Home is where our hearts belong

Morning all, 

for today's creation I have made a decorative mdf heart. 

Firstly  I covered the heart with Blissful paper in peach by Anna Marie Designs. I added strips of different designs from the same pad in a criss cross pattern.

 

 Next I added an arrangement of flowers, stamens, a chipboard butterfly, a metal butterfly, a couple of pearl pins, glitter droplets and a metal /enamel button embellishment.

I stamped and embossed a sentiment 'Home is where our hearts belong' and finally splattered some white paint and dusted lightly with irridescent glitter.

It actually looks quite glittery in real life, but it doesn't show up on the picture.

I will be entering this into these challenges
Altered eclectics -august -anything goes -challenge 

Thanks for looking

Hugs Sue x

Beside the seaside, beside the sea..

Good morning!

As I can't go on holiday this summer, I decided to cheer myself up by making this ocean themed canvas.

To start I used some sea life stencils on an 8x8 canvas, glued some cheesecloth strips and then mixed up some luscious powders by IndigoBlu with water in spray bottles and spritzed blue and green down the left and sandy gold across the right.

  Whilst the canvas was drying I gessoed some chipboard shapes, shells and various other embellishments, then sprayed them with the same colours as the canvas.

 Extra texture was created by adding some sand and balls, along with beads, gems and some string.

A nice sentiment was stamped and embossed, then spritzed with the colour sprays and finally I used gold gilding wax and some sparkly gems. 

I am entering it into the following challenges:

Country view challenge - august-2017-blues and greens

Altered eclectics -august challenge - anything goes

Peacock painting

Good morning, I'd like to share my first attempt at painting a peacock.

I used water colours and a little acrylic paint for the neck and head, and a technique using masking fluid, bubble wrap and Brusho powder pigments for the effect of the tail feathers.

I was inspired by Alison C Board who does some wonderful water colour and mixed media artwork.

I'm pleased with the finished painting, and hope to improve with practice.

I am entering this into
 Mixed Media World - mmw 28 - mood board challenge
Country View Challenge -august-2017-blues and greens
Altered eclectics - august challenge -anything goes 

Thanks for looking

Hugs Sue x 

      

Imagine' - mixed media canvas

Good evening, I would like to share one of my mixed media wall hangings with you.

I started by covering a canvas board with a couple of layers of patterned papers from  the Blissful Cotton pad by Anna marie designs. I distressed and inked the edges before layering them up.  

I found some lovely hessian and lace ribbon in my crafty stash, so added a piece across the middle. 

 I painted some chipboard pieces, a frame and a couple of swirly corners and used them to build up a little arrangement along with some silk and paper flowers.

I made a small heart out of UTEE and added that to the frame. 

Finally I stamped a beautiful sentiment from Inkylicious, tore it out and inked the edges to match the backing papers. After adding a few pearl embellishments, I splattered the whole canvas with white paint, a quick mist of gold glint spray and then lightly rubbed over the edges with gold gilding wax.

So that it could easily be hung up, I used my Cropadile to punch 2 holes and threaded some jute string through them.

Et voila ! Finished !

I hope you like it and perhaps I've inspired you to have a go yourself. If so Please leave me a link to your blog or facebook, in the comments, so I can come and take a look.

I am going to enter it into this months-

 mixed media world - challenge 28

Altered eclectics -august -anything goes challenge 

 

See you soon 

Sending hugs and sunshine

Suzanne x