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Dream (Altered Artist Palette)

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“Dream” – Altered Artists Palette – May Creative Embellishments Mood Board Challenge!

I had always wanted to do an altered palette, and when it showed up in the May Mixed Media Kit from Tres Jolie I was overjoyed!! And, it just so happened that the paints included with the kit word perfectly with the Creative Embellishments Challenge this month!

The mood board for the Creative Embellishments May Challenge!

I rubbed some Prima/Finnabair Metallique Waxes on the fairies from Creative Embellishments.
I found “Dream” at my local Dollar Tree, and it was mirrored. First I sprayed it with some Krylon Original Primer, then I added the Pink-o do Mayo and Halo Pink Gold paint (drying between colors!!) and soaked them in water so the colors could pool together however they wanted!
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Products:

  • [From the] Tres Jolie May 2019 Mixed Media Kit
  • Studio 71
  • Traditional Wooden Palette Set
  • Prima
    • Archival Cast
    • Flora
  • Texture Paste
    • White Sand
  • Flowers
    • Sunrise Sunset Collection
    • Item # 565169
  • Jacquard
    • Lumiere
    • Halo Violet Gold
    • Halo Blue Gold
    • Halo Pink Gold
  • Creative Embellishments
    • Mega Pack Fairies In Black Chipboard
  • Shimmerz Paints
    • Pink-o de Mayo
    • Anchors Away
    • Butter Cream
  • American Crafts
    • Vicki Boutin
    • CreativeFX
    • Iridescent Glaze
  • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • Stars & Moons Mould
    • Heavy Body Gel
    • Wax Cire Cera
    • Firebird
    • Sweet Rose
    • Old Demin
  • Unknown
    • “Dream” (I kinda threw the package away, but I found it at Dollar Tree.)

    Imagine (4"x12" Canvas)

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    “Imagine” created for the Mixed Media Place April (2019) Challenge!

    I LOVED the colors of the mood board this month, and I’m not even the biggest fan of pinks! Besides the colors, the mushroom put me in a fantasy mindset, when for me equals fairies!!

    I don’t have a lot of rhyme or reason with this canvas, and originally I had hoped to recreate the mushroom…somehow…but as it so often happens, the project took on a life of it’s own! The pink tree is actually a photo I took, ran through Photoshop, printed on regular paper, and transferred! It didn’t transfer quite how I had planned, so I had to get “creative” with the Shimmerz paste! 😂

    The fairy was black chipboard, but I used some white gesso before painting it with the Pink-Blue Opal Magic and adding a T-H-I-N coat of the Peacock Metallique Wax!

    Products

    • ReneaBouquets
    • Glass Beautiful Beads – Teal
    • Mulberry Paper 
    • Leaves
    • Dark Pink Roses & Leaves
  • Creative Embellishments
    • Mega Pack Fairies In Black
  • Shimmerz
    • Dazzlerz
    • Foiled Again
  • Studio 71
    • 4 in x 12 in Canvas
  • Prima
    • Sunrise Sunset Collection
    • Item # 565190 (Silver Flowers)
  • Finnabair
    • Heavy Body Gel
    • Metallique Wax
    • Peacock
  • Metallique Paint
    • White Pearl
  • Opal Magic Paint
    • Aqua-Rose
    • Pink-Blue
  • Ranger
    • Big Emboss It
    • Embossing Powder
    • White
  • Ruby Rock It
    • Fynmark
    • Wood Veneers
  • JudiKins
    • Diamond Glaze

    Flight of Fancy Canvas

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    My 8×10 canvas for the March More Than Words Main Challenge! Fantasy + Wings

    This month the main challenge over on the More Than Words Blog was to be inspired by “Fantasy & Wings.” For me, fantasy always makes me think of fairies. If it’s fantasy, there’s going to be some kind of fae involved! This month I also had pastes on my mind, and I happen to have a nice set of Finnabair’s Fantasy Rust Effect Paste…which goes with the fact that I also love using purple, teal (turquoise), and blue together…especially with fantasy!

    I may not have had a fairy that I could get to “fit” on this canvas, and I have a few different chipboard fairies, I did have a handy-dandy fairy door from Creative Embellishments! I also happened to have the Astral Pink Butterflies from ReneaBouquets, and the color on them is

    just beautiful…and perfect for my piece!

    More Than Words Main Challenge – March 2019

    I love the cells that the paint pour created along this edge!
    Baked Texture – Patina Oxide on the door & Ancient Amber on the leafy frame!
    I love, love, LOVE these butterflies … I think I may need to make a stockpile!

