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My new art work- Pride and Butterfly Paradise

November 1, 2016December 17, 2016Craftie Jellie

I’m trying to remember to post my artwork on my blog. Hopefully I’ll add more photos later. This is a style of art I’ve developed using acrylics with some gold leaf, glitter and mica. It is difficuly to photograph as the background contains layers of paint and is very glossy. The focal image is made using acrylic and specialist oil paints and has a stained glass feeling.

The first is called Butterfly Paradise.

The second is Pride.

I’d like to enter the following challenges

Creative Loops- Animal Magic

Artistic Impressions- Anything goe s

Get Creative Challenges- Anything goes

Sparkle and Sprinkle- Use loose glitter, embossing powder and/or flock.

We Love To Create- Anything Creative

Crafty Friends Challenge- Anything Goes

Creative Fingers- anything goes

CRAFT challenge- add ribbon, sparkle and shine

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A hexie pattern

September 1, 2016Craftie Jellie

My friend Kristina makes beautiful paper pieced bags. She was working on one this morning at our craft group as a commission piece. She was arranging the paper pieced hexies (you start by tacking them to paper hexagons) in different patterns to work out how she will stitch them. I took a photo of her hexies and then used CraftArtist 2 Professional to manipulate them digitally by

Using a hexagon punch to ‘cut out’ each of the hexies
Copy and arrange the hexagons into a pattern
Add a wood background

Day 7 of my Pattern A Day challenge

August 30, 2016Craftie Jellie

The seventh day of my 100 day challenge today over at the 100daysproject. There are lots of interesting projects over there. Find out more about my individual challenge on my day 1 post here.

Today I drew more patterns that I will be using in my colouring calendar I sell. This time I was drawing a buddleia pattern. I had a look at the flower in my garden and then worked out a pattern based on it. It took me a couple of hours to complete a flower spike. This is just a sneaky peak for the calendar. For the sake of this challenge I’ve taken a photo of a section of the flower and then manipulated the colour digitally using CraftArtist 2 Professional.

I used my Sakura Micron pensfor the drawing .

Please cheer me on with my challenge and follow me on instagram if you are over there (any pointers are welcome as I have no idea what I am doing on Instagram at the moment!!).

I’d like to enter the following challenges which are all anything goes (and I think O.K. with a drawing project). Do go and check out the amazing blogs…

Digichoosday

Stamp Art Papel

Sunny Day Crafting

Throught The Craftroom Door

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Day 6 of a pattern a day (my 100day challenge)

August 29, 2016Craftie Jellie

Another drawn pattern for day 6 of my 100 day challenge today over at the 100daysproject. Do head over there and look at the various projects (just click the looking glass icon to see the projects).

My challenge is PAD- a pattern a day. My aim is to spend time every day on a creative project involving creating or using a pattern. I am also using this as a chance to get started on instagram elaine_achelois. At the moment I feel a bit lost with how it works so any help is welcome.

Today my pattern is based on eyes- it took me about 2 hours to finish the pattern in the initial shape. I used my Sakura Micron pens for the drawing. I used CraftArtist 2 Professionalto copy and tesselate the shapes and add the backgound I made a couple of days ago (tinted black).

Please cheer me on with my challenge and follow me on instagram if you are over there.

Challenges

I’d like to enter the following challenges (I’ve checked the rules and I hope they are happy with drawings being entered)

Come and Get It Challenges– Black and white (plus one)

Robyn’s Fetish Challenge Blog– Anything goes

Love to create– Anything creative/ mixed media goes

Day 5 of my Pattern A Day 100 day challenge

August 28, 2016Craftie Jellie

I’ve made a pattern with ink today for the fifth day of my 100 day challenge today over at the 100daysproject. There are lots of interesting projects to see over there (use the search icon to find them) You can find out more about my individual challenge on my day 1 post here.

I started with Sheena Douglass Stamping Cardand brushed Spun Sugar Distress ink around the edges.

I used my pink ZIG Art and Graphic Twin Watercolour pen on my mat with some water spritzed on it and then brushed it across the card to give a stripy watercolour effect.

I had cut a chevron stencil from sticky vinyl and stuck the waste this card to make the zig zag pattern. I then sponged Picked Raspberry distress ink on the top left and bottom right and brushed Dusty Concord distress ink
and Peacock Feathers distress inkacross.

I then used the same distress inks with a grungy flower stamp (free with a magazine and I don’t know the manufacturer) to create an additional layer of pattern.

I also added my usual copyright information etc. using CraftArtist 2 Professional.

Please cheer me on with my challenge and follow me on instagram if you are over there.

