July ATC's Received

Hello everyone! I wanted to share my happy mail with you from the All Things Tim Yahoo Group. I received my July ATC swaps! It's so great to see other people's work up close and personal!

Claudine Criner  (Love your background...so cool and the color is perfect with the center image! The sentiment couldn't be better. Love all of your extras!)

Stephen Jew, aka Bear Crazy Man ( Fabulous design here...love the embossed Lady! The soft feel of the card is fabulous with the textured stars!)

Chris Rickert, aka The Scrappy Lassie (All the layered elements are wonderful! The texture is great, especially with the canvas ribbon!)

And, here is mine again.

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Appreciating The Masters

It's that Funkie time of the fortnight at Frilly & Funkie! This time I am hosting the challenge, and it seems it really is a challenge! Their has been some fretting over this...even by moi. Well, here's the deal...let's pay homage to any of the four big Renaissance Men (or Ninja Turtles...NOT) who have inspired us all at one time or another - Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello,  Raphael. Show a project depicting any one or more of their works, tell which it is, and who created it. Here are a few to get your creative juices flowing.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

I am super proud to be apart of this Design Team...amazing talent and creativity abound here! You must check out their projects if you need to fill your mind with inspiration!         

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Marjie Kemper - She Who Stamps and Scraps 

Teresa Kline - Paperie Blooms

Terry Horrall -  Terry's Work In Progress 

Sue Carrington - Stamping Sue Style 

Tammy Roberts - Paperie Sweetness

I have to tell you, that I had this whole project mapped and planned out in my art journal for weeks, but when it came time to execute the encaustic fresco on canvas that I imagined, using a few of Da Vinci's handwritten plans, his Mona Lisa, and a small portion of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, I just stared at two blank canvases for about a week until I was brave enough to just start throwing colors and mediums together. I was so afraid to screw this one up. It's the Masters after all. But screw up I did. My completed project only mimics my journal about 75%. I made a huge booboo with a stamp, and just couldn't bear to scrap it, and had no time to start over, so booboo became an Italian distressed and crumbling plaster wall...sort of. Then there is Mona, or should I call her Moan-a?!? She gave me fits and kept distorting her face to cause me grief while she snickered. I did the best I could under these circumstances. She is such a mischievous diva!

There are only two pictures of the making of this...I got so wrapped up in creating that I forgot to take pictures. I applied gesso very thickly to create ridges of texture and to prime the surface of these 6x8 inch flat canvas boards.

I misted water over the canvas and then added various colors of Distress Stains. I did this several times to achieve my color.  I stamped my images in Coffee Archival Ink. I used Acrylic Paint Dabbers and Claudine Hellmuth Acrylic Paint to create the plastic and gold scroll and borders. Gold Alcohol Ink was used to color all of the metal accents. For the Mona and Creation of Adam, I stamped the images to get a border and then painted them in with acrylic paints and Distress Markers. Flowers, wire, hinges, and the sentiments completed the canvas.

 

I am submitting this to The Sunday Stamper's challenge of "Gold", and to Simon Says Stamp & Show's challenge of "What Do You Say". I say, "Create Art!"

Supplies:

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso	Inkssentials Water Mister (FJ)	Distress Stain In Aged Mahogany	Distress Stain In Antique Linen (FJ)	Distress Stain In Rusty Hinge
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Vintage Photo	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Bundled Sage	Distress Stain In Tumbled Glass (FJ)	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Snow Cap White	Adirondack Gold Acrylic Paint Dabber (FJ)
Ranger Archival Ink - Coffee	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Markers - Set of 37	Fancy Corners - Filigree Metals for Scrapbooking and Mixed Media	Idea-ology Ornate Plates	Idea-ology Long Fasteners (FJ)
Ranger Adirondack Metallic Mixatives - Gold & Silver	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink Applicator, Stamp Handle and Felt

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!