Create Yourself!!

"Life isn't about Finding...Its about Creating Yourself"

And what goes best with this...other than Butterfly!!!

Yup its especially for More than Words challenge whose 1st challenge is about Personality & Selfie.

This is one of my personal favorite selfie and i love to use that for this theme. Butterfly symbolises a free spirit kind and it just matches my personality. This art form has given me such freedom and liberty to let free of myself to explore me much.

Took 8"x10" canvas and primed with gesso.
Then roughly figured out the area for the one side of butterfly wing and started to paint it with Prima's Antique pink chalkboard paint, as other side decided to use Picture.
The edges of butterfly are made with the Prima's modelling paste and hit with Lindy's Opal sea oats spray.

Used TCW stencil "Art is" for all outer textures and its hit by LSG glory of seas gold spray. This spray edged butterfly's wings on its periphery so well.
Applied prima crackle clear texture paste inside the wing and hit the heatgun. Wanted to mimic the butterfly a bit for its textures and so used TH bubbles stencil using Prima modelling paste. Then hit by LSG cocklebells coral spray.

Then for the embellishments part, used florishes chipboard which was primed with gesso and misted with LSG glory gold spray and highlighted with Inka gold gold. It topped up with Prima resin piece which is gessoed, misted with LSG coral spray and highlighted as above.

A floral cluster is made using roses, hip roses, mini roses and mulberry flowers.  Roses are heat embossed using Ranger fine gold Ep.

And the bubbles textures are highlighted by inka gold gold. To mimic even more butterfly wing, took cabochon domes, sprayed with Glimmer mist black and hit by heat gun. When the mist were about to dry completely, took baby wipe and wiped central part, so that a circle is formed mimicing the eyes on butterfly wings.

Diagonal corner of the canvas are heat embossed using Stampendous Shabby pink Ep, which is new in my stash. Am in love with those chunky Eps. Then Black gelatos are used for the corner highlighting of canvas and the stencilled textures.

Two butterfly stickers for the extra final touch to finish off the canvas.

Hope you like it!!

Entering the following challenges

More than words challenge - Personality&Selfie

Simonsaysstamp Wednesday challenge - Stencil it (used TCW - Art is, TH - bubble stencils)

Stamplorations Mixed media challenge #27 (used TCW - Art is, TH - bubble stencils)

Happy Little stampers - Stencil

Dream On!

Hey Hi All,

Officially first post on this New year :)

Dream on!!!

Mini canvas 5"x7' used here.

First primed with Prima Chalkboard paint - Egg blue, as i needed a base blue color for project.

Applied Prima clear crackle paste heavy at the centre followed by thinning out at corners.

Hit heat gun to bring out textures and after which took Prima modelling paste to bring about those frosty spikes at the periphery of the canvas.

Once its all dried up, series of LSG mists, glimmer mists, were sprayed and dried with heat gun at every spray to fix up the colors.

Interesting part is the butterfly and one of my fave too. Stamped that gorgeous big butterfly from Sosuzystamps (new in my stash) on a 300gsm watercolor cs using Black Archival ink. Then used Lsg blue mist, metallic gelatos in purple and blue and black soot distress ink to color the butterfly. And then i smooshed versamark inkpad directly to the butterfly and heatset using UTEE Clear Ep and repeated twice. It just beautifully curved to give natural look.

The florishes is a memory box diecut which is gold heat embossed. Then for those gold around the florishes, sprayed versamark refill ink and added gold Ep and heat embossed it.

Then for all those frosty spikes, applied inkagold - Gold using hands, to bring out the textures.

Dream on - the sentiment is self made using various IBS sentiments. Its stamped on archival ink on watercolor paper, sprayed with blue lsg and distressed using black soot DI.

Hope you like it!

Linking to following challenges

Mixed media monthly challenge  Time flies

Rhedd's creative spirit Jan 2016 challenge

Pennyblack at all sorts challenge - One for girls

Tic-Tac-Toe challenge - Chosen Sparkles- Embossing-New  (for Sparkles used Inka gold Gold, Done Heat embossing Gold Ep, UTEE clear embossing on butterfly, New is Sosuzy stamp- Fancy butterfly)

Thank You!!

Hiya Crafters,
Very Happy  New Year to one and all :)
May the days ahead be joyous and wonderful!!

Am herewith Monthly CoasteRide's first set of DT inspirations at ICR and this time our hostess is Paru. She has come up with her own signature card style.

To play along, Create a project /card with style specified.

CAS stands for Clean And Simple:  one to no layers, few to no embellies, predominant solid colors without any cluttered look.

Upload project pics at the linky provided at ICR and tag your photos with the tagname ICRCPREWIN03.

The challenge ends at midnight on December 28th. 

Our sponsor for this time is Craftshop.in and Rs 500 worth goodies as Prize! Join in to play along and have fun

We're  also announcing a special giveaway for participants who  will play our challenges every month  consecutively from January to April 2016.

