Playing with String Art

 I have had a little play with String Art this week - this is my first attempt - not quite perfect as I think I went slightly wrong at one point.   (Blaming it as ever on the dodgy eyes!)

I have a couple more circles of different sizes to try - so hopefully I will improve.   I can always undo the top silver layer and try and redo it!

Big Five-O card

Just a very simple card for a nephews birthday.  I decided to just keep it very simple.   Created in Craft Artist and mounted onto a red pearlised card.  I added a little glitter effect to the 50.

Finally finished!

Some months ago I shared this MDF Owl plaque, and said that felt it needed something in the top left-hand corner.   Finally a short while ago I purchased a mould for the picture frame.   I made the frame using air-dry clay, and then did some painting techniques on it.   I then took a photo of a water-colour painting my daughter did during lockdown of a butterfly on a buddleia and reduced it in Craft Artist to fit the frame.

The plaque is for my daughter - so it is now completely personalised.

Dreamcatcher

 

I treated myself to a dreamcatcher kit the other day.   Having complete each of the circles, I then used some macramé knots to join them together.  I am still trying to decide whether to add some feathers to it, and maybe some hanging beads.   (The feathers I have are quite large and may overpower it.

This is a close-u[p of the largest ring - I used one of my ickle resin butterflies as an additional decoration, as it matched the bead so perfectly.

In hindsight I wish I had coloured the wooden rings firs -I may try and do that carefully.

Birthday Card

  A simple stamped and coloured card.  The stamps were from the latest Indigo Blu magazine.  Coloured using Clarity Artistry inks as water colours for the balloon and brushed on for the background.

Paint Pouring - Success!

 Yes, I know I have been a bit lax on the Blog this past week or so, but sometimes life overtakes you.  

I shared some paint pouring that I did the other week, and I couldn't get the cell effect that I wanted - at last I have managed to get the effect I wanted.

Oops! It Happens!

 Me bad!   I forgot my sister-in-law's birthday!    Thank goodness for Craft Artist.   

A Little More Resin - a bit of a catastrophic day!

I decided to try Uncle Bob Christmas again using white resin as a background, as opposed to clear resin with a little liquid white pigment in it.    It was all a bit catastrophic from the start.   I didn't have my glasses with me in the Den - (too lazy to go back down to the house to get them as I thought I could manage! - wrong)   So I didn't realise that I had got some stray red pigment in the wrong place on Uncle Bob.

I then started tomix the resin - the first part went into the plastic cup ok, but when I started to pour part B in - the scales seemed not to be registering properly .... erm yes, well ........ it helps if you don't have a crack in the cup!   Heck there was resin everywhere - all over the scales (yes they are a right off) all over my work table - fortunately covered in plastic.   Mad panic to mop up most of it before it set - the resin I was using was very quick setting - the resin that was still in the cup got chucked out, still in the cup on the garden! (Anybody want a cup shaped block of resin - lol!)  Oh what a mess - although I managed to get most of it mopped u, as I said apart from my little jewellery scales -just as well I had ordered a new larger set on my next Sains order already!

Undeterred, I started again and mae another mix - I don't like the effect of the white resin - regardless of the fact that not having my specs on I couldn't see the dodgy dusting until after it was set.   So you win some you lose some - at least I hadn't lost my expensive clear JenArt resin.

 You can see more clearly on the separate pictures the mess I made of brushing the mica onto uncle bob, and the butterfly wasn't that much better - albeit looks like a piece of old porcelain!  Good job I am not afraid to post my mishaps on my blog !!!!!!

Resin

 

After a week of resin no playing nicely, I managed some good pours the other day.    The one above is a dried gazania flower in a clear resin coaster

This was an experiment to turn the Uncle Bob mould into Father Christmas.  

I think it has worked quite well. He has such a jolly face.

This is another view of Uncle Bob Christmas, taken on a black background.

I also made this ickle butterfly - which is pendant size for a necklace.

More Paint Pouring

 

Another try - but still can't get those elusive cells - but I like them anyway!