Over the Harvest Moon... Day 3 of the Fall-o'Ween Crafty Crawl!

Welcome to the day THREE of the Fall-o'Ween Crafty Crawl!! What did you think of Jane's Glittery Glam Haunted House Cards and how would you make Christie's Smashing Halloween Treats?! 

Today brings something a little different... and also relaxing – make a deliciously haunted painted watercolor scene with Erna at @ernavandyk. 

Go grab your paints, some paper and just one brush and visit Erna's INSTAGRAM acct to see how to paint this Glamorous Witch flying over the Harvest Moon! 

Go Batty with this Sneak PEEK!

 

Fly over to SEE ERNA Paint this Watercolor Scene!

Below is a list of the creatives that are joining me for this fabulous INSTAGRAM Fall-o'Ween Crafty Crawl – be sure to visit each day, enjoy the fun and leave a comment that I sent you! 

 

Monday, 8/18 — @ritzy_parties Christie Troxell  

Tuesday, 8/19 — @juanitascasita Jane Rudolfo Shouse 

Wednesday, 8/20 — @ernavandyk Erna van Dyk 

Thursday, 8/21 — @tryit2likeit Janet VanLone Trieschman 

* Friday, 8/22 — @sassyeyedsusan (ME) Susan M. Brown {sbartist} 

Saturday, 8/23 @makeablecrafts Meg Daves

 

See you tomorrow for day FOUR of the Fall-o'Ween Crafty Crawl!

;)Sb

Fun in the Sun with Tropical Faux Batik – Rainy Day StencilGirl® Collaboration/Challenge

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Hello friends! What is the old phrase "April showers bring May Flowers"... well Spring has sprung, right?! Here in South Florida there's been no rain for weeks and weeks and it seems we have skipped from March to AUGUST.

Today I am participating in a special collaborative project hosted by Tina Walker where she challenged a group of creatives to art up umbrellas using StencilGirl® Stencils.

I'm inspired to make something Impressionistic
with a beachy, tropical feel.

For my umbrella I have used the StencilGirl® Products

design Mimosa 6 Stencil S126.

I start out I spraying the umbrella with a base coat of Green Apple Ultra Painter's Touch® Ultra Cover Rust-oleum®. This paint acts as a paint and primer in one.

With the base layer completed, I sprayed through the Mimosa stencil building up an impression of a continuous pattern -- alternating between Rust-oleum® Gloss Rich Jade Green and Satin Ink Blue Painter's Touch® Ultra Cover Rust-oleum®.

I kept going around and around alternating colors and building up layers. When completed I have 6 layers of stenciled colors woven in and around the umbrella surface.

The layers have a beautiful impressionist feel,
similar to a tropical batik fabric.

I have to say my even stencil looks quite lovely!

The paint did not sink through the fabric -- and the design texture is visible as the light shines through.

"Tropical Faux Batik"

One would never know that I didn't purchase the umbrella this way, except for the small spritz of green on the under side when a gust of wind picked up my umbrella and tossed it over mid-spray.

The resulting design has a painterly feel and is quite impressive!

CLICK HERE to jump over to see more of the beautiful creations made for the Rainy Day StencilGirl® Collaboration.

Thanks for dropping by! What household object would you stencil up on a rain day?! xo Sb

Products used:
StencilGirl® Products - Mimosa 6 Stencil S126
Totes Umbrella - Amazon
Rust-Oleum® Painter's Touch Satin Green Apple - Amazon
Rust-Oleum® Painter's Touch Satin Ink Blue - Amazon
Rust-Oleum® Gloss Rich Jade - Amazon

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Sparkling City Lights... a StencilGirl® Pop-Up Extravaganza

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Hello Friends! It's a new year and January is always a whirlwind. Today I am proud to be part of a special COLLABORATIVE project hosted by Tina Walker and StencilGirl®... a StencilGirl Pop-Up Extravaganza! CLICK HERE to POP on over and be inspired to make your stencil art POP off the page!

I am a city girl from Chicago who lives in SoFL and I love my hometown skyline at night. So for this pop-up project, I stenciled a layered and mirrored skyline onto two base papers painted with an ombre of three colors of ColorShift paints, using only 2 stencils: S305 Apter, Text and Texture Transform and ATC Mix-Up Borloz L655.

After creating the skyline by repeating the stencil across my papers, I added highlights, water reflections and windows details using a couple Sakura Gelly Glaze pens.

 I traced this textural pattern over the row of buildings which brought the night sky to life!

A larger look...

I have quite a collection of books on bookmaking and folded paper techniques and for this artwork I selected a technique that creates a pop-up dueling accordion pullout from the book, "Pockets, Pullouts and Hiding Places".

 

"Pockets, Pullouts and Hiding Places"
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For added contrast between the two layers, I trimmed one skyline down around the buildings before scoring, folding and assembling.

Sparkling City Lights

To frame this pop-up I have nestled inside of a notched cut-out accordian of navy blue cardstock. When closed and folded flat this mini will fit into an A2 envelope -- how fun is that?! Enjoy these details.

StencilGirl® stencils used: ATC Mix-Up by Andrew Borloz and Text and Texture Transform stencil by Seth Apter.

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Thanks for dropping by! I hope you are inspired add a POP of dimension to your handmade books and cards using StencilGirl® stencils! Have a creative day :) Sb

#Cre8time in the Looking Glass... Marabu Creative Challenge with Designer Crafts Connection

Hello Friends! Have you ever painted on glass? Today I am part of a Designer Crafts Connection Bloghop challenge and the designers are creating with Porcelain paint from Marabu Creative.

