AlteredPages Artsociates

As you know this month Altered Pages is pairing up with Unruly PaperArts , a blogozine filled with creative ideas, art and inspiration.  Each month they cover a different theme ~ Aprils theme is Mail Art & Moos with a creative prompt of  Teacups & Tiaras.   Altered Page Artsociates are also incorporating laser cut chipboard from  Leaky Shed Studios .  If you've been following along this month I think you can tell we're all having great fun with it. Here is my offering for you today... a very British Postcard.... The teacup was painted with gesso then covered with two layers of the Silks Acrylic Glaze.  I used the Inca Gold Guilders Paste on the crown, rim of the tea cup and saucer.    To make the thin gold line around the outside edges of the postcard I used a scrap sheet of paper and positioned it so only the very edge of the postcard was showing.  I then rubbed the Guilders Paste over this exposed area and re...

This month Altered Pages is teaming up with Unruly PaperArts for some artsy fun! This month Unruly PaperArts April theme is Mail Art & Moos. Two of my favorite types of art to create so I was very excited. Each month Unruly PaperArts shares Reader Art Quest Creative Prompts ~ to inspire and encourage you to create art ~ they then request you to share that art. This months Reader Art Quest  prompts are "Teacups & Tiaras" along with the photo (shown below) - tea cups, tiara, peacock feathers, etc...  Beautiful isn't it?   As I took inspiration from both the theme for April - Mail Art and the Reader Art Quest creative prompts I came up with today's contribution... Royal Air Mail I like to start out with used envelopes for my mail art but finding one using stamps is few and far between anymore.... but luckily I had this envelope stashed away for use one day.  Just didn't know it was going to be for art!  I started of...

Roni here....don't you just love it when you get fun art supplies in the mail?  They just scream play with me and won't quit until you do.  Altered Pages is getting in so many fun new art supplies that I just had to place an order recently and when they arrived I just couldn't contain myself, I had to break them out and give 'em a whirl right then and there. I grabbed the first piece of paper I could find which happened to be a piece of watercolor paper that was a cut-off from a recent project.  It just so happens it's the perfect size to make a bookmark.  To start off I drew a quickie flower using a Micron Pen . I then added a layer of Silks glaze to the flower bits using my Niji Waterbrush ... I then added a bit of Niji Oil Pastels for the sky.  I blended the pastels, added a bit of pen work and finished the sky off with a clear layer of sparkle using the Wink of Stella brush. AP Products Used: Niji Waterbrush Niji Oil ...