Spooky Goings On

Hi all. 

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, so today I have a new project to share with you all and yesI know it is only August but Halloween is my favourite holiday so of cause I just had to do something spooky.

Now this piece I am sharing with you all today was inspired by Mike Deakin.....

So here is what I have been doing

Now I bet you are sitting there thinking what is spooky about this?........ Are you ready? ...... 

Oh hello Mr Skeleton ;) Yes it is a 3d picture. The above two pictures have both been taken with the flash on to show the colours and the metallic a bit more.

Now for some pictures of the canvas with no flash and some close ups

Close up pictures of some of the detail and texture on the canvas

I absolutely love how this turned out and can not thank Mike enough for the inspiration, as I have had some of these 3d Halloween pictures for a fair few years and they have just been sat in a draw, I may have to do the others so there is a set of them, If i do the rest I shall share them with you all.

The products I used to do this piece are as follows:

20cm x 20cm Canvas

Black Gesso

3d Halloween Picture

Cheese Cloth

Metal Embellishments

Mixed Media Stones (Medium and Large) - Imaginations Crafts

Metallic Acrylic Paints - Miss Moneypenny, Emerald City, Aladdin - IndigoBlu (two of the colours I made into a spray)

Dylusions Paint - Tangerine Dream (Made into a spray)

Pumpkin Chipboard

Dylusions Halloween Stamp and Stencil Set - Used the stencil 

Texture Paste

I hope you like my spooky mixed media canvas and it gives you some inspiration for Halloween, just like Mike's gave me inspiration to give this a go.

Kelly

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

I would like to enter this piece into the following challenges:
Altered Eclectics -  Anything Goes as long as it is mixed media
Creative Artiste Mixed Media - Anything Mixed Media Goes
Love To Create - Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes
More Mixed Media Challenge -  Anything Goes - Optional Brights

Hi Puddin Art Journal Page

Hi all

Today I have a new Art Journal Page to share with you all which is my inspiration piece for Challenge#2 - Anything Goes over at Day Dreamer Challenges.

This month we have two sponsors: 

Bugagoo Stamps and Cute As A Button

For my piece I have used an awesome digi called Harley from Cute As A Button and here it is:

As some of you know I absolutely love Harley so of cause when I spotted this image I just had to use it and do a layout in my art journal.

So for this layout I used the following products:

Harley Digi Stamp

Spectrum Noir Markers

Dylusions Large Art Journal

Dylusions Paint - Black 

DecoArt Paint - Red

Visible Image Stamp (HA HA)

White Signo Gel Pen

I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I have done for our second challenge over at

 Day Dreamer Challenges and I can not wait to see what you all do.

Kelly

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Summer Art Journal Spread

Hey Hey all

Well it is that time again for a challenge over at Scrapping4fun Challenges, and the theme for challenge #93 is Summer

We haven't really had much of a Summer here have we but we have still had a few nice days so when I think of summer I think of warm and bright colours :)

For this month's challenge we are sponsored by 

Lemon Shortbread 

So for this challenge I am using Flowers and Curls Girl  and here is my piece

This piece I have done in my Dylusions Art Journal as I thought It would be the perfect image for a lovely warm and bright spread and the quote I chose from a stamp set I have fits so well with what this page speaks to me.

Now for some close up pictures before I list the products I have used.

And last but by no means least a close up of the image which I love

To do this art journal spread I used the following products

Dylusions Art Journal (Large)

Spectrum Noir Markers 

Dylusions Paints 

Dylusions Ink Sprays

Gesso 

Modelling Paste 

Pallete Knife

Stencil 

Paper Snips

Dyan Revealey Stamps

Kaisercraft Stamps 

Hampton Art Stamp

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my art journal page and it has inspired you to give the challenge a go yourself or to even give art journalling a go.

You can take part in the challenge HERE. I can not wait to see what you all come up with for this challenge it is so much fun.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Perfectly Flawed

Hey all

Welcome back to another of my blog posts... Today I have a mixed media canvas to share with you all.

This canvas I worked on over a few days as I had no clue where I was going with it let alone what materials I was going to use.... This all started with just a plain canvas which I then covered in Matt Medium and torn up book pages, then I put gesso over the whole thing and it evolved from there.

So here is Perfectly Flawed

In the picture above it does not show how bright and vibrant this piece really is, so I managed to get another picture of it to show how this....

I just love love love how bright and vibrant this piece came out, Here is a list of products I have used to do this canvas:

Canvas 20 x 20cm

Visible Image Stamp Set - Face It 

Visible Image Stamp Set - Own It 

Visible Image Stamp Set - Create It

Torn Book Pages

Matt Medium

Gesso 

Masking Tape 

Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals - Blazing Black, Urban Amethyst, Luminous Lemon and Poppin' Pink

Crackle Paste 

Crackle Medium

Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad 

Archival - Watering Can Ink Pad

Paper Snips 

Tip Top Taupe Ink Spray (Home Made)

Dylusions Paint - Black, White and Slate Grey

I hope you like what I have done with this canvas as much as I have bringing it to life, I love how vibrant and bright it is and the pictures just do not do it justice. It was so much fun making this as I did not plan anything out with it at all and I defo want to try this more and more just to see what happens, as they say there are no mistakes in crafting just happy accidents.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Setiments - Not A Card