For this challenge I was provided a starter set of Marabu Creative Porcelain Paint which has 6 colors including a paintbrush and four (4) Marabu Creative Porcelain & Glas Painter pens (white and rose pink 0.8mm fineliner; and Sunshine Yellow and Reseda multi-purpose 1.2mm tip). I've never used glass or porcelain paints before and I'm excited to try them out on a dollar store framed mirror that I have waiting in the crafty stash for a transformation.

Marabu Porcelain is a waterbased porcelain paint has a wide color range that is also air-brushable (I'll have to dust mine off), is dishwasher safe without oven fixing after 72 hours of drying time and is saliva resistant. 

Porcelain is a medium viscosity and highly pigmented, water-based paint designed for glazed and unglazed ceramic. Porcelain can also be used on other surfaces such as Plexiglas, vinyl, and polypropylene. After 3 days Porcelain is dishwasher safe or can be baked in the oven at 320ºF for 30 minutes to make it dishwasher safe. How easy is this?!! The pens do need to be heat set, but for today's make... I don't need to worry about that.

It makes my Cre8time heart SO happy that Marabu Creative is a green company which embraces in it's philosphy, sustainability – out of responsibility. Almost all of Marabu Creative's current creative products are water-based.

The first thing I did was grab a piece of glass out an old frame and test out the colors and the mixability. The Marabu Creative Porcelain Paint colors are transparent when brushed out. If applied in a thick layer, looks opaque.

Even though the solid puddled areas look opaque, the color of the Marabu Creative Porcelain Paint remains transluscent. Ooh-LA-LA I love the rainbow puddle I made with these colors!

I am a stencil hoarder, so I grabbed a couple stencils that I have never used that are Catherine Scanlon designs to alter my framed mirror. I took apart the frame and cleaned the mirror glass to prepare it for the Marabu Creative Porcelain Paint.

Using blue painters tape, I tape

the stencil in place on the mirror.

Using the white 0.8mm Marabu Creative Porcelain & Glas Painter pen, I traced the design of the stencil onto the glass being careful not to let too much paint pool up and seep under stencil.

I like the dimension created just from these simple white lines... but I continue on and plan on something with COLOR!

With the first design completely traced.

I am ready to add color!

I repeated the steps using the other stencil I selected -- this one having a floral design. I planned to reserve one square in the design, and as I was tracing I went over into this space. I was able to quickly remove my mistake by scraping dried paint away with the edge of a razor blade (please use blades with caution).

Following the lines from the pens, I begin to fill in the areas using the Marabu Porcelain paints and a paintbrush. This paint works best painting in thin layers, letting each layer dry before applying another layer. Some areas I left with thicker layers with brush strokes mainly because it dried quicker than I could spread it around the large areas.

After a base of color was painted in, I added a second layer overall. Then when dried, I went back and applied another layer using the yellow and green 1.2mm Marabu Creative Porcelain & Glas Painter pens in a stipple pattern to add texture and dimension. This application built up the color and gave it a look of stained glass as the reflection in mirror glass amplified the dimension. 

When done with adding all the yellow and green, I went and outlined flowers with the rose pink 0.8mm, then went back and traced over the white 0.8mm Marabu Creative Porcelain & Glas Painter to add the lines back in. The white pen is opaque in comparison to the other three colors.

This step really brought the whole design

together, giving it a stained glass feel.

The paint dries pretty quickly and I gently placed the transformed glass back into the frame and my new art is ready to display!

This was so tricky to photograph -- but I love how it has been transformed and looks like stained glass and a bit Van Gogh! 

an ARTful Looking Glass...

These paints are different than any other paints I've ever worked with and will take a bit of practice to build up thin layers. I look forward to using these to customize other glass and ceramic pieces I have around the house and breaking out my airbrush.

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For more information on Marabu Creative or to where you can purchase these porcelain paint products please visit website HERE and find more projects and inspiration on the Marabu Creative Blog HERE.

What would you create
with these paints?

CLICK HERE to POP over to the DCC BLOG for info on how you can enter to win a Marabu Creative Prize Package February 22-27!

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Thanks so much for visiting! CLICK HERE to pop over to the beginning of the Designer Crafts Connection "Marabu Creative" Bloghop and enjoy more holiday decor inspiration.   Sb :)

** This is a sponsored post. Marabu Creative USA has provided porcelain and glass paints for use in this project in exchange for my creative ideas, views and opinions. My ideas and opinions are my own.

Bursts of Color Light up the #Cre8time Sky

Hello Everyone... WE are just over two weeks until the new year - I cannot believe how fast 2014 has flown by. This month's challenge theme is "FIREWORKS" for the Reader's Art Quest at Unruly Paper Arts and is perfect for getting ready for the shiny new year. I have created a painting using a myriad of supplies that I haven't used in ages and just had fun with the inspiration provided.

The Unruly Paper Arts Reader's Art Quest "FIREWORKS Inspiration photo and color palette, are full of bright bursts of color much like you see when fireworks light up the night sky.

 

I came across a stash of some old 16x20 illustration boards that were screaming for some attention. I turned on some tunes and just threw some inks and paint and made the colors fly. I added more details with markers and colored pencils.

The brush nibs of the markers and texture of the colored pencil strokes are a nice contrast to the drips and splatters - all reminiscent of a sky aglow with bursts of light.

I hope you enjoyed my project and that you are inspired to join us in this month's Reader's Art Quest. I would love to see what you create. Please leave me a comment with your link.

Happy Creating! Wishing you all a wonderful Sunday too! :) Sb