Coming to America.. Oh..and a Confession!

It's been a while so time to catch up and share what I have been up to and what I have in store the next few weeks.
Today I am going to be running a Decoart mixed media workshop at Barjan b Crafts in Leicester so really looking forward to that and on Sunday I will be travelling up to a new venue for me, The Craft Den in South Yorkshire to hold another workshop, by my calculations that's 554 miles driving this weekend so why I am writing this post at 3am this morning I have no idea lol!

I am flying out to the US in just over a week for 11 days to visit Decoart in Stanford Kentucky and boy am I excited, can't wait to meet everyone and take a look around.
I fly into Detroit first which is approx 8 hrs, then fly from Detroit to Lexington Blue Grass airport in Kentucky, luckily for me flying tends to send me asleep and to be honest I am normally catching Z's before the flight even takes off!
I am determined to post regular to facebook on my visit so I promise to keep you all updated.

Ok before I continue it's confession time....  I know some of you are aware of my past and my involvement with glitter, for those of you unaware here goes!
I used to own a creative studio that also held Children's birthday parties, one of the party options were Glitz parties where children would make bath bombs, glitter body gels and so on, needless to say cosmetic glitter was involved and that stuff gets everywhere,  I eventually earned the name of Twinkle in the local drinking hole because I was always covered in the stuff.
Now my housemate at the time was the main instigator of this nickname and delighted in calling me it, my revenge was imminent! I secretly poured half a bottle of Decoart's very fine sprinkle-on glitter Glamour dust into his shampoo and mixed this thoroughly, lets just say...... he twinkled for weeks lol!  (sorry Clive) :)

So here goes... (warning this may shock) a couple of projects combining Decoart glamour dust and Decoart glass stains on glazed white ceramics.

Heart Plaque



4x4" white tile

6x6" white tile using just the glass stains and an Americana Gold writer.



Drizzling the glass stains looks very cool.

Next up is Decoart So Soft fabric paint Painted onto a tshirt  using a brush, stamped and painted through stencils! They are soft, like fabric dyes, but do not require the addition of a medium or heat setting.

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Bye for now,

Twinkle!

Sally in Stitches!

Hi everyone,
I've not blogged for a few days as I have been so busy preparing samples for the Craft Hobby and Stitch Show,  both for my new stamps and for Decoart.
I finally finished Sally this afternoon!!! I have taken a few pictures before she gets bubble wrapped and taken away. Hopefully you will be able to see the scale of her in the second picture as I have placed an Americana paint bottle next to her tail.
I have used as many Decoart paints and mediums as possible on this project, I hope you like her!


Tomorrow is the final day to get everything packed before travelling up to the NEC.  I will be blogging each day while at the show and hope to see some of you there!
I will be on the Decoart Stand  B17 apart from when running workshops.

Andy

I Have No Idea

Where this came from and what its all about I have no idea!
It started out as an image transfer on a tile that went horribly wrong so rather than bin it I started doodling with different media and went along with it for the ride!
Mediums used include gesso, plaster, paper, enamelling, silicone, Distress ink, Versa magic ink, Stazon, Alcohol ink, Americana acrylic, paper, glass stains and Triple thick…Am I boring you yet!

The photo is not the best and the white dots you can see are Triple Thick acrylic glaze applied to look like rain drops when it catches the light.
Not sure what to do with it now though!

 

Have a good day,
Andy

Free craft projects available at http://www.andyskinner.org

 

Part 2. Sally Can’t Wait

I spent a few hours with Sally today and realised that this project is going to take more time than I originally thought, I do have three months but am going to have to spend more than a couple of hours a week on it.

So far I have used eleven products from the Decoart range, five from Personal Impressions and two from Decopatch, it is truly going to be a complete mixed media project!






Here is a close up of some of the detail using 3d writers, inks, glass paint and acrylics to form a henna tattoo style section within the patchwork.

I’m so busy at the moment so sorry for the lack of posting but things should be back to normal by the end of the week, fingers crossed!
Andy

Glass Paint

 This 6" x 6" bisque tile has first had a coat of Americana Warm White to seal. It was then decorated with Americana Glass Stains and Americana Writers.

Decoart Glass Stains work great on top of stamped bisque.
I have applied one coat of orange glass stain to give it a
new dimention.


Before

 After

Click picture for a larger view.

More Glass paint below... Can you spot the mistake? D'oh!
I NEED MORE STAMPS!...Donations anyone? :)