I’d like to enter the following challenges:-

The Pencil Case- anything goes

Turtle Soup Forum- use flowers

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Day 4 of A Pattern A Day (my 100 day challenge)

August 27, 2016August 28, 2016Craftie Jellie

The fourth day of my 100 day challenge today over at the 100daysproject. You can find out more about my individual challenge on my day 1 post here.

Today I’m having a high pain low energy day so I decided to take a quick photo of the pattern made within an allium seed head in my garden. It makes me think of a sunburst. I added my usual copright using CraftArtist 2 Professional.

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My 100 day challenge- A Pattern A Day 3

August 26, 2016Craftie Jellie

The third day of my 100 day challenge today over at the 100daysproject. It is inspiring seeing all the different creative projects people are doing so do go and look. You can find out more about my individual challenge on my day 1 post here.

Today I tried something quite different for me. Although I do quite a lot of hybrid crafting and mixed media I rarely focus on digital art. Icreated the various digital components, including the background and then manipulated, arranged and coloured them using CraftArtist 2 Professional. I also added my usual copyright information etc.

Please cheer me on with my challenge and follow me on instagram if you are over there (any pointers are welcome as I have no idea what I am doing on Instagram at the moment…..what is the best way to get connected with people with similar interests?).

I decided to use the digital embellishments and papers I made to help create this card using CraftArtist 2 Professional.

I’d like to enter the following challenges …

Turtle Soup Challenge– using this picture for inspiration

Digitally Sweet Challenge- Floral

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My 100 day challenge- Pattern A Day 2

August 25, 2016August 25, 2016Craftie Jellie

The second day of my 100 day challenge today over at the 100daysproject. There are lots of interesting projects over there. Find out more about my individual challenge on my day 1 post here.

Today I drew some patterns that I will be using in my colouring calendar I sell. I start by drawing the outlines- leaves today. Then I study the subject- in this case it was easy as I have lots of different types of leaf in my garden.

I design patterns based on the patterns I can see in the subject.

I used my Sakura Micron pensfor the drawing (there are various nib sizes allowing a range of fine lines and they are archival quality).

It takes me a couple of hours to complete three leaves due to the detail. The artwork for the calendar is completely hand drawn so each month takes a few days. For the sake of this challenge I’ve taken a photo of the leaves I completed today and then manipulated them digitally using CraftArtist 2 Professional to produce a complete project. I also added my usual copyright information etc.

Please cheer me on with my challenge and follow me on instagram if you are over there (any pointers are welcome as I have no idea what I am doing on Instagram at the moment!!).

I’d like to enter the following challenges which are all anything goes (and I think O.K. with a drawing project). Do go and check out the amazing blogs…

Crafting With An Attitude

Crafty Girls Creations

DL.Art

Little Miss Muffet challenges

Southern Girls Challenge

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100 day challenge- a Pattern A Day

August 24, 2016August 25, 2016Craftie Jellie

I am starting a 100 day challenge today over at the 100daysproject. Do head over there to have a look at the various projects.

My challenge is PAD- a pattern a day. This will be quite a flexible project due to my wide range of creative interests! My aim is to spend time every day on a creative project involving creating or using a pattern- drawing/ painting patterns, photographing patterns, creating patterns digitally, sewing with patterns or crafting using pattern. I am going to tie this in with getting started on instagram elaine_achelois. Lots for me to learn with this.

For my first PAD I wanted to create a title page for my project. I created the text on the computer using open letters for PAD and then printed it onto graphics paper. I then drew the patterns to decorate the title page and fill in PAD. The patterns are based on henna patterns. I used my Sakura Micron pensfor the drawing (there are various nib sizes allowing a range of fine lines and they are archival quality).

Please cheer me on with my challenge and follow me on instagram if you are over there (any pointers are welcome).

I’d like to enter the following challenges

Craft Your Passion- always anything goes

Crafty Boots Challenge- anything but a card

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Hand painted OOAK shopping bag- I’d rather be on holiday!

April 8, 2016Craftie Jellie

I’ve painted a new long handled tote bag for my Etsy shop. This was inspired by my mum- we sometimes call her Mrs Holiday because she is a big fan of cruises now and when she isn’t on one she is talking about wanting to be on one or how marvellous they are. I would have put I’d rather be cruising on the bag but it might be taken the wrong way 😉

I plan my rough composition on paper first. I started by drawing the outlines with Derwent Inktense Blocks
Inktense blocks. I then applied layers of inktense (blocks for washes of colour and pencilsfor detail) painting on some Golden Gac 900 Fabric Painting Medium between each layer to set the inktense (it actually turns it to ink).

I think Inktense are becoming my favourite medium as I love the variety of ways you can use them. I also love being able to use them on some differemt surfaces. I love painting bags as shopping bag totes are an essential item and I love being able to have personalised one of a kind bags which take my art outside the 4 walls of houses and exhibitions!