In remembrance of IkesArt

 Good evening,

We have announced our winners for the Bunnies and Blooms challenge over at Creative Moments, so do pop over to take a look. Our 'gone but not forgotten' theme is still going until the 14th, so if you have stash from artists that are either no longer with us, or just no longer produce, then share this with us in our current challenge.

Here is my DT reminder card for the challenge using an image from IkesArt.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

SimonSaysMonday - 4 legged friends

ATSM #516 Make your Mark

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Butterflies

 Well we are now in May - happy May Day! Our new challenge started today over at Moving Along with the Times, with the theme of  butterflies.

Here is my creation:

For this card I die-cut a butterfly from X-cut self-adhesive glitter paper. I then used metallic and translucent X-cut self-adhesive card/paper with the solid butterfly dies that were free with a magazine. To finish I used a fluid art dipped strip of card at the bottom and added a sentiment sticker onto this.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

SOS #572 Up, up and away (dies and papers from my stash)

AlphabetChallenge - A for Air

Thanks for taking the time to look at my creation.

Hugz Tinz

Girl in the Summer Garden

 Hi everyone,

We have a new challenge started today over at I Love Promarkers. Our optional theme is Summertime and we would love to have you joining in. Our sponsor is the fantastic Polkadoodles, and here is my creation.

I coloured the image using my Promarkers and then fussy cut her. I simply added her to a green base card and then added a rub-on sentiment and border.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Inspirationstation - #84

ATSM #516 Make your mark

SimonSaysWed - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Spring Plant Pot

 Good evening,

I wanted to share the plant pot that I made using fluid acrylic pouring methods that created the bird in the dawn canvas painting. There was glitter in the yellow paint that didn't come through. The colours reacted really well together, but the yellow is mainly down one side.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

CRAFT #778 Anything Goes

craftycatz #712 Anything Goes

Thank for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Bird in the sunset

 Hi guys,

I have another fluid art piece to share with you today. This was created when I did a flower pot (to be shared soon) with the excess paint that dropped onto the canvas. the same paints were used as I put in my previous post. When stretched the lines become very delicate a wavy, and the cerise created a flying bird towards the top of the canvas, which added a very unique and unexpected focal point to the whole design.

You can see the lovely waviness of the lines between the different colours, with an overall sunset effect.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges:

SimonSaysWednesday - Make it Feminine

SOS - up, up and away (using an old canvas pack, and cerise paint)

AYLI - Brights or pastels - I really like the delicate effect that pastels can produce, especially when used as a background colour

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Pastels flip cups

 Good evening guys,

I decided to do a little experiment with layering the same colours in different orders to create some flip cup canvases. I chose to use Artiste paints in Canary Yellow, Tea Pink, Dusty Rose, Sage mixed with a little Soft Green and Pearl Frosted Mint. I also used Hobbycraft ready mixed Cerise and added gold glitter to the yellow. All of these were mixed 1:1 with Floetrol and then made to the same consistency with water. The exception is the Hobbycraft cerise which ended up being way too thin, so I used this mix and added a single pipette to a cup of floetrol to get the thickness I needed.

The yellow was in the middle of the layers for this one, but you usually expect the top layer to be the main colour on the canvas, so this was unusual. The colours made a really cool background and the yellow looks like some form of animal reaching through the canvas. The cerise made some interesting cells in the top end of this yellow streak.

In this one the layering allowed more mixing of the yellow with the pinks, so instead of yellow we have a lovely peach through the background. Again the pastel colours have made for a lovely dream-like background, and this time we have an orange and green streak through the middle. Unfortunately the cerise has once again caused the formation of quite a few cells. To me this looks like some form of fungal sprouting body with spores.

This layering allowed the tea pink to really stand out, which once again was in the centre of the layering. the yellow has really popped through the blue, but there was a cell forming when the flip cup was poured, and initially this looked kinda cool. By the time the painting had dried the following day this cell had become much, much larger and now looks like a slice of orange has been placed on the canvas, which was upsetting. The cerise has only made small cells through this canvas which has created a much more delicate look (if it wasn't for the alien orange slice).

I would like to enter these into the following challenges:

SimonSaysWednesday - Quite Quirky

SundayStamps (I couldn't see rules that stated I needed to stamp on my project so apologies if I did need to) 384 Pastel Portraits

InspirationStation #84 Springtime (took inspiration from the colours)

Thanks for taking the time to look and your feedback (and which one of the resulting canvases is your favourite) would be much appreciated.

Hugz Tinz

Add a banner with calm

 Good evening all,

We have a new challenge started today at I Love Promarkers, with the optional theme of add a banner. We are sponsored by Dr Digi and here is my creation.

The image was coloured using promarkers and then fussy cut. I added the image to a 3x3 square of purple patterned paper from The Range. I then added the panel to a KRAFT base card. To finish I added the birthday banner to the top.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

PFP #833 Spring Colours (purples, greens and pinks)

AYLI - Simple or fussy - I have for simple as simple keeps the cards calm and quiet

dragonflydreams - CAS

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz