Starlight Paints - Dawn Heald

Morning all,

Welcome to day 2 of 

Starlight Paints!

If you want to see all the colours'

check them out here.

Today we have Dawn with her absolutely 

stunning journal cover..

Dawn says...

These paints are awesome they're pots

of metallic colours that can be used in

a variety of ways and blend lovely. I've

gone for straight forward painting with them

to make the front and reverse covers for my

MDF art journal. I'll certainly be getting

more colours in the future. I'd like to try

making my own mister sprays with them

and get in with a brayer too. Hope you

like this week's make from me. X Dawn

For the front cover I glued lots of different

 objects to the front. I used buttons,

 found objects, beads, paper clay moulded,

 old die cuts, tissue paper and grunge

 grunge paste through diamond stencil.

When it was all dry I Painted all over with 

a couple of coats of white gesso and let dry.

Then I went in with the luscious Starlight

 paints and painted different colours in

 patches all over the cover, blending

 the edges as I went. I let this dry then

 painted another with another layer of

 Starlight Paints. I finished it off with

 flat back pearls and gems painted with

 white Pearl Starlight paint. I did this

 so to match in the cherub made

 from clay. Painted with Starlights.

For the back cover. I glued odd pieces of 

die cuts and lace and doilies. Then used

 Decoart Media Texture Sand Paste with

 the butterfly stencil and then I used

 Decoart Media Modelling Paste with the

 Diamond stencil. I pressed some micro

 beads into the wet paste for more texture.

 When dry I simply painted two coats of

 Starlight Paints similar to the front.

There's not many steps to this it's more a

 time thing, and I enjoyed every bit.

So what do you think??

I think it is amazing!

Products used

Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints - 

Antique Pink, Pearl, Orange Oxidised, Bright Maroon,

 Topaz, Antique Gold

Imagination Crafts Stencils - Diamond, Butterfly

Decoart Media Texture Sand Paste 

Decoart Modelling Paste

Silicone Molds 

Paper Clay

Buttons

Flat Back Pearls

Glossy Accents

Book Rings

From stash - found items, odd die cuts, lace

You really must try these paints,

I've been playing with them

on an old glass decanter, I'll put some

pics on here soon....ran out of time!!

See you soon,

Jane x

Your Number is Up - Dawn Heald

Morning All,

Thank you for all your help yesterday,

I shall get back to the ladies and

see if they now know where they were 

going wrong!

You are such a clever lot!!

I'm a bit useless with computers,

I can just about muddle through on 

here but I'm very easily confused!

Ha ha, I can hear what you are saying!

So, today is National Numbers Day,

The DT were asked for something

'numerical'.  As usual they have come

up with some lovely projects.

We start with Dawn.....

this is so beautiful!

Dawn says.....

For numbers week I've used a Sculpture

 Block that I've carved into a number 6.

 I chose six as that's the number of 

our household minus the cats. 

You do need a long blade to cut right through

 the block so I used a thin kitchen knife after

 going part way through with craft knife. I can 

see lots of possibilities with these blocks

 including making stamps. Just take your time.

To make my project -

I found some tools that may be useful, as I 

couldn't find my carving kit.  Draw out your design.

 Transfer to block by either cutting out and 

drawing around it or place design on top and 

use an embossing tool to go over to leave an imprint

 of design. I did try pencil and tracing but it didn't work.

Carefully cut and carve out design. Use sand

 paper or sanding block to smooth edges

Use smaller tools to carve a design in the block.

 I used a curved tip and gouged out little
 leaf shapes, smoothed the insides with embossing
 tool. and used a quilling tool to make little dot holes. 

Coat with Decoart Media Ultra Matt Varnish

 to seal.

Using Fresco paints in light colours 

paint all over. Paint two coats. Then dry brush

 on a darker shade of paint so can see colour

 underneath in parts. 

Use silver gilding wax on edges.

Sprinkle over some White Ultra Thick 

Embossing Powder and melt.

Add some embellishments to decorate.

 I made a

 rose from paper painted with purple and

 stamped over in teal. Some leaves made
 from a Martha Stewart mold and a bead
 wire thing.

I was really pleased with the outcome.

 It withstood

 a heat tool to dry paint and powder. And a tip if

 you carve a mistake you can fill it in with grunge

 paste or Media Sand paste, dry then sand smooth.

 What do you think? What else can you think of

 with these. I'd love to hear. Thanks for checking 

in here today. X

So what do you think??

I just love it.

This is what Dawn used -

Sculpture Block
Paperartsy Darcy Stamps -
(small dotted round circle stamp from set for flower)
Decoart Media Ultra Matt Varnish 
Carving Tools
Embossing Tool
Fresco Finish Paints 
Silver Gilding Wax
Woodware Flower Punch
White Ultra Thick Embossing Powder 
Sizzix Tattered Flowers Die 
Martha Stewart Mold

That's it for today,
see you tomorrow.

Jane x

Altered Book - Dawn Heald

Hi everyone,

This is our second day of the projects 

Altered Book

Today is Dawn's turn...

