Magic for Helmar

Hey Everyone

This week on the Helmar Blog I've made a grunge/steampunk type frame for a friend who loves that style and loved this quote

Make sure you check out the blog for lots of inspiration from the rest of the Design Team 

With the whole frame and embellishments I used the Helmar Premium Craft Glue as I have limited supplies at the moment where I am and I find this glue sticks everything from paper to metal

So I started with an old timber frame and painted it with some Art Alchemy Impasto in Dark Chocolate with some sand mixed in then I randomly put some Finnabair Red Rust Paste over the frame

I also did the same with the Memory Maze Chipboard pieces I used

I used an acrylic Unicorn Head from Memory Maze with some white paper flowers

I used a few pieces of paper clay which I covered with Art Alchemy Vintage Gold Wax with a stipple brush which gives a great coverage and gets into all the the little hard to reach places

On the background of the frame I used Memory Maze Lots of Squares Stencil 

I then used the Colour Blast Artist Inks in Calypso and Rust

Then I added some Memory Maze Chipboard Chicken Wire

I used a few bits of metal and a little jar of Magic with a few glass cabochons which I placed randomly after I added some Vintage Gold Wax to the back of them 

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will be back soon x

Challenge Project for Art and Soul Studio

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I hope you all have a Merry and Safe Christmas and that you have all been good and Santa brings you all you wish for

Today on the Art and Soul Studio Blog I created a beach inspired canvas as it went with my photo and it also went with our challenge photo 

The Challenge was to use the words Love Life and the pictures were there for inspiration

Make sure to enter as $50 is available for each category Cards, Layouts, and Mixed Media

So I  started off with reversing my canvas and giving it a coat of clear gesso

I then mixed in some sand and spread it around where it was needed 

I found a great branch from the garden that fit just right and stuck it down with Heavy Body Gel 

I then chose some embellishments and made them rusty using the Dark Chocolate Impasto and the Red Rust Past

With the frame I used the clear gesso before adding the Art Alchemy Old Silver wax with a stipple brush to make sure it went into all the grooves and corners

Here you can see the frame with the Old Silver was on it and the Love Life words - which is what these people look like they are doing

On the backround of the canvas I used Colour Blast Artist Ink Calypso with some water and let it run down the back making sure to get lighter and darker parts like you would see in the ocean

I also added some mesh to the cardboard I used to raise the photo up

Here's some of the embellishments I painted with the rust and a few other bits I also gave then a light brush with white gesso

Unfortunately the vellum globe I used went funny after I glued it with the gel 
And under that you can see where I used some Colour Blast Artist Ink Rust to make it look like some of the embellishments had rusted because of the ocean

I added a dragonfly because you often see them near water 
I added a couple of shells and you can see some of the clear beads scattered around the canvas

Products used from Art and Soul Studios
Finnabair Dark Chocolate Impasto
Rust Paste - Red
Tim Holtz idea-Ology 
Vignette 4 Frames  (instore)
Found Relatives (out of stock)
Ephemera Pack - Vellum
Art Basics
Clear Gesso (out of stock)
Heavy Body Gel (instore)
Art Alchemy Wax Old Silver (out of stock)
Art Ingredients Glass Glitter (out of stock)
My Stash
Colour Blast Artist Inks Calypso and Rust
Sand
Metal
Shells
Tree branch
Flair Button
Plastic beads

Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a Happy and Safe Christmas and New Year x

Strong For Memory Maze

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My turn on the Memory Maze Blog and couldn't wait to use the BOHO Skull and Feathers with a Dreamcatcher Chipboard Set I love this set it's awesome there is so much in this set to use 

I saw this Quote online and thought it was so true and wanted to use it 

I started of by using some of the Colour Blast Bling Colour Paste, then used some of Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint - Rusty Red, Pink Blush and Vintage Rose adding water here and there to mix the colours a bit and to also make them lighter and darker in different areas

After the paint dried I went over the paint with the Colour Blast Bling Colour Paste with the Skin Stencil so the Bling Colour Paste would stand out more

I used the Colour Blast Bling Colour Paste on the Chipboard Feather which is also from the BOHO Skull and Dream Catcher set I love how when you heat the paste it bubbles so it gave it lots of texture

I added some flowers, some Bling in a little bottle and scattered some Art Ingredient Art Stones mixed with some Helmar Tacky Craft Glue  

I used some Colour Blast Colour Paste Snow White on the head of the skull and then the Antler I used the Rust Paste to make it look old then added lots of flowers to the top of the head for more dimension 

I added the Art Stones and some of the  Rust Paste over the top of the flowers and then randomly added some Art Pebbles 

Memory Maze Products I used - 

Moroccan Chi Stencil

Skin Stencil

BOHO Skull and Feathers with a Dreamcatcher Chipboard

Thanks for visiting and I hope you come back soon xx