Wise Woman Santos Doll

I'm having some studio time today ( sunday) and as I knew I'd have an uninterrupted run, I thought I'd finally make the Retro Art Cafe Santos doll kit, that I've had in my stash for over a year!

I confess that I was really unsure what to do or where to start, faced with the dark brown masonite - I'm often left panicking .... So I thought I'll just paint all the parts white with acrylic paint, so thats what I did. I then added some stamping with the script stamp and some words from a couple of Paper Artsy Stamp sets.

Next I added some wash tape, to add more depth. Finally I added some colour with gelato and gold acrylic paint.

Then the fun part- the decorating, by this point I realised I wanted to create a softer divine feminine doll.

As you can see I added hearts, pearls, flowers and leaves to create the soft look.

I'm entering my doll into the following Challenges:

PaperArtsy- Theme is Hearts

Craft Stamper Magazine - 2nd Entry Take a stamp ( my background for my doll, created with stamps and paint)

I hope that all my Stateside friends affected by the storm are safe and warm, and wishing everyone a lovely weekend.

Steampunk Winged Love

Oh my I've been so busy- my Mojo is on a roll, for my second post today.. I'm sharing with you a little altered winged thing.
Inspired by 2 challenges and my unused stash of goodies that have been waiting for me for way too long.

The 2 challenges are:

Sandee and Amelie Steampunk Challenge- where the challenge is 3's ( added the #3 in roman numerical and  3 lots of 3 roses)

and

the Wings Challenge over at the Mixed Media Creative Gym Exercise #3

Steampunk Winged Love

I've used a whole heap of goodies on here, I started with a masonite base from Retro Art cafe, sparked it with Pewter Distress Spray, stamped with cogs and gears using Archival ink, I then added all sorts of gears and cogs, flowers and roses from my stash. I chose not to colour all the details with metallic paint, but to keep the colours, but add some Charcoal Art Sugar glitter.

Stampunk Winged Love Two

She'll be hanging on my jewellery cupboard - thanks for keeping up with my current art adventures.

Deck the Halls

It's that time again, and as we are rapidly approaching Christmas, the lovely Hazel over at Craft Room Challenge, has chosen the theme of Christmas Decorations- now we don't want to see cards, just lots of decoration fun!

I finally ( It's been sitting barely touched, since I started it 2 Christmases ago!) finished my Christmas inspired Configurations boxes- these are such fun!

Christmas configurations

You name it- and its probably in the box! 

sorry the photos aren't the best :-(  

I can't wait to see what fun you have with this.

Our generous sponsor is the delightful Crafty Individuals.

Have a great week.

Frida Shrine

It's Christi's turn to host, and she's chosen Anything 3D as her theme :-)

I had so much fun creating this Frida Shrine- I love how it turned out.

Frida Shrine

Frida Shrine

close up details

My daughter and I have a bit of a current obsession of Frida Kahlo.... she was an amazing woman and artist. I hope one day to go to Mexico and see her studio and some of her art.


Our sponsor for this Challenge is Tando Creative.




Have a great week.

Spooky Coaster

Here's todays spooky Creation, just love that raven!
Here's an altered coaster, that I made real quick :-) This was Easy to make, I just painted acrylic paints on to the base, then used Gel Medium to add the book pages and chipboard. Then I added the raven and the bones.
It was a real treat for me to finally get some seriously altering halloween fun on!!!! So going to enter this spooky coaster over at Simon says Stamp Monday Challenge - Treats- any Kind!!

Poe inspired spooky coaster 

Forest Friends at Craft Room Challenge

Over at Craft Room Challenge, Amber has chosen the theme of Forest Friends....... I decided to have some fun ;-)

I took an ordinary Unicorn..... and turned it into glitter steampunk unicorn! I had such fun creating him. And as you can see he loves frolicking in his own forest :-)

Its a bit hard to see all his Steampunk clogs and cool stuff cause of the glitter... but its there..

Our lovely sponsor is Tando Creative.

Please check our rules, as sadly many entries last time were disqualified :-(

I hope you find the time to join us and that you have as much fun as I did :-)

My Unruly HeARTfelt spot

My Unruly Paper Arts post went live yesterday :-) - I would love it if  you'd pop over and see it- you can check it out Here.

but here's a sneak peek ;-)

HeART Shrine


I so enjoyed making this :-)

Happy Valentines Day

happy Valentines day to you all, young or old - single or partnered with a Beloved, may your day be love filled.

I'm sharing a little door hanging I've made :

Enjoy your day xxx

Scrapbook Cover No 2

You might remember me sharing with you the scrapbook cover I made for my daughters teacher? You can see that Here. Well as promised this is the cover of the scrapbook I made for my son's teacher.
This ones more pretty, cause it was for a lady  :-)

Cover

close up

close up

close up

All the goodies I used on both books are available at Art Of Craft 

Steampunk cover

Well I'm sorry everyone, I've been pretty blogging absent this last month or so- it's just such a busy time. I've been working on 2 scrapbooks as leaving gifts for 2 of my kids teachers.
So I've been crafting but it's been secret squirrel ;-)
Both books are now happily in the hands of the teachers.

Today I'm sharing the front cover of one of the books.
This is for a guy- so I've gone a little steampunk- love how it turned out <3

Have a great pre Christmas Happy time :-)

Day Dream Canvas

I've used the cool Rogue Redhead Designs  Relish Reading and the Getting Grizzley set, to create this funky bright canvas. I was inspired by a feature in the Craft Stamper magazine.

Altered Canvas

I used acrylic paints, with masks and random painting and then added some background stamps, I once again had heaps of fun creating this.

Use some Wood at Craft Room Challenge

We have such a cool theme this time from Zoe- Use some wood, this is partly in honor of a new sponsor:

 The MDF Man no banner but go and take a look at all the goodies he has ready and waiting for altering.   He has given us a selection of his Cogs as a prize for one lucky person drawn at random.

This is what Zoe says about her Use some Wood theme : "When I saw the stand at a local craft show I had to get a selection of goodies to try, wood is a great medium to work with and this time we would like you to include something made of wood in your entry.   Real wood not an image be it twigs from the garden, some bark, or a wooden embellishment from the craft shop."

I've had this plain wooden box for over a year- hubby gave it to me for some of my bits and bobs, I've also had the Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante papers for an age but couldn't bear to use them on pages cause I loved them whole ;-)

So then I realised perfect for the box.

Altered Wooden Box

I covered the box with paper, and then I've added embellishments Finn style.

The top of the Box

Just love how it's turned out so rich and slightly Edwardian Steampunk :-)

Close up of Lid

I'm going to enter this over at Unruly PaperArts where they're having a Wooden September. 

Readers Quest 1 :  3D Wooden project.

Altered Cigar Box

Here's a taster of my second piece for Art of Craft:

For Details on supplies and how I altered this unfinished cigar box- and what's inside, please see my blog post at the Art Of Craft Blog.

Have a great weekend.