Do You Believe In Fairies? by Teresa

Hello and good morning! 

I am thrilled to be here as part of the Colourcraft Design Team this year, and today I am sharing my first project with you all.

I love the clean bright colours you get using Brusho powders and wanted to create a pretty summery project as the sun has been shining here in the UK.

I began by taking a piece of mountboard and stencilled a floral design across the top corner using white modelling paste.

Once this was dry I mixed some Turquoise Brusho powder with water to create a wash and covered the whole panel. I added a sprinkling of Sea Green Brusho powder to the bottom right area and spritzed with water to activate it.

This created an interesting 'foliage' texture as well as adding a mottled effect on the turquoise wash.

I sped up the drying time with a heat tool then used a fan brush to speckle gold metallic acrylic ink across the piece. This has a really pretty shimmer to it, and really helps to add interest to the background.

I wanted a bit more texture along the bottom so added some coloured decorative sand mixed with gel medium. Only a little, but I feel it made a difference.

Next I took some die cut flowers and leaves and coloured with more Brusho powders. I just dabbed the colour on loosely with a paintbrush so as not to blend the colours together too much.

Now it was time to assemble the finished piece. I arranged the die cuts along the bottom and added my 'fairies' - Tim Holtz paper dolls with wings! I added some Stickles to the wings for extra sparkle. The figures are attached with 3d foam for dimension.

I stamped the sentiment and cut the words apart, inking the edges before gluing in place. I also added a border around the edge using Distress Ink.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and are inspired to create your own fairy garden! Thanks so much for stopping by today.

15g brusho

Clear Spray Bottle

Plastic Painting Knives

palette

Heat Gun

Easter Eggs with Metallic Acrylic Ink

March already??? Where has this year gone? Easter isn't for another few weeks, so now is the perfect time to start doing some fun Easter projects. I know that I have always wanted to blow out some eggs and do some funky designs on them, but have been afraid to! Well when I thought of this project I thought 'PERFECT time to conquer this fear...plus the internet must have tons of methods for doing this'. Guess what? The internet DOES have tons of methods for blowing out eggs, and the first one I tried worked really well. I used this link.

As you can see- I had some success! So how did this happen?

First I blew out ½ dozen eggs. The instructions were pretty good- some of my holes got a bit bigger than I would have liked, but such is life.

I then found some Metallic Acrylic Inks in my stash of art supplies and thought they would be fun to play with. So I used droppers and brushes and even paper towels to squirt, splatter and pat colors onto my eggs.

It was a lot of fun and the colors of these inks are amazing! 

I then let them dry in an egg carton and VOILA

Aren't they beautiful? If I want to make them hangable, it's incredibly easy as there are already two holes in them! Otherwise I think they are rather pretty in a bowl.

I hope you enjoyed this blog and please check out the Metallic Inks!