Love you to Bits for Art and Soul Studio

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This weeks project is all paper no mixed media for a change I just love the colours in this paper range from Cocoa Vanilla which I got from the Art and Soul Studio Shop which has a great range of products so make sure you visit and see what your next purchase will be 

Then visit the Blog for some more inspiration

I fussy cut the butterflies from the More than Words - Radiant sheet

Then with the More than Words - Collage sheet I cut it up with all the different pieces so I could use them as layers and I then used some cardboard under a few pieces of the papers and the photo to raise them so there is some dimension

I used a couple of pieces from the More than Words - Treasure paper as well

Then I inked all the edges with the Ranger Archival Ink in Black

Then with the More than Words Chipboard Stickers set I used a few thing such as the flowers, hearts and the little banner

Products I used from Art and Soul Studio

Cocoa Vanilla More than Words- Radiant

Cocoa Vanilla More than Words- Collage

Cocoa Vanilla More than Words- Treasure

Cocoa Vanilla More than Words-Chipboard Stickers

Cocoa Vanilla More than Words- Flair Buttons

Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black

Some of the products may be out of stock on the website but check with the staff at the shop as they could have them there x

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

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

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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

Thank you for visiting and I hope you come back soon x

Wonder for Memory Maze

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I hope you have had a great start to the new year

Here's my first project for the Memory Maze Blog for this year

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Design Team creations

I started with a canvas that I used in reverse I like to have some depth sometimes without having to build things up

I painted the canvas with black gesso

Then used the River Pebbles Stencil with modelling paste on the background 
Once the paste was dry I painted over that with the gesso as well

I painted Small Chicken Wire. Border 2 Flourish. metal embellishments and Art Pebbles with the black gesso 
I left the flowers, the arrow from Charms Creations and the brown Mermaid Beads as they were so there was so more contrast

With the Deer I used modelling paste with the Mini Flower Stencil 
Then I used Dark Chocolate Impasto mixed with a little White Impasto 
Once everything was dry I rubbed some Finnabair Rich Copper Wax over the raised areas

I used Lucky Emereald on the leaves and then Mystic Turquoise and the Lucky Emerald on the flowers and the 

Small Chicken Wire as well as some Vintage Gold which is what I used on all the metal embellishments

And around the edge of the canvas I rubbed a bit of each colour except the Fire Ruby

The Art Pebbles I used a mix of Fire Rube and Vintage Gold

Products I used from Memory Maze -

Mini Flower Stencil

River Pebbles Stencil

Small Chicken Wire

Border 2 Flourish

Deer Head


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Grateful Heart for Colour Blast

Happy New Year Everyone

I hope you're having a fun but safe New Years Eve

On today's BLOG for Colour Blast I created a canvas with lots of paper clay pieces stuck on 

I started off by painting the canvas with Heavy White Gesso

Then used some Helmar Premium Craft Glue to adhere all the paper clay pieces on (like a jigsaw) 
I then filled in some gaps with Art Stones and finished it off with another coat of Heavy White Gesso

Then I decided to make it colourful and I used the Colour Shimmer Dusts in - Paris, Peacock, Amber, Sunflower, Duke and Candy 
Flicking a little bit of dust before spraying water with each colour (trying not to make mud by getting the colours too mixed up)

Then I felt it needed some more shimmer so I mixed the Dorlands Wax with the Colour Embossing Powder -  Bling and used a  spatula knife to spread it around the canvas and into the little gaps 
I covered the heart all over as that's what stands out the most and I based my quote on

Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a very happy 2019 xx

Magic for Helmar

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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