Blog Hop with Lindy's Gang and Stencil Girl

hey all, Lindy's Gang is having a hop with the wonderful Stencil girl in these three days. Every day we have different artists to showcase our wonderful products and new project ideas to you.
Plus there is a great giveaway going on. Please dont forget to read to the end to know how to be qualified to the giveaway.
Welcome to follow me to receive further update of my upcoming projects !!

 I have made a steampunk style box for this hop.

I used the beautiful gorgeous metallic spray colors and embossing powder fm Lindy's , to create metal effect and the dark spooky taste.

After I covered the whole box with black gesso, I used modeling paste on these two very versatile well made Stencil Girl's products to make texture on the surface on the box. The stencils are: 

Unfinished Stencil product code L185

Cross Stitches - two steps stencils product code L530

before the modeling paste dries out, I pull a generous among of Lindy's embossing powder on the top of time and heat set.

Lindy's Embossing Powder: 

Midnight Copper

Imperial Crown Purple Gold

Twilight Blue Slate

 then started putting various sprays on the top with layers and layers.Lindy's Spray:

Cowabunga Copper

Frolic In The Forest

Gag Me With A Spoon Gray

Grab a Guy Gold

Please zoom in to see how beautiful both the stencil design and the medium colors are !! 

GIVEAWAY
One lucky winner will receive both a $25 Gift Certificate to Lindy’s Gang
AND a $25 Gift Certificate to StencilGirl Products!
Enter to win by leaving a comment below.
Then be sure to visit the other blogs in the hop and comment to win.
The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
One winner will be chosen at random from all blog comments!
(One comment per blog please.)

You have until Tuesday, April 24th at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.
Winner will be announced on
StencilGirl's Facebook page and Lindy’s Gang’s Facebook page on Wednesday, April 25.

Blog Hop Order:

April 18
Mary Beth Shaw
Gwen Lafleur
Mary C. Nasser
Debi Adams
Tina Walker
Kate Palmer
Cindy Wille
Natalie May
Pascale Bernard
Anat Weksler
Nirvana
Elena Martynova

April 19
Belen Sotelo

Cindy Gilstrap
Kiala Givehand
Torrie Gass
Janet Joehlin
Valerie Ouellet
Aga Baraniak
Sivan Amedi
Aleksandra Mihelič
Joanna Marquet
Phoebe Tonosaki
Caroline Parent

April 20
Carol Baxter
Sandee Setliff
Karen Gaunt
Louise Nelson
Sherry Canino
Kerry Fellowes
Yulianna Efremova
Kasia Bogatko-Skoczypiec
Olga Bielska
Olga Ravenskaya
We are waiting for your visit!

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Mixed Media Altered Make up Case Guest Designer project for SnP

Hello all, this is Phoebe Tonosaki fm Japan. I am very honored to be invited as the Guest Designer for Scraps N Pieces blog. Thank you for having me!

Today I want to share with you my project for March’s moodboard as below. My key words for this project are: Purple, yellow, orange, texture , round shaped and lavender.

  

I have an old make up case which I loved a lot when I was young and throughout the years I do not use that vivid colors of make up anymore thus it was laying inside the drawer gathering dust for some time now. So I had this idea to alter it into something special and beautiful. And this is the perfect object for this project.

 

I have chosen the newewst products fm Finnabair for the coloring. The new rust paste sets are very easy to use and versatile. The best thing is that you do not even need to prime the surface before coloring. Texture was easily made just with the Paper Paste and a brush!! Dried lavender was used to add up the texture. Remember to be careful if your area has high humidity and it may cause your piece to get moldy on the lavenders. 

Here I used the Finnbair Impasto paints to make the solid color of purple. Impasto paint is a rich and heavy body matte acrylic paint which gives very beautiful and vintage look of everything. I strongly encourage you to try out this product. You will not be disappointed!

I have a process video for this project. I hope you will like it and please let me know if you have any opinions!

Mixed Media Notebook "Myself"

I have seen many pieces of work using the original design/idea of Finnabair featuring our own face in a mixed media style. I have to say , I have never thought of to create one. Partly because I am not always liking my own face and partly I do no think I could create anything better than it has already be made.

But then I have thought of how this will be so special if I look back 5 years later ! maybe then I can create another version at that time and see the difference !



So I decided to make it as a journey record of my creation. I have to say, THIS IS PURE JOY AND FUN !!

you would think, this is so easy if you have so many embellishments to choose fm. But NO ! it was extremely difficult to choose which one to fit yourself, and the lines of your face.

