Love Flowers for Soul Sister Challenge

Hey Everyone

This week on the Art and Soul Blog it's my turn for this months challenge for Soul Sisters Facebook Group and it is to use feathers or leaves 
Also check out the Art and Soul Studio Store for lots of yummy products - new stock arriving all the time

This mood board is so vibrant loving the glass bottles
Don't forget to enter and put it in the March Album with photo on it 

I have an unhealthy love for flowers hahaha which lucky for me this months challenge called for leaves and I have plenty of those as well

I had made a tag awhile ago using a Tim Holtz stencil with modelling paste

I added a row of heart stickers I think they were from a Kaisercraft sticker sheet and some Art Stones 
I then painted it with Impasto - Jade and Raspberry Pink and added a bit of water to it then stamped a Kaisercraft dotted stamp with some Black Archival Ink

The frame I was given by someone that they had gotten from the op shop, it was navy blue to start with
On the back of the frame I used the doily stencil then painted it with the Jade Impasto

So I used the Raspberry Pink Impasto which is so thick I only needed one coat
I then gave it a light wipe with some white gesso

I got out my flowers and added them after glueing the tag to the frame

I painted the leaves in the Jade because the green of the leaves just didn't go

I gave the chipboard word a flick with some watered down impasto because it was just too white

Products I used-

 Tim Holtz stencil
Finnabair Art Alchemy Impasto Paint 
RaspberryPink, Jade and Snow White
Art Stones (out of stock)
Mini Art Stones (out of stock)
Kaisercraft White Flowers
Little Birdie Leaves from a flower set
Tim Holtz Tag
Kaisercraft Sticker Sheet
Kaisercraft stamp
White Gesso
Memory Maze Doily Stencil (mine)
Memory Maze word Love chipboard (mine)
Frame frame the op shop
Metal Love word (mine)
Heart Stickers (mine)
Ribbon (mine)

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Bling Challenge for Art and Soul Studio

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This months challenge for Art and Soul Studio is all about Bling and who doesn't like bling 

I love the whole mood board this month it's so feminine, soft and pretty

If you enter the challenge on our Facebook page Soul Sisters you have the chance to win one of three $50 vouchers to spend at the store

The photo is of my chandelier in my bedroom I told hubby when we finally did our room no matter what we are having a chandelier in our room 

It's not a huge grand one it's perfect for the size of our bedroom

I played underneath to take it as it's over our bed

I started off with a timber frame and gessoed it so when I painted it the paint would go on smooth

This is the back of the frame which I painted with gesso as well so I could use the mix of Heavy Body Gel and a fine glitter

I used the mix through the Bohemian Bouquet Stencil

I then used Colour Blast Snow White Embossing Powder randomly on the frame for a bit more bling and sparkle

I had some tulle that has bling in it so of course I had to use that 

I added the stem of flowers and then added some of the other flowers in amongst it all

Then added some plastic bling randomly through out the mix

I had the large blog flower which I love - it fit perfect on this project

As you can see I used a lot of the Rose Gold painting all the metal and paper clay

Products from Art and Soul Studio 

Art Basics Heavy Body Gel

Ultimate Crafts Bohemian Bouquet Stencil

Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint Opal Magic Rose Gold (sold out)

Little Birdie Crafts Flowers (sold out)

Kaisercraft White Flowers

Prima Say it with Crystals from my stash

Prima Flower stem from my stash

Paper clay from Mum

Metal and some bling from my stash

Colour Blast Embossing Powder Snow White

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Graduation for Colour Blast

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This weeks project is of my son's Graduation from SEDA 
He did so well, it was the best decision we made to send him there for his last two years of High School
He excelled at all that he did and put 100% into everything
His teacher even said on stage in front of the whole Year 12 classes that Jack was the best student he'd taught in the 7 years that he had worked at SEDA 
So needless to say we were very happy and proud parents

Make sure to check out the Colour Blast Blog and the Shop where you will find links to Facebook and Instagram so you won't miss out on anything that's happening

I started with some Colour Blast Colour Artist Ink Spice drips on the paper (Kaisercraft Time Machine it's embossed so it has parts that the ink won't stay on)

I used the Colour Shimmer Dust Midnight which I made into a spray bottle on the background paper as well and then sprayed some paper clay embellishments you can just see a little bit of shimmer in the photo but if you could see them they have so much shimmer

I had a little dot stencil that I used randomly with the Colour Paste Stormy Weather

I added an Art Pebble to the basketball to give it dimension

I had a Flair Button that I thought was perfect for the page so I added it to a bottle cap but it left a gap so I filled in the gap with some Zinc glass beads and added some wings

Awhile ago I had won a pack and it had the word #swag in it so I coloured it with the Colour Artist Ink Spice that was left over on some paper towel that was still wet by patting it till it was all coloured 
I added some metal accents for some interest and dimension

And I added this Make a Difference disc because that's what I think Jack will do with his life

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Bloom for Art and Soul Studio

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It's my turn on the Art and Soul Studio Blog today and I created this canvas around this quote 

I like to collect quotes I see on the internet or Facebook and use them for inspiration and motivation 

We also have a Facebook Group - Soul Sisters so make sure you check that out for loads of inspiration 

I started off with using some modelling paste through a Couture 

Creations stencil - Rosy for some texture

Then painted the canvas with black gesso so it added atmosphere of the quote 

Then I cut up a piece of  7 Dots Studio Paint Chips Nightshades cardstock into random sizes including one to mount the photo on

Awhile ago mum gave me some pinking shears and I thought these would be perfect with the zig zag in the paper 

So I randomly cut one edge of each piece with the scissors

And this is a paper clay piece from mum that she made for me from a Prima Mould (she has the moulds and every now and then if I can afford it I will buy her one to add to her collection not that she needs me too she has LOTS - which in the long run helps me cause I get more patterns to use lol)

I used some Finnabair Art Alchemy Metallique Pink Blush and Opal Magic Aqua-Rose on the background 

I love the way the Opal Magic paints work

On the black it's Aqua and if you use it on a light colour it would be a Rose colour (so clever)

As you can see I used the Acrylic paints on all the embellishments as well

I added white flowers from KaiserCraft and Art Stones from Prima to finish it off

Products I used from the Art and Soul Studio Store

7 Dots Studio Paint Chip Night Shades Cardstock

Couture Creations Stencil - Rosy

KaiserCraft - White Flowers (not on the site but I'm sure they have them in store if you just ask)

Finnabair Art Stones

Finnabair Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint Opal Magic Aqua-Rose

Finnabair Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint Pink Blush

Finnabair Mechanicals Mixed (out of stock)

Prima Mould (mum's)

Paper Clay (mum's)

Prima Modelling Paste 

Colour Blast Black Gesso (my stash)

Helmar Premium Craft Glue (my stash)

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To Do Lists for Colour Blast

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This project was inspired by my husband 

He has lists everywhere, so I thought I would make something that will keep everything in one place because he won't use his phone apparently that's to hard

So for the Colour Blast Blog this is what I created

Also be sure to check out what the rest of the team have created

Each hook has a different label - Things to do, Things to buy and Places to go so when anyone has something they need or are going too it can be written down (hopefully LOL)

This was a Kaisercraft kit thats been around awhile 

First I painted it all with White Heavy Gesso

Then each square I used a different stencil with Colour Paste 

Two with Stormy Weather and one with Fire Engine

On the top part I used an arrow stencil with some Colour Paste Snow White then used Colour Shimmer Dust Midnight

Flicked the Dust in a few places then sprayed some water 

Then tilted it until I was happy with the coverage I had on it

I love how one Colour Shimmer Dust can have a few different colours come out

The letters I used are white plastic ones so I went around the edges with a black marker just so they would stand out a bit 

I glued them down with Helmar Super-Tac Glue

I also used this glue to adhere the clips to the chipboard squares

My husband came up with idea of cable ties to attach the two parts together 

Fingers crossed it gets used

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