Video Tutorial: A Romantic Mini Embroidery Hoop

Hello to everyone, Giovanna here and today I am here to show you how to transform an humble wooden embroidery hoop in a piece of art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2v2Rd7cb4&t=330s

You can use this technique on any size of embroidery hoop with any old doilies.

Materials I used:

Love canvas

Hi! Solange Marques here again! I'll share with you the project for this month!
February is Valentine's month, then The month theme is LOVE!!!!!

I've created a canvas:

I've used a Square Flat Canvas and I applied modelling paste on the Believe stencil. Then I applied
English Cottage Artist's Acrylic paint Hot Cocoa and GeeSso Good!Gesso-white on the background and I've painted a heart with Postbox Red and Mulberry Bush:

I've used Word Blocks stamp:

I hope you enjoy it!

Altered Clipboard

Hello everyone!It's Solange Marques here and I'll share with you a new autumn project using IndigoBlu products.
I've made an altered clipboard:

 First I covered the clipboard with IndigoBlu Steampunkesque-Mixed Media Paper Pad-6x6 
and IndigoBlu Damage Dots-Mixed Media Paper Pad-6x6.

 I've applied modelling paste on IndigoBlu Stencil- Cogs and Gears

 I've mixed Luscious Pigment Powder-orange with modellin paste and I applied it on some cogs and gears :

I've added some leaves that I cut out from IndigoBluu Damage Damask-Mixed Media Paper Pad 6x6
and some  butterflies from IndigoBlu Floral fantasy -A5 rubber stamp. I also used IndigoBlu Steampunkesque A5 Red Rubber Stamp:

 I hope you enjoy it!

A Magical Altered Book

Hello Giovanna here, with my first post as International Design Team member :-)

I am well known as a crazy upcycler and this time is no exception: books are one of my favourite things to alter,  these are pretty easy to find, can become unusual ArtJournal or lovely artworks to display.

The main charactere of this story is Jewel, and such a mithological animal can walk only on golden roads, that lead to enchanted houses.

And the tiny bottle, encased in a golden niche, can only contains Unicorn Sparkle.

To alter a book, open it in the middle and gesso the pages. When dry add some texture spreading the gorgeous Super Thick Slap it On through a stencil. When dry spray with your favourite mists. 

Stamp on white cardstock the door and the unicorn, cut them out, colour them and glue to the pages.

Add all the golden details you like, stamping with the Flitter glue and brushing the Mega Flakes. To make the road pat the phat foam with Flitter Glue and cover with the Mega Flakes.

And then, Believe in Magic!

Products I used:

Altered Art with Beck BT

Hi Everyone, it's Beck Beattie here today to share with you an altered art project.  I love how with a bit of paint and some fun items you can really transform a plain and not so inspiring item into something really special.

I started out with the larger of these trio of wooden houses

I had fun adding the divine Indigoblu Cottage paints and gesso to really transform it.  To transform it into something really special though I altered a chipboard die cut dragonfly.  I wanted to share with you how this was given new life in my video below:

The process:

• Add gesso randomly to the wood piece
• Add Hot cocoa Cottage Acrylic paint with a pallet knife to the wood piece a little random as well
• Next place some Townhouse teal on your craft mat and stamp the wood piece into it
• Add a little Miss Moneypenny and Emerald City with a pallet knife very sparingly
• Us the Sewing pattern stamp and stamp with brown permanent ink onto the dried wood piece
• Next take a piece of the cartography papers, add a little gesso and dab with a little hot cocoa paint to tone down the white.  Stamp the words from the 'NaturaI' set and cut and add a little Goldfinger to the edges of the pieces of paper before adhering with the Slap it on (Matt) applied to both sides of the paper as you adhere it to the wood piece.  
• Add some shadowing with the black neocolor crayon

The products:

Indigoblu products:

English Cottage paints - Townhouse Teal, Miss 

Moneypenny, Hot Cocoa, Emerald City & Goldfinger

'Slap it On 'Matt' & 'Gloss'

Gee-Sso Good!  Gesso

'Sewing Pettern' Red Rubber Stamp

'Nature I' Red Rubber Stamp

Indigoblu Cartography - Mixed Media 

Paper Pad - A6 size 

Other products:

Neocolor II Aquarelle - Black, Veronese Green, 

Turqouise Green & Metallic Dark Gold

Fun Stampers Journey Wood house

Sizzix 'Tim Holtz Alterations' Layered Dragonfly

 die and embossing folder

Chipboard sheet

 Fun Stampers Journey - house to home trio

I hope you enjoyed my share today and I've inspired you to do some home decorating of your own.

Happy Creating!

xxxBeck BT

 

Cartography LOVE canvas

Today we are entering the moth of love. February is also the Heart Disease awareness month in many countries around the world. Since I work as a nurse specialising in Heart Intensive Care  I wanted to celebrate February by making a canvas with a heart as the focus.

I have used a chunky canvas that I first painted with white GeeSso Good gesso and then covered with strips of a paper from the Cartography A6 Mixed Media Paper Pad.

I cut out a heart by hand from a piece of white card stock, painted it with Postbox Red paint and then before the paint was dry I applied Black GeeSso Good gesso - the end result was a brown-red almost rust like finish.

The pattern was made by using Mega Flakes (Eaton Mess) and the new texture stamp from the Teeny Background stamp set. The alphas were also painted with Copper Metallic paint and then when dry I just dabbed on some Flitter Glu on and applied Mega Flakes. Love how they turned out!

I dabbed FlitterGlu and added flakes on the edges of the canvas as well.

Hope I could inspire you today!

Products from IndigoBlu;

IndigoBlu Mega Flakes Eaton Mess

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint Postbox Red

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist´s Acrylic Paint Metallic Copper

IndigoBlu GeeSso Good Gesso Black & White

IndigoBlu Cartography A6 Mixed Media Paper Pad

IndigoBlu Teeny Background Stamp Set

December creating with Beck BT

Hi Everyone, it's Beck Beattie here today to share with you some creative fun I had with my MegaFlakes!  Oh how I love the metallic goodness that it brings to so many projects!  I decided to create this altered bottle to share with you today and inspire you to pretty up your home.

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I started out with this bottle I picked up at the dollar store, looking a bit bland and trying to be on trend.  I knew this could make the prettiest bottle so I set about adding some glam to it.  

Using my Mega Flakes Starter Kit I added some Winter Dawn Mega Flakes to some cardstock.  I then die cut it as I find that trying to brush the megaflake from the die cut once it is cut out can be tricky as it catches easily.  I then added it to the bottle along with some hessian, jewels and oh my what a difference it makes!

I hope you enjoyed my share today and I've inspired you to do some home decorating of your own.

Happy Creating!

xxxBeck BT