Altered Playing Card Challenge~APCC~Play Along! Week 1

Blog surfing I found a posting about altered playing cards while here at Ink Stains with Roni. It looks so much fun! I followed her link to Claudine's Art Corner, Claudine is the fabulous inspiration of this amazing project!

I love the small format of ATCs and this a  great step and journey to make. Claudine is going to alter a full deck of playing cards, at a reasonable rate of just 2 per week! Do-able for sure....err I hope:) There will be some fun prizes along this journey and the prep step is now posted.

The prep step just make a regular any old deck of cards not so slick! Sand or gesso now so you are ready to play! Easy peasy so far:)

Join up and do make sure you hop over to Claudine's blog for all the fun details!

Fun, don't you think?

~kim

Summer Fun!~Reader Art Quest July 2014

Happy Last Day of July!

Wow! Sooo amazing how fast time is passing by! Pausing briefly to catch my breath and share a couple of projects! Hope you like them!

This fun silly tag I made following the Reader Art Quest prompt at Unruly Paperarts. The word prompt, Summer Fiesta! The color/photo prompt yummy Summer colors, bright yellow, pink, orange, red and green! See the Summer Fiesta HERE. Also, I like to play at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, the theme this week: Anything Goes

I found inspiration with the wonderful colors and turned Fiesta into Fun! Fun as in the Summer Fair or Carnival, all the bright lights and vivid colors. And of course the GIANT stuffed plushies you want in that instant and feel so soooooooo happy and satisfied as you wagg it through the Carnival.

Color inspiration, well......I must admit a few Starburst fruit chew candies were sacrificed in the name of ART to be forever immortalized as my taggy's background!

Plushie dream was fulfilled skimming a magazine and BOOM! There was my giant PINK Unicorn with wings!! and I am not afraid to admit I realllllly want one:)

Candy wrappers were stuck down with gel medium and coated lightly with gesso. I stamped "Summer" using Hero Arts block letters onto tissue since the surface was bumpity.

Cotton Candy not included, sorry folks! I think Candy Floss sounds much more exotic, what do you think?

Have a fun colorful day!
~kim

Linked to Unruly PaperArts, July Reader Quest:Summer Fiesta
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Journal Paint Play~June 15

Yay! Another fast posting!

Banner images courtesy my son, Dylan<3

A simple page in my homemade art journal, playing with paint, stamping and texture.

I prepared the page with a layer of gesso. While it was still wet, I pressed some dry embossed paper strips into the gesso to leave some fun dents. This part was actually done awhile ago, I prepped some pages to be ready when I felt like (more like had time to) playing.

I am still exploring stamping on tissue, then tearing the tissue stamped images apart before layering them onto the pages. To attach the tissue to the page I used water diluted gel medium. I stamped the black images with archival ink. The pink celery roses and blue circle stamps used distress paint.

This corner I used the distress paint marbling technique. I really love the layers of texture this added along with the more opaque quality. I am going to get more painty with this particular process, it is soooo fun:)

More detail of the celery roses and blue circle stamps stamped with distress paint.

This corner is used the stamped tissue that was colored with Dylusions ink sprays. They have a much more transparent quality. 

Thank you for looking! This is also linked to Simon Says Stamp, Monday Challenge: Paint