Last Arty Girlz challenge ~ Stamping

The very first Arty Girlz challenge was 'Stamping' so we have chosen that as our theme to end on

This will be the last challenge on Arty Girlz for the time being, we have both LOVED setting the challenges on Tuesday's but at the moment we are very busy with real life so Julie and I decided to call it a day.

The blog will not be deleted it will remain active as there's lots of inspiration still to be had from the samplers and challenges, who knows one day we might surprise you all and start it up again.

so i just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has join in with the challenges and a special thank you to the lovely peeps who have been there since the begining which was way back in 07. we are still going to be around on our own blogs so hopeful we can still vist and see what everyones up to.

Heres My ATC

Arty Girlz Blue and Yellow challenge

This weeks challenge on Arty Girlz is to use the colour combo Blue and yellow.

I created this textural painting called what lies Beneath using 1 hour caulk and eggs shells and different shades of blue and yellow.

I love how this area on the bottom right turned out.

Arty Girlz challenge #74 BUTTERFLIES

This weeks challenge on Arty Girlz is BUTTERFLIES

Heres my ATC i used pastles for the background the stamp is cherry pie and i hand painted the flowers with acrylic paint

wire

The challenge this week on Arty Girlz is wire

I have been playing with tissue paper

I used molding paste for texture when dry i used charcoal over the top to get it in the little nooks then painted the background. this is when i started playing with the tissue paper i tried to make flowers lol they kinda look flowerish but i think i need lots more practice LOL. I added wire in the stems when I was done

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #72 ~ FLOWERS

The challenge this week on Arty Girlz is Flowers

As usual the challenge is open into interpretation and you can choose your own format be it a card, layout, altered art,mixed mediad it up to you

A WORK IN PROGRESS

This is mine its a work in progress i started this about 2 weeks ago, I have never actually painted an image before i usually cut them out and glue them where i want them LOL so its a big thing for me to have actually painted it all,

I used molding paste for the texture and acrylic paint .. i have the basic structure down now i want to start adding some different elements to it like tissue paper tetro seal and also get the oil pastel's out and maybe some more layers ? I'm not sure where I'm actually going with it so I'm hoping it will get finished eventually.

some close ups

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #71 ~ Red and white colour combo

The challenge for this week over Arty Girlz challenge blog is to use a red & white colour combo
You can choose your own format this time so you may choose to do a scrapbook layout, atc, inchie, altered art etc or this could be a good time to get started on those valentine cards .



I made a card which i'm not keen on at all it is red and white but looks pink in the pic oh hum it is very red honest .....

I'll tell you why i dont like it my craft stuff is in the shed at the bottom of the garden and its been freezing down there even with the heater on so i threw the card together so i could come back in the warm so rushed is the word for it . LOL



I used red and white paint for my background applied with a roller cut and glued it to the card. painted my letters white and sanded them and added red text with a stamp. i sprinkled red glitter glue over the background the glued the letter's in place

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #70 Make an ATC

This weeks challenge over at Arty Girlz challenge blog is to make an ATC ~ ATC's measure 2.5" x 3.5" in size



"You could add your atc to a card to make a topper or add it to something you have created or you can simply make an ATC as we have done."



I had a go at making an Encaustic art ATC

Arty Girlz challenge "Button it"

This weeks challenge on Arty Girlz is yep you got it BUTTONS just use buttons on your creations, as usual our challenges are open to all formats and interpretation, create what ever you like but it must have at least 1 button on it.





Heres mine, A 4x7 post card






Materials:


Acrylic paint, Red yellow and gold

brayer,

black watercolour crayon

Image is from Heather

Buttons.

Arty Girlz challenge

The Arty Girlz challenge this week is to create anything But a card.

so I made an ATC.


Materials used:

Acrylic paint , green blue ,gold

stickles

stazon ink

stamps

smoked glass chips.

Arty Girlz challenge Home ART

Merry Christmas Everyone

Thank you for visiting my blog it's been lovely getting to know you all

The Arty Girlz challenge this week will run for 2 weeks so you have until the 6th of January to post your creation ~ that is when we will be starting the new year off with a new challenge.

The challenge is to create something that you can display in your home...so it could be an altered frame, a canvas, a picture, even a Christmas ornament, anything you like as always the theme is open to interpretation

Here's my painting rubbish pic as always lol its not finished yet i was making a frame and its minus its finishing touches but with illness and people visiting it just didnt get done, sorry

small Art

The challenge we have set this week on Arty Girlz challenge blog is small Art.

so it could be an atc, an inchie, alter a domino, a topper for a card...anything goes as long as the size is no bigger than an atc (3.5" x 2.5")

Here's what i made its kind of a Folkart hangie type thing it looks a bit dark in the pic but its not as dark as it looks.

I glued 4 Jenga blocks together (the cheapo ones )its a bit smaller than an atc in size.

Paint Paint Glorious Paint

The challenge this week on Arty Girlz is to use your favourite medium on your creations.

so could be paint, designer papers, glitter, water colour pencils, anything that you love to use most in your creations.

I Love to use paint i just love the stuff

so here's mine a Butterly painting I do love to use acrylic paint as you can get a bit of texture with it aswell , I have put a mount around it and I am going to frame it for a christmas present It will be in a 10x12 frame when i get one im swining toward's a frame with a black edge but not sure yet what do you think?.

