Showing posts with label palm tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palm tree. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 March 2022

Gladys by Sizzix Tim Holtz

Hello everyone, here is my first Gladys card with the adorable flamingo of Sizzix Chapter 1. This is a Colorize die which means you have to put many layers on top of each other to assemble the bird. Well this is my version with this new die.



And here is my tutorial. First about the background.

I cut out a slimline card from 300gsm watercolour paper. Then I blended different Oxide ink colours to create the background with the sky, sea and sand. For making the sun, I cut out a circle and used it as a mask when I was making the sky. 


Then I covered the top part and splattered the sand with diluted brown acrylic paint.


I inked the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress ink.

Then a splattered the whole background (except the sun) with white acrylic paint.

As for the flamingo... I cut out all parts from 300 gsm watercolour paper and painted them with Distress paints.

The first layer with Abandoned Coral.


The second layer with Kitsch Flamingo with a tiny Abandoned Coral.

The wing, the crest and the pink part of the beak were painted with only Kitsch Flamingo. The legs and the eyelashes with Pumice Stone.


For the palm tree I used Mowed Lawn and Frayed Burlap but I inked the edges with Potting Soil Archival ink. 





What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Colorize, Gladys by Tim Holtz (665851)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Tropical by Tim Holtz (661207)

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Talk stamp set by Tim Holtz (CMS236)

Ranger Distress Oxide inks (Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Squeezed Lemonade, Antique Linen)

Ranger embossing powder (super fine white)

Ranger Distress paint (Kitsch Flamingo, Abandoned Coral, Mowed Lawn, Frayed Burlap, Pumice Stone)

Ranger Distress ink (Abandoned Coral, Gathered Twigs)


I hope you like it! Thank you for stopping by!



Sunday, 19 August 2018

Summer scene with beach house

This is my second inspirational project for our August challenge. The theme was chosen by the lovely Corrie: Sun, sea and sand.




For the beach hut, I used the Village Dwelling XL die by Tim Holtz but I used only the side part of the house because I didn't want to make it 3 dimensional. So I just cut off the tabs from my house and painted white the corrugated cardboard.


The sandy beach is a torn paper covered with Grit-Paste. When the paste was dry I coloured with DecoArt Multi-Surface Buff Beige. The edge was inked with Distress Brushed Corduroy ink.


What I used:





Kraft paper

Watercolour paper


acrylic paints

Ranger Distress inks and DOX inks by Tim Holtz

Ranger Distress Grit-Paste by Tim Holtz

tiny real shell





So if you have a summer project with sun, sea and/or sand, please join our August challenge where you can win a £20 voucher.



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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:







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!