Bold & Bright with Andy Skinner and DecoArt

 Today I am entering Andy Skinner's challenge on his blog using DecoArt products.

AndySkinner.org Let there be light!

Andy's theme for his first challenge is:

BOLD & BRIGHT

First coated my journal page in Gesso. 

While still wet,spritzed Yellow,then Magenta and lightly misted each with water.

Next I used a hair dryer to gently push the sprays out while drying them. 

After these were dry,I used the white Modeling paste through a stencil in various areas.

Once the modeling paste was dry,I stamped using Carbon Black Fluid acrylic around my page,then dried with the heat tool.

When dry,sprayed Shimmer Mister White about the page and again more Magenta.No water this time.

 After drying these colors,out came the turquoise Shimmer Mister. I got up close and personal with the turquoise,because I just love this color and wanted it for my primary focal point.

While puddled and still wet,I used my credit card to drag through the Turquoise created extending lines.

 After this was dried the heat tool,I sprayed again, this time with water and tilted the page to let the Turquoise run a bit.

After locating where my words would go,used my finger dipped in Carbon Black to make a smudged circle,for my wording.

When all paints were dry,I used Liquid Glass to accent some of the stamped circles as well as the wording. 

After the Liquid Glass was dry,painted around the word again using Carbon black.Also,drybrushed a bit of the black over some of the modeling paste.

At this point,I had black leftover so,after watering it down I brushed it over the edges of the page and then wiped back off.This made the black show as a gray in small areas of where there was no gesso on the page.  

My final step was to use the Cobalt Teal Hue Fluid Acrylic with my finger,smudged gently over the modeling paste.

Products used:

DecoArt Media Gesso~White

DecoArt Media Mister~Magenta

DecoArt Media Shimmer Misters~ 

Turquoise,Yellow,White

DecoArt Media Liquid Glass~Clear

DecoArt Media Modeling Paste~White

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics~

Carbon Black,Cobalt Teal Hue

Also used:

Stencil

Stamp

Paintbrush

Spatterbrush

credit card

Finger

Dryer

Heat Tool

Journal 

Linking to Andy Skinner's Blog Challenge

 Thanks so much for your visit and hope to see you again soon!

 Jackie ")

Vintage Shabby Chic Easter Greeting

 Good Morning and happy 1st of March!

  Spring is right around the corner~hopefully! 

Today I am sharing my design team sample for our new challenge over at Gecko Galz!

This month our challenge theme is
"Shabby Chic Easter!"

March 1st to the 30th
  Feel free to grab our badge,and share on your blogs.

There is only one rule,and that is you need to use at least ONE  product from Gecko Galz!!  

It can be one of the free products,stamps,collage images, or digital papers!!

The winner will receive a $25 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree 
(btw,this is how I started accumulating my fab selection of Gecko Galz products!)

You gotta be in it to win it! 

On to my sample!

A few simple ingredients to get started...

Gecko Galz image

paper

scissors

glue

cardboard for backing

vintage lace

embellishments(as needed)

 and Coffee!

For my backing,I used a piece of recycled packaging material.
 photos showing some of my saved stash!
 (we all get these,why not use them instead of adding to a landfill?!)

 

Next up choose paper for background 

 Once I had my paper and image,I figured placement and started to cut into the paper different sections that I wanted to overlap onto the image

Time for coffee!

Seriously,not just for drinking!

 My coffee staining has been inspired by the extremely talented artist Lynne Moncrieff,whom regularly uses coffee in her art to achieve that beautiful vintage look!

 Thank you Lynne for the inspiration

 After a few layers of coffee,I trimmed around my edges,crumpled my paper,sanded and scuffed areas and then used my Tim tool on the edges

next a few more coats of coffee stain

 Place my image into the paper cuts and glue down.Cut out a few more flowers to add around the border...

 The coffee stained vintage lace was glued and secured with one tiny staple on each side and

a small flower embellie was glued in place.

On with the photo shoot!

I took advantage of our 62 degree day!Gorgeous!!

my poor bulbs are confused- I do hope they survive!

Hope to have inspired you to join in on our 

Gecko Galz challenge March 1-3o

And make sure to stop by the other Galz' blogs as each one has a FREE stamp for you to download!

I have not been around some of your blogs recently,but will return soon~pinky promise!

Thank you so very much for coming by and leaving the love! 

You all mean so very much to me!

Here's to sunny warm days and creative energy!

hugs,

Jackie ")

Goddess loveliness with Gecko Galz

 Happy Leap Day, Happy Leap Year!

 Geesh if you were born on this day,well,lucky you not having to age for another 4 years!! heehee

Today I have two more Goddess pieces for my journal...

the first is in progress...I am still working out just what sort of background she would look best on,so stay tuned!

 Here,I layered several coats of DecoArt crackle glaze to give a look of a frosted window.Not quite sure that I succeeded with the frosted look,but I do love the result anyway!

 The gorgeous background paper is from Gecko Galz as well as the beautiful women graphics.These colors~simply stunning!

Believe it or not,this was printed using my Epson ink jet printer!

Next up is my previous shown angel avatar, now adorned on her own page,ready for journal placement.

I used lots of stencils,modeling paste,embossing powders and handmade paper.

yummy textures...

 do you love texture as much as I do?!

One more item to share...

This is a blog stamp from Gecko Galz that I painted using DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics,used as watercolors.Once again,this is not finished and will show up in another post when I have created the perfect setting for it! heehee ")

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 and now for your promised monthly blog stamp,courtesy of Gecko Galz!!

 

Gecko Galz products used:
Golden Splendors #1

Poppy Fields Paper from Art Nouveau Digital Paper Pack

Twig Arch Digital Stamp from Spring Gems Stamp Set

Be sure and stop back tomorrow for Gecko Galz March Challenge!

Thank you for your visit!

 Jackie ")