Rudolph Days - Reindeer Family

I think this is a record for me, 3 posts in 3 days.  I wanted to join in the fun at Rudolph Days, so I pulled out some new dies and created a winter wonderland.

 

 

I started by creating my night sky with my Brushos in Prussian Blue and Violet.  Then I stamped the pine trees with Distress Ink in Pine Needles.  The stamp is by Impression Obsession.  Then I took my silver gelato and made a moon in the top left corner.  

 

Then I made a stencil using 2 of my circle hand punches.  I'm not sure if the bigger circles are 1/4 or 1/8, but the smaller one is 1/16, because McGill had enough sense to put the size on the handle, but the other one doesn't.  I'm not even sure who made the other punch. I smeared on some heavy gel medium (which dries clear) and sprinkled on some glitter.  I got the idea in part from this YouTube video.  I think you can kinda see the sparkle a little better in this picture.

 

 

 

The birch trees are a Memory Box die and I added quick drying spackle to give them some texture.  The deer and bird are Impression Obsession dies and colored with Brushos.  For the momma and baby deer, I used lt. brown and papa deer was dk. brown.  For the bird, I used brilliant red.

 

For the snow mounds, I freehand drew cut lines as guides for cutting them.  Then I panted them with Elmers glue and cover them with glitter.  I used rolled pieces of scor-tape to attach everything.

 

I used snippets for all the die cuts and the snow mounds.  So in addition to Rudolph Days, I'm going to enter this over at the Playground.

 

June Rudolph Days Challenge

 

Pixies Snippets Playground Week 183

 

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Gothic Character Piggy Bank

First, I want to welcome my 2 new followers: Carol L of Our Little Inspirations Blog and Kathy of KT Krafts.  I know Carol had an issue with the follow button, so I'm glad the work around work for her.

So this was a project in the works that I wasn't necessarily planning to finish this weekend, but I saw that Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog's challenge was Let's Go Gothic.  And since I was already using 4 of the Tiddly Inks's Gothic characters, I figured I would finish this project and post it over there. 

This is going to sound like a random tangent, but I have point, so stay with me.  I have horrible allergies. Due in part to living in Florida and probably in larger part to the fact that I have 2 dogs and 2 cars and I'm allergic to both.   So I go through a fair amount of tissues.  And I dutifully recycle the boxes.  But about two months ago, I was looking at another empty squarish tissue box, and I thought, I'm sure I can come up with something crafty to do with that. And thus today's project was born.  Actually, this is the second box I started on.  The first one is still not done.  It is going to be a paint brush holder.

Today's project is a piggy bank.  I wanted somewhere I could put my spare change.  And store bought piggy backs are a hassle to get the money out of.  But a tissue box is designed so you can reach in and get the last tissue.  So I figured I just needed to pretty it up.   Here's the before picture.

 

 

And the after pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



I started by using my silhouette to print and cut 4 Tiddly Inks digi stamps.  Then I colored the images with Copics. 

I'll start with Precious, since I colored her first. 

You will notice that I did not get creative with the shading of her skirts. As I mentioned a few posts ago, I can never figure out where the shadows and highlights go.  Although, I am happy with how her hair came out.  This is one of my favorite color combos.  I know it isn't very gothic but since this is for me, I went with what I like.   For the background, I tried to create a peachy base with my Brushos but it didn't work.  So I pulled out Distress Ink in Dried Marigold and colored the base.  Then I dropped a few crystals of turquoise Brushos.  I used mod podge to attach the base and then to attach the image, with a coat over top to protect it.  I was happy that the mod podge didn't smear the Brushos or the printer ink.  I've used it over images stamped and colored with Copics before, but this was a first time with a digi image.

Next is Owlette.

For her, I used one of the sample cards on the Tiddly Inks website for an assist with the shading of the skirt.  And at first, I didn't think it had blended well enough and I wasn't all that happy with it, but when I came back to it a few days later, I was pleased with how it came out.  Background was created with Brushos in Ost. Blue, Ultra Marine and Cobalt Blue. 

Now Pricilla.

I did a Google search to ideas for coloring her skirts.  And I forgot to keep track of what image I used as the inspiration.  Although, none of the images I found had black hair and she was just begging for black hair.  So I went with the black, and I don't love her hair.  Her background was Turquoise (?), Violet and Purple.  I did figure out that Purple has more red tones in it and the Violet is more blue.  So I won't be using the Purple with the blues again.

Finally, Maria.

I could not find an image for an assist with coloring her skirts, so I tried it on my own.  And I'm feeling underwhelmed.  As soon as I got done with her, I realized that the highlight should have been where I put the shadow.  To create the pink background, I used Ost. Red and White.  Then after that dried, I added a few crystals of Leaf Green. 

I was just looking at he and realized she is crooked.  Oh well.

Here's the top. 

 

Brushos in Turquoise, Violet and Sea Green.  I used a Spellbinder's oval die for the opening.  It wasn't exactly the right size, so I added some liquid pearls to over the cardboard that was showing.  Oh, and I removed the plastic that was in the hole. 

Copics Used:

All the faces - E000 & E00 

Precious

Dress - YR00, YR01, YR02, BG10, BG13, BG15, BG18

Umbrella - V12, V17, C-7, C-3

Hair - E00, E08, E09

Owlette

Dress - B14, B16, B18, B39, BG000 (meant to grab B000), B32, B34, B37

Owl - E21, E23, E27, Y38

Hair - Y11, Y15, Y17

Feather - V05

Priscilla

Dress - v12, V15, V17, BG000, BG01, BG05, BG09

Hair - C-0, C-1, C-3, C-7, C-10, 100 (Yep I used all the cool greys I have)

Maria

Dress - RV000, RV02, RV04, RV06. YG06, YG09

 

Hair - E21, E23, E27, E29

As I said, I'm going to enter this over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog - Challenge 160 Let's Get Gothic


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Brushos

Here is the very first project I made with my new Brusho Crystal Colours.  And I love playing with them. 

My Dad's birthday is in June, so I have to come up with 2 masculine cards each June.  And masculine cards are not my forte.  So I was having a hard time coming up with an idea for a Father's Day card (I made his birthday card for an Artsy Inker's challenge back in March) so I pulled out my new toy. 

I used Leaf Green, Emerald and Sea Green for the card base.

For the focal piece, I used Cobalt Blue, Ostwald Blue, Ultramarine, Prussian Blue, and Turquoise.

Here's what they look like before I stamped on them.

 

Because it is so humid in Florida, I haven't worked up the courage to poke holes in the tops of the containers like I've seen in so many you-tube videos.  Instead, I used a soft dry brush that I dipped into the container.  I tapped most of what the brush picked up back into the container and then tapped a small amounts of the crystals onto the paper and then spritzed with water.

 Once dry, I stamped the Dad stamp with Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. The stamp is by Stampendous. I matted it with black. 

 

 

I know there have been some attempts by folks for Pixie's playground to follow me and they have encountered problems. Thanks so much for trying.  Since this seems to be a persistent issue, I created a page with the directions Mary found for a work around when the join this site button is being twitchy.

 

I will have some more posts this week of projects I've made with my new Brushos.  They are seriously addictive.

 

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