Halloween Door Hanger By Carol Fox

This is a very quick project, 30 minutes tops. I have altered one of these wooden door hangers. I quickly painted it with Claudine Hellmuth paints, and then used images from the Artistic Outpost plate Fortune Teller to stamp onto it, masking as I went along. I highlighted the word with glossy accents and ran a line of black acrylic paint round the edges.

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Feeling Chunky

I remember when the chunkiest thing that could be found was a Yorkie bar, now it's the chunky ATC!

For this creation I began by adding texture to the top, bottom and sides using modelling paste through a stencil and letting it dry throughly before painting all surfaces with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paint. I was a bit of wimp and made the designs on card and then glued them on instead of going direct to the ATC.

For this side I used the tissue paper technique and stamped the frame from the Artistic Outpost set, Home cut off the cockeral etc and glued this down, I then stamped and coloured Lily and Zoe and glued them down also.  

 This side was done in the same way with the Angel In Disguise stamp. 

To get the distressed look on the edges I just applied a little burnt umber oil paint with my finger. At this point I liked it but it just seemed a little flat so I added some beads for feet and some random beads on wire for some dimension.

Here's what I used:

Chunky wood ATC

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paint, Painterly Pink

Lost Coast Designs, Angel in Disguise

Paperbag Studios, Lily and Zoe

Artistic Outpost, Home

I do hope you like it, wishing you a very happy day, Sam xxx

Crafty sew'n'sew by Julie dandy

I have had this idea in my head for a while and finally got around to putting it in to reality :D
I started with one of these fab hardboard collage frames and a papier mache torso.

I cut the torso in half and glued it on to the frame with glossy accents, then gave it a few coats of white gesso as a base.

When completely dry I covered the whole thing with pieces of a vintage sewing pattern glued down with Claudines matte medium.

When dry I painted it with a wash of Claudines studio paints in painterly pink and  sky blue mixed with traditional tan to give it a more vintage look.

I love that it has tinted the paper but you can still see the original print :D

I stamped around the edge in archival ink with these amazing BLOCKHEADS stamps

To finish I added buttons and other sewing ephemera and distress stickles.

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Hugs'n'snogs,
Julie xx

Untie your Wings by Samantha Read

I honestly cannot put into words how excited I was when I found out that Happy Daze are stocking all the new fabulous Suzi Blu stamps!! They are so hard to find here in the UK I thought I would never get my hands on them.

As soon as I saw the Fly Free stamp my creative mojo started singing and the stamp was talking to me. . . 

. . . I immediately reached for a canvas and turned it the wrong way round, scrunched up some tissue paper and pva'd to the front edge for texture. Then I randomly discovered that 6in x 6in paper fits neatly in the recess, result! I toned down the pattern of the paper a little by applying a very thin layer of gesso with a baby wipe, I then painted the green, pink and blue and again toned it down with a touch of gesso. Then the fab part, I stamped the Fly Free girl once onto white card and once onto some patterened paper for her dress. I acheived the textured hairdo with modelling paste. A Claudine Hellmuth craft stick was perfect for the title. A bit of wire, a few beads, flowers, a bit of sparkle and some nik naks that were lying around finished the piece.


I used:
20cm x 20cm Canvas

She art paper

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Craft Sticks

Fly Free stamp by Suzi Blu

Prima Crystals and Pearls

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints, Painterly Pink, Sky Blue and Landscape Green

Artistic Outpost Serenity stamp sheet for the flourish and
Claudine Hellmuth Gesso

Wishing you a lovely, happy day, Sam xxx