Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #53 ~ Flowers

We have a new challenge on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today...

And I have so much fun using the Wavy Central Parting portrait kit to create my floral summer girl.

All my fibreboard pieces were painted using the gelli plate, it is such a fun and addictive thing to do, and very quick.

 her face is stamped onto a painted piece and I've coloured and defined her features with pencils and posca pen.

I couldn't be happier with her peony necklace, I stamped onto frosted shrink plastic, trimmed, heated, then painted the back with white acrylic to show the inked peony, I then topped it with a generous layer of glossy accents.

I thought I would also enter my project into...

Creative artiste mixed media

Altered eclectics

I used these products, click pics... 

Thanks for stopping by,
Have a fantastic creative weekend
HuGs Kim x

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #50 ~ Anything Goes

Good morning and welcome, 

we have a new challenge on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today...

and I've embraced my love of steampunk and created this angel punk fairy...

using the Flick & Fringe kit, I've used acrylic paints throughout,

along with the female face stamp, which I have added extra detail with coloured pencils and a hint of copper in her eyes.Check out her wing earring.

I've used the substrate fairy wings to make her an angel punk.. i under painted the mdf in gold ink/paint, and added gears, cogs and had a lot of fun with the cosmic embossing effect, still one of my favourites... 

It might not be obvious at first, that I used the crew neck top piece, but disguised the edge with this metal hardware and ceramic rose. The corset was made from some leather paper, jump rings, and eyelets.

I also took some time to finish off the back of her with gold polka dots to finish off the metallic look.

I thought I would enter my project into...

1. MMW#26: Anything Mixed Media Goes
2. (click pic) I've covered a few... #30 color challenge, #32 put a stencil on it and #36 put a stamp on it.
3. Altered eclectics ~ June
4. Creative artiste mixed media
5. Not just cards challenges
6. Rhedds creative spirit ~ June
7. Crafting by designs ~ Wings

I used these products, click pics...

Thanks for stopping by,
Have a super creative weekend
HuGs Kim x

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #48 ~ Picture Inspiration!

We have a new challenge on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today...

Yay! It's an inspiration picture so....

here's mine...

I nearly didn't get this done, it's been quite a week, I had a smashing show with Hochanda on Monday with a few sell outs, thank you wonderful viewers. I'm still working through some orders that I need to make additional stock for, so nearly there.

Right, my mixed media piece... I was inspired by both the colour palette and the lovely daisies.

I have used acrylic paints to paint the ornate frame, I simply mixed the colours directly onto the substrate, for a textured look. The hair I had already started painting for a tv demo and it seemed a shame not to use it, so I finished her really.

I had a few issues with her face this time because I had painted it in acrylics first and then rubbed out some of the pencil reference marks which made the paint surface too slick to take coloured pencils. So I then had to add a layer of pastel ground to reapply my colours. I also went for purple eye's, not sure they work well with the rest of the colour palette?

Ok, so it's taken me six months to unpack my die cutting machine, and a perfect opportunity to enjoy some very old dies I've been collecting(hoarding) all these years, they're probably vintage now lol! I've cut this large daisy from grey board and painted with gesso, and a hint of acrylics, the centre is glitter paper, that I have added extra glitter with stickles, yum.

I added the polka dots to her top with some embossing paste through my polka dot stencil, and hung her outside just to show that the sun was shining...

I think she would need quite a few layers of varnish to be an outdoorsy girl lol!

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Thanks for stopping by

Enjoy a wonderfully Creative Weekend

HuGs Kim x

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #36 ~ Picture Inspiration

Just stopping by quickly to show you my latest project for the current challenge over on the Paperbabe Stamps blog...

My post is picture heavy, I am still enjoying the last few days of my Open Studios event, the rain has NOT helped and I've had a lot fewer visitors than I had hoped.

So, I thought I would try copics and coloured pencils onto my substrate but I made the fatal mistake of painting the mdf in a base colour first... this did not work it didn't take the copics well, and I ended up wiping it all off with rubbing alcohol urgh. 

Then I went to my trusty coloured pencils, some of it was going alright until I needed to layer more colour, this made the underneath pencil rub off urgh, I really struggled with this one, I nearly threw her to the side to start again on a new piece. But I persevered I think it just took me much longer to finish then usual.

Enjoy a wonderfully creative day!

BiG HuGs

Kim x