Clearly...It's A Flower!

For those of you wondering, I have not deterred from my path of loving flowers...and making them whenever I can.

So, the theme of the Making Art! Challenge #36 over at the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo! Group for the next week is using Wendy's product - Clearly For Art, a moldable, non-shrinking plastic.  I wanted to try her technique using Glue 'N Seal, Rock Candy Crackle paint and Alcohol Inks.  Scraptime did a video about it at CHA, HERE.

I saw these laser cut wooden flowers in Michael's, for $1.00!  Being the thrifty, cheapskate scavenger that I am, (and did I mention a lover of flowers?), I bought not one, but six of them, knowing I would do something with them...hopefully within my lifetime.

I know, right? A $1.00!

Here's what I did:

Side view, to show how dimensional the CFA can be:

I painted the wooden flower with some black metallic paint, the stem and leaves with Tarnished Brass Crackle paint.  I went over the crackle paint with some metallic mixative AI's, to tone it down a bit.  I then performed the technique Wendy demonstrated on CFA Blackout.  I have found that using the metallic paint dabbers on the Blackout works really well, and dries GREAT!  Some of the pigment inks don't dry quite as well. Consider that your tip of the week. Don't say I never gave you nothin'.

The flowers came with a puny little base, so I had some wooden circles that were bigger, and used it to stabilize the flower.

TA DA! Ok, one down, five more to go...but I'm going to do something different on the rest. Maybe.

Thanks for stopping by, as always, much appreciated!

The Three Dudes

Hey Ho!  Good to see you again, thanks for stopping by!

I came back from a wonderful weekend visiting my arty friends, Michael and Nancy.  Ahhh, what a great time we had!  Lots of laughs, creative sharing and shopping.  Michael had picked up some of the Idea-ology timepieces at a very reasonable price, and being the generous soul he is, gave Nancy and I one each to alter.  So, that's what we set about doing.  As it happens, the theme for Grungy Monday this week is wearable art...sweet!  I love it when things come together like that!  Any hoo, here's my finished piece, and it's kind of hard to see, I know.

Nice mirror image of the camera, eh? 

The background is old paper from a dictionary, with UTEE melted over it.  Then some gears, wire, and shrink plastic with the three dudes from Tim's Steampunk set, and the pointing hand.  I should have either done those on white shrink plastic or backed it with paper, as they don't stand out very well.

Thanks for stopping by, stay tuned, I might actually have another post this week! What?????

Queen of Hearts

Hey there everyone!  Hope your week has been going well!  Mine has been great, with the small exception of having to go to work. lol.

Question of the day - if I were independently, obscenely wealthy, would I really spend more time making art?  Hmmmm......think about it.  I would like to say yes, but I'm afraid the beach or mountain right outside my newly constructed and overstocked studio would distract me.  I digress.  That's what dreams are for.

Ok, the theme of the new challenge at the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo! Group is .... making a custom epoxy embellishment from a memo pin.  Wendy featured this on her blog in June of 2010, and it's also featured in Making Art! Studio 490 Style, Book Three.

I decided to make an ATC resembling a Queen of Hearts from a deck of cards.  It does, kind of. lol.  See what you think...

I may have gotten a little carried away with coloring her cheek, (harlot! tart!) but otherwise I think she looks great. The background has so many layers on it, but it's mostly covered up now. lol. I started with Pool and Denim paint dabber, added some gold leafing, stamped with black archival, stamped with white paint, and also with cobalt archival. Whew!

If you notice, the epoxy embellishment is sticking out of her crown, I thought she might need some luck with #7. 

The flowers are treated with stormy sky and chipped sapphire distress stain, followed with a huge amount of Kiwi perfect pearl spray. LOVE this combo.  Hard to see in the photo, but I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that Kiwi is my fave PP color.

Dots of gold on the hearts are with the Viva Pearl Pen in.... ah....Gold. lol.

I made some extra pin embellies while I was at it.  I mean, why not, when you have everything out. 

Since this has hearts on it, I'm also going to enter this in Hel's Sunday Stamper, which, coincidentally, is HEARTS. And I haven't entered that in eons. She might have forgotten who I am.  lol.
That's it for this installment, I'm off to reward myself with a fudge cookie.  Did I mention I'm trying to lose weight?  Thanks for stopping by....have a great weekend!