A couple of close ups

Arty Girlz challenge #63 Framed

The challenge this week over on Arty Girlz challenge blog is frames
As usual the interpretation of the theme is down to you so maybe you'll decide to alter a frame, use a frame around a photo on a scrapbook layout, get some wood, hammer and nails and make a frame.......the choice as always is yours.

My mixed media creation was done on a 6x6 canvas and i used a 12x12 designer paper from paper mania's nostalgia warm colossal pack to make my frame and leaving the rose's in as part of it, the indian girl image is from suzan the colours were a bit pale so i used oil pastles over the image to brighten it up i also used them on top of the paint and paper all over.

The picture is rubbish i just couldnt get a decent picture.

Arty Girlz challenge # 62 your favourite colours

This weeks challenge over on Arty Girlz is to use your YOUR favourite colour/s on your creation. As always its up to you what style of art work you create as Julie and I hope to encourage all types of crofter's and artists to join in with our challenges. so pop on over there and have a go and join in .

This is mine its an 8x8 canvas board. My favourite colours are purple's and lilac's going in to blues. I used acrylic paint for the background I found an image of wing's on the Internet a while back and traced them on to acetate and cut them out to make a stencil. I had the heart negative already. I used purple acrylic paint over the stencils then used gel pen in black to add depth to the heart and wings. oh and a bit of Gesso here and there

It's not finished yet not sure what I'm gonna do but it just don't feel finished if you know what i mean.


I really do love hearts with wings and would love a Tattoo with a winged heart but we'll see ;-)

The picture isn't doing the colours any justice at all the heart and wings are a lovely deep purple colour but look blueish in the pic.

Blog inspiration

The challenge this week over on Arty Girlz is blog inspiration, my inspiration came from Linda's Blog. Linda makes the most amazing creations on her blog and she has been making little works of Art On wooden blocks so this is my inspiration to create something on wood.

But i had a problem i didn't have any wood LOL so i had to improvise i did have these

some Jenga blocks so i glued 4 together and made this

I collages the block with papers that had ladies, tea pots , tea cups and writing on it. used different colours of paint over the top and rubbed some off to reveal a little bit of the images underneath then added the black and white image and went round the edge with a soft white pencil and a charcoal pencil to blend the image in. since i took the picture i have given it a coat of beeswax to finish it off . Linda has kindly added this to the Awfullly big art adventure blog as there theme last week was chunky block's

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #59 Hand Drawn Elment

This weeks Arty Girlz challenge is to have a Hand Drawn Element on your project.

Here my journal page im sure you will be able to see my hand drawn element's LOL

I have used one of my favourite quotes by Helen Keller.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart.

Arty Girlz weekly challenge # 58 Fabric

The Arty Girlz challenge this week is to use fabric on your creations this does include felt, it could be something as simple as a little fabric flower or a whole quilt.

I love Caludine Hellmuths work its so fun and whimsical, and reminds me of when my son was small and we used to sit and watch a cartoons together one was called Angela Anaconda amongst others and her work so reminds me of the happy days of sitting and watching t.v with my son.

Any way here's mine it's kind of a poppet doll of my Aunt Rosie claudine Hellmuth style

I painted a 4x4 canvas yellow and added blue circles made by dipping bottle tops in to the paint and stamping them. For Aunt Rosie i printed a pic of her cut it across the shoulders glued it to water colour paper then tore a piece of text paper from a book and glued that from the shoulders down, when dry i cut it out painted it with a blue wash when dry you draw in the dress detail with a black pen. i gave her some yellow buttons then glued her to the canvas, my fabric element is the heart , i cut a heart shape out from blue fabric did some yellow stitching around the edge and glued it to the canvas.

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #56 NUMBERS

The Arty Girlz challenge this week is to use numbers on your creations

I covered the wood with ink added stamps from paper artsy and added the image of the little girl. then used my cropadile to put eyelets all the way round and made a hanging loop from florist wire

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #55~Use Clip Art

The challenge this week on Arty Girlz is to use Clip Art in your creations, if you don't have any clip art do a Google search and take your pick there lots of great clip art images on the net, OR for this challenge you can use copyright free images from other sources that you may have. As always interpret the theme as you choose we welcome all crafter's and artists to our challenges.







A4 Mixed media collage


First I dripped water colour paint from the tubes on to A4 card then used and old store card to swish the paint across the card and left it to dry, well more or less i couldnt wait and got my heat gun out and hurried the drying a bit.





I cut the lady image out from a collage sheet from http://www.aisling.net/ i love theses images and use them a lot as you may have noticed. And glued her to the card the other images were on various Cd's that i have bought from eBay i and printed and cut them out and glued them to the card also. stamped some words in black staz on, then used a brush and gesso around the images and smudged it in to blend the images into the back ground rather than them looking like there plonked on top.

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #54 RED

This weeks challenge over on Arty Girlz is the colour RED as always you can create what ever you like and interpret the theme how ever you choose.

I have made a small canvas board modern Art painting for my sons bed room actually this is going to be a set of 3 the red one is #2 of the set and the blue green one is the 1st one that i did and number 3 is a work in progress.

The boards come ready prepared i used Hard molding paste to create the textured sections, when that was dry i painted the canvases with Acrylic paint when that was dry i used silver gilding cream over the textured surfaces then glued silver washers to the textures sections.

I used flouriest wire to create hanging loops for the back by twisting and making a figure 8 so my son can hang the canvases what ever way he wants and the other end of the figure 8 acts like a spring and lets the canvas stand proud from the wall rather than tilting inwards.

They do look better in real life i just couldn't get a good pic :-(