with all possible glitters, embossing powders over the texture paste.
I stamped with black and white inks using Unity stamps all over the page.
The chipboards were covered with paint, gesso and embossing powder.

Entered to challenges:
Creative Embellishments

Clique Kits Sketch



Altair Art- Love is in the air- this time love of big brother and little sister, my adorable grand kids


13 Arts- Rainbows


Love and wings for Mixed Media Mojo

Embellished clips tutorial with Susan W

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Welcome to my new small tutorial made for Susan K Weckesser's blog.

This time I decided to make something for the planners trend. And as I don't even have a planner, but I do use  small notebooks, I made a few stamped clips for my notebooks as dividers.

So here is my tutorial:

1. Stamp Susan's  houses with her Clearsnap ColorBox mini Pop ink in Mystery color twice using co-branded with Unity Tumbleweed Houses stamp set.

2. Color the houses with Susan's other Clearsnap inks in Fresh, Ice, Sky and Kiss colors and as there is no Susan's yellow ink I used another Clearsnap ink in yellow. Don't try to make the best ever coloring and don't afraid to be out of the lines as we are going to cut the houses later.

3. Cut all colored houses and make them 3d using 3d foam glue.

Glue the house over plastic office clips with strong paper to plastic glue.

Use them!

Shrink plastic flowers box tutorial with Art Anthology

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Welcome to my first Art Anthology post for December.

After making some Mixed Media projects I decided to make something totally different and this time it's an altered small gift box and shrink plastic stamped flowers that were made to embellish this box. Both box  and glower bouquet were painted with gorgeous Art Anthology paints and it's another way to use those paints that I want  to share.

Step by step tutorial:

1. Stamp all flowers from In my Garden Unity  stamp set with black permanent ink as shown on white shrink plastic.

2.Color all stamped images with Art Anthology dimensional paints and don't try to color inside the lines as we are going to cut the images.

3. Hand cut the images and shrink them with your heat gun. That's how small they look after shrinking and the colors are very intense.

4. Paint the small Kraft box with Art Anthology  light green paint and let it dry.

5. Use Art Anthology stencil with Dazzling dimensional clear paint over the green box cover and let it dry.

This is how it looks after the second paint layer.

6. Arrange the shrinked images as you wish over the box and glue them to the cover.

This is how your lovely box looks from the side/top with all flowers on it.

To my cool friend card

Hello my dear crafty friend and welcome to my  inspirational post made for both Tando  and Susan K Weckesser.
This is Tando recipe week and we were asked to use one stencil, 2 stamps and 3 snowflakes.
And it was a time to make some winter cards too. So here is the card I made for both companies.
So I used Sunburst stencil with Susan's Clearsnap ColorBox Mini Pop ink in Ice color for the background.
Then I used Susan's two stamps from Snow Way stamp set co- branded Unity set for the main Snowman image and the sentiment using here other color of ink- Sky.
Three chipboard Tando mini snowflakes were covered with a thick layer of Ice ink and as they are bare chipboards the color is pretty dark after all. I covered the ink with clear embossing powder  for some glossy effect.
The snowman image was stamped twice, hand cut and made into 3d figurine.

 Tando mini snowflakes


Sunburst stencil