Welcome 2017! New Challenge & Canvas for Dream in Darkness

HelloHello!

Welcome 2017!

Today we started a new challenge for the new month and new year on my Challenge Blog, Dream in Darkness! Yay! This month and next we have the awesome Seth Apter as our sponsor. Seth was very kind and provided some stuff for the team to play with and a prize to award the Challenge Winner as as well. If you are not familiar with his art, I encourage you to check out his blog, The Altered Page, like ASAP :)

I made a canvas for my project today. It is roughly 7"x 7". I found it at the dollar store. I used lots of my painty staples by DecoArt, Grumbacher and one of my favorite Tim Holtz stamps.

Rain makes me happy as do circles, so this is really from my heart to yours <3 

Ready for lots more closer photos? Here we go! You can click each one to see a bit bigger!

I used DecoArt modeling paste to stencil Truths over the background texture. It is a wonderful heavy paste that gets the job done very well!

Once dry I painted Perfect Pearls over the paste to bring in shine.

Raindrops made of hot glue trails work so well next to the Drip Drop die set.  I used the die to cut the black paper cut behind Umbrella Man. I used the space vacated by the die cut as a stencil to repeat the pattern in paint on the background. I direct stamped the Word Salad stamp on the canvas and on the die cut too.

I heat embossed in white to add more pop and even more texture!

To make Reveal, I stamped through the stencil with the Word Salad stamp. Then I cut out the letters.

Stencil Girl Club Seth Apter stencil

Seth dies & stamp

Thanks for reading this far! Have an amazing 2017!

hugs,

~kim

Zombie Street Journal~Dream in Darkness~Zombie Tangle~ New Dark Challenge Blog May 1st

Happy Mid-Week!

I wanted to share with everyone today, a new Dark-themed challenge blog! I know many of you enjoy the darker side and where it is Halloween everyday :) If Zombies are not your thing, I totally understand and don't want to offend! This post may not be your cup of tea, but so happy you popped by! Hugs to all!


On Dream in Darkness we are featuring some warm-ups and pre-launch mayhem. Today I am sharing this canvas I made using an image by Rick St Dennis, MFA called Zombie Tangle. I was lucky to have won it during last year's 31 Days of Halloween Challenge :)

This is my zombie day make :)

Even zombies love color, hahaha! I love bright colors. He is colored using Sharpie markers. The background I layered up using actual newspaper. I used matte medium and various acrylics to add more texture.

If you want to explore your darker side, I hope you will pop over to check out our Dream in Darkness Challenge Blog. The first challenge goes live May 1st and our sponsor is Rick St Dennis. Our theme is always Anything Goes. Hope to see you soon!

                                                           

Coming Soon!