'Happiness' is ... (Art Journal spread with Decoart yummies)

(as close as I can get to the feeling):

Again, lots of yummie Decoart products:

fluid acrylics

metallic silver, green gold, Diarylide Yellow, Cadmium Orange Hue, Carbon Black, Hansa Yellow Light, Cobalt Teal Hue, Quinacridone Gold, Pyrrole Red

and interference:

Gold, Green 

metallic lustre: Orange Flicker, Majestic Purple, Gold Rush

weathered wood, crackle paint, gesso, matte medium, varnish ultra matte, triple thick

Thanks soo very much for stopping by and having a peek,
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

another Art Journal spread

in my handmade  'Badass Journal' - with more Decoart goodies:

 

Products involved:

white gesso

matte medium

misters turquoise and blue

paints

fluid acrylics quin gold, payne's grey, titan buff, phtalo turquoise

dazzling metallics teal

two step crackle

ultra matte varnish

Thanks so much for having a look, have a great weekend.
Hugs, Suzanne xx

Journal spread with Decoart goodies

Today I'm sharing an Art Journal spread I did as part of an online workshop I joined. It's called One Badass Art Journal and it's run and offered by the wonderful Tiare Smith.

The decoart products I used:

Thank you ever so much for stopping by.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

a few ATCs

Hi all,

I don't get around to doing much so I love ATCs e.g. I made a few these days, inspired by but not strictly following Seth Apter's Collage principles.
I'm so much in love with Seth's work and techniques, it's great and very inspiring to watch his instructions. I highly recommend them :-D

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look. I hope you are all well.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

pimped notebook

Hi everyone ...
I'm so sorry I haven't been around for some time. Life - you know.
As a member of the blogger outreach program I pimped a notebook. It was plain silver and I didn't like its look.

front

 back

At first I primed everything with gesso. For the front cover I used the peeled paint technique as a background and added modeling paste throuhj stencils, Andy's snake's web.. Finally I applied some paints and metallic lustre with a small piece of cut'n dry foam. The cover was sealed with decoupage glue in the end.

On the back I stencilled Andy's sculduggery and painted everything over with paynes grey.This was rubbed off in some areas and more paint was added.

Decoart products I used:

gesso

modeling paste

decoupage glue

paint

americana acrylics yellow green

eggshell

pineapple

mississippi mud

transparent iron yellow oxide

metallic

dark patina

 

fluid acrylics

paynes grey

quinacridone gold

green gold 

metallic lustre

cosmic blue

orange flicker

stencil

snake's web 

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look. Have a great weekend everyone ... finally it's warm and sunny around here.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Canvas Board - Eye of Horus

Hi all.
My blogpost today on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog is about a canvas board 'Egyptian' style.

I'd so love you to stop by and have a closer look.
Thanks so very much!!

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

another note holder block

Again a little project with those gorgeous yummieh decoart products.
As a thank you for a coworker who is extremely kind and ready to help throughout the year I made a note holder.

cover front

cover back

It's from a wooden block that I painted with Americana tradidtions blue green light and media fluids phtalo green blue. Around the edges some reactive metallic paint was used to make it rusty. Then came a little bit of stamping that I covered with two step crackle, the cracks were highlighted with media fluids quin gold.
Those colours were also used to make the background for the cover, they were scraped onto cardstock with a palette knife.
Everything was sealed with media varnish utra matte and the cover was laminated.

A ring binder was also rusted and fastened with screws.
To fill the note holder I used cut up paper from my office work (upcycling is the keyword ;-)) to take notes and - separated by a postcard to color in - a stack of paper I had printed with doodle prompts.

some shots of gorgeous rust:

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look.
Sorry for the blurred pics, I'll try to replace them with better ones as soon as possible.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Mailbox

Hi all ... I hope you're well wherever you are.
My DT piece for today over on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog is a mailbox I made with products from Decoart.
All stamp imags are by De Stempelwinkel, NL.

First of all: sorry for the pic's poor quality, there simply doesn't seem to be a place to take decent shots around the house.

Now after priming the box with gesso I painted it with two different colours of chalk paint (rouge, yesteryear), sanded it back and sealed the panels with créme wax. Finally the images were stamped with stazon inkpad jet black.

For the second bigger side some stamps were sponged with vintage photo, spritzed with water, crumpled up and heat dried. After I adhered them with glossy accents I stamped over them and glued down the letters that I painted with reactice metal paints beforehand; those I shadowed with a wash of paynes grey acrylic paint. In the end all panels were splattered with diluted acrylic paint.

Products I used

for the box

chalky paint rouge and

yesteryear

gesso

Créme wax deep brown 

media fluid acrylics paynes grey

for the envelopes

media mister red

dazzling metallics teal

media fluid acrylics paynes grey

To fill the box a little I also made some envelopes, one s from a elli plate print (with decoart americana acrylic paints), one with a wash of media mister red.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look. I'm wishing you a peaceful time ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

bits? or bobs?

Hi all,
just a few little things ...
I recently experimented with resin - and an unsatisfactory silicone mould :-)
Here are the results:

For some I used only a few droplets of decoart acrylic fluids and embedded them in clear resin, the other hearts were made with tinted resin and some glitter. The hearts came out quite dull, so I added another coat of resin with a brush - I don't like the bruksh strokes on the surface. Now: more experimenting - and looking for moulds with much better quality.
A few of them were given away as lucky charms ;-)

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

mini Voodoo Kit

Hi all ...
Long time no see .. I'm so sorry. But I won't go into details.
As a lucky member of the decoart outreach program I (see sidebar) I'm sharing a mini Voodoo kit in a shadow box today.

For the background I used the image transfer technique with the pic of a Voodoo doll from the web (not to be recognized anymore ;-)), applied crackle glaze clear and washed quin gold and yellow iron oxide into the cracks

I had a small mini Voodoo booklet for many, many years. From this I copied a few pages and aged the paper a bit (distress ink stains, Aquawax, quin gold ...).

I also had two knobs from a certain Swedish furniture shop that I rusted with reactive metallic paints and adhered them to either side of the box.

The little bottle has been treated with crackle glaze, matte medium and quin gold and wrapped with a rusted wire (vinegar, salt, water); the bottlecap was treated with reactive metallic paints again.

For the frame I used an Andy Skinner technique that he teaches in one of his online workshops, some decoart americana paints and antiquing cream burnt umber and carbon black.

Finally everything was assembled.

 

Products involved:

• Decoart Americana acrylic paints light and dark avocado, carbon black, yellow iron oxide.
• Decoart media fluid acrylics quin gold, paynes grey
• Decoart antiquing creams burnt umber, carbon black
• Decoart media crackle glaze clear
• Decoart media satin varnish matte
• Decoart matte medium

Thank you ever so much for stopping by, hope you like the shadow box.

Have a great day everyone.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx