Good morning all!
This morning we welcome our DTMSM winner from November's challenge, Jackie of Creating without crayons who is sharing her project made for our theme and she is going all out with Gelatos...
Hello, Jackie P Neal here!
To begin, I am a mainly
self-taught, mixed media artist,loving all sorts and types of mediums
and products- texture and color exciting my muse!
I live
in a rural town in upstate New York,called Wolcott,on a small "farmette"
of 13 acres,as we like to call it.Unfortunately for me, but good for
the pocketbook,we live about 50 miles from any art supply stores! Ugh!-
thank you Internet shopping!! heehee Everyday life for me is spending
time with my husband and Golden Retriever; either gardening, walking the
woods, putting up vegetables,organizing in the pole barn or in my
studio playing and making art.
My life is truly blessed and I'm really so glad to be able to share some of it with others- find more at my blog~ www.creatingwithoutcrayons-
WOW! was I ever thrilled to be asked to be a guest designer for Country View Challenges!!
On
any given day, the inspiration that is shown on CVC is to say the
least, Incredible- so when I was notified by Chris, I was over the moon
excited! Next came the mind racking- what shall I create?
Well if you follow along I'll show and tell and hopefully will have
inspired you to go try something new!!
My project this month was a piece created by using or doing something new to me. I had to think hard on this because I like to try everything once, sometimes twice-teehee so I wasn't sure of what I would do. Recently I was watching a tutorial from a friend's blog, Susanne Rose
where she was using Gelatos on ATC's. Light-bulb moment here - I
remembered in the beginning of the year, I won a set of Gelatos from Retro Cafe' Art and had not yet used them!! This is what I created, a mini piece of wall art, featuring my using Gelatos for the first time.
For
my substrate I used a piece of cardstock that had nice edging on both
sides. I used the blue Gelato around the outside edges,smoothed in with
my fingers and just inside of the blue on the top I used gold which was
feathered-in to the blue. My next thing was to use a piece of scrap
paper and apply with gel medium some vintage text. On this I used the
same technique, applying Gelatos blue and gold, with my favorite art
tool, my fingers! This time I used more of the gold, filling up the
center of the text. Next was to add a few sprays of Lindy's
starbursts,which is seen better in close-up. After that I added some
DecoArt crackle glaze to give that vintage look to the center piece. This
part was then adhered to the substrate and scrap art graphics by itKuPiLLi
were added.
The tiny gold stars at the top are pieces of gold gilt-applied with gel medium.And then I added just a hint of liquid glitter to the edges.On the bottom I added a smaller piece made the same way and attached this with a series of 3 jump rings. And to this hanging piece, I added my quote.
Thank you so much for joining me and many thanks and big hugs to Chris and the others at CVC for asking me along! Jackie P Neal
This is beautiful Jackie, what a success - thank you!
If you have been given some new crafty items then we'd like to see what you've done with them. We don't mind whether you're an expert or a beginner, just tell us what it is that's new to you. Our prize winner is chosen at random so everyone that enters has a fair chance of winning. We also have four blog badge winners, our Top 3 and our DT Members' Special Mention and all winners are invited to join us as guests on our DT for the following month.
Nikki will be here on Wednesday so we hope you'll make that a date! Have a fun day!
Chris and the team xxx
