Hello,  Another workshop using acrylic paints mixing colours and patterns.

I am always encouraged to paint big expanses and I cannot quite manage it yet.

Here are some techniques paint with flour mixed in Yellow piece and lightly brushing another colour on the top with a dry brush and the white with blue acrylic dry  brushed on the top is a white tissue struck on with glue.

The yellow and red were layered and then I made some  marks-line with a fork and other examples of lines  the bottom left is stippling and the middle is stippling with a mask, so I guess there is a lot of crossover from card making and painting techniques 

I just had mad moment  with colour and a piece of scraping tool.

After I had said I could not fill up a whole page this is the result

Do not ask me to paint your home!

This is actually where we began  by painting in acrylic a small picture and then enlarging sections that we wanted to highlight in the remaining quarters.  I went mad again.

and again using a palate knife I just spread it all over... half a page

This is the other half of spreading paint I quite like the translucency effect of colour layering.

Well that is all, thanks to Gill for a good day.

special occasions

Hello

This is my latest it is a special request for a 60th birthday.

There are two layers of complimentary colours of Stamping Up (SU) card

I use the hydranger SU stamp plus leaves

The 60 is a tonic dye, My friend Jenny fussy cut the blooms for me

I used another die for the individual blooms and coloured them with purple Wink of Stella and scattered them about, hopfully decoratively.

The leaves were Wink of Stella again with a ordinary green pen to mark the veins.

This a a close up of part of the card.

Second close-up of the card showing Mondays Child rhyme  in stamp format from Crafty Individuals.

The surround was a touch of Wink of Stella.

Oh and I added three small gold butterflys, with purple Wink of Stella undercarriages using a Martha Stuart punch

This is the insert  with punched trim and verse from 'tinternet' (said I could use it free)

This is the outer last page of the card with one hydranger stamped on it (SU).

I used momento inks throughout.

and that is that a marathon.....

See you soon, hope you like it.

flutterbys

Hello, some cards and a 'thing'  I have not been idle!

This one of Tulips is a stamp and painted with Creative Expressions shimmering water colour  pastel paints.  I placed this on matching card with a ribbon and a knot.  Sometimes I prefer knots to bows.

I used my Brushos again on water colour card and cut out the Tree of Life  Die and popped it on top.

Different and quite effective.

Another one for the tinies....

I used a die for the background of hearts and placed the little chap on top in the corner after colouring him of course.  With a touch of similar coloured ribbon, there he is, he looks happy enough.

These two are the same object from different angles.  I went to a decopatch class. This took two sessions to complete as I failed to gesso the brown surface of the stand and the decopatch paper was so transparent that is showed through.  After huffing and puffing I decided it would be best if I did the whole thing again hence the two sessions.  I am happier with it now.

If you look close up you can see lots of butterflys on the top. It was very pretty paper.

Hope to see you next time, still learning my way around blogging.