About my take for inspiration :)

A Thank You card to welcome New year 2016 !
Wanna start my New year with loads of Gratitude...

Its a CAS card with no layers, no embellies. Just a simple card with Watercoloring! Yes my recent addiction are these Watercolors and Mixed media techniques :)

Stampendous Sunflower stamp is heat embossed using Ranger's white opaque embossing powder on one corner of textured watercolor panel. Watercolored using Tchibo Aquarelle pencils using various colors. Surrounding area of the flower are watercolored loosely using gathered twig DI and Tumbled glass DI.

Wished to add  sunrays and used paperstrip and started to add Mustard seed DI using dauber at a corner of card front.

Sentiment from Wplus9 is stamped using Black archival ink, to finish off the card.

I hope to have inspired you.

Hop to every ICR Designer blog to get inspired and play along to win the exciting prizes. Will be then back with Fortnight Inspirations :)

Entering the following challenge:

House of cards - Embossing / color  (used heat embossing)

Paru's cardmaking Challenge - New (Stampendous sweet sunflower stamp and Wplus 9 Sentiment are new in my stash)

Altered Box

This time an altered box which originally housed Pretty Wooden hearts.

Its just a cute little 4" Square box with compartments. Was eyeing from the time i purchased those and had one such pretty moment to alter it....

Yeah...I made this for a blogger pal who is a wonderful soul, whose amazing talent is to turn any Trash (from micro to macro level) into Treasure. Her imagination is beyond human measure and am at awe at everytime of my visit to her blog.

She's none other than deary Rupa of Tofa. Its a must see.. must bookmark.. blog. Do visit and am sure you are gonna be mesmerised by the projects there :)

She has got my teeny tiny RAK and its time to post pics here...

Now left to her to say about it...As she is an expert in Altered Project...Its just my baby step in the altered art world :)

Process:

The back of the box is first coated with Prima chalk paint Sand and applied Prima White clear Crackle paste by hand in an uneven fashion. And after few minutes, started those moments of crackles...And was pretty enjoying those.

After is dried completely applied Rich cocoa momento ink and those crackled crevices took up those inks beautifully and the textures look were real yum...Sure am gonna try these lines of projects soon.

On the front, measured each compartment and it perfectly fitted for Cuttlebug square diecuts which are took from pp. The edges are sponged with toffee crunch momento ink, to give shabby effect and then modpodged it using Matt version.

Made floral sprays using Big blooms are brushed with wink of stella clear, few leaves, hip roses, mini roses. Prima resin frame (colored using prima chalkpaint - pink) housed a Love cabochon and few pearl strings added to it. Resin heart, prima resin swirls (colored with momento ink slightly, brushed with wink of stella clear), Kaisercraft Label banner - Friends , TH word band, 2 pink glitter alphas, few pearls.. all took its respective places to sync well :)

Now its your turn to say about this work :) Would love to hear it from you.

Altered Bottle with Mixed media touch :)

Exactly an year since prima workshop, first ever workshop of that kind in India by Prima educator and my dear friend Bipasha Kashyap. Lucky enough to attend that in chennai and had been so lucky to see her Mixed media Demo as a topping for our 2 day workshop, which has given me wings.. must say to explore myself in this art :)

Altered bottle...first every try!

Its a 9 inch tall Olive oil bottle which i had soaked in warm soapy water for a day to peel off the stickers from it.

Next i sanded with a sanding block to give tooth to the surface before i prime it.  Gessoed down completely with 2 coats and after drying it completely, took kitchen tissue crumbled pieces and start to adhere using Modpodge Matt. Adhered at an uneven fashion to get a textured base.

Then when all dried up, coated with Prima Chalkboard paint Egg blue of 2 coats drying up completely at every coat. Me seems no happy...you see...now am on an MM addiction :D

Close up shots of Textures :)

Took Prima clear crackle paste and started to apply on the  surface with hand and hit heat gun to bring out the textures. Little more for textures...misted cheesecloth modpodged on the bottle just for the focus.

From top of the bottle, i sprayed Lindy's stamp gang sprays  - Azure sea asters (for blue), Sea mint green and Opal sea oats (brown) in a one by one fashion and drying up at each spray to set the color.

Then started the embellishment. I just kept minimum to show off the textures as focal element here,

Prima resin frame, laces, local bought resin flowers,  butterfly stickers, crocheted laces, pearl strings, Dream cabochon, bottle cap, Mixed flowers floral spray for the embellishment part.

In the last pic, i have added a light blue washi tape like a belly band around the bottle centrally to add little interest to it.

Want to end 2015 with an Inspiration and so this 'DREAM' titled project :)

Dare to Dream....
Don't Say them...Show them!!

Wishing you loads and loads of success, joy, peace in the forthcoming years.
Very Happy New year 2016 to all my blogger pals, visitors :)

Playing along the following challenges:

Artful crafting - #9 Altering

Lulupu - Deckup your home (Altered bottle, light blue washitape, modpodge matt)

Sweetstamps - Dec Anything goes