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

Gone but not forgotten

 Our new challenge has started today over at Creative Moments and this month we are remembering those designers who no longer create for whatever reason. It is time to get those papers, digital images and products out and put them to use!

I have lots of Bugaboo images in my stash and I think they were a great company with images for literally every occasion and style - all with a bit of fun added. Therefore, I decided to use one of these images.

I coloured the image using Promarkers and then fussy cut closely to the outline. I used a patterned paper than came from with a craft magazine quite a few years ago to back the image. I layered this onto a peach base card, to match the wooden plinth of the image. I then used peel-offs to finish the design.

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

Dragonflydreams - CAS

TheMaleRoom #209 Vehicles or Transport (a sleigh is definitely transport)

Thanks for taking the time to look - and do pop along to our main blog and enter our challenge, showing some love for those designers that no longer design.

Hugz Tinz

Four Seasons

So I have been doing some more fluid art recently and I decided I wanted to do a four seasons set using a flip cup technique for all four. I decided to mix the paint with floetrol first to assess the consistency and then use floetrol and water to ensure this was consistent across the paints.

A flip cup involves placing the colours into a cup in layers, taking care which colours to put together. You then place the canvas on top of the cup and flip it so the cup is upside down on top of the canvas. The paint is then stretched and the composition created.

This was the Spring themed flip. Besides the blue, green and white that can be seen, there was also pink and yellow in the cup. Unfortunately, the pink and yellow disappeared completely on this one, so it is not as Spring as I was anticipating.

For the Summer one I used Cobalt Blue, Spring Green, Cerise, Christmas Green and Buttercup Yellow. Once again the yellow has almost completely vanished from the pour, however the other colours are still present. This turned out darker than I was anticipating, but it does have the feel of summer holidays to me.

This was the Autumn flip, which used Raw Sienna, Antique Metallic Gold, Brick Red, Umber and an orange (I cannot remember which orange I used). This one kept the definition between the colours well, and gave a woodgrain-like effect due to the cells that formed with the flip. This one really does represent Autumn to me.

This final one was for Winter and I used Pearlescent White, Metallic Black, Silver, a small amount of Christmas Green and Pearlescent Blue. All the colours are visible, with the green being diluted by the silver that was at either side of it in the layering. This has given an icy landscape.

I would love to hear your thoughts on which of these represent the season they are supposed to be for you.

I would like to enter them into the following challenges:

SimonSaysMonday - Not a card

CRAFT #777 Seasons/Weather

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz