The best time

 

Hello creative friends.

The monthly mood board challenge at 13arts is a fun way to explore different 

colours/themes that you might not always choose and so give you an opportunity 

to venture out of your comfort zone.

And December's challenge is no different! 

It speaks of Christmas and of all the things that we love 

to enjoy at this time of year.

For this month's challenge, I created a circular wooden canvas with the 

new Christmas range from 13arts.  

I love the papers in this collection and incorporate many different colours, 

all depicting the beautiful rich colours of Christmas.

You can find details of the challenges on the 13arts Instagram page.

I began my cutting out a circle of paper to form the base of my canvas.

I'll admit that my Silhouette Cameo helped me with this - no ways was I 

going to cut that circle by hand!

I also added stenciling onto the circle using Tiger Eye Color Glow

mixed into Gel Medium and added this around my

canvas.

I then cut a holly wreath out using a cut file on my Silhouette Cameo 

and then painted this with Old Gold glitter ink.

I painted the edges of my canvas with Tiger Eye Color Glow, 

coloured the ribbon with the same Color Glow and then, once dry, 

I added it around the edge of the circle.

I fussy cut elements from the cut out page and layered these 

on my canvas, together with the photograph and other embellishments.

And what would a Christmas project be without glitter!

I added glitter onto the back of perspex pebbles before adding

them to my layout.

A coating of white gesso completed my project.

It truly is the best time of the year!

13arts products used on my project included the following ...

I hope that you like this project and are inspired to create one of your own.

Until next time!

🎄

Advent Calendar

 

Hi creative friends.

I am sharing a new project with you all today as Brand Ambassador for

Penelope Dee using the beautiful MerryMint Christmas collection.

I used the Christmas Advent Calendar in a non-traditional way, 

not to be filled with treats to begin the countdown to Christmas, 

but rather to be used for random acts of kindness to prepare 

our hearts for the season.

I prepared a wooden frame by painting it with green paint and 

then adding patterned paper to the frame base.

Stenciling was added to the base paper and then lightly brushed with

gold paste.

I assembled the little matchboxes before cutting and adhering 

patterned paper from the collection to fit inside the boxes.  

I then cut the remain pieces from the calendar as a lid for each box and 

adhered patterned paper to each box top before lightly stenciling with green paste 

or brushed with gold paste.

I painted the chipboard numbers, title and reindeer with gold paste and then

lightly dusted them with Red Tinsel embossing powder before heat setting.

The boxes were then adhered to the frame, taking care to leave enough space

between each one to insert the edge of each lid.

The calendar was then embellished for Christmas.

I hope that you like this project and are inspired to create one of your own 

with these beautiful papers and embellishments.

Until next time!

🎄

Be happy

Hi everyone.

Today I am sharing my new project as Design Team member for 13arts

with you all ... a hexagonal wooden canvas which I altered using 13arts products and papers and embellishments from the Aurora collection.

I prepared the background of the canvas by first painting it with black gesso.

I then applied sticky glue to the background and, when the glue

was sticky, I added some really cool gilding flakes which have so many colours

including gold, orange copper and blue/purple which match the colour

scheme of my project perfectly.

I combined Golden Calcite Color Glow with gel medium

and stenciled onto my canvas.

The resin frames were painted with black gesso and then splashed with

Golden Calcite Color Glow combined with Acrylic Medium

before lightly brushing with white gesso.

I then lightly brushed them with Gold Glitter paint.

Chipboard elements were painted with the same Color Glow.

I cut hexagons out of Aurora papers and layered them on my project

around my main composition.

Layers of embellishments and flowers completed my project.

Products used on my project include the following ...

I hope that you like this project and are inspired to create one of your own.

Until next time!

💜

 

Around the clock

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new project for 13arts with you today, a large wooden 

mixed media canvas with a steampunk/grungy feel.

I used papers and embellishments from "Back in Time, one of my favourite 

collections and, of course 13arts mixed media products and mediums.

I prepared the background of this canvas by first painting with a coat of 

white gesso and then adhered the rice paper from the collection 

to the top half of the canvas.  I then painted it with a good 

covering of clear gesso.

Once it was dry, I mixed modeling paste and texture powder together and 

applied it around my canvas with a spatula.  This coating needs to be 

thick enough to form the beautiful cracks that you see in the picture below.

Once the paste was completely dry, I applied diluted Andalusite and 

Tourmaline Color Glows individually to my canvas, spraying it with water 

to allow it to run and move on my canvas.

I stenciled onto the top of the colour once verything was dry.  

As the modeling paste dries, it takes on a bit of the colour 

from the Color Glows.

Resin pieces were painted with Andalusite Color Glow mixed with 

fluid medium and set aside to dry.  Once dry, all resin

pieces were dry brushed with white gesso.

Once dry, they were adhered to my canvas in the 

composition that you see below.

Ephemera and other embellishments were added 

around my composition.

Chipboard pieces on my canvas were heat embossed 

with white embossing powder.

I hope that you like this project and are inspired to create one of your own.

Until next time!

💙