November 2015 Creative Guest

This month we have invited Mike Dekin to be our Creative Guest.

Creative Guest Facts

I've interested in arts & crafts and graphic design all my life, but eight years ago, it became my life. I have dabbled in card making, water colours, painting and mixed media art and recently become obsessed with art journaling. In March 2015 I set up my first YouTube channel under the name Mike Deakin Art and it has grown faster than I could ever have imagined. I create for myself, but I love to share my processes and my art with others.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/mikedeakinart
Blog: www.papercraftography.wordpress.com

The Project

Process:

My canvas,"Frozen Skyline" has been created using black gesso, Town House Teal acrylic Paint from IndigoBlu and Winter Dawn Gilding Flakes also from IndigoBlu. I have added a piece of misty cheese cloth to the bottom to add texture. The lines where added using an old credit card. The building windows were created using the textures stencil from IndigoBlu, finally the silver star splatters were added using Vodka Martini Metallic Acrylic Paint also from IndigoBlu.

Thank you Mike for guesting us this month!!

Winners & Top Picks for October 2015

Again - thank you all for joining us troughout our celabration month October! Today we bring you the winners and top picks from the Challenge.

Top Picks

Ansku

Heike 

Sandra Bernard

Eirini

Winners

The winner of the prize from 2Crafty Chipboard

is

Laetitia

And the prize pack from Scrap Unlimited

is

Melenia

And the winner of the Special Gift 

is

Jenny

Please send a mail to wordspaintery@gmail.com to claim your prize.

We hope to see you all back for the November Challenge!

NOVEMBER 2015

We are feeling a bit cold this month and we bring you this color palette and words.

The Challenge

The Rules

To participate you need to do your interpretation of our challenge and upload a direct link to your project with the help of our Linkytool. The interpretations are free in form (layout, card, art journal, album, canvas) but you need to follow the outlines of the challenge. Each month we will chose a couple of projects that will be highlighted in a special post.

Deadline to upload is December 15 (CET +1)

The Sponsor

We are glad to have Marianne Design as our sponsor this month.

Marianne Design has been kind to sponsor one winner with this prize pack!

The Projects

Lisa Griffith

Marie Johansson

Tusia Lech

Caro Scrap

Karine Gagnon

Lena Holmström

Sanderijn de Bruin-Mittendorff

Anna Wiśniewska

Denisa Gryczova

Jessika Lundman

Kavi Tha

Catherine Giguère

We really look forward to see your entries this month!

Please use the Linkytool down below. Be sure to link to the specific post with your project!

An InLinkz Link-up

A sneak of November

Well soon summon up this wonderful Celebration Month and will show you some sneaks of what we have up our sleeve for the November Challenge!

Welcome back on the 15th for the full reveal of the November Challenge!

Celebrate with Us & Sanderijn de Bruin-Mittendorff

We hope you have had a great month with us and that our Creative Team has brought you loads of inspiration. Today is the last tutorial day and our new Creative Team Member Sanderijn bring us this stunning layout.

Step-by-step

Step 1:

 Cut some pieces of paper, and composition your centerpiece. I also used a doily, some tack-cloth and some wire behind my picture. Do not glue it down jet, this is just the fase where you want to make a composition.

Step 2: 

Gently dab some golden metallic acrylic paint on your paper, using a stencil.

Step 3.

 Add some 'vintage pink' mica powder to a bit of light paste. I use light paste because it's a really light, mousse kind of paste, and it blends very well with mica powder. The mica powder gives a very unique shimmer to the paste.

Step 4. 

Use a palette knife and a stencil to put the mica-mixed-paste on your paper.

Step 5. 

When paste is dry (it dries fast) splatter some orange ink on your cardstock with a brush.

Step 6. 

Glue down the pieces of paper with 3D gloss gel. I use a random piece of cardboard between some paper, to create more 3D effect in the layers.

Step 7. 

Cut some leaves with your die-cut machine. I inked the edges from the leaves with 'black soot' distress ink.

Step 8.

Embellish your project with the leaves, with flowers and other things you like (crystals or metal embellishments). I painted a piece of wire and some chipboard little hearts also with the golden metallic acrylic paint and used it on my photo and layout. I used 3D glue dots for my leaves to put them on my layout. 

Thank you Sanderijn for this step-by-step! Welcome back the day after tomorrow for the reveal of the November Challenge!