A little Bit of Coco Chanel - Mixed Media Art on Canvas

After seeing Emily's superb artwork on Canvas, I was fully inspired to create my very own.  

Ever since I was little, fashion always fascinated me one way or another.  I remember sketching fashion models with the latest and the greatest styles of my time. Looking back, I wish I kept all those old sketches.

As you will notice, Red dominates my mixed media art work.  My favorite colors happen to be red, black and White and I tried to incorporate that color palette onto my work. Also in my opinion these colors are classics and will never fade. I just love this quote by Coco Chanel " Fashion Fades, only Style remains the same " and how true this is.

Moving along to the details of my creation. The canvas size I used was 12 by 14 inches and I covered it completely with the 7 gypsies 6 x 6 paper pack called collection from the Journey.  If you look closely to the center of the canvas, you will notice a young lady sitting in a red chair drinking a cup of coffee or tea. This image was from a Scrapbooking magazine, and I applied the image transfer technique to place it on to the canvas.  I must warn you this technique gets a little messy. On the left hand side, I used stamp stickers from K& CO to give it a border look. I also used the Fashion Doll set from quick Kutz to create the sizzling model in the black and white outfit.  I finally finished it off with some more images from Graphic 45 and Tim Holtz distress Inks.  

I hope I covered all the details.  I also hope this will inspire you to give Mixed media Art on Canvas a try. Thanks for dropping by and have a great week everyone !!!!

Round and Round We Go

A circle card is this weeks Mojo.  Welcome everyone for another terrific  bellarific Friday challenge which was to create a circle card and here is what I came up with.

Introducing Lizzy Laptop. Isn't she the sweetest image ever and she reminds me of me except for the bathrobe part, I prefer lounging in my fleece PJ's.  I stamped her on Bellas bestest white paper and colored her  with Tim Holtz Distress inks.  I had never used the inks to color an image before and I was curious as to how it would turn out and I must say it doesn't look bad at all. With a small paint brush, ink and a tiny bit of water is all you need to color and the best part is it's a lot less expensive then prisma pencil crayons or Pablos.


Here is the video tutorial for my card, hope you enjoy it.  



Next weeks Bellarific challenge is a Sketch I have created so I hope you will join in on the fun and give the sketch a shot. Well everyone I am off to visit what the awesome babes have created with the circle card so make sure to check out Emily's blog for all the awesome eye candy. Before I forget here is the sketch.

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for stopping by !!!

Tim Holtz Alterations

I am back with some awesome news about the Tim Holtz Alterations Dies. I just purchased the two dies as you see above and already cut out the Heart wings last night and started playing around with it. Let me tell you they cut beautifully in my cuddlebug. I am going to be making a video and showing you some tips and techniques with these and other Tim Holtz products. The possibilities are truly endless and you can do wander with them. My next purchase will be the flower die to make for my own flowers for scrapbook page layouts, mini albums, cards and for gift wrapping.

Well that is all have have for you for today but do come back and check out my video on these two dies.