Saturday, 5 September 2026

Opiate EP album cover

 Hi guys,

Today I am sharing with you a mini fluid art that I made using the run off paint from some of my tiles. This little 3x3 canvas not only won first place at the local summer show for the mini art category, but it is also being used for the album cover of my partner's new piece of music.



The actual colour is much more correct in the second photo with the flash.
And these are the two tiles that I was doing for this pour:


Both of these tiles use metallic turquoise and gold, but it is difficult to see the shine without the flash, and the flash just left a white blob on the tiles. Again the tiles were done by layering the paint and then blowing it out to the sides after adding cell activator on top.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog,

Here is the link to the album if you want to listen (it is orchestral synth metal):
Opiate EP

Hugz Tinz




Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Cute mouse

 Hi guys

The new challenge started today over at MAWTT, with the theme of four-legged friends, and our current challenge continues at Creative Moments.

Here is my DT creation, using an image from Polkadoodles:

The image was coloured with alcohol markers before being fussy cut. I used a small 3x3 paper stack from the Range for my backing paper and then simply added the little mouse to this. I finished the card with a peel-off sentiment and love hearts.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
ATSM #524 Any Occasion
Addicted-to-CAS #315 Anniversary
Allsorts #857 All Creatures Great and Small

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Friday, 28 August 2026

Leaving cards - cross stitched

 Hi guys,

I just wanted to share the two leaving cards I made for some senior members of the team. these cards are cross stitched and involve a couple of different designs put together to make the final design.


This first one was for a Spanish colleague. She was going travelling in America before moving on to her new job, hence the sentiment.


This was for a lady that was moving her family over to Australia! A hell of a move. She loved the extra additions on the back :)

I would like to enter these cards into the following challenges:
SimonSaysWed - Anything Goes
613AvenueCreate - Play Time
dragonflydreams - Seaside or Beach

Thanks fr reading
Hugz Tinz


Thursday, 20 August 2026

Blown Tile

 Hi guys,

So this is my first tile for the new bathroom. Using the Shelee bloom technique to create the tile with black, yellow, purple and blue acrylic paints made to a medium consistency.



This second photo shows some of the lacey cells that formed from this technique. To create this tile I made two puddle pours, one at each side of the tile, with a single layer of each colour. I then blew on this paint puddle to push the paint out to the sides and corners of the tile, causing the paint to fold over itself while it is being blown. The bottom paint is more noticeable once finished with the top colour being hidden under the others.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my post,

Hugz Tinz


Sunday, 16 August 2026

Christmas Bauble

 Hi guys,

I have made some Christmas baubles using two different techniques. I wanted to try both ways of creating the baubles before going ahead and doing a whole set. So I chose some left over paints that needed to be used, layered them in two dirty cups and then painted some baubles.


This is the first one - made by pouring the paint inside the bauble and twisting to allow it to run around the inside. The difficulty with this version is getting the paint evenly coating the inside of the bauble.


This one used the same paint but this time I covered the outside of the bauble. The difficulty with this version is finding something to hold it up, as you don't want it sitting directly on the canvas, plus it easily falls over. For me I couldn't get it to stay upright and so it has these little marks on it where I had to use something to sit it on to keep it steady.

However, they were good fun to create and I will be doing some more with the clear plastic baubles that would not otherwise get used.

I would like to enter them into the following challenge:

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

Hugz Tinz

Sunday, 2 August 2026

Feminine fluid art vase and panel

 Hi guys,

Our new challenge has started today over at MAWTT, with the theme of Feminine.

I am sharing another of my fluid art designs, this time a vase and two canvases that I made with the drippings.






I am sharing these paintings into the following challenges:
Allsorts #855 Colours of Summer (the bright colours pop against the black)
SimonSaysWed - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Wednesday, 22 July 2026

Vase in black

 Hi guys,

I have changed the colours slightly for my next vase, using a black base instead of white. The colours I used were Liquitex paints in primary red, primary blue, primary yellow, mid-green and mars black. Here is the result:




As you can see the black did overpower the colours slightly unfortunately, but there is some nice patterning on the vase. The canvas is quite a subtle, nebula-like effect. Very spacey I think anyway.

I would like to enter these creations into the following challenge:

CraftyCatz #718 Anything Goes

Thanks for looking - hugz Tinz