alarm clock *13arts*

Altered an alarm clock with a photo of my two girls.

Found an old alarm clock at a local flee market.

Removed all of the inside and gave it some coats with gesso.

Added some magic powder to the gesso to get a more firm coat.

Painted the flowers with the colors.

Added the paints and some water to let them blend a bit.

The chipboard word "love".

Gave it a coat with the white Splash ink.

I used the Splash ink white, black and turquoise.

Some extra gesso as a finishing touch to get a more fresh look.

I wanted to use this long shaped ornament on another project but I pressed to hard so it brook.

Can't throw anything away and decided these two pieces could be well used for this project! lol

13arts products used:

 Chalk-Indigo

 Chalk-Turquoise

 Chalk-Turqoise-Light

 Matte-Pistachio

 Matte-Turquoise

 Gesso

 MAGIC-Powder

 Flowers

 Chipboard-Winter-Tales-words

 SPLASH ink

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx

two mini winter cakes *13arts*

Today I have two mini cakes in two different styles.

They can be opened so there is some room for a little note or present,
perfect for the holidays or any other special occasion.

One is painted with the new colors from the store, pastel and chalk dirty pink.

The other is with the new paper collection, Winter Tales.

Which one do you prefer?

My favorite set for creating some texture:

glass filler, fine grit, mika flakes, microspheres and glass beads.

I started this pre-made cardboard mini cake by painting it all with two layers of gesso.

Painted with the new colors, pastel dirty pink and chalk dirty pink.

Made a mix of gesso, modeling paste and some magic powder to imitate some whipped creme.

Added all the glass filler, grit, beads and flakes for the texture.

Some gesso and splash white as a final touch.

Some decorative pink crystals.

Added some purple mika flakes to the flowers.

Love all the textures.

And here is my paper mini cake.

Started this one by decorating the sides with the new paper collection, Winter Tales.

Also the mix of gesso, modeling paste and magic powder to imitate the whipped creme.

Yummy textures! 

13arts products used:

 Paper Winter Tales

 Gesso

 Modeling paste

 MAGIC-Powder

 Colored-Grit-Grey-Light

 MIKA flakes

 Glass filler

 Glass beads

 Silver microspheres

 Pastel-Dirty-Pink

 Chalk-Dirty-Pink

 Decorative pink crystals

 Splash ink

 Paper flowers

 Gel medium

 Mika flakes purple

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx

create magic - art journaling *13arts*

Playing in my art journal for the november challenge at 13arts.

No plan, just playing and creating my own kind of magic! :)

If you want to join us, all the information can be found HERE

I started these pages with painting with the colors first.

Once dry, I added some white gesso by using an old credit card.

I used black gesso for the beautiful doily stencil.

And look at the other awesome new stencils from 13arts! 

You can find these and other new products in the store HERE

Randomly added some gesso.

Black gesso for the stencil, a bottle cap for the circles and a black fine liner for the small circles.

13arts products used:

 Stencil-Doily

 Gesso black and white

 Matte-Caramel

 Matte-Turquoise

 Matte-Cocoa

 METALLIC-Blue

Hope this post will inspire you to create your own magic! 

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx

chest of drawers *13 arts *

Another altered project on my blog today.

This piece, about 35cm high, got a lot of paints and gesso! :)

This piece will be in my, soon to be, scraproom.

My darling oldest daughter will leave the nest in january.

Of course I will miss her like crazy, but the idea of my own place makes me very happy! 

Started this project by glueing some paper towel with gel medium.

Glued all the embellishments, the gears and flowers.

Gave it all two coats with gesso.

Added all the paints and once dry, an extra touch with gesso, using a sponge.

Just love this technique. 

Starting with lots and lots of paints and ending with some gesso to create that more watercolor and softer look. 

The right side of the drawers.

I glued only the right side of this side with paper towel to create more texture.

Detail of the right side.

Had these paint tubes in my stash for a while.

Emptied the tubes in small containers. 

Don't want to waste any paint, right! :)

The left side of the drawers.

Here I glued some paper towel as well.

Detail of the left side.

Top view of the drawers.

Before all the paints I took a paintbrush and randomly painted the flowers with gesso.

Not all over but on several spots.

This will give the flower, after all the paints, a nice marbled look.

An extra coat with gesso to finish it off. 

These, original white, flowers are also in the 13 arts store.

For this flower I used more colors.

For the fronts I glued the paper towel all over.

I used an old credit card and a sponge for the final layer with gesso.

Love how the colors have blended.

I only used three colors for this project.

13arts products used:

 Pastel-Turquoise

 Pastel-Berry

 Pastel-Lime

 Gesso

 Gel-medium

 Paper-Flowers-White

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx