Seascape

Hiya peeps!

Today little update from my course before next session 😊.

Last Wednesday we were painting seascapes, tomorrow we will work on landscapes.

My first try last week was seascape paint with washes...

Not bad, like how clouds turned out 😊.

Unfortunately couldn't play much with mixing on cause didn't have watercolour paper...

Joanne  (teacher) suggested new painting with dry brush technique, so...

I started, but have no chance to finish it during session. 

Did that at home (today actually 😊).

Not bad at all, but I prefer first one.

What about you? Washes or dry brush?

Till next post friends! 

Monster :)

Hello, hello my crafty Friends!

Wish you all nice Sunday!

Today I want to share with you my DT card for Kinda Cute by Patricia with cute Monster, he's just perfect for boy's cards :)

After consultation with my 6yo boy I coloured image in green and yellow with hint of blue :)

Then decided to use bold yellow cardstock and greeny, leafy patterned paper for this project.

I stamped sentiment on yellow card and for finishing touch I added few opaque blue gems.

Result?

See below :)

Hope you like this little project.

Till next post Friends!

Pulled string

Hiya Crafties!

Few days ago one of girls on FB shared very interesting video... about using string/thread/twine and inks to make beautiful flowers like images.

I thought why not try this? Dom will love it.

So we (my son and me) tried 😊. No inks here so we used acrylic paints.

When alone at home I was catch by thought: Maybe I can try the same thing on canvas board? Result? 

Here:

So kinda natural seems to be what happens next 😁. Of course I had to try to use this technique to make a card 😁.

Gold mirri card for layering, edges distressed with scissors,  piece of lace and bit of glitter glue here and there and my card was done!

What do you think about this project? 

Till next post friends! 

Curly Piglet with hat

Hiya crafty peeps!

Today I want to share with you funny Birthday card with cute Curly Piglet from Conie Fong Art, just look at him :)

I decided to make this card simple with lots of orange on :)

Result below:

This piglet is delight to colour really - colour scheme for bow and hat is my son's idea :)

I used Prismacolors.

Only extras on this little project is multitone ribbon.

What do you think about it?

Till next post Friends!

Knight

Hello Crafties!

Oh bad girl me!!!

I should have this card done 2 days ago...

But when talked to my Mum on Skype that day (I think) I was witness of little phone chat between my parents, my Dad was calling to tell my Mum he's going to hospital cause he broke his leg... eh.. he has operation due today for it...

But enough of hospitals...

For today's card I used cute image from Kinda Cute by Patricia called Knight.

It is very hard to colour knights differently then in silver/grey... 

so I added few extra colours on helmet, sword and shield and decided to use mix of papers in matching colour scheme but all layered on silver mirri card.

Few opaque yellow gems, 'Good luck' sentiment and card is ready.

Hope you like it.

Till next post!

Drawing portrait

Hiya all!

Drawing portrait??? If someone told me year or two ago that I will, I could laugh really hard!

Now?

I'm drawing :)

Our latest lesson on course was about it and...

first task: one line drawing...

Dreadful task when you are using charcoal - pencils better with it (confirmed by our teacher).

Next task: free hand live drawing

Trevor even looks ok on this drawing :) Definitely recognizable :)

Next task: draw portrait as showed in step by step instruction - measurements

Didn't look like on instruction, but measurements done good :)

Then Joanne asked me to try the same again but only with charcoal - no initial outlines with pencil

This guy looks younger! Hahahahaha!

Then...

We still had 1 hour left, so Joanne said to me and Trevor, to try to draw each other again but this time with using step by step measurement instruction... that was fun :)

And what was Joanne reaction for this drawing?

'Trevor you look younger on this picture!'

Fact, he is :)

No Photoshop needed hihihihihi!

Till next post!

Canvas with dryad

Hiya Crafties!

Today something different... I am preparing myself to rather huge 'task' - final piece for my artsy course.

I decided that charcoal piece will be not enough, I was thinking hard and conclusion was: 'I need acrylic painting even if I don't feel confident with paints'.

Hmmm, but what I paint?

I was: abstract!!! Something in Kandinsky 's style!

My man said: 'Forget about it! I want something nice to put on our wall'.

He wanted full moon and sea, but I didn't want paint another piece looks exactly like stuff in net...

I have idea what I will do, but first I decided to try if techniques I want to use will work together.

For my practising I choose beautiful Cherry Blossom Dryad created by Amanda Byron from Faery Ink.

I painted image with watercolours. 

Prepared canvas with mix of brown, green, blue and white acrylics.

Glued image and pieces of textured papers on the canvas.

Add more acrylics for extra texture.

Then splashed some glitter glue here and there.

Maybe this piece is not perfect, but..