When I saw this topic I had so many ideas it was difficult to

 choose just one idea. You can make boxes, secret niches,

 shelves, open scrapbooks just to name a few. So I decided

 make an art journal and have a go at the finnabair style for

 the cover. It really is easy to make your own journal.

                  Take a hard back book and with a craft knife remove the 
                inner pages. This can normally be done with just two cuts at
                                            the front and back.

Next cut away the spine with craft knife and ruler. Keep this it

 makes a good bookmark for your journal.

Then make a template for the book binder holes. Keep this as it

 comes in handy when hole punching your journal pages. Cut a piece

 of scrap card the same length of your book, measure and mark

 where you want the holes to go and use a hole punch to make

 the holes.

Then place your template on the book cover and punch through

 the holes already made. Repeat for back cover.

You can guess and punch the holes by eye.

             To create pages for my journal I trimmed some backgrounds

                    made previously, trimmed the book's original dust cover, 

                   and trimmed and glued multiple book pages together and

                      trimmed some single pages then hole punched them. 

             I even started some pages whilst painting this and other projects.

Then it's time to decorate the front cover. Even though most

 of the stamping ended up hidden I still enjoyed the process.

Here is how I did mine.

                

I glued a few layers of torn kitchen roll, let it dry then applied

 two coats of gesso and dried.

Using some Maya Road Spring papers I cut small pieces

 and glued to three areas as shown. Great way to build

 texture in.

I hand rolled some Kaisercraft Texture Stamps and the 

small flower from the Crafty Individuals set on this with 

various Stazon inks.

Then used grunge paste through diamond stencil in a few

 areas. Let dry then glue on some odd die cuts

 here and there.

I Painted some sticky back canvas with flesh colour acrylic

 paint mixed with white. Leave to dry.

Stamp and paint the main image. I changed the hair slightly.

Trim the shape and attach to the cover. Paint it with Ultra Matt

 varnish and then use hot glue to attach a variety of 

embellishments and found objects and shapes from molds.

My metal scrunched flowers are the foil from chocolate coins

 at Xmas.

 Oh forgot I'd glued some lace on there too. Some pieces

 I had previously gesso'd.

I covered the girl image and painted the entire page

 with white gesso. 

I then painted some pieces to stand 

out more.
That was the idea anyway!

Finally I sprayed the entire cover with the Prima Flower 

Bloom sprays. 

 Dried with heat tool and sprayed another

 layer. Dried and coated with gloss varnish.

This is what Dawn used -

Crafty Individuals Stamp Set - Frida

Prima Color Bloom Sprays - Peony, Sorbet, Summer Sky

Kaisercraft Texture Stamps

Imagination Crafts - Diamond Stencil

PaperArtsy Grunge Paste

PaperArtsy Paints

Americana Acrylic Paint -  Flesh Coloured 

White Gesso

Sticky Back Canvas

Martha Stewart Molds

Paper Clay

Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks

Stazon Inks - Cherry Pink, Purple, Grey

Decoart DuraClear Matte Varnish

Coloured Pencils

From stash

Odd die cuts and lace pieces

 Found objects, beads

So, what do you think, are you going to have a go?

We'd love to hear your comments!

I'll be back tomorrow with another challenge.

Jane x

Alice in Wonderland - Dawn Heald

Happy Weekend everyone,

So, what have you got planned for this one?

Think it's going to be warm so stay safe in the heat, be 

careful in the sun!

Today is Dawn's turn to show you what

Alice in Wonderland has inspired her to make.....

Take cleaned glass bottle, paint with Matte Medium

 leave to dry.

Stamp script stamp randomly over bottle with jet black

 Stazon ink. Allow to dry.

Paint bottle all over with a thick coating of Rock Candy 

Crackle Paint. Leave to dry.

Then apply light colour alcohol inks all over bottle. 

 Be careful when using the felt applicator as if you repeatedly

 ink over an area a few times the felt will start to stick to

 the crackle paint.

Wrap some wire around the length of bottle.

Make some embellishments to decorate the bottle. 

Using a mixture of paper clay and hot glue with molds

 and handmade paper clay pieces like the toadstools,

 teacup and mad hatter hat.

 Colour with paints and gilding wax.

The clocks are made with Kaisercraft stamp, stamped into the

 clay and cut around with scissors.

When happy glue them to your bottle arranged as you like.

 Job done x

And what a fabulous job it is too!!!!

An amazing project, I'd love to know what

you think.

This is what Dawn used - 

Glass Bottle

Matte Medium

Rock Candy Clear Crackle Paint

Alcohol Inks - Cloudy Blue, Juniper

Kaisercraft Texture Script Stamp

Kaisercraft - Believe

Martha Stewart Paper Clay

Martha Stewart Molds

PaperArtsy Paints

Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Wax

Wire

Hot Glue Gun

Glue Sticks

There is a lot you can do with clay, hot glue and molds,

do have a go!

Ok, well I guess I shall be back tomorrow with a 

new Weekly Challenge.

Haven't got a clue what I'm going to say this time....

.....any ideas??

Oh and don't forget I am in the shop with Mrs Tando

herself, Di and Helen Chilton, today,

please come and see us....oh and the shop is

air conditioned so luverly and cool....yay!!

Jane x