imagine - art journaling *13arts*

Imagine........

In my art journal today.

Made with the paints and mediums from 13arts.

Started to create the background with a mix of gesso and magic powder.

Made it real thick and applied it randomly to the pages.

Once dry, you can see the awesome effect from that magic powder:

Look at all the great cracks!

Had a stamp of the grass and I also drew some extra with a black fine liner.

After all the paints and stamping, I gave it another coat with some gesso to create a softer look.

Just love the textures created by the magic powder!

13arts products used:

 Pastel-Green

 Pastel-Berry

 Pastel-Lime

 Pastel-Turquoise

 Gesso

 MAGIC-Powder

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx

Trade Secrets - Helen Tilbury

Helen Tilbury, from her blog, Scrap Addict http://helentilbury.blogspot.nl/, invited me to participate in a Blog Article Series called “Trade Secrets” where she is working through the various areas of papercrafting, sharing her knowledge with “How to” posts on each different genre (ie layouts, cards, etc). 

This month she is talking about Off-the-Page projects, commonly known as OTP’s.

Not only is she sharing what she has learnt herself but she is ALSO shining the spotlight on others

‘’in the know” & compiling articles based on information given to her by each guest designer,

regarding their favourites & their process. 

Please support us both by popping over to see
my article in full, plus lots of other interesting content shared by Helen.

My article on Helen's blog: HERE

pumpkin *13arts*

Today a fall project, an altered pumpkin.

Found a bright orange plastic one and it had to be altered.

Took me quite some gesso but now it's more an Ingrid piece, don't you think?! :)

Started this project by covering the pumpkin with kitchen paper towel and a lot of gesso.

Added all the buttons and gears.

Mixed some glass filler and gesso and randomly applied it to the project.

Now it was time to add all the paints.

For the light green color I mixed the matte lime with the matte pistachio.

For the next step I sprayed the big 13arts paper flowers with the orange paint.

Glued all the other embellishments, a light touch of gesso and it's done!

Here is the original pumpkin.

The mix of gesso with the glass filler gives a great texture!

For these paper flowers I randomly applied some gesso before the paints.

Once dry, I again applied some more gesso to get this look.

This way it's easier to get and keep the whiteness of the gesso.

Some 13arts twigs with a touch of gesso.

Lovely textures.

Some cherry blossom flowers.

13arts products used:

 Pearl-Orange

 Pearl-Old-Gold

 Pearl-Black-graphite

 Matte-Salmon

 Matte-Pistachio

 Matte-Lime

 Chalk-Dark-Brown

 Glass filler

 Gesso

Twigs

 Paper-Flowers-White

 Cherry blossom flowers

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx

letterbox *13arts*

Today I have another altered project to share with you.
My daughter had bought a blanco wooden letterbox and she was so kind enough to let me alter it!

After some paints, flowers, pearls, gesso and even some stamping too, this is the final result:

I started this project by creating the background with a mix of magic powder and gesso.

Pressed some grey light grit into the wet mix.

Added all the paints.

Once dry, I gave it a touch with some gesso.

Seriously, I can't make any project without gesso! LOL

Stamped some small letters.

This wooden flourish piece was already on the box.

Purple flowers with a touch of the gesso.

Just love the effect of the gesso and magic powder effect.

Look at those big cracks, sooo yummy! 

These chipboard letters were given a coat with the white Splash ink.

 MAGIC-Powder

 Gesso

 Colored-Grit-Grey-Light

 Pastel-Lavender

 Pastel-Pink

 Chalk-Turqoise-Light

 Matte-Lavender

 Matte-Pink

 SPLASH ink

 Flowers Lavender

 Purple lilies

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx

sweet by Ingrid *13arts*

Made this canvas layout for the Scrap Around the World challenge.

13arts is guesting at this challenge this month with many prizes to win!

For more information: SATW-september

This project is based on this beautiful SATW moodboard:

And yes, this little cutie is me! 

Created the background with the flower mask and modeling paste.

Randomly added the paints and the splash inks, white and black.

Gave it a touch with gesso for a more light and dreamy look.

These flowers were lightly extra colored around the edges with the matte raspberry.

The butterflies were cut out from the fly away paper collection.

And of course some twigs. More colors in the 13arts store!

Outlined some edges of the flowers to let them stand out more.

13arts products used:

Modeling paste

Gesso

 Ayeeda-Paint-Matte-Raspberry

 Ayeeda-Paint-Matte-Cocoa

 Ayeeda-Paint-Matte-White

 Pearl black mist

 Splash ink

 Mask Flowers

 twigs

 Cherry blossom flowers

 Fly-Away paper collection

 Frame

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx

two tags - challenge#34 *13arts*

I have made two tags for the september challenge at 13arts.
Had these burlap tags for a while and thought they would be great for this challenge.

Challenge #34 Moodboard.

If you want to play too:  september-challenge-34

Created the background with some modeling paste and paints.

Added some stamping and the embellishments.

Colored the edges of the flowers and the edges of the tags with the matte raspberry paint.

Some 13arts twigs.

Some stamping.

13arts products used:

 Modeling paste

 Paint-Matte-Cocoa

 Paint-Matte-Raspberry

 Cherry Blossoms

 Paper flowers

 Twigs

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx

Fly away - art journaling *13arts*

Playing in my art journal! 

All the paints and other media are from 13arts.

The flowers were created with a mask and modeling paste.

For this project I used three colors,

Three colors in mists and the same colors in paints.

I randomly painted and stamped the sides.

Used some gesso to get more white space in the journal.

The chipboard butterflies were given a coat of gesso and some letter stamping.

Outlined the edges with the matte lavender paint.

Outlined the flower edges with a white marker to let them stand out more.

Some more stamping.

13art products used:

Pastel salmon

Pastel lavender

Pastel pink

Matte lavender

Matte pink

Matte salmon

Modeling paste

Mask flowers

gesso

All of these paints and the mask are in the 13arts store, just click HERE

Enjoy your day!

Ingrid xxx