A new amazing Guest Creative Guide

Welcome to this month's Guest Creative Guide post and we have a fantastic artist who makes the most incredible time worn and grungy projects using loads of different mediums, paints and usually somewhere there will be some incredible textured embossing. I would like to introduce you to the amazing Dee Adams, let's go take a look at what she has designed for us today to fit in with our current challenge 'The Magic of Three'.

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Hi everyone! I am very pleased to have been asked by Brenda to be your guest today. If you are not familiar with my work I love the aged worn look, metals, embossing and generally shabby, bit like myself! I also quite like a mythical feel to art but generally love it all inks and paints and my passion is mixed media.

Today I have taken the topic literally and gone with what it says on the tin! A wooden number 3. 

I started with various bits including texture sand paste, art stones, anything that will achieve texture.

You then glue it to the wood frame just don't use salt.

Next came a good coat of black gesso followed by raw umber to cover the three.

   DecoArt's weathered wood came next and once this was dry it was followed with DecoArt Media crackle paint.

 I swiped the uneven areas with a Versamark ink pad then I sprinkled Stampendous chunky gold embossing powder over the areas and gave a quick shake as you only want it to take in those places.

Once happy with the embossing powder I followed with the beads these were glued into position which can be quite messy.

Raw umber, Quinacridone gold & Prussian Blue hue were used to highlight and age the project around the embossed areas.

A very watery wash of Quinacrine Gold and Raw Umber were used over the crackle I think I did two coats but it's up to you.

The inside surface was a watery wash of Prussian Blue.

I made a little embellishment with a glass pebble and a clock stamp which I glued to the bottom curve then, I glued three gem stones to the upper curve.

For the butterfly I used a Stampendous butterfly from their Jumbo Butterfly Trio. I used watercolour  to paint it on a base coat of clear gesso. Beads were used to create the body of the butterfly.

I hope you have all enjoyed my interpretation of this amazing challenge.

'The Magic Of Three'

Thank you it has been a pleasure to join you

Cheers Dee x

My personal blog www.deeadamsart.blogspot.co.uk

designer blog: www.tando-creative.blogspot.co.uk

designer blog: www.sandee-and-amelie.blogspot.co.uk

designer @: www.stampendous.com

https://www.facebook.com/deeadamsart.blogspot.co.uk

Pintrest https://uk.pinterest.com/grungyart/

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What did I tell you? Dee has used all her favourite supplies to design and create this amazing project for us, just everything she has used fits together amazingly to produce such wonderful grungy, aged and textured results. Thank you so much Dee for altering this number three in such a brilliant way and sharing the steps with us. I don't know about anyone else but I want to get making and follow your steps to see what happens for me and I'm sure there will be lots of people reading this who have been inspired in the same way.

Well after you've left some love for Dee and hopefully popped over to her blog as well, I hope you'll spend a moment looking at our challenge that still runs till next Thursday.  We've had some fabulous projects entered already but there's always time and room for some more so we'd love to see you there.

Have a wonderful bank Holiday weekend if you're in the UK, that usually means for,a lot of people there is an extra one day holiday on Monday to look forward to.

Take care and see you Monday for the next DI installment.

hugs Brenda, Dee and the Creative Guides. xxx

The Magic of Three

Hi everyone......it's Annie of Curious "N' Crafty Treasures here as your host for this month's April Challenge and the theme is " The Magic of Three".  

Here are the challenge details :

"Using Three of something adds more interest and power whether it is a conversation, art or numbers. Let us see you use three of something in your challenge project (numbers, techniques, stamps, colours, words, products - the list is endless!) 

Let us know what your magic 3 components are and ensure your project is in our vintage; shabby; mixed media; art journaling; industrial, timeworn or steampunk styles that we favour".

Further Travelling Instructions are  also available on the Sidebar.

As always the Creative Guides have composed the most fabulous projects for this months challenge theme and I am sure you will be inspired.........grab a cuppa and enjoy the journey!!!!

 Annie

For my project I have used Three of Tim's Tiny Houses, three of his finials, three of his Quote Chips and various other products by Tim, including papers, number, arrow, Idea-Ology Botanicals and Paper Dolls. For more details/photographs please visit my blog HERE

Deb

I had so much fun exploring how many ways I could incorporate trios of design elements into my mixed media frame for our Magic Of Three challenge.  Hope you can stop by my blog to find out how many threes I managed to use!

Julia

I've been wanting to use my new City Scape dies and Annie's Magic of 3's challenge was the perfect chance to get them out -  I have 3 houses, 3 trees - a flower, airplane and car to carry your eye around my little scene, and 3 sentiments inside the box (one is on the floor and you can't read it in this photo!)

If you'd like to see that 3rd sentiment and details on how I put this together - please stop over at my blog.

Alison 

I've got a tiny trio for you - an ATC of trilling, chirping birds, perched amidst the springtime leaves.  There are three words to go with my three birds - all adding up to the Magic of Three.  Do come over to Words and Pictures if you'd like to see the details.

S@ndy

 

 Such a fun challenge - I got to go stash diving for this one and came up with lots of great items & used them quite literally, including a 3 letter word as a final touch.

Brenda

I loved playing in my A4 journal for this great challenge from Annie layering lots of paints for the background and layering up bits and pieces for my collage, as you can imagine I enjoyed every minute of it. If you would like to see how it all came together then please pop over to Bumblebees and Butterflies to see my magic of three in more detail.

 Amanda

 For my 'Magic of 3' project I have created an art panel working with quite a few variables of 3 .There are more details on my blog if you fancy popping by to find out what they are. 

Sara Emily

I had a lot of fun putting the Magic of Three to use on my wall hanging. I hope you will take a minute to stop by sarascloset for close-ups and to see how I made my tags and altered my embellishments. You might even want to guess how many groups of three I used on this--I stopped counting after 10!

Jennie

Like everyone else I have been experimenting with the new Distress Oxides and decided to use three of my experimental tags for my little project but realised I also ended up using three colours, three cogs and three labels !! Please do join me over at Live The Dream if you would like to see the wonderful Distress Oxide backgrounds before I covered them up!

Tracy Evans

It's a long time since I have created a journal page and this challenge seemed the perfect opportunity to put that right. I love using three of anything in a composition and my pages have multiples of three in abundance. Please pop by my BLOG for step by steps.

Nikki

I had great fun playing with distress paints, crackle texture paste and distress crazing collage medium on this large MDF tag. There are lots more details over at Addicted to Art today.

Jenny

It has taken some time but finally my latest junk journal is ready to be revealed in full! During it's creation I have relied heavily on the Magic of Three as a design rule. Hop on over to my blog to see a video and close up photos of the contents.

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Now you can't fail to be inspired by all those wonderful projects!

We do hope you will join in with us on the Magic of Three Journey this month and you can link up your entires by using the Inklinkz below. 

(Do remember to check the Travelling Instructions to make sure you qualify for the prize draw and Pinworthy badges).

Our sponsor this month is Emerald Creek Craft Supplies who are offering a gift certificate to our Random Org winner. You can check out their online store HERE.

As always the Creative Guides choose three entries who are awarded our Pinworthy Badges and the chance to be a Guest Creative Guide in future challenges.

Best wishes in the challenge Annie and The Creative Guides

xxxxx

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