    **For the record – no, everything wasn’t dry yet, I was running out of month!!**

    Products

    • ReneaBouquets
    • Astrial Pink Premium Paper Glitter Glass Butterflies
    • Teal Shard Glitter Glass
    • Gold Glitter Glass
  • Creative Embellishments
    • Fairy Door (Set 1)
    • Leafy Vine Frame
  • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • 3D Gloss Gel
    • Rust Effect Paste
    • Purple
    • Turquoise
    • Powder Blue
  • Emerald Creek
    • Seth Apter Baked Texture
    • Ancient Amber
    • Patina Oxide
  • Ranger
    • Emboss It Dabber
  • Simply
    • Acrylic Paint
    • Mixing White
  • Master’s Touch
    • Acrylic Paint
    • Gold
  • Dina Wakley
    • Acrylic Paint
    • Eggplant
    • Peacock
  • Cell Creator
  • Liquitex Pouring Medium
  • Unknown/Unbranded
    • 8×10 Canvas
    • Texture Pebbles
    • Feather Moulds
    • Cheesecloth

    Transition

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    “Transition” – My entry to the February Mixed Media Place Challenge
    When I first saw the challenge board for the February Mixed Media Place Challenge I was immediately drawn to the mushroom. I don’t know why, but I love mushrooms…artistically. For food I can tolerate them to an extent. A very small extent! (except the white ‘button’ mushrooms, those are just a big ol’ NO!). Okay, that’s all besides the point, so back to my canvas.
    I loved the color of the mushroom, and I am so over winter that I had no desire to do a winter themed project, but I also love the sepia of the top left photo, the close up of the water drop (I think that’s what it is) in the top center photo, and the color of the leaves of the top right photo. The mushroom and the three top photos were my main inspiration for my project. At first I had thought I would somehow use mushrooms, but after I did the paint pour I realized I needed something more. I don’t know how I came around to gears and rust paste, but it was something like this:
    “I like the sepia and gold leaves, they look old. Those leaves look metallic. Rust is old. I have rust pastes. I also have some gold wax…and some metal flowers…and I made a bunch of resin gears & butterflies to have on hand…”
    Basically, I think in run-on and/or incomplete sentences. The thoughts just go sometimes, and this time I went them!
    I added the cabochon’s because the white space needed something, but I didn’t need more color! (Plus, they are what I thought of with the top middle photo!)
    Mixed Media Place February Challenge Board (Feb. 19 – Mar. 19)

    Products

    • Creative Embellishments
    • Baby’s Breath Chipboard
  • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • Rust Effect Paste
    • Brown, Red, and Gold Rust
  • Metallique Wax
    • Vintage Gold
    • Peacock
  • Mould
    • Mechanica
  • Heavy Body Gel
  • Ranger
    • Dina Wakley
    • Acrylic Paint
    • Peacock
  • Cell Creator
  • Liquitex
    • Pouring Medium
  • Daler Rowney
    • Acrylic Colour
    • Mixing White
  • 7″x14″ Stretched Canvas
  • White Gesso
  • Master’s Touch
    • Acrylic Paint
    • Gold
  • Beacon Fabri-Tac
  • JudiKins Diamond Glaze
  • Art N Glow
    • Casting and Coating Epoxy Resin
  • Amazing Cast Resin
  • Unknown/Unbranded
    • Cabochons
    • Metal/Filigree Flowers

    Rattan Heart

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    Rattan Heart created for the Creative Embellishments February Challenge

    Over on the Creative Embellishments Blog the February Challenge was a color challenge, and this heart is what I came up with!

    To color the rattan heart I used three different sprays, Shimmerz “Pretty In Pink” and “Sweetheart,” and I watered down the “Rose-Gold” Prima paint to make the third spray. After they were dry I had to add some lace…because Creative Embellishments had it as a twist, and I’m not one to “skip” on twists!

    It was after I had the lace on I decided to add make the inner and outer edges a bit darker with the “Rose Gold” Icing Paste!

    After that is was a matter of arranging the flowers and working in the chipboard from Creative Embellishments!

    For the Corner Flourish 4 (which has been cut apart) I put on a coat of white gesso, sprayed it with Shimmerz “Ruby”…twice, then I put on a layer of “Aged Mahogany” Distress Oxide and spritzed it with water! The berries were just coated in a layer of “Rustic Brown” paint, no gesso, because I wanted the paint to soak in some to “dull” it a little.

