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Sunday, 2 July 2017

Vintage Cote D'Azur poster by me

I love the Cote D'Azur! I love the sea, the forever blue sky (without any cloud on the horizon), the hot weather with cooling wind from the sea, I love the French culture, food, wine etc. Every year when I was somewhere on the Riviera I bumped into the vintage Cote D'Azur posters advertising this area for the tourists in the early 1900s. Most of them were made by very famous painters and illustrators like Picasso, Hervé Baille, Jean-Gabriel Domergue...

But unfortunately this year we can't go there during the summer, instead we will stay long in Hungary because our family is there, because my daughter prefers the Balaton to the Cote D'Azur and because I have a lot of things to arrange there.

But I will miss this region so I prepared a canvas (18x24cm) in the style of those vintage posters.

I will show you some posters which inspired me but on my Pinterest board you can find more:

Like on the posters I used bold colours and strong contours. Although I had a primed canvas I put one layer of gesso on it.

For the background I used the following DecoArt Americana colours: Buttermilk, Desert Turquoise, Whispering Turquoise.

The palm trees were coloured by Light Cinnamon and Mistletoe.

The sun was stencilled and I used Pineapple.

For my project Tim's new Alphabet die with its Art Deco letters was just perfect for my project, also it was better to make with cutouts than stamps.

What I used:

Sizzix Big die, Village Surf Shack by Tim Holtz (661208)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Tropical by Tim Holtz (661207)

Sizzix Bigz XL die, Alphabet, Deco by Tim Holtz (661815)

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil, Rays (THS003)

Signature dies, Seagulls (SD232)

Signature dies, Yacht with Sails (SD180)

DecoArt Americana paints

With my canvas I would like to join the following challenges:

- Monday Challenge of the Simon Says Stamp blog: Stencil It!

- Stamps and Stencils blog Words with Meaning because Cote D'Azur means a lot to me

And because of the art deco feel I would like to join the Canvas challenge of A Vintage Journey.

I hope you like it! Happy crafting!

Friday, 8 May 2015

Mixed media canvas - At the beach

Here I am again with my latest mixed media canvas: At the beach.

I had long wished to make a canvas about beach with beach huts. And now here it is one!

This picture was inspired by my other picture of street with houses and cars.

With this canvas I would like to participate in a challenge at the Country View Crafts Blog: Simply Scenic.

Most of the elements were cut out with dies, except the umbrella, the rays of the sun and the roofs of the huts.

I was lucky because I had "Sand" paint at home which contains fine grains so my sandy beach looks quite realistic.

What I used:

Sizzix Sizzlits Die, Jessie&Tucker (654436) - I used this for the girl with dog

Sizzix Sizzlits Die, Chloe on the Phone (656507) - I used this for the other girl

Sizzix for Stampin' Up! embossing folder, Stripes - I embossed the huts and the beach towel with this

Sizzix Framelits Die and Stamp Set, Kites by Stephanie Barnard (657581) - I used this for the bigger and puffier clouds

Memory Box Die, Puffy Clouds (98172) - I used this for the smaller clouds

Memory Box Die, Alphabet: Lower Case

Sizzix Framelits Die, Rectangles (658610) - I used this for the huts, the doors and the towels

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Alphanumeric by Tim Holtz (660056) - I used this to write the BEACH

Sizzix Embossing Folder, Notebook by Tim Holtz (656647) - I embossed the doors with this

Signature Die, seagulls (SD232) - I used this for making the seagulls

Signature Die, deck chair (SD186) - I used this for making the chair

stretched canvas (30x50 cm)

Ranger Distress inks and markers - I coloured the houses, the umbrella, the chair, the towel and the girls

acrylic paints

acrylic medium

modelling paste

StazOn ink - I used this for stamping the hot air balloon

Saturday, 21 March 2015

French style tags

A Hungarian lady asked me to make her and her husband bookmarks.

Before we talked a lot to get to know which symbols and cutouts she wanted on the bookmarks. She would liked a French style bookmark with an Eiffel-tower and a sports car.