WOYWW - 783 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

  Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Workdesk friends. 
We are here for another Wednesday at the Workdesk and here is:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

The exploding boxes look good today and

a few little cards, the pink bag holds my label maker. There's a couple of old wooden backed stamps on the left and the box I made for the ATCs. There seems to be more glue than anything hanging around.

But not really a lot going on right now so I thought I'd take you for a little look round the other side of my space.

The little dog sign was a gift from my sister-in-law. 

I'm sure I don't know what she means lol!

The canvases are some of my recent pieces.

Some of you might have seen this before, it's years old and I keep thinking I might add something else to it some time, maybe brighten it up a bit.

And finally a couple more ATCs that arrived last week from Spyder Lyn and BJ, love them

and this gorgeous card from Julia.

So that's me done for today.

 Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and join in the visits around the other desks.

 I'm off now to see what everyone else is up to.

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x

Guest Creative Guide for A Vintage Journey.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

I was so pleased to be asked once again to be a visiting Creative Guide for A Vintage Journey and here is the project I've been working on.

This is how I started:

The theme for this challenge is 'Create within A Frame' and the first thing that came to mind was to use the reverse canvas technique and this is what I came up with.

To make it even more interesting I also added smaller reverse canvases to the inside section of the frame, making it frames within a frame!

The frames were completed using Calico Crafts MDF pipe work and  my glue gun, before applying Finabair Art Stones and Texture Pastes then a coat of Gesso. 

I used a variety of Crafty Notions Colour sprays over this, drying between colours until I was happy with the coverage.

I don't really like this stage as everything looks messy right now!

While waiting for this to dry fully I prepared the spiders with Gesso, Crackle Paste, distress ink and Treasure Gold.

The spiders are MDF.

When everything was dry I finished the frame off by adding Finabair rust paint around the edge, some little dew drops and rubbed over with Classic Treasure Gold then applied the spiders using a heat gun.

The little bottles are actually for nail art and come with the tiny glitter inside.

I completed the design by adding the metal sentiment and some Pebeo white ink which I splattered onto the canvas.

The things I used to make this project are as follows:

A pan scrubber which makes great cobwebs. I cut up parts of this and placed them under the little bottles.

But then I decided I liked it so much that I wanted more of it so added it around the large spider too as you can see here. You need to pull and stretch it quite a bit to give a more realistic cobweb appearance to it.

Inks and Treasure Gold.

Art Stones, Rust Paint, Crackle Paste, Grunge Paste and Matte Multi Medium.

So that's it for today.

I hope you like it and maybe pop over to A Vintage Journey and join in the challenge.

Back soon 

and 

happy crafting, 

Angela x

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

1. SanDee and amelie's Steampunk Challenges: September Anything goes Steampunk/Industrial.

2. The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #28 "Rustic"

3. Mixed Media Place: August Challenge - Creative Gym # 20

This is probably not a dream you would like to have more like a nightmare!

4. Rhedd's Creative Spirit - September's Challenge.

5. Altered Eclectics: September Challenge.

WOYWW 332# What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Workdesk friends.
Here we are for another Wednesday at the Workdesk.
I am here again to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit the
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

And this is what's on my desk today...

 

I know that some of you were interested to see what I would be doing with the Powertex this time.

Usually we have used it on 3D objects but this time we were using it on a canvas.

We started by applying it the background and then thickening it up to create the textured parts that you can see by mixing it with 3D flex which cracks as it dries.

 

 

I have normally used the brown Powertex so was quite interested to see how it would look in a lighter colour so chose the blue.

 

 

If you missed the posting about this workshop and would like to see it you can find it here.

 
 The other work that you can see on my desk is a canvas I worked on at Newark last Saturday and which I am just finishing. It will be ready for my post on Friday.

Hope you enjoyed looking.

                 

Have a great woyww and

happy crafting,
 

Angela x

 

The Mirror Crack'd Challenge.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Here we are again for another challenge at The Mirror Crack'd and this month it's Masks and you can interpret this in any way you like so let's see your ideas.
I've used an actual mask to create a canvas but you could decorate a mask or use masking techniques, it's up to you to show us how imaginative you can be.

We are thrilled to be sponsored by

WOODWARE CRAFT COLLECTION

With a prize of £12.00 to spend at your favourite Woodware Stockist, either in store or on line.

 

Hope you like mine........ I have named it:

It's all in the Head.

 There are quite a lot of photos to help you with the tutorial.

I started this by collecting together the following and played around a little with their arrangement on the canvas.

The polystyrene balls were cut in half with a Stanley knife.

 

 

Used a stencil to create texture on the mask.

 

The same stencil and Crackle texture paste on the canvas.

 More texture with Viva Modelling Cream.

I used the cream again with a Ryn (Designs by Ryn) stencil to create the swirl and heated this with my heat gun which causes it to rise and bubble, gorgeous!

Continued to add more detail this time with tiny polystyrene pellets and painted everything with Gesso.

 

 

Then started to add colour using Crafty Notions and Cosmic Shimmer Sprays.

 

 

 

Painted Gesso onto a collection of small MDF shapes.

 

Attached some of the shapes and continued with lots more spraying.

 

And painting the small detail by hand.

 

 

Then rubbed over the texture using Treasure Gold Gilding Wax.

 

The textures by now were so gorgeous it was difficult to cover them up.

However... I did and here is the finished canvas.

 

Close-ups.

 

 

 

And the complete canvas......

 

I do hope you enjoyed looking and will pop over and see what my DT members have made for your delight.

I look forward to seeing your entries for the challenge which you will find by clicking here: challenge.

Thanks for stopping by
and happy Crafting,

 

Angela xXx

I am entering this canvas in the following challenges:

Inky Chicks: Challenge 54

Use a Metal embellishment.

 

Try it On Tuesday:

Use Stencils.

Anything but Cute
Challenge 4# - August Making Magic.
Here is the moodboard for this month.
I feel there is magic and mystery to this piece which is reflected in my canvas.

 

 

Ali-Craft Workshop with Hels Sheridan.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

We had a brilliant day with Hels Sheridan at the Ali-Craft Workshop on Saturday and I have a few photos to show you.

Hels is here waiting to get started.

 And of course we all gathered round the Teacher Lol! for the first set of instructions.

 Sorry I can't give you full instructions for the making but that wouldn't be fair on Hels but I have included a good selection of photographs.

 

I decided to use a pink, purple and blue for my project.

Once this was complete we went on to the tag.

 

Hels offered us lots of gorgeous techniques to use and explained everything fully.

 Next we worked on the rose.

 Cutting and gluing the pieces in order to build up a 3D flower.

 I must say Hels is very good at giving clear and concise instructions.

 

 Butterflies were next which you can see below.

 

And these are the colours I used to decorate my butterfly.

 

Finally a few examples of what we made though some of them are not quite finished at this stage.

 

Hels example.

 

These are my efforts.

Not quite sure what else I want to add to it yet.

I think it's great how so many people can work from the same starting point and the finished pieces look so different.

Well that's it for now.

Back soon and happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

Addendum!

All finished so here it is:

 

 

Hope you liked it.

 

Happy crafting,

Angela x