Art Tiles

Hello there,

I was really inspired by one of the videos I watched on youtube.The lady there created some beautiful art tiles and I immediately wanted to make them.The process looked simple enough,but I have to admit,I messed up a lot of times.To start with,I don't own very many tiny stamps and whatever I used did not stamp very well.I must have covered the tiles at least 5 times before I could get passably okay.I added some glitter and tiny beads as the last step and I like that.In retrospect,I should probably have been more careful with the placement of glitter.Well,learning for another time!

The small tile with too many beads looks horrible in the pictures,but in real life you can totally see the image and its quite a nice effect ,seeing the image through the beads.Of course,it would have been better if I had not gone overboard with the beads..

The inspiration came from Linda from Livartnow on youtube.If you want to see it look for it here. She used wooden tiles,but I didn't have those so I used multiple layers of thin chipboard.

Hope you like it.Sorry for the glare on the pics!

Submitting this for the ITSY BITSY BIG 'B' Challenge .Not sure If this qualifies or not,but it does have beads AND bling,so hope it does.:-)

Cheers
Sumi
 

Easel Card

Hi

Another attempt at cardmaking.This time I tried my hand at an easel card.I think,even though I messed up the dimensions a little bit, it is pretty easy to make.

Can I be shameless and say that I love it?I used a regular brown cardstock as the card base.Then it was layered with a silvery wrapping paper Then Iayered it with black cardstock.I stamped butterflies on the black paper with versamark and then used perfect pearl to colour in the butterflies.Loved the technique.

The flower is handmade.It was just a trial at trying to make a handcut flower and I thought it looked okay enough to put on the card.

The sentiment is embossed with white embossing powder and then bordered with washi tape.I also made a beaded spray and I love it.I didn't know it was so easy to make.I am going to make a few more for sure.

Cheers
Sumi

Another First: A handmade card

Hi There,

This was my first attempt at making a card.The card has pretty muted colours which I like.I am pretty happy because I utilized some of the stuff I had in my stash, which I have a tendency to hoard.

Cheers
Sumi

Windows :A mixed media canvas attempt

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I was going through some youtube videos lately (my current obsession) and chanced upon Sacrafters   channel.She is one crazy talented lady.I loved her projects with corrugated cardboard and wanted to immediately try something from one of her tutorials.This canvas is a result of that.Can't say I absolutely love it, but I don't dislike it either.I love the muted pastel colours that I have used, but  I haven't been able to capture them in the photograph.Lack of photography skills.Sad ,but true.:-(.On top of that,I don't know why the picture is appearing all blurry here.

Life is Art journal page

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Another journal page trying to use the reverse stencilling technique demonstrated by Journalartista. This page is messy but I love it.This was one of the initial pages I did after a marathon run of viewing tons of youtube videos .All the techniques that I learnt are all dumped on one spread.:-)

Cheers
Sumi

Butterflies again!

Hey there,

I seem to be obsessed with butterflies lately.I had bought some tiny cute little canvases a long time back and was itching to use them for something.Right now I do not have the confidence to create full fledged artwork, but these tiny canvases were not very overwhelming.

I had bought a pack of little plastic butterflies from the toy's section of a bookstore and I decided that it was high time that I used them.These were all in different colours,so the first thing I did was to paint them in the colours I wanted and added a lot of glitter.Glitter makes everything pretty,don't you think?

My picture taking skills are pathetic to say the least,so you won't be able to see the shimmer on the canvases.I used pearl acrylic paints for all of them and they look pretty in real life.After that it was just mixing colours,stamping and embellishing with whatever I had at hand (my arty crafty stash is really really small right now)..I do not like the flower stickers I have put in one of the canvases,so I think I will remove those and I do regret adding the blue paint in one of them.I don't know what I was thinking.As you can see,I do not like all of these so much, but I do have one which is my favourite.Can you guess which one?Sorry for the blurry photos.It's really cloudy and dark here.

Cheers
Sumi

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Take a Word Challenge - Butterflies

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I have been obsessed with arty stuff lately, especially with mixed media and art journaling.I am not good at sketching or painting, but mixed media seems to be very forgiving and whoever thought of art journaling is a genius in my book.I love playing in my little diary.I have a long way to go before I learn all the tips and techniques, but I figured that the best thing to do is to participate in some challenges and force myself to create.

Here's my first ever entry for a challenge that I am planning to participate in.This is for the 'Take a word challenge'.The theme is butterflies.I suck at the lettering stuff and I don't have the best pen to journal with,but I am okay with the rest of the stuff on this page.

Cheers
Sumi