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Tuesday 28 August 2018

Dragon eye altered journal cover

Just think Smaug the dragon waking up in that classic scene from the Hobbit. That was my inspiration for these journal covers.



I made the eyes by handcasting resin in a mould and and then building around it using clay and some texture stones. I painted the eyeballs with acrylic paint and once dry applied a couple of coats of Glossy Accents.

Before I applied them to the mountboard cover, I used texture paste through stencils to add background texture.

Once I stuck on the eyes and built round with clay, I also added some texture stones, metal cogs and some coins. This was to give the idea of Smaug laying on all the treasure.


I decided this one was a water dragon so coloured him with a base of blue.


After painting with the base colours, using starlight paint, I then rubbed over with different coloured guilding waxes to pick up on all the textures.



I really love them and am in the process of making more and I decided to do something similar on a canvas. But you'll have to wait to see that one as I think that might take a while to complete.

Challenges:
Rhedds creative spirit.-august-challenge ( it is a board cover, but if not allowed I apologise)






Monday 27 August 2018

Dragon Boxes


Good morning , I hope if you live in the UK you are enjoying your bank holiday, and if you live else where that you are having a great day too.


I have always been a fantasy/ magic fan especially dragons, I'm facinated by them, so I've really enjoyed making these dragon boxes.



I made the baby dragons from paperclay so they are very lightweight .





To get lots of texture I used texture paste through stencils,

Powertex mixed with 3d Flex, which creates a crackle effect.


Die cuts and ripped pieces of cardboard also painted with brown Powertex, gave texture to the top.


I painted the dragons with Starlight paints and rubbed over with guilding wax.


And the boxes were painted with various acrylic paints mixed with sand and coloured guilding wax



Challenges;


Sunday 26 August 2018

My first Powertex fairy house

Morning all,
Last week I  finally got round to having a go with my Powertex. Been wanting to try a fairy house for ages. Once its set for 3 weeks it will be weatherproof and able to go outside. 











 and couldn't resist covering the front and back of a notebook too.  




Challenges:
Altered eclectics -Anything mixed media 


Thanks for looking 
Hugs Sue xx



Saturday 25 August 2018

Journal and notebook covers galore

Good morning crafty friends, a very quick post this morning.
Can you tell I like to decorate notebook and journal covers.
Here's a few I've made lately, hopefully they will give you some inspiration.





I'm entering this one Altered eclectics challenge









I am entering this one into Vintage journey -how-can-you-resist as I used thick gel medium through a stencil to act as a resist.

Thanks for looking 
Hugs Sue xx

Friday 24 August 2018

Dragon notebook

Good morning crafty friends.
I dont know about you but I have a love of dragons, well all fantasy things really, but especially dragons.
I recently started to cast my own resins and this is one of my favourites, so I used it to decorate a notebook.
After taking the covers off the notebook I used texture paste through stencils, I did the front and back but forgot to photograph the back. Once dry I painted with Imagination Starlight paints and then picked out the details with green and gold gilding waxes.



Challenges:



Thursday 23 August 2018

Mixed media altered box

Another quick post today, an altered box.
I wasn't happy with the colours so as you can see from the later pictures I decided to alter the colours a bit by adding some blue spray and blue embellishments.
I think it really brightens and lifts it and now I love it.  






Challenges:

Thanks for looking



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