Something fun....

This month at the CHA show i was so blessed to see all the new products

being introduced and also got to meet a few amazing artists along the way.

By far my favorite besides Suzanne from Quietfire and everyone at Spellbinders

i got to meet Andy Skinner from Deco art and found his new line of paints.

Well all i can say is wow and i had to have all of them!!  It's a fun mixed media

line that has lots of fun colors and mediums to mix but with a little twist.

Oh and one of my favorite stamp companies Stampendous is joining with

him and Spellbinders to create lots of really cool projects to do.

I love to paint and this started off as just a wooden heart and i used a base layer

of gesso and then stenciled on some modeling paste to create that circle layer.

Then i added a layer of Media antiquing cream and then stamped on another

layer of paint with a flowery stamp i had in my stash.  And then i used just a

little bit of Deco Art Metallic lustre in brown and aqua with a damp t shirt to

get the pattern to show up a little more. There is also a product called
interference and it by far is the coolest product.  It was great fun.  And those cool

little flowers are made with a Spellbinders die and i made them in a

soft gold metal and painted them up a little too with aqua mulit surface paint.

Here is a closer look at the heart. The stamp was from a Valentine set by Technique
Tuesday and i used Archival ink for that.  Anyway i have to go and teach my second
class today up at Scrap N Yap but i have more to share this week and i am
sure i will have lots more with this really fun new product line!!

Thanks so much for stopping over today, Happy Saturday to you all!

A little Christmas Church ....

Today i have something really cute to share that i made up with a few

of the girls on the Spellbinders team.  Spellbinders parters with an amazing

company called "A Gilded Life" and they make gorgeous products to use

for jewelry and for amazing projects in your home.  So today i want to share

a new die that they came out with in November that you can make these

adorable little churches with and add lots of gilding to your own taste.

Mind you i just made this last night and it's my first try at this 

so i have lots of things i would like to try to do another but you get the idea.

All the pieces come in the set and i used 110 lb card stock

to do the base and then used a Fun Stampers Journey embossing

folder pieces to glue it to.  I wanted to make snow on my 

simple church roof so i used some modeling paste and 

glittered it up really good with glitter from Stampendous 

that i had in my stash.  I think that on my next one i would add a cross

 to the front of the church and maybe some icicles would be

pretty too... It was really fun to make you all need to try this!!

Here is a photo of the Deco Art modeling paste that i used
for the snow.  It dries really quick and it's light enough
to use on the paper without weighing it down.

Here is a photo of the die pieces as you would get them.

And lastly here is a lighted shot from the windows.  It would

be fun to put a light in the bottom so that you could have it

glisten at night with all your other decorations or in the tree!

Maybe do a small cut that you could put a battery operated tea

light into and out when you need it.  Hmmm i will have to figure

that one out for the next one :)

Be sure and check out my team mates blogs and see

what they came up with too for their projects and if you

make one be sure and leave your link so that we can share

it on the Spellbinders facebook page soon..

Latisha Yoast

Julia Stainton
Beck Beattie

Thanks so much for stopping over today!