Easel cards and Autumn themes, along with some sea effect creations

 We have our new challenge started today (yes it is actually the 1st October already - very much looking forward to Halloween!) over at Moving Along with the Times. We had to make an easel card, and here is my creation, using some of my peel-offs that I have had in the stash for a while, but haven't used much.

I took a baby blue base card and folded the front to make the easel shape. I had a card strip that I had previously dyed using my drippings from my acrylic pours. I added the sentiment peel-off to this strip before adding it as the easel holder. I used a scalloped circle die-cut in red for the topper and used a clock peel-off with some hearts to make the main image. I finished by adding some glitter hearts to the bottom corners.

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

craftycatz #720 Anything Goes

We also still have 13 days left in our Autumn themed challenge over at Creative Moments where we are sponsored by the Coloring Channel, where you can get hints and tips and colouring classes for many different techniques if you subscribe. I have added the second leaf to my fluid art Autumnal panel.

I followed the class for this second leaf , and so the veins are present. I think that these both work really well with this panel.

I am entering this panel into the following challenges:

TIOT - Autumn Beauty

Allsorts #859 Anything Autumn

I also bought some circular canvases to use with my spinner and as my bathroom was being fitted and I couldn't park on the drive, I decided to take this opportunity to paint another one of the glasses to make a vase, this time using blues.

For the canvas I centred the weight of the paint and then used the spinner to take the paint out to the edges. It did take a few spins as I have quite a cheap spinner, but it did work and it gave this lovely 'seahorse' style effect.

I would like t enter these into the following challenges:

dragonflydreams - monochromatic

SimonSaysWed - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Yet more tiles

 I just wanted to share the later two sets of tiles, that I thought were going to be my last two sets (there is one more needed to fit the space!)

Do let me know what you think and which are your favourites.

Forever Friends Wedding Bears

 Hi all,

I recently finished this cross stitch for my brothers wedding (whenever it finally happens). I really enjoyed stitching this as I have always liked the forever friends bears.

This was stitched in Anchor threads, which are not my preferred thread type, however it went well and I think it has turned out lovely. I would like to enter this into the following challenge:

craftycatz #719 Anything Goes

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

More tiles and another geode pour

 I wanted to share another batch of tiles with you, as well as my second attempt at a geode pour using a selection of orange and brown paints for a completely different look.

This one was a dip from the geode pour, but I thought it was too plain, so I took some drips from the tiles to make it more interesting and got this elephant shape. I am still not happy with it so will probably paint over it.

I would like to enter the geode into the following challenge:

Dragonflydreams - Monochromatic

AYLI - Fav Halloween colours - I do like the autumnal oranges and browns, such warm colours as the season is cooling down

craftycatz #719 Anything Goes

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Its Autumn - or nearly

 Hi guys,

Our new challenge has started over at Creative Moments and our optional theme is - Autumn Colours, as here in the Northern Hemisphere autumn is now just around the corner. The DT have all had great fun with the Autumn Leaves colouring class provided by our sponsor  The Coloring Channel. Alyce is kindly offering a month free to her channel for one lucky winner, so do pop over to the blog to take a look and enter your creation.

Here is my Autumn themed creation:

And my coloured leaves before I chose one for my panel.

I used my Chameleon pens for these leaves and I did follow the class for the left leaf, but I wanted to try blending my Chameleon pens with the tops I got as I do not use them very often, and that is how I coloured the leaf I chose to make my panel.

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

inspirationstation #89

CraftyCatz #719 Anything Goes

ThePaperPlayers #803 red, pumpkin, curry

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog.

Hugz Tinz

Geode pour

 Hi guys,

I wanted to try something a little different with my fluid art, which is a little more mixed media and uses some of my plentiful glitter tubes. This is basically a puddle pour where you keep some of the background colour to make a geode shape. I then added glitter to some of the layers to imitate crystal formations.

Here is a video to show some of the sparkle

I also have another two tiles to share with you today.

These both used the same colours but layered differently. Once again I layered them, added cell activator and then blew the paint out to the edges of the tile. The gold makes for some real interest in these tiles.

Thanks for taking a look at my fluid art paintings.

Hugz Tinz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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