Spell Book

Hello!

Today I have a spell book to share with you that I created from our August kit.  This was an old fabric covered lilac note book that I had that had truly seen better days.  It was time to re-purpose.

I started by painting the covering with black craft paint and spraying with black marble Dylusions.  I added some of the black spray to texture paste and created a 3d effect with paste and stencil on the cover.  To add more dimension I randomly rubbed over my Versamark and sprinkled on some of the Lindys Stamp Gang embossing powder.  I used papers from the Graphic 45 An Eerie Tale to cover the binding and the inside of the book.

Prima flowers were sprayed along with some leaves and grouped and adhered.  I also used a Tim Holtz fragment in the center, this was set in place while the paste was still wet.  I finished this with a Halloween charm.

I added lace, charms, painted chipboard and a die cut hinge from Tim Holtz grunge paper.  The aged look on the pages was achieved by spraying  Tattered Angels Simply Sheer in rich brown.  I allowed the pages to curl when I used my heat gun to dry.

Thank you for visiting and looking.

Mandyxxx

Spool Plinth Halloween Bottles

Hello,  

Mandy here sharing a Halloween themed project for August.

I created this project by altering a large wooden spool, altered with Lindys Stamp Gang Embossing Powder in "midnight copper", black lace by Papermania, sprayed white lace with "squeezed orange" by Dylusions.

The box part was created with thick cardboard/chipboard, I made a box that measures 4.5" x 2" x 3".

I painted both sides before I glued it together while flat with black craft paint.  I used Graphic 45's "An Eerie Tale" to cover both sides.  I created a scallop edge for the bottom with some purple paper from this collection too and a top pelmet with covered chipboard using  the "ornate" large die by Tim Holtz.

The top was covered with Prima flowers, a clock paperclip also by Prima and a skull.  The inside was done by filling a large glass bottle with a broken up skeleton and by colouring some Glossy Accents with "fired brick" Distress Ink reinker.  This was dripped over the bottle for a bloody effect.  I also filled a small bottle with the reinker.  I layered over paper labels using the embossing powder and tags from the paper collection.  Some black lace was used along with black gems to embellish.

I hope you liked this project and it inspires you to start your Halloween preparations.  Thank you for looking.  I have included a video on the kit I played with for this project so you can see the product that is available in the Cardz'n'Scrapz shop in more detail.

Mandyxx

Altered frame by Sylwia

Hello Arty Souls!

I am still in a summer mood, summer colours and flowers!!!:) And I wanted to use a print with one of my paintings- a little fairy girl called 'Shine'

Today I wanted to show you my altered frame, which I decorated using August fabulous kit:

Art Supplies I used:

Bloom Flowers by Prima

Washi Tape

Metal Paper Clips

Lindy' Stamp Gang Embossing Powder

TandiArt Fairy Girl

Vintage Music Sheet

I created the background with acrylics, oil pastels and I also use embossing powders with stamps.

I added paper flowers, metal paper clip and cheese cloth dyed with ink sprays.

The girl is a print of one of my paintings

I hope you enjoyed the project

Love

Sylwia

xx

Small mixed media canvas

Hello Arty Souls,

This is my little extra project for June. Sometimes I create those little canvas to add to the gift instead of the card. It takes no time to make them and they are nice personal touch to the present.

I used the fabulous June kit from Cardz'n'Scrapz and following art supplies:

Chipboard Blueberry Clock

Create Paper Pad 6x6 Oh Darling 

Gelatos

 Derwent Inktense Pencils

Acrylic paint Lagoon 
paper flowers
5x5 canvas
stamps

I started by gluing random pieces of Create Paper Pad. Than I added some paint and doodles. I also use stamp to add more texture. When I use stamps, I never go for a perfect picture, I just stamp randomly using half of the stamp. When my background was finished I added paper doily and chipboard clock.

I also added some paper flowers

I hope you enjoed the project.

See you in July!!!

Love,

Sylwia

Dream BIG- altered wooden box

Hello Arty Souls!

Today I have fun project for you!- altered wooden box. I love altered objects and I have to say this one was really cool to play with! And because its wooden, it has great surface to paint on. I decided to use my favourite color scheme: turquoise, pink and yellow:)


I used the fabulous June kit from Cardz'n'Scrapz and following art supplies:

Wooden Book Box

Create Paper Pad 6x6 Oh Darling 

Kaisercraft Texture Clear Stamps Dream Big
Jillibean Soup Wise Word Stickers

Gelatos

 Derwent Inktense Pencils

Acrylic paint Lagoon 
Studio Calico Heyday Butterflies  Stickers

I painted a wooden box first, than I used stencils and stamps to add more texture. I  doodled with a Inktense Pencils and added some pieces of Create Paper Pad.

There is a window in the box and either you can make a design on a wooden piece which comes with a box or you can add the photo and the glass (also coming with a box). I decided to make a design using the same paper pieces, paints and Kaisercraft stamp.

I love adding butterfly wings to my projects:)

I also added some word stickers...

And little butterflies...

Here I wanted to show you, that you can use it also with a photo as a memory box.

I just couldn't resist to show you my beautiful peonies:) They remind me  my grandmother's garden ;)

I hope you enjoyed this summer project!

Love,

Sylwia

xx

Smile Love Happy Suitcase

Hello lovelies

Happy June :)  Here is my first project for this month.  I received a beautiful kit this month and it contained suitcases!!!  I has a play with paint, ink, papers, drawing, pencils, stamping....everything I could think off.

I started my case by using a stencil and some texture paste.  I then added random torn and cut strips of paper from the paper collection Plus One from Amy Tangerine.  This paper pack has such vibrant happy colours, it is what inspired all of this project, from the words, scene, colours of paint and girl drawing.

I drew my girl out on watercolour paper and coloured her with loads of different mediums of water based products.  Her dress was create with the orange paper from the collection.  I used acyrlic paint to create my background.  There is also some random strips of washi tape added.

I sprayed the white flower trim from our kit with pink spray.  All of the prima flowers used received the paint treatment too.  All elements of this was adhered with matt gel medium.

I hope this little case gives you some inspiration.  See you in a week or two with my next project using these goodies :)

Mandy xxx

Altered Book Box

Hello!! It's Sandie here and today I have an altered Wooden Book Box to share. 

I painted the whole box with white acrylic paint and quickly dried it with my heat gun. Then I applied a layer of  Crackle Medium. Once that dried I applied another layer of white paint and waited for the crackle medium to work it's magic. Once it had all dried I distressed all of the edges with Brushed Corduroy ink. 

I stamped out the Kaisercraft sentiment onto some Prima patterned paper. 

I embellished the box with Prima Flowers & Vines, shabby chic resin Railing and some pearls. I also added metal corners, a Tim Holtz Curio Knob and a metal charm which reads MOMENTS, all of which were in my stash. 

Sandie

xXx

Little Joyful Message- altered canvas by Sylwia

                       

Hi Art Souls:)

This is bonus project for May:)

I choose word 'JOY' as my favourite and guiding word for 2014 and I  decided to alter this 6x6 canvas with JOY and other embellishments:) 

Art Supplies used in the project:

Tim Holtz Adventus Idea Ology Paper Stash Pad

Ranger Inkssential Memory Frames

Prima Marketing Chalk Fluid Edger Pad
Chipboard Background Lattice 
Derwent Inktense Pencils

Acrylic Paint
Vintage Music Sheet
Twine
Cheese Cloth
Moss
Flowers by Prima
Buttons
Paper Doily

Firstly, I teared papers by Tim Holtz and vintage music sheet into smaller pieces and I glued them to the canvas as a background. I added some definition with Inktense pencils and acrylic paint. Next I added paper doily and  chipboard background lattice. I also found a piece of cheese cloth and distressed it with chalk fluid edger pad. I placed  my word in a Memory frame and glued flowers, buttons and moss around it.

 

And few close ups:

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I hope you enjoyed this project:)

See you in June!

Love

xx

Sylwia

Balcony Box

Hello!

I hope you are all having a lovely May so far.  I am back again today with another project.  This one is recycled.  I have been saving this box from my mobile phone, because of its shape for a while now, waiting on the perfect altering project.  The kit from this month was just perfect as the Prima resin banister was the very same size!  

I started by covering the box with Wallflower paper, I covered the raw edges with paint, I used Artiste Storm Cloud (available in shop) as it is a lovely off white colour.  I rubbed some Antik Metallic gold paint on the edges and did some stenciling with Spun Sugar Distress Ink and Tim Holtz chicken wire stencil.  I finished off the main box decorating by raising it on 4 wooden thread spools, added some cut leaves from the paper collection and wrapped some lace around the back edge.

The inside was decorated by fussy cutting some leaves and flowers from the collection and adhering to the inside back panel, some paint drips using Glimmer Mist in Caper Green and Rich Brown.  I coloured my Gorjuss girl stamp with my colouring pencils and paper pieced her dress.  I stood her up with some acetate and finished with the Prima resin and some flowers.

The top of the box is chipboard cut using Tim Holtz Pediments Die, sprayed with Glimmer Mist in Splash and coated with a layer of UTEE.

My finishing touches are some bunting layers on canvas and fussy cut butterflies.

Thank you for looking.  All the goodies I used can be found in the shop :)

Mandyxxx

Suitcase and Album Project

Hello lovelies,

Mandy here with my first project for May.  I created this little mini suitcase and album with the lovely goodies we received.

I started by making my suitcase with a template of a box I recycled off a cable.  I drew around the box onto the lovely paper from Tim Holtz, Advantas and cut this out and scored.  All edges were then inked with brown ink.  I added washi tape to reinforce folds and added lace to decorate.  I created the handle from grunge paper.  The outside of the suitcase, started with a layer of texture paste and brick wall effect stencil to create a base.  The rest of the front was decorated with rectangles of paper cut from the paper pack, Tim Holtz grunge board hinges, Prima canvas leaves, Prima flowers, Prima resin cherub and grid chipboard, sprayed with glimmer mist.

The album was made with chipboard pieces I cut out.  The cover and back piece measured 5 1/4" x 2 3/4", the middle measures 3/4" x 2 3/4".  I covered the album covers with paper and decorated with the chipboard grid, wooden clock face, metal embellishments and I had a play with different embossing powders to achieve the metal effect on the clock face.

The inserts for the album are strips of cardstock covered in the patterned paper.  These strips measure 2 1/2" x 10", scored in the middle at 5" on the long side to give it's fold.  I made 3 signatures of two pages pages each and attached to the album with twine and a needle.  The twine ends are finished with metal effect buttons, by Papermania.

I have created a video here so that you see more detail of this project and see how it opens and looks.

I enjoyed creating this for you, I hope it inspires.  I am looking forward to sharing more projects with you this month too!  Take care, hugs Mandyxx

The beautiful kit

Ingredients:  12" x 12" Advantas Paper Pad by Tim Holtz, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Caper Green, Prima Resin Embellishment, Chipboard Grid, Prima Chalk Ink, Distress Ink Pad in Gathered Twigs, Prima Wooden Pieces, Embossing Powders, Papermania Faux Metal Buttons, Tim Holtz Embellishments, Prima Flowers, Lace and Green Twine.