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT 

so I will play more with mixed media soon 😊.

That's all for today!

Till next post Friends!

Sunflower Bella

Hello, hello my crafty Friends!

Today I want to share with you my newest DT card for Conie Fong Art with cute Sunflower Bella.
I wanted make her kinda Summer-y.

I thought orange is a Summer for me, so... why not give her orange dress :)

Then I realized - OMG! Do I have any papers with orange colour on???

You should see me!!! 

Ha ha ha ha ha! 

Total PANIC! 

But as you can see below I found some suitable pieces :)

So.. piece of bold orange cardstock, some bold green and 2 patterned papers, little die cut flower, bit of multicolour glitter glue and my card was done :)

What do you think about it?

That's all for today!

Till next post Friends!

Mermaid - again 😁

Hiya Crafties!

Honestly I'm addicted to mermaids 😁.

Today my latest challenge card at Alicia Bel's FB group with her Beautiful Little Mermaid.

I back to red hairs too 😁. Have to tell you it is not easy for me to find good Prismacolor blend for reds after my old one with Artist's Loft...

I want to enter it to:

* Digi Chooseday Wk 19

* Little Miss Muffet Challenge #188

* TTCRD challenge - May 8th

That's all for today!

Till next post Friends!

Boy on swing

Hello, hello my crafty Friends!

Today I have for you card for boy with free image from Kinda Cute by Patricia called Nino columpio or Child's swing which you can find here..

To be honest with you Patricia has two images with boy on the swing (second image here), so.. choose your fave 😊.

I decided to make simple layout card with orange accents.

Choose 2 patterned papers matching colours on image, 2 tone ribbon and piece of yellow thread and my card is done.

Like it?

Till next post Friends!

Monet and Kandinsky

Hiya peeps!

Today artsy course update.

Last week we had lesson about Claude Monet and Impressionists. Beautiful paintings.

Our task?

We supposed to use acrylics, but teacher said I can use soft pastels.

Then I had to paint another one with acrylics anyway cause I was to fast with pastels 😊. 

Acrylics are not my faves... not bad painting, I'm just not very happy with result. 

Today we talked about Kandinsky and abstract art.

Our task was paint our version of Kandinsky's painting below:

First I used soft pastels and charcoal

then decided to have another go with watercolours. 

Although I prefer use pastels I like my watercolour version better this time 😊.

Kinda brighter, less messy.

What do you think? 

That's all for today. 

Till next post friends! 

Cute Unicorn

Hiya peeps!

Today I have for you another card for challenge at Alicia Bel's FB group.

I decided to use for it image called Happy Unicorn.

Isn't he sweet?

My little unicorn is lightly pink with some light blue shades on his horn and wings, aquamarine eyes and kinda full rainbow on mane and tail. 

I added lots of rainbow glitter on image and sentiment, why not? He's magical animal :)

Mix of papers gave me nice amount of different textures - exactly what I wanted on this little project.

I want to enter it to:

* Digi Chooseday - Wk 18

* Little Miss Muffet - Challenge #188

That's all for today.

Till next post Friends!

May challenge at Conie's FB group

Hiya dear Crafties!!!

Today I have for you DT card which is also my entry for newest challenge at Conie Fong's FB group, theme: 'Anything goes' with option Ladies/Girls.

If you are interested check for rules and prizes here.

For this card I choose one of last year images - Summer Dreams.

I was thinking long and hard on colour scheme for this one and here's the result of it :)

Mix of pinks, reds, aqua, teal, beige and cream plus blond cutie :)

Image and sentiment I shaded with pencil on edges.

I added pink ribbon and gems in pink and teal.

That's all for today!

Till next post friends!

Cleo

Hiya Crafties!

Short and rather late written post today (or tonight as is 8.30 pm here).

As I was on my artsy course today I didn't have much time for crafting and blog writing, so... to the point!

Below you'll find my newest creation with gorgeous Cleo from Alicia Bel.

Image coloured with Prismacolours.  

2 patterned papers, layers from black cardstock,  few goldish pearls and bit of glitter and...

girly birthday card is ready! 

I made this card for latest challenge at Alicia's FB group. 

What do you think about it? 

Till next post friends! 

Emma and the cake

Hello Crafties!

Welcome to my first post for Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog.

The challenge there is always Anything goes and this month we are sponsored by

who offers $10 voucher for their online store to the challenge winner.

For my card I choose image called Emma and the cake.

I was thinking hard and ... finished with deep pinks, cream and gold colour scheme and lots of mixed textures on my card.

Layout - cooperative work with my (this month 6yo) son :)

Image coloured with Prismacolors pencils.

Hope you join us in this month challenge :)

That's all for today!

Till next post Friends!