Christmas Animals

Christmas Animals

Hi Everyone!

In the UK the Robin is a

much used Christmas icon

but if you're in the US you'll

probably substitute it with

a Cardinal Bird.................

or so I'm told

I wonder what birds are

Christmas icons in other

countries?...................

...............anyone?

Bit of a treat for you today - 

a small canvas by

Helen Chilton and it

features Robins............

Die cut the snowflakes out of card and arrange

 on a 6" x 6" canvas board.

Glue on with a wet glue and then seal. 

Trim off the edges.

When it's dry paint over with a good layer

of gesso

Let it dry again and then spritz with some 

Imagination Crafts Silver spray.

Blot back and then add some Starlights -

 I dabbed it on with my fingers.

Get out some Grunge Paste, add a blob of

 Toffee Fresco paint to colour it and

 mix together.

Scrape through the branch stencil directly 

onto your canvas.

 Don't worry if it looks a bit messy.

Use up the rest by scraping through the

 leaf stencils onto card. 

When dry, cut them out.

Using the same DecoArt stencil, 

trace some birds onto grey board.

Cut them out and gesso.

I've then added basic robin colours with 

Fresco paints.

To make them come to life, add details 

with coloured pencils.

 

Do the same to the leaves. 

Add a white dot to the eye.

Stick it all down onto the canvas.

 I then decided to add darker tones to 

the top right of the canvas.

Note the shading and highlighting on the 

branches and birds"

DecoArt Mixed Media Stencil:Canvas

Imagination Crafts Starlight paints:
Imagination Crafts Shake & Gilt: Silver
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints:
Coloursoft Pencils:
Find It Trading Dies: Precious Marieke -
Grunge Paste:
Greyboard

This is fun Helen

thank you very much

I am going to have to find time to

make this canvas so I'm off to

see what I have to buy.........

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

3D Bloom and Texture

3D Bloom and Texture

Hallo Everyone!

How're you today? 

Still enjoying the holiday?

Or are you back to the grind and the

holiday rapidly becoming a dim 

and distant memory

Never mind, here is Craftyfield

with a project that is sure to

set the mojo going

 I started with the Weft and Fabric Numbers stencil by Carabelle 

and Memory inks and obtained a lovely soft effect. 

I carried on stencilling with the Chicken wire Reversed Stencil.

For the next step I used sprays with the Shedded stencil (DecoArt), 

in Cobalt blue and Precious Stone.

Time for the pastes, here I used black gesso 

with the same Carabelle stencil having 

obliterated my previous stencilling with the spray! 

I also used Grunge paste with Pixillated.

As a project progresses I reassess the balance of colours 

and, if I find something not working, I try and change it. 

I didn't like the white in the background so 

I knocked it back with Distress inks. 

I then added Grunge paste through the Inspiration stencil. 

You'll see that the "Inspire" has also changed colour 

in the final photo, simply because it was hard to see 

against the background

My focal point is a Tando frame against that Inspire word 

and I painted it with Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints 

(Dark Orchid, Mint and Platinum)

3 Butterflies of different sizes provide the finishing touches.

 They are from a Crafty Individuals set, and I used 

both line and solid versions of the images, 

line with black ink and solid with blue and oranges dye inks.

In this picture you get an idea of how much shine the

 Starlight paint gives when hit by direct sunlight.

Supplies:

Carabelle Studio Stencil: Weft Fabric and Numbers:
The Crafters Workshop template - Chickenwire reversed:
Color Bloom Sprays (Cobalt, Sorbet, Precious Stone):
Andy Skinner 12x3 Masks: Shedded:
Grunge paste:
Black Gesso:
DecoArt Mixed Media Stencil: Pixelated:
DecoArt Mixed Media Stencil: Inspiration:
Memento inks: 

Such an inspiring project Craftyfield 

thank you very much for helping us back into the

creative zone

'Till tomorrow 

Mickie xx