Golden acrylics – Inky fingered Cat

Canvas and Mixed Media art, Golden acrylics, Luminarte silks, Spectrum noir pencils, Stampotique, Tim Holtz

Using the pieces left from class

23 February 201623 February 2016 Catherine

As regular blog followers know, I attended a class in Harrogate with Karen Hayselden where I decorated a cute bird house. I also made some backgrounds as part of the class and stamped some images as options for the birdhouse. Today I am sharing what I did with these…

This one had a little extra black added to provide a shadow for the Kate Crane Stampotique girl. I then layered the image up and added more shading with the Pitt pens. I also added stencilling with the Tim Holtz stencil I bought on the day of the class.. This is definitely my favourite stencil of the moment.

The next one…

This I mounted up on a few layers and added black as an outline on the panel. I added the sentiment from my Kim Dellow Paperartsy stamps and a button brad. I also added some card candi as a further embellishment. Again I shaded with pens and paint.

The next two were the smaller pieces cut off the others…

This I kept quite simple with just a bit of extra black for shadow and layering on black paper and the card candi.

The last one I used a different stamp.

I also took the other off cuts to create some different panels and added a little stencilling on the base card too to bring it all together. Love the Tim Holt crazy birds and cats collection … so it was good to stamp a couple of these out at the class to play with them. The sentiment is a Dylusions stamp that I bought on the day

So plenty of fun from the 1 piece of a4…

Hope you like what I did with them.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Art doll, Canvas and Mixed Media art, Golden acrylics, Luminarte silks, Paperartsy Kim Dellow, Random Crafts, Spectrum noir pencils

Bert the Birdhouse with Tweet, Twit and Twoo!

08 February 201608 February 2016 Catherine

Evening all

I have now finished my birdhouse I started at Art from the Heart on Saturday in a class with Karen Hayselden.

I wasn’t sure I wanted to use the Kate Crane girl stamped image so instead waited until I was home to make a start on finishing the project.

So here it was when I left Harrogate…

I had added some doodling and dots whilst in the hotel after the class.

When I got home the Kim Dellow Paperartsy stamps had arrived and so I knew then that the birds would be perfectly sized for the house. So I stamped on bookprint, coloured them with spectrum noir pencils and mounted them on black card, and then added a coat of glossy accents.

How to affix them? Well I had already thought of adding a bead on the top and Marie and I discussed the idea of wire (we both have rusty wire from another project sitting there unused!).

So I cut a length and coiled it loosely round the house and through the bead on the top and attaching it to the boot at the bottom.

Onto the bottom I stuck one bird, and onto to the top another. The third bird is stood on the little ledge near the entrance.

Twit

Twoo

The wire needed some work though so I found two cute little flower stamps in my stash that I thought worked with the style of the project and stamped them out, coloured them with the pencils and then cut them out with a little white border. I then dotted them around the wire so they look like they are floating round the house.

I adore how this has turned out. I have to thank Kassa for the class. I learnt so much about layering paint and the idea of the class was just so much fun. What a darling project.

Hope you like Bert (actually don’t care if you don’t because he’s mine and I love him and that’s all that matters!) and his friends.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Art doll, Canvas and Mixed Media art, Golden acrylics, Luminarte silks, Random Crafts, Stampotique, Tim Holtz

Update from Harrogate

06 February 201606 February 2016 Catherine

Hi there

So today I indulged in some arty therapy with some dear friends, no my sisters, in Harrogate at Art from the Heart with a great teacher, Karen Hayselden. And I decorated a very cute birdhouse, made some stunningly bright and busy layered backgrounds and a big splodgy mess. I played with air drying clay, did a bit of stamping and had a crafty spend. I learnt techniques, played with supplies I hadn’t tried before and best of all spent time with loved ones. Sadly one of our group was MIA as she was unwell but another came in her place so that was a positive surprise to a poop situation. I also got to meet in real life two new friends (although I didn’t really chat much as we were at opposite ends of the table and all working too hard to stop really … sorry Chris and Linda for not being more sociable).

So enough blathering… I suppose you want to see what I made… well nothing is exactly finished as I want to do something slightly different from the class ‘sample’ but here it is as it currently stands…

The light in the hotel room isn’t the best for showing it off.. I will post and updated daylight photo as soon as I can. It is quite grungey but also bright and shiny with about a million layers of paints (maybe an exaggeration but a lot of layers!).

To get used to creating layers we also made a couple of backgrounds…

… those to the left at the top. I then made a splodgy mess out of my palette. … There was a lot of black left on my palette so it is a very black splodgy mess… It needs further working on that’s for sure. And then I stamped some images out for adding to my birdhouse as options and for adding to my boot I made from clay too… no pics of this as yet… It’s in the car at the moment…. It needs to dry before I can start decorating it.

Of course there was a little crafty spend too…

Some bits and pieces… inks a couple of wood mounted stamps I couldn’t resist a stencil I’ve been seeing on you tube videos and admiring and some dylusions quote stamps that I know I will use a lot in journalling projects. Plus a watering can archival (very useful essential) and matt medium…. oh and a distress stain to complement the other warm colour ones I’ve got so my distress stain collection is complete for me.

The day was rounded off with chat with Darcy and Marie before dropping Darcy off for her coach home, then a lovely tea with Marie in the pub (wine has been drunk) and watching the Paperartsy periscopes and utube launch videos on my phone with Marie. Wifi far too slow for ipad to watch them (poo) so good job I’ve got loads of data on my phone!

So a nice early night to make up for the early start and then tomorrow a nice big brekkie with Marie before we head home.

Such a lovely day with loved ones. Was great to see Jayne and Marie for the first time in just over a year (we really shouldn’t leave it this long between meeting up), and a lovely surprise to see Darcy again. Loved being creative, learning new things and creating something different. Missed the lovely Lynn and hope she is feeling better really soon.

Small update… couldn’t sleep straight away so did some colouring…

Night all… and of course happy crafting!
Catherine