Ray Ray’s Creative Circus Class of 2024 Retreat - Part One - Nuneka Box

 

Although this looks like a wonderful place to stay, it really was dire from every aspect.

Not only were the rooms tiny, and I mean tiny, not just small, tiny.  They were filthy with crumbs and grit all over the carpet.  It was clear that they'd not seen a hoover for some time, and this is probably because there is no room to get a hoover in.

The lounge area was okay and my food was fine, but the same couldn't be said for Janets. Hers finally arrived about an hour after everyone else had eaten even though it was ordered the same time as mine.  She didn't even get what she asked for!!

So this was the function room, hardly any natural light at all and green and blue strobe lighting, not exactly ideal.  No plug sockets for heat guns either, so the gang got together to get that sorted out whilst we found ourselves a seat and dived into our goodie bag.

They were all the same but slightly different, if that makes sense. So they all had the same contents ie a stamp plate, but it was a different set of stamps.

So here we are, getting acquainted with our neighbours.

This is Nuneka and this is our first project.

Started off using 3d gel through a stencil.

Tore a piece of cardboard and glued it down.

Our table, Nanette, Helen, Dawn and ........

and ................ Janet!!

Added random string and lightbulb casts.

Popped all the cogs out and painted everything with black gesso including the resin pieces.

Started to arrange a composition using the biggest elements first.

Dry brushed with white gesso.

Then I used the light green sparks (fairy wings) randomly over the project and flooded it with water spritzing everywhere, dried it and ditched the water.  This gave me a gold shimmery base colour.  Using 3 more colours of sparks paints (two blues (night shadow) and a brown along with the green) placing them where I wanted them to stay and lastly added a bit of carmine for the rust and spritzed.  I only concentrated the rust in the top right hand side but let it drip.

And this is what I ended up with.  I still need to add the focal point when I decide what I want.  The original was layered with papers, but I didn't want to do that.

This was taken at about 7.30pm as we were ready to leave for home, most people were still working on the afternoon project.

Elivs - Decorated Vinyl

 

As I am one of Finnabair patreons, I had to try out this fab idea that she showed on one of her live sessions.  So off I went to the car boot to find a vinyl LP. It was dead easy as there were loads for sale, but I settled for Elvis.

I added some stencilling to the background using icing paste.

Next I added some woodland finds, random twigs and poppy seeds.

Next I added some chipboard circles and cogs.

I started to play around with the placement of some moulds, new and old.

This is the finished piece. Not my usual colours.

I decided to challenge myself to mainly pink and red, but a bit of blue and purple crept in too.

I can't tell you what I used as I just kept going until I liked it.

I used mica powders, paints and sprays.

I added splatters to the places where there were no embellishments.

Love how the colours just mixed and ran into each other.

And the final piece again and apologies for my arms at the bottom, but there was glare from the vinyl.

Twig Basket Table Decoration

 

I blew up a balloon and covered it in cling film before I started dipping twigs into powertex and placing them on the balloon.

I completed it in stages until I was happy with the way it formed.

I left it about 3 days to dry solid before I deflated the balloon.

I coloured it with red and gold pigments.

I picked up this small bag of pot pourri just because of the colours.

I also used a kitchen roll tube to create a cup in the bottom to hold a led waxed candle and added half of the bag of potpourri.

And here it is in the semi dark with the candle turned on.

And finally in full darkness with the candle on.

A Mini Chrimstmas Wreath

Using the thicker parts of the broom, I cut them into various lengths to fit onto the cardboard hoop I had cut out using Spellbinders nesties.  I also cut a piece of hessian.  I glued all 3 layers together and started to arrange the twigs, sticking them down with the hot glue gun.

I took some of the beaded centres out of some flowers, coloured them red with a sharpie pen, glued them on along with the bows with glossy accents and finally added a ribbon loop so I could hang it.

I had great fun making this with pieces of twigs flying everywhere whilst I was cutting them up.

Arty Inklings have a theme of a Crimble Challenge.

Country View Crafts have a theme of Bah Humbug.

Anything but a Card have a theme of Anything goes....with a holiday twist.