FEBRUARY 2024 - 613 Avenue Create - ANYTHING GOES W/ OPTIONAL TWIST "LOVE LETTERS"

Time for another great challenge over at 613 Avenue Create, as always the challenge is anything goes and this month's optional twist is "Love Letters".

This is my card I made for the challenge. 

I made this a simple card for this challenge using  alcohol inks, Love die cut, heart die cut and some gems. I had fun making this card and playing with my alcohol inks. I love the unique designs you can make with them. 

The large word dies and so easy to use for a quick card and can be the center of almost all designer paper, and mixed medias backgrounds. I added an extra  heart that I thought suited the background and added a Wink of Stella to give it  some shine. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Hope to see your art work on our challenge board. 

Creative Artiste - September - Altered Pasta Bottles

 Time for another challenge at Creative Artiste for September.  

This is our 97th Challenge!

Our theme is as always"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your projects. Please respect that we do not currently accept Instagram or Facebook entries. Only correctly linked blog entries please.

This is my project for this month, altered pasta jars.

I was looking for an idea for a vase to hold my beautiful  pottery flowers that  a very special friend brought back from Polland for me. 

This is what I started with. It came to me even with pasta in the jars. I do  remember a lot of years ago they would be displayed on the counter in the kitchens.  I sprayed the frame with a high gloss black paint so give the holder some life.

I decided to use these paste bottle because of the 2 different heights and their triangle shape. The pottery flowers I was given were in a selection of colours and their stems were not of the same consistance of metal or wood. 

 I decided to paint the bottles with white gesso and sprayed the bottles with Kilz primer so that my alcohol inks would have something to stick too and just not aborb into the gesso.

I played with many different colours of Alochol Ink trying to see what colours would go with my pottery flowers. 

Here are a few pictures of the vases of the sides of the vases.

I did add some butterflies and a title to the project when I was finished. I used a glaze over the vases to also protect the vases and give them some shine.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. I hope you will join us this month over at Creative Artiste. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our creative design tea. 

Autumn Card

Time for another great challenge at Crafty CardMakers.  The theme of this challenge is autumn colours. 

I just love autumn and the beautiful coloured leaves.  I made this card using my Pentart Alcohol Inks and  die cuts out of Tim Holtz's metallic copper paper. I loved the colour combination.  I played with the inks until I found an pattern in the inks that I was pleased with.  

This was a very quick card but I loved the look and colours. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our creative design team. 

Alcohol Ink Altered Bottle

It is time for another challenge Bleeding Arts.  Bleeding Art is a mixed media/anything goes challenge blog all the time. 

I have been playing with my Alcohol Inks and decides to alter a bottle with them.  I painted my bottle with gesso and then sprayed the bottle with Kiltz primer to seal the gesso so I could use my Alcohol Inks. 

This is what I started with

I used a selection of Pentart Alcohol Inks, the colours including

orange

trumpet flower

white coffee

copper

toffee

Once I was had the bottle covered with the inks that I was pleasing to me I added my findings which included 

a picture frame

gears

metal butterfly

chain

sentiment

metal section from a metal belt

Other views

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a creative week.  Hope you will join our challenge this month.  Create your project and enter it here.  Pop over to Bleeding Art to be inspired by our talented design team.   

Altered Bottle - Colour Challenge at Splashy Mix Challenge

We have another great challenge at Splashy Mix Challenges.  The challenge is a colour challenge.  Here is the mood board to inspire you.

This is my alcohol ink altered bottle I created for this challenge.

This is the bottle before I altered it.

I first painted my bottle white gesso and then sprayed the bottle with Kilz primer I purchased from a hardware store. I used several different shapes of yellow and purple Pentart Alcohol inks to create an interesting my pattern on the bottle.  The colours were inspired by our mood board.  I used small clear glass tiles left over from a kitchen project for the tiles on the bottle coloured with Alcohol Inks which I added small metal flowers to. 

Here are some more views of the completed project.

Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented  design team and to see the great prizes that out sponsors are offering.

I would like to enter this project on the following challenges

Mixed Up Challenge Blog - Anything goes 3D
We Love to Create - Anything Goes Mixed Media
More Mixed Media Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
Mixed Media Academy- Mixed media

It's a Bugs Life

The theme of the challenge this week at Crafty Cardmakers is "It's a Bugs Life". 

 I have been playing with my alcohol Inks and decided it was nice background paper for my dragonfly die. I had heard about using Kilz (a primer/sealer) on mixed media paper to seal the paper to be able to use alcohol on it. It appears to work very well for this application. Kilz can be purchased at a hardware or paint store.   I also used several colours of Nuvo Crystal and Glitter Drops on the wings.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.   Check out the works of our talented design team here.

Alcohol Ink Tile Weights - Orange Challenge at Splashy Mixed Challenges

This is my project for April's Orange theme over at Splashy Mix Challenges.

Here is our mood board

Create anything as long as the predominant colour is orange.

-Your work must be new, not previously published anywhere

You can create any mixed media project corresponding to the mood board and the colors presented in the mood board are also accepted.

- You can enter up to 3 entries.

The post should contain a banner, a link to our challenge and the name of the blog.

- Last date to submit your works 28th April until 23:55 !

I decided to play with my alcohol inks and create some colourful weights for my craft room table.  I also took this opportunity to try out a few new techniques and ideas. 

I started my projects by cleaning my white tiles that I purchased at my local hardware store then I added my inks.

Tiles with my inks applied:

 Here are a few pictures of my finished weights. I used a combination of embossing, stamping and copper leafing.

 For my project I used some of the following supplies on the different  tile weights:

Copic Ink refills 

Y38 - Honey

YR04- Chrome Orange

YG63 - Pea Green

YG97 - Spanish Olive

Ranger Alcohol Inks 

Butterscotch 

Orenago 

Pentart Alcohol Inks

Orange 

Trumpet

Rubber Stamps 

Tree Branch - Stampin Up

Reeds - Great Impressions

Dream - K studios

Text - Hero Arts

Circles - Stampin Up

Copper leaf

Gold Leaf Pen

Embossing Powder - Tim Holtz
Cork paper - bottom of the tiles

Prizes

INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE WINNER

(as voted by our DT)

$30 USD value prize from CREATIVE EMBELLISHMENTS

NATIONAL CHALLENGE WINNER

(as voted by our DT)

Rs. 500 Value prize from Die Cuts and More

3 DT Favourites

(as voted by our DT, in no particular order)

One DT favourite will receive Goodie bag from Letzcraft Store and will be our Guest Designer the following month 

1 Random Winner
(chosen by Random.org)

One Random winner from Indian Participants will get a goodie bag worth Rs.500 from Creative Minds

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We are looking forward to seeing your beautiful entries for our April Challenge.