Faye's Adventures in Art
This was such fun. I took an old picture of me and added this lovely vintage outfit, removing a few wrinkles and hopefully making improvements in my appearance. I think the green outfit comes from Art Creations Friday. This is the theme for Saturday's Workout.
Using mica tiles is the challenge for Saturday's Workout. I have some "found" mica I picked up out in the countryside several years ago, so I used it to go over the word Dream on this card. The background is mica mists on textured paper. The "writing" is done with a cuttlebug folder. I dipped the paper in some of the same mists.
Textured Background is the theme for Saturday's Workout. This 5x7 canvas board was slathered with white acrylics paint. While it was still wet, I stamped a few of my stamps into the paint and made a few random marks. After drying for about 16 or 17 hours, I discovered it was still gooey in spots, so I used the heat gun on it. The next step was applying the several brown tones of acrylics paint and wiping off most of it. I decided to finish it off with the RAK (Hearts and Love stamps) I received from Louise of Tag Tuesday. I sealed this with a clear gloss acrylics sealer.
Saturday's Workout has a real challenge this week. We are to use an emboss resist technique. I used the technique that used acrylics paint, clear ink and clear embossing powder. There is a workshop HERE that shows how to do emboss resists. The white background is what was left by the embossing on the protecting white paper when ironed. It looked too good to throw out. The green card is another resist embossing using acrylics paint on card stock, embossed with clear ink and powder and ironed. I am using one of Jamie's freebies. Thanks, Jamie. Click on the dark card to see more details.
Wow, what challenges today! First, One Stop wants something "Simply Stunning" but using no designer paper. That isn't a problem since I rarely do use designer paper. Second, Saturday's Workout gave us a faux leather technique to do using masking tape. I am combining the 2 challenges with this entry. If the kissing couple looks familiar, it should. I used it not long ago for a Wednesday Stamper challenge.
Using the sketch from Sketch Saturday, I noticed that the center part was a circle, the theme for One Stop Craft Challenge this week. That's 2. I remembered that Saturday's Workout was having artists use UTEE so I decided to do my circle using the cracked glass technique. My green background is the distressed gesso piece I did about a week ago. The circle with the stamped dragonfly is the same paper. I did about 4 layers of UTEE and embossing it each time. Then I put the circle in the freezer for about 30 minutes. When it was cold I pressed on it to crack the surface. I rubbed a little brown ink into the cracks.
What a fabulous technique we have for our Saturday's Workout challenge today. Distressed Gesso is the name of TrishBee's wonderful background method. I used two colors of green dye ink and one of a blue plus the gesso, of course. Other entries are found at SaWo.
This colorful background was made by misting a glossy cardstock with water and dropping some of the inks onto it. When the surface was covered by dilute inks, I sprinkled large crystal salt on. To speed the drying I used the heat gun. Probably it is better to let it air dry. Then I brushed off all the salt and had a gorgeous tropical background. I decided to make a vacation type ATC from it. The salt technique was the theme this week for SaWo.
Saturday's Workout's theme for the week is to do a mosaic in our art. I have used two kinds of background paper, which I cut into rectangles and pieced back together in a different order. The blue and brown paper is a dyed paper towel. The image is one that was supplied to us last week by Art Creations Friday. The pink and green (and orange streaks) is from a swap on Art Techniques.
Saturday's Workout 's theme for this week's challenge was a bit of real work. First I took my ATC size card stock and wrapped thread around and around in various directions. Then I took my brayer and rolled it over the threaded card. What happened was that the brayer actually coated the thread with ink and the ink lines stamped onto the white card. This was not the idea of the challenge.
Today's challenge for Saturday's Workout was done by a fascinating resist technique using ordinary waxed paper. First I ran a piece of the waxed paper through my pasta machine with a cuttlebug folder for the background swirls. Then I took two glossy card stock pieces with the shiny sides towards the waxed paper, making a "sandwich". I dry ironed this leaving a wax impression on both the shiny sides of the glossy card stock. I applied Distress brick red ink with a brayer over the card stock.
Here are two different "broken glass" examples. The dark one started as my Monday's entry to TMTA where the theme was Ophelia. I decided to use it and make it into the broken glass entry for the SaWo challenge. The light color 4x4 was done a little bit ago and a few of you may have seen it before. Both of these were done using UTEE. After several layers of UTEE, the pieces were put into the freezer to harden. When they were taken out, I gently bent the cards to crack the "glass." I coated the surface with ink to fill in the cracks and rubbed it off. The light colored example was done on heavier cardstock and really turned out better.
For the Saturday Workout challenge this week we are using acrylic paint. Here are 2 views of my highly reflective 4x4 on which I have stamped yellow leaves using my hand-carved maple leaf stamp. The background is matboard with various lumiere paints and Moon shadow mists. For those of you too young to know this, the words are from the song: Autumn Leaves from the 50s.
For the challenge that SaWo presents this week, I have used a Graphics Fairy image of Thumbelina waving. A butterfly is pulling her along the water on a lily pad. An additional flourish representing more water reeds is stamped on acetate with StaZon and a Purple Onion stamp. This entry is a 4x4. The image is set onto a card stock that I have dabbed with Moon Glow Starburst stain of color purple. I oversprayed it with Moon Glow Shadow mist in blue-violet. This entry is also being shown in the Layers of Color challenge.
This is my entry for Saturday's Workout. We are to alter something. This is a mints tin I have put gesso on, added lace and shell beads, and an image to. It looks better in person than it does here. Sorry. It was lumpy so it didn't scan well. I sprayed Moon Shadow mists in several colors over the whole thing.
I've been wanting to do something with the pastel-colored (pink, blue, and yellow) tissue paper I got a few days ago. This morning Saturday's Workout has just the theme for me - tissue. My background was made by putting down Golden soft gel and layering different scraps of tissue with lots of gel over and under the tissues. When I got a beautiful array of greens and purples I decided it was time to stop layering and began the process of drying it with the hair dryer. Since the background has a soft feeling to it, I decided to do an ATC with a theme of Love One Another.
