Color Burst Goodness

Hello all! I'm off today to demo Ken Oliver's Color Burst Powders at the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington, Texas, for the week. I've made lots of samples for the show, but since a few of the samples use Wendy Vecchi goodies, and her challenge for the month of June at the Make Art Challenge is "Embossing", I thought I would show them to you. They are not much, and easy to do, but they would look great on tags, cards, or even in an art journal. And...speaking of Wendy, I've had the privilege to hang out with her all week and take some awesome classes from her. How lucky am I?!!

Color Burst Powders are remarkable! The pigments are so rich, and there are so many ways to use them!

I used paper coasters for these. They work a lot like watercolor paper, so they were perfect. I stamped Wendy's Coneflower in Potting Soil Archival and poured different colors of her Embossing Powder on. LOVE the look!

Once heat embossed, I readied my palette of Color Burst Powders with a little water. These work a lot like the watercolor pastey paints. I painted in the flower.

To protect the image some, I rubbed it with Tim's Distress Micro Glaze. It makes a barrier for what comes next.

I sprinkled on a few colors of the Color Burst. A little goes a very long way as they are super concentrated. Then I misted over the coaster with water. I used a paper towel to clean away the Micro Glaze, and then added some doodling.

I did the same for the Rose,...

the Zinnia...

and the Daisy.

If you happen to be able to go to the show, come look for me at the Millenium Marking booth. Thanks for looking! 

Supplies:

Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink in Potting Soil	Rose Stamp It Stencil It from Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi	Coneflower Stamp It Stencil It from Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi	Darling Daisies Stamp It Stencil It from Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi	Zinnia Stamp It Stencil It from Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder - Tiger Lily	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder - Violet	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder - Orange Blossom	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder - Buttercup	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder - Fern Green
Ken Oliver Color Burst Bundle - Six Colors	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer	Ranger Distress Micro Glaze	Ranger Fude Ball Pen in Black

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Artsy Lady Canvas at Bella Crafts

I'm back again for Bella Crafts Publishing, to show you a painting I've made using some awesome paints from Deco Art Media. I was so fortunate to have received several boxes of Deco Art goodness back in January, just to try it out. Can you believe that? WOW! Talk about a generous company, as I've seen many bloggers come away with boxes of goodies from them. Thank you Deco Art, and I LOVE your goods! 

Back to the painting...my daughter loves make-up and all who have iconically worn it. Recently, she found a picture of a painting of Marilyn Monroe, and left it on my work desk. That translates to, "Hey Mom, make this for me!". While I couldn't copy the work exactly, as it's someone either than me, I did the best I could at capturing the face, and although more like Madonna...;0)...I'm happy with the result, and more importantly she was very happy with it. To see the tutorial click on over to Bella Crafts, but here are a few more pictures of the 24x24 canvas.

 

 

 

Thanks for looking and for clicking over! I appreciate all the comments and support!!!

Supplies:

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics in Dark Grey Value 3	DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics in Medium Grey Value 6	DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics in Translucent White	Dina Wakley Media Brushes Four Pack	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer
Ranger Fude Ball Pen in Black	DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics in Cobalt Teal Hue	DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics in Pyrrole Red	Ranger Distress Micro Glaze	Stampers Anonymous Dylusions Stamp Set in Doodled Delight
Tsukineko StazOn Jet Black	Ranger Multi Medium Gloss	Tim Holtz Collection Stencils in Bubble	Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste in Silver	Ranger Dina Wakley Palette Knife
Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste in Translucent

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

CC3C - Faux Cracked Glass

Happy happy Saturday!!!  It's time for another challenge, number thirty, in the new Compendium of Curiosities III Challenge!!!  The Curiosity Crew and I thank you for joining in on the challenges, and of course for all of the comments, likes, and retweets!  You all are so inspiring as well!

I'm sitting this challenge out this time to get ready for a show I am demoing at soon, but Challenge number thirty is using the Faux Cracked Glass technique...so super fun and transforming!  I cannot wait to see what you make using this technique!  I hope you can play along on this challenge so you can win some amazing fabulous prizes donated by the ever generous Tim and Mario, and this challenge's sponsor, The Funkie Junkie Boutique!!! Thank you sponsors for your generosity! You will have two weeks to complete this challenge and link it up to the CC3Challenge site, and you can carefully read all the rules here. Please take the time to visit every member of the Curiosity Crew (See below.) for not only some great Faux Cracked Glass inspiration, but for a chance to win some extra goodies!

Linda Ledbetter

Annette Green

Candy Colwell

Cheryl Grigsby

Hels Sheridan

Marjie Kemper

Susan Mostek

Yvonne Blair 

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

The Summer Issue of Bella Crafts Publishing

Hello everyone! Just a quick post today to tell you the new Summer issue of Bella Crafts Publishing is up today, and I'm in it!!! I was so excited to be asked to contribute, and I've done a huge encaustic panel and tutorial for you to see. I hope you enjoy it, and her are a few more pics.

Drops of Rain 12x24 Inch Encaustic Wood Panel

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking, AND...
I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tag Team Tag

While at a retreat a few months ago, my dear friend and owner of The Crafty Scrapper, Carolyn Ross, and I, decided we wanted to do a tag team tag! What's that you ask? That's when you do a technique on a tag as long as you have it, and then shout out 'switch' every few minutes, and then the other crafter takes it and does their bit on it. You continue to switch, not knowing where it's going or what it will look like, and not having any idea what comes next!!! It's crazy fun, and the ideas you get from one another are INSPIRING to say the least!!! We laughed so hard and had the greatest night of crafting! With that, this is what we ended up with, and our only rule was to use a lot of Wendy Vecchi goodness and Dina Wakley's Scribbly Birds! And, since this tag has a flower on it, I got Carolyn's permission to enter it into Wendy's Make Art Challenge for May, which is to use flowers.  We loved the tag so much, we made 12 of them and gave them to all the ladies at the retreat as gifts!  If you have an artsy buddy to craft and hang out with, I wholeheartedly suggest you try this! It's truly a blast! I seriously wish we had a video camera rolling while we created the first one...it was crazy!

Let's see...Carolyn did the bird, embossing, and all the fussy cutting...you know I hate to fussy cut! I did the background, the sentiment, the flower and leaves coloring, and the heart doodling. She definitely had the hardest parts!

We watercolored, we embossed, we stenciled, we stamped, we doodled, we inked, we cut, we glued, we used alcohol...(No drinking was involved in the making of this tag!), we used embossing paste, Distress Markers, Glossy Accents, Distress Reinkers, pens...the whole crafty kitchen sink went into these tags! I'm laughing now just thinking about it!

I think it took us about two hours to do the first one! BAHAHAHAHA!!! Then the rest of the night to do the rest!

 

 

 

 

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon! And if that be with a friend, all the better!!!