    Products:

    • Tres Jolie February Mixed Media Kit
    • Scrapberry’s – Rattan Heart
    • Creative Embellishments Corner Flourish 4
  • ReneaBouquets
    • Vintage Burgundy Roses & Gardenias Flower Set
  • Creative Embellishments
    • Berries
  • Prima
    • Flowers (Item #594718)
    • Finnabair
    • Icing Paste
    • Rose Gold
  • Opal Magic Acrylic Paint
    • Rose-Gold
  • Metallique Acrylic Paint
    • Rustic Brown
  • Heavy Body Gel
  • Shimmerz
    • Coloringz
    • Pretty In Pink
  • Spritz
    • Ruby
  • Vibez
    • Sweetheart
  • Ranger
    • Tim Holtz
    • Distress Oxide
    • Aged Mahogany
  • Unknown
    • Lace

    Altered Box

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    An altered box I did for the Reneabouquets Feb 2019 Valentintes/Romantic Mood Board Challenge over on Facebook!

    I started with the Shimmerz Raspberry Sherbet for the lower half of the box then used their Salt of the Earth for the upper half & lid, and left it to dry overnight. When I work up the next morning I felt that something was missing, so I pulled out my new Prima Indian Pink wax, my Nuvo Mousse, and my jar of Iridescent Glaze, and I sat down to ponder what to do with it all!

    Eventually I decided to put the Indian Pink wax on top of the Raspberry Sherbet, I added a middle band of color with the Nuvo Mousse, and I put the Iridescent Glaze on the remaining white Salt of the Earth. After it was all dry I was arranging the flowers on the lid and kept thinking I should add something subtle, which is where the lattice stenciling came from. Then I finished arranging my flowers, sprinkled on some glitter glass, and added the “Astrial Pink” butterfly from ReneaBouquets for some extra color.

    Products:

    • ReneaBouquets:
    • Hot Pink Shard Glitter Glass
    • Astrial Pink Glass Wing Double Butterflies
    • Tropical Summer Limited Edition Anemone Mulberry Paper Flowers (the light pink flowers & leaves)
  • Shimmerz:
    • Paste-eez
    • Salt of the Earth
    • Raspberry Sherbet
  • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • Art Alchemy Metallic Wax
    • Indian Pink
  • Art Extravagance
    • Paper Texture Paste
  • Tonic
    • Nuvo Embellishment Mousse
    • Peony Pink
  • American Crafts
    • Vicki Boutin
    • CreativeFX Iridescent Glaze
  • Art Anthology
    • Lattice Stencil
  • KaiserCraft
    • Paper Blooms
    • Hot Pink
  • JudiKins Diamond Glaze

    • Fairly Purple Shadow Box!

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    I received the January Mixed Media Kit from Tres Jolie and was just in love with the shadow box! (Yes, part of the kit! Kim puts EXCELLENT kits together!! Tres Jolie has a monthly scrapbooking, mixed media, and card, tags, & more kit. No, I’m not reimbursed in any way to promote the kits, I’m a regular customer who happens to love the kits!)

    Anyhow…the kit also came with purple paint & purple flowers…(and other items)…
    Then I saw the January Mood Board Challenge at Mixed Media Place and I thought to myself, “Huh, that works!”

    Mixed Media Place January 2019 Mood Board

    After I primed the shadow box (Kilz spray primer because I didn’t want to use a paintbrush on chicken wire!) I put on a coat of DecoArt “Lavender” Acrylic Paint. After that was dry I applied a thin coat of Prima’s “Frozen Berries.” The chicken wire was sprayed with Ayeeda Mist “Patina Bronze”by 13 @rts. The doily is a Creative Embellishments doily that I used black gesso on then painted with Prima’s “Rustic Brown.”

    After all that it was just a matter of playing with placement until I thought it “looked right.” (All the products I used are listed at the bottom of this post.)

    All lit up!

     Here are some close ups:

    This darling little fairy, “Tessie B Darling,” can be found over at ReneaBouquets.com, as well as the butterflies and the (light) purple flowers.

    Products:
    [From the] Tres Jolie Mixed Media Kit (January 2019)
    -DecoArt “Lavender” Acrylic Paint
    -Creative Embellishments “Doily”
    -Prima Flowers (Most of the White flowers)
    -Darice Flowers (Dark Purple)
    -Shadow Box

    ReneaBouquets
    -Printed Beautiful Board Fairy – “Tessie B Darling”
    -“Salted Caramel” Premium Paper Glitter Glass, Tiny Treasures Premium Paper Glitter Glass, and Magical Miniatures Double Side Printed Butterflies
    -Purple & White Roses & Leaves Mulberry Flowers
    -Mulberry Paper Leaves

    Prima Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint
    -Rustic Brown
    -Frozen Berries

    Prima Heavy Bodied Gel

    Judi-Kins Diamond Glaze

    13 @rts
    -Ayeeda Mist: Patina Bronze

    Liquitex Black Gesso
    Kilz Spray Primer … because I didn’t want to try use a paintbrush on chicken wire! LOL
    Cinnamon Sticks (“generic” – from the grocery store)
    Unbranded light string

    Let It Snow!

