When Pigs Fly

This is my project for the Anything goes Challenge at Bleeding Art for May. I decided to use this old party hat from my stash along with a Flying pig I also has in my stash.

I painted the hat with grey gesso.  It took quite a few layers since the hat was a very absorbent felt type material. 

With a mold I added texture.

I cut up this belt and painted it with gesso and acrylic paint.

I found this flying pig at a thrift store which I painted.   

I painted the hat shades of brown and gold and then added a gear from an old mixer  I then also added  a butterfly, belt pieces for earrings and necklace, gears, words, eye lids and pennies.

back

side view

I had fun creating my piece and I hope you enjoy it.  Pop over to our challenge blog, Bleeding Art to be inspired by our talented design team. Hope you will join us this month, show us your creative side. 

Thank you for stopping by.  

I am entering this project in the following challenges:
A Bit More Time to Craft- Anything Goes
Mix It Up Challenges - Anything Goes
World Wide Open Design Team - Anything Goes
SanDee & amelie's Steampunk - Steampuck Industrial Anything Goes

Altered Mixed Media Vintage House

Time for another great challenge at Bleeding Art this month.  We're not only all mix media all of the time but anything goes all of the time!

Here are some more views of my altered house.

  I used a metal belt that I took apart to create my roof .  

I used a combination of paints, stamps, inks, die cuts, wooden findings  and a photo I purchased at a flea market. 

Time for you to show off your art creations.  Pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.  Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  

May Your Dreams Take Flight

This canvas is my project for Bleeding Art this month. 

Our sponsor this month is Creative Embellishments and I used their 

 Steampunk Hot Air Balloon in my collage canvas. 

Other products I used include

Gesso 

Cream, Burnt Umber, and Blue Bahama Acrylic Paints

assortment of chipboard embellishments, 

washers, clogs and gears

butterfly

text stamp

stencil

Walnut Distress Ink

gyprock mesh tape

Stamperia Rice Paper 

Closer views

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to  pop over to Bleeding Art to be inspired by the talented design tea. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Anything Goes

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes

Let's Craft and Create - Anything Goes/- opt Love is in the Air

SanDee & amelie's Steampunk - Anything Goes

Altered Wine Bottle

Bleeding Art Has another great challenge this month, as always it is anything goes mixed media.

 Look at what I found for a $1.00 at a thrift store to alter.  I was so excited when I found it.   The bottle was from a local Winer for a wine they produced 15 years ago called Jazz Blush.

Here is the bottle I purchased.

This is my bottle once I had completed the project.

I  painted my bottle first with gesso  and then with Pentart decoupage paste I added my scraps of music from an old song book.  I used a brown gel medium to coat the page to give the project a antique look.   I painted the keys, musical letters, handle, and mouth piece black and assented it with a gold trim.  I added buttons to the keys.  To complete the altered bottle I added a jazzy tag, 

Some more views of the project.

With my tag

 Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Hope you will join us this month.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to see the creatives that our talented design teal created to inspire you. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

Classic Design Team Challenge - Open
Through the Craft Room Door- Anything Goes 
Mixed It  Up - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
We Love to Create - Mixed Media

Altered Gourd Table Center Piece

It is time for another Mixed Media/altered art challenge at Bleeding Art Challenge Blog.  The theme as always is anything goes.  Create anything that you like as long as it meets the rules of the challenge.

I decided to alter a gourd from one of may I hauled back from Arizona's Running of the Gourd. 

This is the gourd I started with 

I first painted my gourd with gesso and then with Kroma Crackle. I painted my assortment findings with gesso. The next step was colour the gourd and findings with different colours of spray ink.  My finding included old floral leaves, gems, metal butterflies,  brooches, scarf pins, buttons, floral stones, belt parts ......

Here are some closers looks.

This was a fun project for me.  Hope you will join us in this monthly challenge.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.  Thank you for stopping by.

I am entering my project in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore- anything goes

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 Box with Paints, Inks and Encaustics

I am so excited to be invited to participate in an exciting mixed media challenge blog called Bleeding Art Challenge Blog.  

I decided to make an altered box as my first project using a finding that inspired me.

This is an old metal napkin holder that I found at a garage sale that my hubby cut it a part for me.  The box was a card board box from my stash. 

I first added gesso to the box and napkin holder and then added a stenciled pattern to the box. My next step was to spray the box with a couple of different inks and add gold glamour paint to the edges. I added pearls to the area that was created when I put the two parts together.  I also added glamour paint to the edges of the napkin piece. 

To complete the project I dipped a fabric flower I made in Encausic wax and maneuvered the petals to the shape I liked for the flower. To complete the design I added a butterfly.

here are some other views of the box.

Thank you for stopping by an have a creative month.  Remember to stop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by the projects of our talented design team members. Join us this month to. 

I am entering my project in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes - Decorate Container
Dare2BeArtzy - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
Creative Figures - Anything Goes
A Bit More Time to Create - Anything Goes
Classic Design Team - Design Team challenge