Celebrating Day 9 of 31 Days of Halloween...Beware...

Happy Sunday!

Today I have my project shared for Day 9 of 31 Days of Halloween!

It's a small mixed media canvas packed full of DecoArt paints and wonderful texture.

See a bit more on the challenge blog at Dream in Darkness.

Have a wonderfully creepy day!
~kim

"Serendipity"~Mixed Media Canvas

Happy Tuesday!

Hope you are enjoying the day! Today I wanted to share a fun project I did and I was able to get really messy!  I made a project for the new challenge hosted by Andy Skinner. The theme is Bold & Bright. I (barely) managed some control and not use any black!

Click the pictures to see a bit bigger :)

~very happy!~

I started with a funky plaque I found at the dollar store for the substrate. It is an odd size, just about 

6 1/2 inches by 9 inches.

I used all DecoArt and Americana products on this canvas, lots of gesso, modeling paste and Media Fluid Acrylics. "Create" and "Serendipity" are from the Andy Skinner 8x8 Serendipity stencil. 

I used modeling paste on "Create" and Texture Sand on "Serendipity". Wonderful texture differences! I used a babywipe to pull off some layers as I was building.

The 'flowers' are modeling paste with a palette knife.

My only tools were a palette knife, babywipes and my fingers. The was so fun and messy! You can see how messy, my paint bottles and such are really spattered!

I used the Crackle Glaze on top applied with a palette knife, it was thick and gave me amazing cracks. I let everything air dry. each. and. every. layer. air. dried. 

It was hard to be patient but I think the colors and all made it totally worth it!

Thanks so much for looking and visiting. You see my splattery bottles and all below :)

Have a fabulous day!

~kim

I am linking this to the Any Skinner Bright & Bold Challenge HERE

STAMPlorations Mixed Media Team~DT Inspiration & New Challenge!

Happy Sunday!

Lots going on today and lots going on this month! This is my second post today, yay! Be thrille dif you would scroll down or click HERE to see my Visible Image project for today, also :)

Today starts a brand new mixed media challenge at STAMPlorations, the theme is Anything Goes except a card and please use a stencil, any company is fine, Of course we would love to see you use an ARTplorations stencil, but it is ok if you don't. Play along maybe you can win some!

I made a small canvas to share today. I love bright colors, so happy and cheery! I used two stencils I was given as part of the design team, ARTplorations Flutterby and Clouds. These are perfect card sized stencils and work well on small canvas or tags, too.

I used Deco Art Crackle paste tinted with blue on the lovely butterflies.

I colored the background with my DecoArts paints, Derwent Inktense color blocks, a bit of washi tape and some splatters.

Thanks so much for coming by today, I hope you like this splash of color.

See you soon! HERE is the link to see the rest of the DT projects and the Challenge Link up.

~kim

Visible Image Sunday~Good Times~Mixed Media Canvas

Hi! Happy November!

Welcome back to Visible Image Sunday! Today I have my design team project, a mixed media canvas using some fabulous Visible Image stamps!

 The canvas is small, about 5 inches by 7 inches.

It is primed with white DecoArt gesso. On top of the gesso, I did some random stamping using various Visible Image stamps. Over the base coat I added color using DecoArt paints and Derwent Inktense Color Blocks.

I used the "Good Times" sentiment from the "No Regrets" set.

I wanted to try something a bit different to get more texture, so I stamped the awesome Flower INKognito in Archival Ink onto fabric.

I stamped around the edge of the swatch with the 'splatter dots' portion of Flower INKognito. In the background you can see a few dots from the "Retro Dots Background" stamp also.


Thanks so much for visiting and make it a great day!!

~kim


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Inspiration from the Design Team on the Visible Image Blog, HERE

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