I also have to choose something that represents ME to add to the piece. Cos if not, it wouldnt be a work of MYSELF . So I added a resin piece of pocket watch, a part with the varnish layers skill, the wing that represents my name and several pieces written "ART". The "US" light bulb represents me and my great crafty friends just like my hermana , my gf Natassa , my shinnyu Aira, my quireda Noura and so many more.

It was layers and layers of color mixing and blending and texturing. And then a few more additional of the layers of embellishments.

I also altered a feather pen to go with it and it looks HEAVENLY!

Please let me know your thoughts on this piece !

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ご意見聞かせてください！

Mixed Media Planner & Traveler's notebook for Kate

I am very blessed to have GREAT amazing friends in this community and one of them is definitely Kate. She is an incredible artist and she has a heart of gold. She supports our Lindys DT team without boundaries and always there when you need help. 

In order to show the gratefulness I offered to alter a TN for her. At the same time, we have the internal swap btw our DT members so I decided to do a planner as well.

 

She wanted the orange tone of the TN so I tried to keep it as it is and not to cover the whole surface with gesso. I used the new stencil fm dearest Kassa and some of the stamps fm ALL and Create .

The inserts of the TN came with it together but I did make a few of the paper embellishments using brads and eyelets. So the paper in between can move to different directions as she likes every time she uses them.

The Lindy products I used here are :
Starburst spray TiffanyLou Blue
Starburst spray Shabby Turbine Teal
Magical Shaker Guten Tag Teal 

 
On the planner I altered the surface mainly with these colors.
Starburst spray  Grab a Guy Gold
Starburst spray  French Lilac Violet
Magical Glory of the seas Gold 

The inserts are handmade with the planner pouch on watercolor papers then sprays with Lindys. There are more other types of paper embellishments in the Planner

 I hope these two add to her planner collections and it gives some happiness in her crafting time.  Please hop over and say hi to dear Kate !

Mixed Media Altered Telephone for Natalie May

So the wonderful artist Natalie May suggested in our Lindy DT team that we do some swap within the 20 of us if anyone is interested. I jumped right in COS ! I got the chance to own some of the most beautiful work fm the biggest artists in the field. WOWers !!

 I contacted Natalie and offered to make something. She gave me total freedom of what to create and at the perfect timing, I had this inspirations and then altered a telephone for her.

This little baby actually looked like this before I put my hands on her ! :D

I used layers and layers of the SUPER almighty Lindy's sprays 

Screamin' Banshee Black/Frolic In The Forest /Grab a Guy Gold/Gag Me With A Spoon Gray 

and Embossing powder Ceasar's Gold

if you dont have these colors yet. GO GRAB them NOW !

I dont have a video this time BUT

my next DT project for Lindys will be something related to this !

so Please stay tuned and be ready to have some WOWers surprise ! just click the "follow" button and you will receive notifications for my updates. <3

Thank you Natalie for this chance and I sincerely hope you like it <3

Mixed Media Canvas "Library"

I always love library. Because I always love reading and I have spent time working as an assistant at the school library. I enjoy spending time in the library even if I just walk around the rows and rows of book shelves
So today I just wanna enjoy the joy of creating something I like and this is what it is.

 The image is one of those jumbo giant library that has the huge high ceilings. Wow, just think of how many hours I could spend their makes me happy. So I decided to add a lot of textures and layers to express the depth of that image.

I used the blue ,brown and black colors fm Lindy's gang sprays for background color. And the awesome graphite texture paste fm Finnabair. The touch of graphite reminds me some of the rough surfaces of those ancient old books.

 I love looking at this angle, I can literally see the width fm that library scene. I have added many foam tape and hardboard at the back on each layers to build up.

 Here is black chipboard fm 49and Market, clip embellishments fm Tim Holtz, resin piece fm Prima, the name plate fm Daiso. Some watercolor paper scrap here and there. and two handmade mini book stained with Lindy's spray.

 The shinny hue you see everywhere are made with the beautiful gorgeous Finnabair wax . I love using them even though my fingers look so dark and dirty afterwards !!

 I hope this piece inspires you to do something featuring what you love. If you like this post. welcome to follow my page !! thank you !

 

Mixed Media Dress in Altered Brush for Keren

Hello everyone, today please let me share with you one of my very fav projects. My friend Keren, asked me to alter a brush for her to add to her collection. I am all too happy to accept !

When I went brush shopping, I saw this brush and I just KNEW she is a dress !!!

I made her dress with layers and layers of cotton and then add texture paste together with chipboard pieces.

Keren also mentioned that she likes my design of the altered glove , so I also made this accessories for her.

I colored them with the gorgeous Finnabair Metallique and it made such an amazing tone and light reflecting effect.

I am SO happy that I got the enjoy this experience to create something beautiful for a good friend. Thank you Keren !!