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Bird Silhouette Painting

07
Jan 2013

I’ve always wanted to do a silhouette painting of a bird, so I thought I’d give it a shot yesterday when I was in my studio. I still had the Spring-thing in my head…so I created this Bird Silhouette painting.

Bird Acrylic Painting

I used a 6″ canvas for this that I painted with craft acrylics in the robins egg blue color. Then I created a template of a bird by drawing the bird shape on some cardstock and then cutting it out. I traced the template on the canvas and then painted it with black acrylic. (You could use a stencil if you have one.) Next I distressed the edges of the canvas with a combination of paint and Distress Ink. And I finished it off with a little matching satin flower, just to give it a sense of depth.

This is a very simple, crafty project and I think anyone could do it. I love how it turned out. I may do some more birds in the future because I had such fun with this.

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Say Cheese Altered Kraft Envelope

17
May 2011

I was feeling like doing some Altered Art when I was finally able to make it into my studio for a couple of hours. And since I have a whole bunch of Kraft envelopes out there, I thought I’d go ahead and alter one of those. My Say Cheese project is the result.

Say Cheese Altered Kraft Envelope

I started by using some Tea Dye Distress Ink all over the envelope, adding extra to the edges. I wanted it to look fairly grungy. Next I added some blue patterned scrap paper across the top. Then I added a vintage photo of some lovely ladies, who look to me like they’re having their photo taken. I added some alpha stickers on the photo to spell out “Smile, Marcy.” I used some Tim Holtz clear film down the right side to go with the photo theme and also added a flower near the top of the envelope. Then at the bottom I added my Say Cheese paper sentiment, along with a camera image and a button. Granted, the button doesn’t make much sense. But it’s blue and I just needed something with color down there. ;)

Category: Kraft Envelopes, Paper Arts  Tags: , , , , ,  One Comment

Cherish Altered Heart

14
Feb 2011

Well, seeing that it’s Valentines Day, I thought I’d get one more heart-themed project in before the clock strikes midnight. And I’m using it for the Ginersnaps Creations Charms Challenge too.  It’s my Cherish Altered Heart project.  My beads will have to serve as charms in this case…I didn’t have any actual charms to play with.

Cherish Altered Heart

I started with a plain wooden heart, which is about 3″ high. It’s the same wooden heart I used for my Love Altered Hearts project.  I added a piece of teal and cream colored patterned scrapbook paper that I liked. Then I added a vintage photo that I scalloped the edges on.

Next I found a piece of chipboard that had the word Cherish on it, in a metallic teal font. It matched perfectly so I glued that at the bottom of the vintage photo. Then I distressed the edges of the heart a bit with some brown distress ink to give the heart a wee bit of dimension. I also added a teal paper flower, with a rhinestone gem in the center.

To finish this off I added 3 swarovski crystals as my “charms” to the bottom of the heart, one in a teal color, and two in clear. I love the way those look on the heart. They almost give it a shabby chic feel, don’t you think? Oh, and at the last minute I decided to turn this into a magnet so I could hang it on the frig. Love it!

Category: Everyday Crafts, Hearts, Seasonal Crafts, Shabby Chic Crafts  Tags: , , , , ,  7 Comments

King of Pop Canvas

07
Feb 2011

I love it when I get a chance to bring my art and my favorite musical artist together in an art project. In this case I’m bringing Michael Jackson to an altered art style canvas, inspired by the Gingersnap Creations Kings & Queens Challenge. I’ve called it simply, King of Pop.

King of Pop Canvas

I started with a blank white canvas that is 5×7″ in size and created the background by first painting it with black acrylic. Then I took some metallic white fluid acrylic and dry-brushed that over the black to give it some texture.

Next I created the torn paper pieces that I would add to the background. They are made from watercolor paper, which I’ve stamped with a sheet music design in black ink, and then I distressed the edges with black Distress Ink too. I glued those in place on the canvas.

Then I added the Michael Jackson photo sticker, which shows the King of Pop in one of his classic concert outfits, which he wore while performing Billie Jean.  I also created the glitter glove from cardstock and glitter and added that. And I created Michael’s classic black fedora out of black scrapbook paper too, and added that over the stamped paper.

The final embellishments were glittery crown stickers, which I already had on hand, along with rhinestone gems, and sparkly white letters, which spell out King of Pop.

I have a wall dedicated to Michael in my home office (the other wall is dedicated to posters from my favorite movies and TV shows…and I have a little area dedicated to Elvis too). So I will add this piece there. I love how it turned out.

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Beauty ACEO

15
Jul 2010

Since I’m going to start selling things on the soon-to-open Art Chick Studio Store, I’ve started making ACEO’s (Artist Cards, Editions and Originals) instead of just ATC’s (Artist Trading Cards), since ATC’s are meant to be just traded, rather than sold. So this is my first official ACEO, called Beauty.

Beauty ACEO

I started with a standard ATC-sized illustration board background. I then used some Tim Holz Distress Ink to add some hints of blue and rose over the entire background.  Next I added a rubber stamp art image of a woman’s lovely face in black ink. Then I added some black, textured fabric ribbon around the opposite corners. I added a butterfly and flower sticker to the bottom right corner, and a metal gear and brad to the upper left corner. And I finished it all off with distressed letters, spelling out b-e-a-u-t-y on pieces of paper.

This turned out better than I expected actually. Now I just need to make a few more!

Tina

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Primitive Craft Goodies

17
Jun 2010

I’m working on several projects that I’m creating for some special gals at the A Primitive Journey Community.  This August, a group of those gals will be going to Berlin, Ohio for a “Girlfriends Gathering.” They’ll be shopping for prims, sightseeing, and just having a wonderful all girls weekend. I offered to donate some goodies for the goody bags that will be given away to the girls that weekend. So below are some of the projects I’m working on for them. (Note: if you’re one of the APJ gals who is going on this trip, I’d suggest you stop reading now so that you won’t ruin the surprise!)

First up is the envelope that all my little goodies will go in. I wanted to make several small gifts for each gal, so I decided to make this envelope to put all the items inside. It’s a brown Kraft envelope, stamped with script text, the word, Simplify,  and a primitive crow, and then I added a rusty star as an accent.

Crow Simplify Envelope

I made some bottle cap magnets too. I kept these very simple: just a punched circle of scrapbook paper that resembles ticking fabric, topped with a silver heart brad. If I had some UTEE, I would have used that on these too. But I didn’t have any, naturally. I still think they are cute though.

Heart Bottle Cap Magnets

I also wanted to include some paper goodies that could actually be used. So first I made these paper flower gift tags. I used some cardstock that resembles a gingham fabric and punched out a floral shape. Then I added a white, embossed paper flower and a black brad to each tag. I topped them with some coordinating black ribbon. So they can use these as a gift tag for someone’s gift if they’d like to.

Paper Flower Tags

I also created some hangtags. I started with a plain hangtag, which I stamped with a faux wood texture. Then I added a butterfly stamp, and I also stamped the word, believe. I finished them off by distressing all the edges with Tim Holz Distress Ink, to give them that primitive grungy hangtag look.

Believe Butterfly Hangtag

I love how all these goodies turned out! I think I’m going to make one more little something for each envelope. Not sure what yet, but I’ll come up with something. I sure hope that the ladies at the Girlfriends Gathering will like these goodies as much as I enjoyed making them! Making things for others is really like giving a gift to yourself, because it just makes you feel good to do it!

Tina

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