Airbrushed Picture "Light is Life "

"Light is Life" picture - Airbrush on canvas

This picture was painted a while ago using an Airbrush - quite a challenge getting the hang of how an airbrush and compressor work and how to use masks to create the picture that you need.  It's sort of a reverse process but lots of fun all the same. 

You have to be very delicate and not add too much paint. Less is more as they say. This picture represents life itself hence the " Light is Life" title. 

Now Iv'e found my painting kit and airbrush again I must get down to creating more pictures in future. 

I can't remember where the idea came from but I;m sure I saw a picture somewhere of hands and thought I would paint something similar. 

Got the painting bug again...

Whooohoo - After a very busy ~Christmas and New Year I'm getting the painting bug again at last.

I love to paint and landscapes are my favourite subject - this picture is painted in oils and is of a Dorset Beach close to where I used to live. It's now on the wall of my new craft room.

The craft room will end up like a Gallery I expect - having your creations around you always inspires you to create more and more.

More pictures to come in future.

Imagination Crafts Fushia Stamp

Hi all,

I hope you are having a good New Year. Iv'e been busy making a Birthday Card from the lovely Imagination Crafts Decoupage Fushia Stamp set. This card compliments the gift box that \I made at the begining of the year.

Iv'e used inks and Micas for this project to colour the stamps along with the Dove from the Imagination Crafts MDF Dove Set for the feature at the bottom of the card.

To make the card I folded a square card diagonally along the left side - this made the step part.   I then embossed the card with a Butterfly embossing folder and inked it over to highlight the pattern. I also inked  edges too.  I used the Decoupage Fushia Stamp Set and stamped this with black waterproof ink, then blended the edges with blue and pink dye ink.

The image was coloured with pink and blue inks blended together to make the purpley/blue flowers and green and yellow inks on the leaves and stalks. I also added mica's to give the flowers a sheen.  Black irridescent adhesive gems were added to the flowers to finish.

The Dove, which acts as the stopper for the card was made using an MDF shape taken  from the Dove Set and I painted this over with inks then added mica to create a shine. A Happy Birthday stamp was used from the same set to finish.

Prodects used

Fushia Decoupage Stamp Set.
MDF Dove Set
Irrisdescent Micas
Rocker Blocks
Momento Ink Pad

Re-vamp your old Christmas boxes

Happy and Crafty New Year to you all,

I don't know about you but I hate to throw away all those gift boxes at Christmas so thought I would re-vamp one or two to keep my crafty goodies in for the New Year.

This old gift box was painted with white acrylic paint and purple paint. I stippled a few other colours such as lilac and pink to add interest then stamped images of branches on the top. I also added stippled micas to the top to add a sheen to the box.
I then stamped the Fushia stanmp onto white card and painted it with Imagination Craft mica powders. This was then cut out and stuck to the top of the box. To add depth and interest I added some adhesive gems to the flower and a bow round the box to finish.

Why not join in one of  Imagination Crafts Challenges - click here to be taken to the blog for details. Take a look at the rules and if you use Imagination Crafts products and win there are lots of lovely goodies to choose from with your prize winnings.


Products used:

Imagination Crafts Fushia Stamp
Mica Powders 
Stazon Azure Blue

MDF Wall Hanging for Christmas

Hi again.

For the mid-month post Iv'e been colouring MDF frames again. For this piece I painted front of the MDF frame with white acrylic paint and when dry,  inked the top part in blue to represent the sky  and the bottom part in brown to represent the landscape.

On the back part of the frame I added a piece of white cardstock and coloured this the same as the front frame so that the landscape continued through from front to back.  I then decided to draw some lines and small trees inside the apeture to make it look like a picture. I stamped the swirls stamp around the outside to add depth and added adhesive gems for sparkle.

I used the MDF Christmas Tree and Star and coloured them with Sparkle Medium. The tree was coloured using Black Stars or you could use Golden Pine Medium and the star was coloured using Silver Sparkle Medium. These were then stuck onto  the frame using a hot melt glue gun.

Adhesive gems were added to the tree for decoration.  A ribbon for the top and it was ready to hang on the wall for Christmas.

Products used

Sparkle Medium - Golden Pine 
Sparkle Medium - Silver   
MDF Frame - Dove

An "Extra Special" Christmas Card made with an MDF frame..

Hi folks,

For this month's theme Iv'e made a Christmas card with a difference - Iv'e used an MDF frame from Imagination Crafts for the card itself and MDF shapes for the main feature embellishment.

To make the Card I first painted the back and front of the frame with white acrylic paint then tinted the edges with a blue dye inkpad.  I also tinted a piece of white cardstock with the blue inkpad and stamped the holly stamp taken from the Decoupage stamp set "Flowers" all over the card with second generation stamped images.  I then stamped "Merry Christmas"  in black ink in the centre.  This was then stuck to the back frame.

To add decoration to the edges of the frame card  I stamped the swirls stamp along each edge to create depth.  I die-cut some swirls and coloured them with blue and gold mica powders then stuck them to the front.  The back and front of the frame were stuck together using a piece of cardstock as the spine, which I stamped again with the swirls and coloured with the blue ink to match the w3hole piece.

I then melted some silver embossing powder in a Melt Pot and poured this over the MDF Candle and whilst still hot, stamped into the image with the swirls stamp.  I then added mica powders to the embossed surface to colour the candle and give it a gold/yellow flame. Tinsel Snowflakes were added for decoration and dots around the apeture of the front frame to highlight the message inside.

Products used
MDF Lantern
Mica powders
Decoupage Stamp set "Flowers"

Christmas Card with Imagination Craft Mica Powders

Mid Month imagination Craft Project - "Night Sky at Christmas"

Hi again

For the mid month project for Imagination Crafts I have made a Christmas Card using Imagination Craft Mica Powders and Sparkle Medium.  The Mica  Powders when mixed with water shine and create lovely backgrounds which twinkle and glow.

I painted the sky onto black mount board using Blue and Irridescent Silver powders creating the look of clouds. I added some purple,  gold and yellow mixed with blue for the land. A little white was added to create depth too.

I spread Silver Sparkle Medium over a chipboard Star and "Noel" embellishment.  I Die-cut some swirls and as these were quite delicate I put some Sparkle Medium onto a brayer and used this to colour the swirls laying them flat on a glass mat and brayering the medium over each one.

The chipboard  frame was made by spreading Black Stars Sparkle Medium and Silver onto random areas the frame and left to dry.

The trees were some metallic embellishments I had left over last year. I really enjoyed painting with these mica's and it's given me ideas on how to use them in future for my paintings and cards etc.,

Product used

Silver Sparkle Medium
Black Stars Sparkle Medium
Mica Powders