Houses with pattern

Mixed Media Monday gaves me the idea to make more houses.

I made this on cardboard, cut the windows out and embellished it.

If you want to make it, here is the pattern.

You can use stamps, collages, whatever you want.

Canvas with Beeswax

This is a canvas (70 x 80 cm) I worked with beeswax and other textures. The painted photo is the marriage of my aunt and the letter is a letter from her.

To work with beeswax is a little massy, but it's great, because of the smooth surface.

When you melt beeswax (on electric stove, it's safer) the correct temperature is when the wax makes a noise like frying potatos. If the temperature it's to low, it doesn't works well.

You can apply it with an old brush.

A beautiful technique is to glue stripes of tape over a painted or collaged canvas (or over a photo), like a striped paper. Then you go over with the beeswax. Let it dry and remove the tape stripes. You will have a wonderful striped texture of beeswax. It looks great over old photos!

But, you will have a lot of mess on your table!

Assemblage

Theme from "Step outside your boxes" is "Beeswax". I made this assemblage (not really finished), and I've used beeswax on the ground.
The pics were transfered with tape, and the background were made with acrylic colors with stencils.

"Mixed Media Monday"
the theme is "house".

And for TMTA (geometric) I made the ATC.

It was hard to put the three themes together, maybe it would have been better to do three works. Voilá!

New Art Journal Pages

I'm working on some new journal pages. Stamps, collage and stencil. And some acrylic paints too (thanks to "step outside your boxes"!).

TMTA - Winter

Theme from TMTA this week is "winter" (brrr!!). Here is my entry.

Free download - Angel

I worked this two pictures digitally. You can use them free.

Step outside your boxes - Rusty Things

"Step outside your boxes" ask us to make something rusty.

Instead of looking for rusty things, I made some fake "rusty".

The background is a coaster, which I painted with acrylic gesso and crackle varnish. Then I layed over with sepia and veronese green acrylic paints and a little cooper. I made the same with the tile, wich is a stamped (stamp from Stampington) polymer clay tile.

Over the backgound I glued the woman with glasses (I can use it too for "thankgoditsfriday").

The round metallic thing is a really rusty.

Wings are from Artchixstudio.

4x4 Friday - People with wings

Today's challenge from 4x4 friday is "People with wings".

I stamped the wings from "Lost and coast designs" over a striped paper and glued it over the collage.

The background is also stamped, but hard to see it.

Themethursday - Stamped backgrounds

Great challenge! I'm normally too lazy to use my stamps.

Over a blue paper I've stamped the paisley motif from Michelle Ward with a soft blue ink (it's difficult to see the stamp). Over there I've used a darker blue ink and stamp from Stampington. With the black ink I stamped the words (Non-Sequitur).

The pic is a gift from Artchixstudio and the parasol is Paperwhimsy.

Thank you for looking!

Altered play cards

I saw the use of postage stamps used in a different way (for me) at Herminesplace and I love it.

So, I made some altered play cards with this idea.

Gothicarches - Gypsy

Great theme from Gothicarches!

I printed the image on a transparency sheet and transfered it on a play card. I glued the card over my background and embellished all with the golden ribbon from Artchixstudio.

Thank you for looking!

Step outside your boxes

"Step outside your boxes" ask us to make some "Magazine Art".

In this card I've worked basically with textures and letters. All is something I took from a magazine, except the greeen stamp, which is from "lost and Coast Designs" and the self carved red one.

This was a great challenge because you have to search for patterns, letters, textures.

And there are no florishes!!!!

ATC Backgrounds - Free download

4x4 Friday - Music

The theme from 4x4 Friday this week is "Music".

Here my card. I made the background with stamps and white ink and paper scrap collage. I went over with stencil.

Thank God it's Friday - Photo

So, heute auf http://thankgoditsfriday.wordpress.com sollen wir etwas mit "Foto" machen. Hier ist mein Beitrag.

"You Make my day" Award

Clau hat mich zu diesem "Award" nominiert und ich habe mich sehr darüber gefreut, dass sie gern meinen Blog besucht.

Muss jetzt 10 Personen nennen, die ich auch gerne besuche, werde es aber später machen.

Esma Paçal Turam

I made some experiments in the past with a hot glue gun. I was working with some gypsum sculptures and I wanted to add some texture over them. So I discovered that the silicon from the hot gun doesn't glued over the gypsum, but I have a wonderful pattern.





But Esma Paçal Turam mades a stunning work with a simple hot glue gun. She was born and lives in Istanbul.

You can see more of her work here: http://www.esmapacal.com

Summer Book cover and Ladies Closet

Here the cover of my Summer Book with the postcards I made for "outside your boxes" Challenge.

The other is an ATC book. I've called it "Ladies Closet" and the ATcs are about what we girls do in our sleeping rooms.

TMTA - Briefmarken

TMTA ask us to make an ATC with Post Stamps.

Here my contribution.

The pic is from Paperbag stamped over a plastic sheet and transfered to paper.

For free use

Quiz - What pattern is your brain

Your Brain's Pattern

Your mind is an incubator for good ideas, it just takes a while for them to develop. But when you think of something, watch out! Your thoughts tend to be huge, and they come on quickly - like an explosion. You tend to be quiet around others, unless you're inspired by your next big idea.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

Backgrounds - Free for use

I made this backgrounds for the summer book. With PS I made some transformations and they are free for use, if you want.

New Challenge - Acrylic Paints

The new challenge "Step outside your box" ask us to make something with acrylic paints. I'm not a big fan from paints (OK I'm a painter too) with paper and collage and stamps and cissors, a big mess on my table.

But I've accepted the challenge and made a little book about summer and beach. I've found beautiful summer fabric pictures in a magazine and I went over with white,sepia and some blue acrylic. Then I put the pics and some stamps.

The words are computer generated (I have great fonts in my computer, which I never use) printed over a transparence and transfered to the collage. It's great! Now I've found a way to use my one words in my collages.

4x4 Friday - Textured Paper

Theme from 4x4Friday is "Textured Paper".
The green paper on the card are made of banana tree fibers and it has a very beautiful texture. This paper is made by indians from Peruíbe, a little fishertown on the south coast from São Paulo.

Stamps are from "loast and cost design" and the pics is a free downloable collage sheet, but I can't rememeber where I've found it.

Thank you for looking!

Fabric collage - Home

This is my contribution to the theme "quotes" from Themethursday.

I've add the quote digitally.