This is It!

 Hi Everyone 

 

Happy October! 

I'm starting this month over on That's Crafty's blog in my regular Thursday weekly DT spot sharing a piece of 'Art on the Round' featuring one of Stamperia's fabulous rice papers

I have a real love of 'faces' and 'eyes' so I was instantly drawn to this particular rice paper:  Wandering Minds. Although I love the beautiful image as it is on the paper for 'art's sake' I gave it a 'make over'.

To find out more feel free to pop by the blog anytime as thats where I'm sharing more details about the 'make over' creativity. 

For the quickest route over just click HERE 

Hope to see you soon 

Amanda 

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Never Forget, Maybe Someday ....

Hi Everyone and Welcome 

Hope you are all doing good and have had a great week! 

Today sees me over at That's Crafty with my regular weekly post of creativity . 

This week I have designed and created a piece of 'Art on the Round' using 13Arts papers designed by Fiona Paltridge, accents of paint and some of my own 'stylised' embellishment touches! 

If you would like to find out more about my 'Art on the Round' creativity you are very welcome to join me over at That's Crafty. 

It would be lovely to have you pop by. 

Just click HERE to be redirected .

Hope to see you soon

Amanda 

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Be Thankful' -mid month inspiration for That's Crafty 'Forever Autumn' Challenge

Hi Everyone and Welcome 

Hope you are all doing good and having a great week so far. Over at That's Crafty the challenge theme this month is 'Forever Autumn'. As we are half way through the challenge the Design Team and Guest Designers get to share another piece of creativity inspired by the theme. 

Here's my autumnal 'Be thankful' Plaque 

I love working on the round or using circles within my work so for this piece I used That's Crafty MDF rounds . They are fabulous surfaces to work on great quality and are available in a variety of sizes . As you can see I used 2 of the sizes. 

I don't have any process shots to share (sorry) so I will take you on a narrated tour around the plaque. 

Lets start with the larger round. This was primed with gesso and crackled with Deco Art crackle paste. Once the paste was thoroughly dry and cracks had formed colour was added using a selection of DecoArt Media Fluids and a couple of Tim Holtz distress paints continuing the process of adding paint, working it into the cracks, wiping it back until happy. This was almost there ....

The smaller round is covered with an actual autumnal leaf from my garden that I had gathered late Sept/ Oct time last year and pressed. With its own natural beauty and richness in colour it needed little else other than a touch of subtle stamping and a very light touch of gilding wax to accentuate its veins . Oh and maybe a few splatters - you will notice they run throughout the design! 

Brown string /jute was wrapped around the leaf covered round 

The focal leaf (kinda looks like a tree too don't you think?) is a That's Crafty Greyboard leaf shape altered in the same way as the leaf that features on my first 'Forever Autumn' project which you can see here. 

It's embellished with Tim Holtz clock hands to symbolise turning back the clocks and the changing of the season. The leaf/ tree sits on a small piece of pine cone branch 

The finishing touch come in the way of 'words and numbers' and Tim Holtz clipping stickers provided these...

 'Be thankful'

and the 'no 24'

Be thankful for each and every 24! 

I hope I have offered some mid challenge inspiration with my autumnal 'Be thankful' Round. Full Challenge details can be found over at That's Crafty along with a gallery of fabulous projects created by the talented Design Team.

I would like to enter my 'Be Thankful' plaque into the following challenges
Stamps And Stencils: 'Its been a While' 
Creative Artiste #42 Challenge: 'Anything Mixed Media Goes 

I'm back tomorrow with a sneak peak of my weekly project so hopefully I will see you then and be able to tempt you over to That's Crafty 's blog to see the project in full. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today . I really do appreciate you taking the time to visit , follow and comment . 

Have a lovely day Everyone 

Take Care 

Amanda 

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Get Sentimental- AVJ July 2018 Challenge ,

Hello Everyone and Welcome 

Hope you are all having a great summer and the sun is shining down on you wherever you are.
 As we are now at the end of the first week of July we have a new challenge starting today over at A Vintage Journey. Lovely Nikki is our host and her challenge theme is 

'Get Sentimental' 

'Let's see lots of sentiments on your project, whether they be words, poems or quotes. Just remember to create your project in our preferred styles of vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journaling, industrial, timeworn or steampunk.'

I have made a piece of art 'on the round' for Nikki's challenge with admittedly only one quote but that one quote is made up of quite a few words that give pause for thought! They are what guided my creativity!

This was my first 'play time' using the fabulous stencil designed by Pam Carriker made by Stencil Girl- for me a must have as soon as I saw!

Working on mixed media paper I applied gesso and blended distress crayons through the inner circle and outer circle sections of the stencil

to create a sense of light and shadow (the light being 'what lies before us', the shadow being 'what lies behind us') breaking it up with a delicate touch of colour (what lies within us)

I then cut out the circle design and adhered to a That's Crafty MDF round which I'd painted earlier with black acrylic paint. 

 For the silhouette head and 'Rays. I created a 'duplicate' and double embossed it using my much loved 'Rocky Road' Baked Texture embossing powder by Seth Apter/ Emerald Creek.

Look at the amazing texture, the variations in colour

the depth and grunginess of this particular flavour - these really are little pots of magic !

I then aligned the silhouette to the background stenciling, adhered in place and embossed the edges of the MDF round again with Rocky Road. 

A Tim Holtz quote token provided the words for this project and each one was highlighted using a picket fence distress crayon

'What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us.' 

I hope I have offered some creative inspiration with my 'Get Sentimental' project. Some of my fellow teammates have been busy getting 'sentimental' too so be sure to stop by A Vintage Journey to see their fabulous projects.  

Thank you so much for taking time out of you day to stop by. Your visits along with your follows, kind comments and support are continually appreciated.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges :
Creative Artiste #40 Challenge: 'Anything Mixed Media Goes'.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and hope to see you again soon . 

Until then
Keep on the 'happy side' 

Take care 

Amanda

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