Take the Challenge March 2015

 

It's right about time for spring!

Over at the blog of Faber Castell, Design Memory Craft, there is a challenge by Mou. She challenges us to create something with the prompt TIME. Well, I think it's right about TIME for spring!
I wanted to use the petals from the Technique Tuesday set as the pointers on a clock. My art journal was to small for it so I decided to make a piece to frame. There is still some time before spring comes here in Sweden, now I will at least have some flowers on my wall!

Oh, please spring! It's right about time!

I started by making a collage on a watercolor paper
and then I cut the paper to a square.

Added some gelatos.

Added a layer of gesso.

Added some dimension with modeling paste through a stencil.



Stamped some flowers, added some more gelatos.

Attatched the petals to make them look like pointers on a clock
and finally the dymo.

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Hero Arts: CL510 Sweet Threads Label
Technique Tuesday: Loves Me, Loves Me Not Large
COLOR:
Gelatos: guava, pistachio, bubble gum, butter cream, mango, metallic melon
PITT Artist Pen: scarlet red 118, permanent carmine 126, pink carmine 127
StazOn: Black
Kaisercolor Crafters Acrylic : White
Adironddack Acrylic Paint Dabber: Mountain Rose
Panduro Acrylic: Lamp Black 
OTHERS:
Watercolor paper
Art Basics Heavy Gesso
Patterned papers
Sheets from different books
Liquitex: Light Modeling Paste
Stencil from Claudine Hellmuth: Wall Flowes
Brads from Panduro
Fabric flower from YouDo
Plastic sheet
Dymo
Sewing machine and black thread

'Take the challenge' October 2013

This month the challenge over at Faber Castell's blog was to create something that represents your cherished secret dream. Of course I have some dreams. Some of them I want to keep to myself but I have one dream that I can share. I really like to sing and would I like to sing more! I want to sing not only for my pets! I want to start in a choir. I'd like to take singing lessions and I'd really like to sing the opera! I want to be admired. But I'm to shy. I always sing in the shower and in the car listening to the radio. I have no idea if I can sing or not but once when I sang my cat bit me in the thigh! Oh, well! ; )

When I started thinking about the challenge and what I wanted to do I saw 'The Scream', the painting of Edvard Munch in front of me. I exchanged his anguished figure with my singing diva but tried to keep the background somewhat true to the original, but with brighter colors. I wanted to make it a bit happier but still that one can see the resemblance. Did you know that Munch made four different versions of this painting? I think this only one will do for me! ; )

 

The eyelashes are painted with Stickles
and the mouth with glitter glue



The earring in shrink plastic with a secret message!
 



The first layer of the painting with gelatos.
 



MATERIAL:
STAMPS:

Basic Grey: wild flowers/division b2 sta-1341

ARTEMIO: rèf 10001188

heidi grace: Day Dream Believer
OTHER:
Watercolor paper

Gelatos

Stamper's Big Brush

Gesso (transparent)

Black pen
StazOn: Jet Black

Shrink plastic

Quickutz pendant die

Glitter glue, pink

Glitter flakes from Panduro

Stickles: Black Diamond

I won the 'Take the challenge' June 2013!!

Yep! I sure did! And I'm so happy! Look what the nice people at Faber Castell sent me!

The parcel!

The content!

'Take the challenge' June 2013

I came across another challenge when I browsed the net the other day. Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft has a blog where they share tips and techniques on their products, amongst others Stamper's Big Brush Pens and Gelatos! Which I like a lot!

The challenge is here:
"It's the end of the school year. 2013 is almost half way through for all of us. In this time, we have all learned one thing or another. What one important lesson have you learnt this year so far or what one theme has stood out for you?"

I decided to finish the art journal I started on some time ago. I haven't bought a proper art journal yet so my art journalling is on watercolor paper. What I've been trying to focus on these first six months of 2013 is not to get dragged down. There are some changes in my life and I'm not very happy about them. It's so easy to let those dark thoughts take control and make your life miserable. I'm trying to "fly above it" in order to get some distance and that is my attempt at trying to stay sane. I think it works! Even though it feels like I'm on the edge somedays I've created someting in bright, happy colors! Here's my take on the challenge:

The background is made with gelatos. I used masks and carpentry filler (instead of embossing creme) and then a layer of gesso. I painted the bird with Stamper's Big Brush Pens and then I used some ink sprays and destroyed the bird! So I cut out a bird from a patterned paper instead but then I accidentally glued on the wrong side! Decided that it was the grungy look I wanted for my poor, damaged bird, painted another thick layer of gesso over it and heated it with my heat gun in order to get the bird even more grungy. Used Stamper's Big Brush Pens again and some rub ons and finally some black ink to distress the bird even more. It took a while to make this since all my mistakes, but in the end got the result I wanted and I'm pleased with the outcome.

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Heindesign P-07191211
INKS:
Dylusion Ink Spray: Vibrant Turquoise, Fresh Lime, White Linen
Adirondack Color Wash - Stream
Acrylic color
OTHER:
Stamper's Big Brush Pens
Gelatos
Donna Downey Studio -  Artist Stencil #922436, Poppies and Peonies #922122
TCW - 3818 Mini Quatrefoil, 361 Tiny Circles
Carpentry filler (instead of embossing creme)
Posca - Black
StazOn - Black
Fiskars - Rain dots - self adhesive accents
Pencil