Valentine Hearts

 

 

Ornaments with paint and canned air and mica powder

I've been having fun making ornaments. The Pebeo Prisme paint gave this one a nice honeycomb texture. The micas give it beautiful gold and red shimmer. The blue spray fills in some holes.

• This is two views of the same ornament.

Pushing The Bounds

I like the the swaps on http://www.atcsforall.com push my boundaries. This card is for a swap JAPAN. We picked 3 numbers and got 3 words. Mine were Ninja, anime/manga and Washi

Ok - had to look up to see what an anime even was. I think this girl might be either an anime or a ninja. Just googled ninja and maybe she doesn't qualify but hey - it's art so I'm going with it! She might end up even being a practice card - they aren't due until August.

Think with washi there isn't much choice but to put a bunch of washi tapes on a card - not sure how to make that really creative.

Notes to MySelf

Positive notes to myself

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

I love using GOLDEN heavy duty paint. I got a jar of Iridescent Copper Light (Fine) when Pearl's went out of business and it makes a great border to the ATC's. It dries with some depth but doesn't crack. I was playing with that and some Speedball Ink that I got at the same sale a couple of nights ago. Didn't like the look of the dark blue speedball until I decided to throw some glitter on it and make mushrooms.

For the background I used gimmer mists Green distress spray. The bright green dots are Daler Rowney FW Pearlescent Liquid Acrylic.

I wanted the mushrooms to be wacky so I cut them out freehand and created the gills using a white sharpie marker with some gold wink of stella.

found a good way to use some alcohol ink prints and my new goldfish stamp.

This one got traded quickly.

Plain Zentangle - Teddy Bear for ATCsForAll June 2018

These were so much fun to do!