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes 

Crafty Creations Challenges -Anything Goes

Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes 

Love To Create - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Mixed Media World - Anything Mixed Media Goes With A Twist (Moodboard) 

Dare 2 B Artzy - Girly 

Artistic Inspiration - Anything Goes/flowers theme optional

A Vintage Journey - Use A Quote

My Art Journal Journey BEGINS

Hi all and welcome back to my blog

I am so excited to be doing this blog post and sharing with you all as it has been a long time coming and something I have been wanting to do for such a long time now. I finally got a Dylusions Creative Journal for my birthday and could not wait to get stuck in. Products used are linked at the end of this post 

This is how my first page started out AFTER I gesso'ed and stamped the whole page. (When you look closely at the page it self you can slightly see some stamping under the paint just peeking through)

I love love love how my background came together this was done using Dylusions Paint I used my fingers and then a baby wipe.

After this was all dry then came the scary part bringing it more to life with a design and here is mine 

I hand drew the dream catcher and all the detail in it with pencil and then went over it all with black acrylic paint, I then concentrated on doing the feathers which was done free-hand with white acrylic paint and grey acrylic paint once these were dry I then put in the detail on joining the feathers to the dream catcher and I used a embossing stylus to make the dots with black acrylic paint.

The quote was done through a stencil using white acrylic paint with a make-up sponge then outlined with my white gel pen once it was dry, I also then added in all the white detailing on the dream catcher with my white gel pen, Lastly came the stars fro the same stencil as the quote and I did these using some Iridescent medium through the stencil using a spatula.

To bring it altogether I doodled a border with the white gel pen and then went around the page edges with my black ink pad.

I absolutely loved doing this and really enjoyed myself I even enjoyed getting really messy with the paint (was the fun part), I hope you have enjoyed looking at my first art journal page and will continue to follow me on my art journal journey.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

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Galaxy Mini Canvas

Hi all 

I hope everyone is well and enjoying there day, I am having a lovely day and been spoilt for my birthday :) 

Today I am going to share with you all one of the new makes I have done, I have done something like this before but last time I used Distress Inks this one I used acrylic paints.

So here we have my Mini Galaxy Canvas

Supplies used to make this little piece of art are as follows:

Dylusions Paints 

Black Gesso 

Mini Canvas

White Acrylic Paint

White Gel Pen 

I have been wanting to get into acrylic painting for a while now and found two fantastic channels on You Tube to follow and watch their beginner acrylic tutorials on You Tube by Painting with Jane and The Art Sherpa, I would recommend watching either of these to anyone wanting to give it a try as they go through it step by step from the beginning to the end.

I am hoping to do a lot more on canvas as there is a few paintings i would love to try after watching Cinnamon (The Art Sherpa) showing how to do them from start to end.

I hope you like my galaxy canvas and it gives you some inspiration and motivation to give it a go :)

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

A Trio Of ATC'S

Hello all.

Today I am sharing with you a trio of ATC's I have been working on and here they are

All of these ATC's have been made using different products and the images are designed by Vera Lane Studios, which I have printed and coloured in using a mix of Promarkers and Sharpie markers.

Tried To Be Normal ATC

I couldn't resist not doing this ATC I love the quote that came with the digi, for this piece I used the following products, I have also linked where you can get the digi stamps from.

Watercolour Card

Dylusions Paints

Dylusions Border Stamp

Vera Lane Studios Digi Stamp -  Calcas 5 digi stamp bundle

White gel pen

Distress Marker - Black soot 

Promarkers and Sharpie Markers 

Pineapple ATC

Now this ATC, was another I couldn't resist doing once I had got the digi... When I first got into planners earlier this year I kept seeing pineapple stationery, pineapple planner accessories and so on ever where and could never quite grasp WHY????.. So when I found out about the quote I understood and love the quote.

For this ATC I used the following products 

Watercolour Card

Distress Inks

Dylusions Border Stamp 

Vera Land Studios Digi - Be A Pineapple 

Promarkers and Sharpie Markers

White Gel Pen 

And lastly we have this ATC called Sweet and Undefinable 

For this ATC I used the following products 

Watercolour Card 

Dylusions Paints

Dylusions Flower Stencil

Vera Lane Studios Digi - The girl was a freebie in the Facebook Group, Sentiment is apart of the Be A Pineapple set 

Distress Marker - Black Soot 

White Gel Pen 

I absolutely loved how all these ATC's came out once I was finished, The digi stamps from Vera Lane Studios are amazing to work with and I love the look of them all, I will be doing more work using these digi stamps in the future. If you would like to take a look at what other digi's there is you can find the shop on Etsy, there is also a Facebook page and group, I shall link those below.

Vera Lane Studio Digi Stamps -  Etsy

Vera Lane Studio Digi Stamps - Facebook Page 

Vera Lane Studio Digi Stamps - Facebook Group

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my recent ATC's and like how bright and colourful they are, I absolutely love the brightness and wackiness of these cards I will be using Dylusions paints more often in my work :)

Xx The Crafty Bat xX