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    I came up with this project using the mood board over at Creative Embellishments January Challenge!

    I just went through my supplies with winter and snowflakes on my mind, and hoped for the best! LOL!!


    For the background I glued down some ReneaBouquet Beautiful Board – Beautiful Bits – Snowflakes & a Beautiful Board Snowflake Accent, then coated it all in Prima Royal Blue & Powder Blue Rust Effect Pastes. For the white paste I first put down some TCW Modeling Paste, then I topped it with more TCW Modeling Paste mixed with some Prima Paper Texture Paste + 13 @rts White Ayeeda Ink + some 13 @rts Magic Power. (All because I didn’t have a white grit paste like I thought I did!)

    I received the chipboard clock in a swap back in July 2018, I just coated it in “Rustic Brown” Prima Metallique paint and the pearls in a PocketLetter swap in January 2018.

    The feathers are from Creative Embellishments, coated in gesso and “White Pearl” Prima Metallique Paint.

    The dark blue flower is a Prima flower, and the white flowers are Tim Holtz. The light blue flowers, the butterfly, and the Chunky Glitter Glass are all from ReneaBouquet!




    Altered Jar!

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    An altered jar I made, mostly just to see where it would go, but also entered in the May (2018), Reneabouquets Mood Board Challenge on Facebook.

    The jar I’ve had sitting around for a while, the top I found while digging up part of the yard last month, and the butterfly was left hanging on a stump by the previous owners. I washed everything up and set them aside without any plan for them at the time, but I decided to see what I could glue together this month.

    After I added the Moulds to the jar, I coated everything with white gesso, then started layering on the paints & when I thought that was too “bright” I decided I should FINALLY try out the Baked Textures!

    That mass of “netting” on the underside of the top piece is actually some “spider web” I picked up at the 99¢ store this past Halloween! I needed something to…cover…the top of the bottle, but I also wanted something different. After I got the “web” on I just randomly dribbled some JudiKins Diamond Glaze on and added the Silver Pink Shard Glitter Glass from Reneabouquets!

    To add some shine to the butterfly, that was painted with Vicki Boutin paints, I added Diamond Chunky Glitter Glass from Reneabouquets!

    The jar was painted with Prima’s Opal Magic “Blue Gold” on the bottom side of the flourishes, and Prima’s Sparks “Mermaid Sparkle” above the flourishes, while the flourishes themselves were painted with Opal Magic “Yellow-Blue” before having a layer of “Ancient Amber” Baked Texture added!

    A close up of the beautiful, handcrafted flowers from the Reneabouquet Shop! For the coloring of the lid, I mixed some “Mermaid Lagoon” Distress Oxide with some Vicki Boutin Iridescent Glaze, spritzed in a bit of water for easier mixing, and painted it on! And that rust all over? “Chunky Rust” Baked Texture! Absolutly Awesome!

    Product List:

    • Reneabouquet Exclusive Products: 
    • Diamond Chunky Glitter Glass 
    • Silver Pink Shard Glitter Glass 
    • All of the flowers and leaves! (From a couple “Teal and White” sets) 
  • Seth Apter/Emerald Creek: Baked Texture: 
    • Ancient Amber (Keyhole & Flourishes – After painting Yellow-Blue) 
    • Deep Sea (Butterfly Body) 
    • Chunky Rust (for the rust) 
  • Ranger Perfect Medium™ brush 
  • American Crafts – All The Good Things Collection – Mediums – Acrylic Color Pop
  • American Crafts – Mixed Media Collection – Glaze – Iridescent
  • Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads – Embossing Ink Clear
  • Prima – Iron Orchid Designs – Vintage Art Decor Mould – Large Fleurish
  • Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Acrylic Paint – Opal Magic – Yellow Blue
  • Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Acrylic Paint – Opal Magic – Blue Gold
  • Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Sparks Acrylic Paint – Mermaid Sparkle
  • Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Oxides Ink Pads – Mermaid Lagoon
  • JudiKins Diamond Glaze
  • Creative Paperclay
  • The netting is actually “spider web” from the 99¢ store I bought back at Halloween.