here are the ATCs

today I dedicated a lot of time to finishing the ATCs for the stampers luncheon, this weekend...in total I have made 35, but know I need to make another pile for those who miss the swap.
The technique is impasto and masking, so simple and yet so very effective.

soon to be ATCs

This weekend I am off to an annual luncheon for crafty stampers from a few Yahoo groups I belong to and we all swap Artist Trading Crads...this 12x12 page is the basis of mine

uni work...using nib pens

...and we had to some how include ourselves in the drawing, so here I am washing the dishes, the other pic. are some of the nibs I used.

a sketch for uni/a study of line work

I thought I would share the sketch I did for uni this morning, it is a look into my felting tool kit and is a study on lines in drawing

playing pretty

yet another worki in progress

I'm working on an acrylic book for FTN, and I have decided to use a pic of myself...so here I am :)

dark art

yesterday I created lots of lovely grungey/pretty flowers, today I decided to play with some of the Tattered Angels divine Glimmer Screens and impasto, the background colour is a great combination of Glimmer Mist and water colour crayons

faux rust...no rust involved

I have had a few emails about the last faux rust I did, I have to tell you that it was thought up on my trip away.
Karen Dimmock allowed me to play with a jar of Matisse Irridescent medium, and me being me and not just using it as paint, I smeared a good amount on with the back of a palette knife and stamped into it with a foam stamp...
next I sprinkled a little red embossing powder (I used 2toned terracotta), heat with heat gun, allowing it to bubble and blister, once touch dry, smear a little black stazon across with your finger (don't use the pad directly...be warned that you might get paint on it, so use a digit), now simply use your fave. red gold acrylic paint and a sea sponge and give it a dab here and there...heat again and there ya go!
Matisse is a great brand but if you don't have any, just use any pearly paint...if it needs to be thickened to hold the stamped impression, you can add impasto or structure paste...or if really desperate...PVA :)

flower power

Today I created flowers using my fave techniques...faux rust, resist stamping, fusible film, pearling, I have used old book pages and shim among other things.
A good portion of these have a new home to go to tonight...I hope they are used well :)

Funky flowers and abstract art

I thought I would share a pic. of one of the flowers I made while working away last weekend, can you believe that it is mostly paint...I know I know another tutorial wanted, I have my list of future tutes to do, I just need to find the time.

The other images are of my abstract 3D mola...instead of using scissors to cut away the materials, I simply applied heat from my trusty heat gun.
I used fusible film, organza, poly-somethingoranother, cotton fabric and book pages torn out of an old accountants book dating back to the early 1900's