Welcome Guest Artist Donna Harcourt!

Today, my friend and painting/papercrafting partner Donna Harcourt has consented to be a guest artist on the blog.


I hope you enjoy her video!

                                            

Thank you so much, Donna for making and filming this tag for us!

Spread you Wings

I had fun painting this card front to share with you. The bird was stamped onto 

a cream 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card stock and then painted using Dina's paints. 

I used a variety of supplies:
Dina Wakley Scribbly bird, paintbrushes and media paints, Dyan Reaveley's stamps, Tim Holtz's stencil and Archival black ink.

One of those Days!

Well this is a late post! Lots of silly little obstacles in my path today!

                                       

So many video issues! Need a new camera!

So I didn't get my Pumpkin finished! Maybe by next week!

Pumpkin...Fabric, Paint and Wood

Here is a new take on a holiday decorative shape from a few years back!

I used the wood shape, Tim Holtz Fabric, Traditions Artist Acrylic paint, and DecoArt Matte Decoupage...so far!

You can find the design I am going to paint in Judy Westegaard-Jenkins decorative painting book
            Chalk It Up published by Viking Woodcrafts.

                                      

Finished pictures next week!

Stenciled Woman

Results using my new stamps, paint, paint brushes and a stencil!

I found out you defiantly get better results when you use gesso first on your projects with Dina's new heavy body acrylic paints.

The woman image is a stencil, it was painted on a gesso 4x8" tag using night paint with a wet brush. 

Most of the coloring done on this piece was dry brushed using her brushes. 

Archival black and plum inks were used with Dina's night, tangerine, turquoise, lime, lemon and magenta.

Heavy body paints by Dina Wakley

Stencil by Dina Wakley

Paint brushes by Dina Wakley

Clear stamps by Dina Wakley 

Cling flower stamps by Dylusions

Other clear stamps unknown

Archival inks by Ranger

Gesso by Liquitex

Burlap Voyage

So today is the first day of September! Summer is still here for about 3 more weeks, but most of us see Autumn as the beginning of this month. So my thoughts are turning to the holiday sales and shows for gifts and decorations. Here is an example:

I used a lot of different things from my stash including Dylusions Spray inks, Tim holtz ink, embellishments and ephemera, a little bit of 7 Gypsies ephemera, and DecoArt Texture Medium Fierro. what fun to pull so many different things together into a theme!
After turning off the camera, I changed my NoSale Cash Tag to a $7 tag with an orange background. I added an old photo, and some stamps and tickets. I think I'm satidfied with it now. It's so much fun to create something with just a few random items and no real idea of where you want it to go!

                         I inked the letters and the edges of the panel with forest Moss Distress Ink.

After the camera was turned off, here are the changes and final tweeks I made!

**********************NOTE ******************************************

THERE WILL NOT BE A MONDAY MUSINGS POST NEXT WEEK. I WILL BE HOSTING A 3 DAY SEMINAR (PAINTING WITH FRIENDS WEEKEND) AND INVOLVED WITH MY CHAPTER MEETING AS WELL.

Natalie Paper Doll Tag

I love how this tag turned out. It's one of my favorites. 

A black and white 2" strip from Harper's boutique paper pad was applied across the bottom of a 4 x 8" manila tag.

Tim's picked raspberry and festive berries distress inks were appplied over clockwork layering stencils followed by dot fade layering stencil with vintage photo. 

Heat set.

Use foam applicator with these distress inks over the entire tag including the 2" strip of paper:

Picked Raspberry

Seedless Preserves 

 Festive Berries

Place tag on craft sheet, tape down Dyan's checkered dots stencil over tag, use plastic tool to apply modeling paste over left side of stencil, lift off. Clean stencil with water immediately, set aside to dry, place stencil over the tag again matching dots, spray Primrose color shine over entire stencil, pull off stencil, before cleaning stencil apply wet stencil to another tag, clean stencil, set tags aside to dry. 

Stamp border image across bottom of tag with black ink. 

Leftover flowers from previous tag were used and applied to my tag. http://wwwstampedimpressions.blogspot.com/2014/08/handmade-flowers-with-valentina-paper.html

Tim's word stamp was inked on manila card stock, cut out, distress edges with black ink, lightly picked raspberry on surface of stamped piece and then applied to tag. 

My Natalie stamped and inked image by Julie Nutting was dressed with designer paper and then applied to tag using my Xyron. 

 Prima's flourish metal sticker was applied to finish my tag.