3D Fairy Doors

I had lovely fun painting these.  I normally paint with gesso first on MDF, but on this occasion I just used Pebeo acrylic paint directly - apart from the doors.

The effect on the doors was an experiment based on a demo by Ali Reeve.  I used Distress ink pads on the doors - having put a little acrylic paint on the "striped" section.   I then sprinkled on Ultra Thick Embossing Powder and heated it up, and then applied more distress inks of various colours (there is even purple on them believe it or not!)  I love the effect of the one layer of embossing powder.

I made a little skirt for the fairy using chiffon and my special soldering iron for material.

  Here are a few views of the completed fairy door in various locations!  (oh yes and I sprinkled a little flower soft on the base.)

I then tackled the Christmas Elf, using the same techniques:

and some more photos taken in different locations - outside my den, and at the base of one of our oak trees.

Sympathy Card and a Birthday Card

A couple of difficult cards to make this week.  Sympathy cards are always so difficult, but I have noticed that they are a lot more cheerful in the shops, so kept this one simple too.

The second card is for somebody who is going through a difficult time at the moment, and a health battle.  I didn't want to put Happy Birthday so used Birthday Wishes instead.

A few cards

All made in CAP2  the Get Well Soon one with an imported image from Andy Carolan's Professional Occupations cd.

Mixed Media Samples

Well I did say I had a lot of catching up to do - so here is another one for today:

Inspired by the Pebeo Mixed Media show on Hochanda, my pal and I decided to have a go at a similar canvas to the one Voitek (spelling) demonstrated.

My canvas

We both used the same paints on a black gessoed canvas, and roughly followed applying the paints as demonstrated - colours applied were DYNA blueblack, bluegreen and green yellow.  Initially painted on with a brush in random strokes, and then sponged on.  Circles were then drawn with 4 Artist marker in white (we didn't have a small silver one at that point in time).  Clear Cerne was applied over the circles, and they were then filled with turquoise fantasy paints.

Silver 4Artist Marker was then flicked at the canvas and pulled out with the Vitrail sparkle medium, we also used the sparkle medium to apply random strokes.

Sassie's canvas

As you can see this ccanvas is quite different, although we were both doing basically the same thing - Sass has applied strokes of the Silver Marker to hers as well, and over-painted them with the sparkle medium.

We also edged the canvas with the silver marker

Letter Holder

Work in progress

I recently joined the Clarity Club, and I have used this month stencil on this letter holder.

The holder was gessoed and then painted with various shades of gold and bronze from the DYNA range.

I then applied modeling paste through the stencil, and when dry, applied the bronze and green/yellow DYNA to the relief work with a sponge.

Dragonfly

I then applied some of the green/yellow and bronze paint to a piece of canvas paper and stamped the dragonfly (this months stamp from the club).  Cut it out, and added a few highlights with Pebeo Renaissance Gold Gilding wax.  I also edged the holder with the same gilding wax.

The dragonfly was glued to the holder, and then with Pebeo 4 Artist bronze marker the word letters was added.

Pebeo on a tin

This was a little freebie tin that came with some cigarettes that was in my stash  - I have alrtered a few of these over the years and they hold pins, needles and miscellaneous items.

I applied some modelling paste over the lit with a palette knife that had grooves in it.  I then painted the whole thing with Pebeo Black gesso, and then Pebeo DYNA Blue Black - love that colour.

I couldn't quite decide where to go with it next - but ended up tryig out my new Pebeo 4 Artist Marker in silver over the raised bits.  (The markers are fabulous - oil based and really shiny and come in a number of sizes and colours).

I then used Pebeo Mixtion relief and drew free-hand leaves and when dry foiled them with the blue metallic foiling sheets, and created a flower with some flat backed pearls from my jewellery stash.

The result was quite random, and it does look more effective in real life as you can see the different dimensions.

Messing about with Pebeo paints

Here is another little canvas I did just random messing about with Pebeo ceramic and Fantasy paints on mixed selection of vitrail.  No planning, I just let the paints do their own thing.

Revamping

Well what a bad blogger I have been.    Although to be fair I have had a pal staying for a couple of weeks to support me through a difficult period - what would have been my husband's 75th Birthday, and my first birthday without him.  So today there will be a few postings, rather than scheduling some.

This little revamp came about, because having shown my pal the owl and the picture I created with the pebeo fantasy paints and vitrail etc.   I inadvertently placed the owl down on the picture and we we both said  "ooo - that looks good".  and thus the revamp was born!

Card for a Friend

A card for a male forum friend

The topper was created using a stencil for Clarity Stamp and one of Leonie Pujol's masks for "friend".

The background was inked with a brush in shades of green and brown distress inks  Then the word was outlined using Leonie's little stamps and one of the shades of distress ink from the background.  When dry the image was highlighted with the Spectrum Noir Overlay clear sparkle pen.

Image was then matted and layer on to pearl cardstock and then on to a pearlescent green card.

Cake for special girl

My granddaughter gained her Baden Powell Challenge Award (The highest Award in the Guide Section of Girlguiding)

We learned that it was to be presented to her at a meeting that her mother and I were going to but with less than two days notice!   No panic then to produce a cake.  I also learned that two other friends from her Guide Company were also being presented with their Awards, so it had to be a fairly large cake to serve all those attending.   

So the panic set it over the weekend - had I got enough ingredients for cake (six egg sponge) and had I enough sugarpaste.   Fortunately I did have enough sugarpaste in stock, and a quick late night trip to the corner shop solved the shortage of eggs!  I also had enough icing sugar in to make royal icing for the shells.

I had no time to ice the badge properly, so thank heavens for our little cake shop that prints designs on to icing.  I emailed them the design Monday morning, and it was ready to collect by lunchtime, when I also collected the board to put it on!

Yes the cake was ready by Monday evening for the presentation ceremony.   It's not my best work, but it was such a rush to get it done.

The girls were thrilled.   Special occasions and achievements NEED a cake!