Eclectic Paperie Get Altered Challenge

That's right girls...here's another inspiring challenge from eclectic paperie. This month we are focusing on art dolls. Personally I find paper dolls gorgeous and so versatile. There is so much that you can do. 

To top it off the world of paper dolls in art is HUGE!!!There is no set standard and no one way. Just google "art doll" and soak in the plethora of inspiration that assaults your visual sense. 

When I heard about this challenge I immediately knew what I wanted to do. It was kissmet that I was traveling all the way to West Virginia that weekend to hang with my fellow eP DT gal Erin Smetak!! She had just thePrima doll stamp that I was looking to use:

 I wanted to place mine on a canvas so that I could use various color and texture techniques. Erin and I had just gone on a shopping spree and purchased tons of lace, some canvases, and when I saw the wooden Angel sign...I knew it was for my doll. Thank goodness I had packed my resin wings.

 I wanted to cover my sign with my antique linen distress glitter but alas...I forgot to pack it. Instead I used Distress Stickles in Rock Candy over my pre-painted sign.  I painted the sign with Silks glazes (Pink Azalea) and sprayed with tattered angels glimmer mist.

I painted the edge with silks glazes to start and then covered with Kroma Crackle. Then I went over it with a prima stencil and some Wendy Vecchi embossing paste in various areas. I was trying to disguise the fact that I used the back of the canvas. The doll was too small for the canvas itself and the frame lent a smaller work surface and thus a better proportion to my art doll stamp.

For the background I layered lace, with drywall joint tape, and Pink Paisley coffee filter words. I covered with gesso and sprayed with TA glimmer mist and some Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst in Creme Brule' (which is how I got the GORGEOUS tone of the dolls skin).  The flowers were mostly cut from Webster's pages Postcard's From Paris II line and then sprayes with the same mists to give it a congruent look.

I hope you enjoyed my art doll. Pop over to the eP blog to check out the original inspiration and the other DT's take on art dolls. 

xoxo,

Andiepants

Savior

This week's Ultimate Designer Challenge over at Swirlydoos was to make a canvas using multiple layers of mediums. Just my luck, I had been planning a canvas as a gift and just hadn't made the leap from my head to the canvas yet. What a perfect opportunity to bring my idea to life.

This is a 12x16 canvas. There are layers of gesso, paint, Mod Podge, modeling paste, matte medium, gel medium, moon shadow mist, and glaze all over this thing. The best part is that the odds n ends that were used were all just leftovers in my stash or random parts that but hubby brought home for this specific purpose.

This cross is my favorite part of the whole canvas. It was just a plain wood laser cut that is sold at my local dollar store. I purchased a few for making cards for perople at church and such and it just turned out perfect with the seed beads. The gears and key hole are left over parts from previous projects and the bricks are modeling paste and a Prima mask.

The zipper was perfect!! Garage sale find!!!  The piece behind the R is a napkin ring piece that I disassembled. 

I can't wait to present this canvas, I really love the way it turned out.

TFL,

Andiepants

Ultimate design challenge week 1

So the challenge for week 1 was to make a 3D embellishment using 2 techniques involving mediums and use that on a project. Of course I went total Andiepants style with another steam-chic project!!

Last year at a boyscout training session, I won a wooden boat to take back and promote the camp to my pack. My boys decided a few days ago they no longer wanted said boat and I decided to keep the wood. 

When this project was introduced I had dreams of gluing the wood down and decorating but that's about as far as I went. Everything just kinda fell into place! I was walking through Joann's (working on another project, and saw the canvas was 50% off! I decided that's what I needed to support the weight of the wood I wanted to use.

After layers and layers of multimedium, gesso, paint, stamping...it all came together. I used the feathers as wings on the dress form...so it's like a fairy. I love the contrast of all the white and romantic against the grungy metal and crackle on the base of the dress form. 

Check out all the other gorgeous projects at Swirlydoos.com. The girls have pulled out all the stops. 

TFL

Andiepants