WOYWW 408

Hi, sorry yet again it's been a couple of weeks since I blogged.  The last time was the 5th March a day before my Father in Laws funeral that went really well.  Since then I'm afraid my dad passed away a week ago, it happened just as he went to bed.  He had been unwell but earlier that day things were looking up as he was discharged from the heart failure clinic.  Then as he went to bed he turned around and told mum he thinks he needs an ambulance as he was struggling to breathe, just as mum phoned he suddenly died, aged 76.  Obviously my heart aches and the only thing that is helping is my ART.  I decided to join in with WOYWW  (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday) this week as I love playing but as you all know recently I haven't been able to join in.  So here are my ultra messy trolley and a rather cleanish desk :-)

I have a few things going on my desk, paints at the back are to finish off a two journal

pages, I have also got some alcohol ink on yupo paper I was playing with.

I have just cleared the main part away from doing some steampunk tags for a swap

which I shall be blogging either tomorrow or Friday.  I have to admit

it was great playing with the steampunk theme, it's been ages since I last did one.

I also have a step by step as well so keep a look out. :-)

I have now just started a large peg for a swap so that's what I shall be

doing after typing up this post lol.

Nothing much has changed apart from my trolleys that definitely look like

I have been dumping on them.  Also you can see the two journal pages I am in

the middle of.

Right that's my messy area's and what I have been up to, how about you?  What's your creative desk look like? Why don't you pop on over to Julia's Blog and join in :-)

Happy Art :-)
Hugs Kezzy
xxxxx

Monster Inc Bookmark

Good evening, sorry it's been over a week, we have my Father In Laws funeral tomorrow so the last week has been busy.
Today I want to show you a bookmark I did for a swap.  I had so much fun with this, I can't actually remember what made me think of Monster Inc, I believe it was one of my new Stampotique monster stamps I wanted to use lol.  Everything I used is at the bottom of the post. :-)
I would like to enter the following challenges:-
Stampotique Challenge SDC268 - Add Ribbon or Lace - Sewed in ribbon between the front and back at the top of the bookmark so it feathers out brightly from the book it will be in.
That's Crafty Challenge - Just Words - I took the quotes from the book itself.
Simon Says Monday Challenge - Based On A Book - I used book paper behind the monsters, plus it's a book mark and Monster Inc was also a book :-)
Craft Stamper Magazine - Anything Goes Stamping (stamps I used are at the bottom of the post)
Mixed Media World - Anything Goes Mixed Media - I definitely used lots of different things, even felt which for me was different.  Plus lots of stencils, paint, watercolour pencils etc.

The swap was for two so each got a bookmark.

This is the front.  I will explain what I did later through the

close up pics.

The Back of the bookmarks

One showing back and one the front.  Luckily I had to make two lol, as

it's easier to put the pic on the link to challenges. 

Backgrounds.......

Both are made from heavy primed canvas from a pad.  Soft enough

to sew but both together make it strong enough not to rip.

On the blue background is a mix of Paperarsty blue Fresco paints,

which was just added with brush.  Next I used a Finnabair circle stencil

with purple Fresco paints.  I added some Pebeo Dyna iridescent paint

with my finger on the top of the circles.  I used a journal pen to draw 

around the circles.

The green background was pretty much the same except for the lime paint

was Dina Wakley and the green on the stencil background is Fresco paints,

using the Crafter's Workshop mini Blazony stencil.  I then filled in some of the

stencil parts with white and used black paint for eyeball using the Finnabair stencil.

I then used journal pens to draw around the eyes and the other stencil parts.

Before sewing both finished parts together I added some coordinating colour ribbons.

The Monster Inc emblem is made from stencil and sewing onto the background.

When I sewn the back and front together I use a bit of stuffing, really thin but to add

just a bit of softness.

On both the green and blue sides I used a mixture of Stampotique and Susana Loves Stamps.

They were stamped in Archival black and then coloured with Derwent Inktense Pencils.

I then re stamped them onto book paper that I had cut from book paper.  I then 

added the monsters on top after I had sewn the circles onto the bookmarks.  I then added

googly eyes and some gems.

The wording was stamped from Stampendous Alphabet stamps onto book paper

edging.  These were added to the bookmarks and edged with black stabilo pencil.

I hope you have enjoyed my post this evening.  I really appreciate you taking the time to look.
Happy Art :-)
Kezzy xxxxx

Products Used
Stamps - Stampotique (whisker monster with sign, feathery monster), Susana Loves Stamps (clueless, retail therapy), Stampendous (teeny tiny alphabet)
Paints - Paperartsy Fresco (smurf, snowflake, china, blue oyster, purple rain, lavender, wisteria, blueberry, limelight, hey pesto), Dina Wakley (lime), Distress (twisted citron, black soot), Pebeo Dyna (iridescent green yellow, iridescent violet blue), Daler Rowney Heavy Body (mars black, phthalo green)
Stencils - The Crafter's Workshop (mini blazony), Prima Finnabair (bubbles)
Mediums - Winsor & Newton (galeria matt medium), C Robinson & Co (universal lacquer), Judikins (micro glaze)
Colouring - Derwent Inktense Pencils - leaf green, spring green, sherbet lemon, fern, apple green, field green, iron green, iris blue, deep indigo, bright blue, violet, deep violet, sea blue, ink black
Journal Pens and Pencils - Staedtler Pencil (lumocolor permanent black), Stabilo All Pencil (black), Pilot Drawing Pen (black), Posco Paint Pen (white), Letraset Triamarker Marker (CG01)
InkPads - Archival jet black
Other - Gems, Book Paper, Sewing Thread, Googly Eyes, Ribbon