Happiness is a day at the beach. This quote is so true. There's nothing more i love than a day at the beach with my daughters. Collecting shells, playing in the waves and watching them play mermaids in the surf. This happy canvas was created with the love and joy a child has with there imagination at the beach.

​I started by attaching an old crochet shirt i tore up and an old doiley table cloth cut up. I used gel medium to attach it all to the canvas. I then covered the canvas in a deep blue acrylic paint. Once dry i covered the whole thing in white gesso.

​I then used Dylusions paint
(vanilla custard and calypso teal). These are fantastic base colours for this ocean theme.

​Then it was time to play with Lindy's sprays. I adore these sprays. Honestly my favourite art supply. I used (glory of the seas gold, yellow rose of texas and bayou boogie gold) to create the sand. I didn't take progress shots sorry.  These three colours work amazingly together. I used a baby wipe placed over the parts of the canvas i didn't want to over spray.

To create the water i sprayed (time travel teal, ocean breeze blue, tibetan poppy teal and buccaneer bay blue). 

Then using a stiff brush i lightly brushed white gesso over the blue fabric creating a sea foam look. Then i added a little Tim Holtz Distress Glitter (vintage photo) here and there creating some depth to the sand. I also lightly rubbed Finnabair wax (old denim) randomly over the blue fabric.

Then i used little birdie sparkle paste (mandarin glaze) over the sand and Tim Holtz Distress Glitter (antique linen) to add more shine to the canvas.  I used shells i've collected from the beach and some beads and charms.
I also rubbed a little bit of tim holtz wax
​(white gold) over sections of the doiley lace and around the edges of some of the shells. However this doesn't really show up in the photos.

I apologise for not taking progress photos of how i created the mermaid so i'll try my best to explain. The mermaid is a resin available instore.

I started by giving her a base coat. I used dylusions paint
​(vanilla custard) for her body, (tangerine dream) for her hair and (funky fuchsia) for her body.

​I first sprayed her body and face with lindy's sprays (bluebeard blue violet), the photo doesn't really show up her shine. Firstly i used (autumn maple crimson) on her tail, followed by (hi maintenance magenta). I then sprayed (prima donna purple) onto my messy mat and used a soft detail brush to highlight her tail. I also used this colour on her lips and eyes. Once dry i painted her hair with little birdie sparkle paste (mandarin glaze) and dotted her tail with finnabair opal magic (pink-blue) as well as on her bracelet.



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​I used letter beads to spell out the quote from the mood board picture.

Product's used from Randomarts:

dylusions paint,
(calypso teal,funky fuchsia, tangerine dream, vanilla custard)

Lindy's sprays,
(Prima Donna Purple, Hi Maintenance Magenta, Autumn Maple Crimson,
Bluebeard Blue Violet, Tibetan Poppy Teal, 
Time Travel Teal, Ocean Breeze Blue, Buccaneer Bay Blue,
Yellow Rose of Texas, Glory of the Seas Gold, 
Bayou Boogie Gold)

Finnabair Wax,
(White Gold, Old Denim)

Tim Holtz Distress Glitter,
(vintage photo, antique linen)

Little Birdie,
Sparkle Paste (Mandarin Glaze)

Finnabair Opal Magic (Pink - blue)

Resin casting (mermaid)

Other products;

White gesso, doiley fabric, shells, beads and charms.

​​I started this fun little canvas by covering in with book pages and plasters tape. Then i covered it in white gesso.

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I love using plasters tape in my projects. Its super versatile. On many occasions i cover the tape with texture paste, then remove it leaving behind fun little squares.

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I then attached these awesome wings. These are actually a necklace i found in a second hand store.


This beautiful ballerina dress resin is from the Randomarts store.


The wire panel background is a chipboard also available in store.


I then attached some white peals beads. I then covered it all in white gesso.


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I then used Lindy's Magical Shakers. (Polka Purple, Bavarian Blue)

 



​I adore Magical Shakers. I've only used them a few times so i'm still experimenting.

These are super simple to use, simply shake and add water from a spray bottle.

This photo doesn't show the subtle shimmer.

Then i added Lindy's sprays.
Saying i'm in love with these sprays is an understatement.


I used:
Maintenance Magenta
Prima Donna Purple
Ocean Breeze Blue
Tibetan Poppy Teal
​Buccaneer Bay Blue

For this months free post i decided to create this altered coffee jar.
I had the best time creating this piece. Working on a round surface really gets my creative mind working overtime.

I started by covering the entire jar with texture paste and using a flat soft brush i massaged tissue paper over the top, creating bumps, tares and ripples.

While it was still tacky i used old curtain rope beads to wrap around the jar. I also added a little bit of crochet material to the top and a hessian cut off to the side. I then covered the entire thing with white gesso.

Then i added old jewellery, chipboard, buttons, beads and some resin faces. (Resin faces available from the store) I also replaced the hessian from the above photo. I cut it to fit the jar better.

As you can see if both these photos i placed a cardboard frame around an image. This i loosely tacked on with gel medium until i had filled the bits and bobs around it. I took it off in the next step.

I then used a mixture of lindy's sprays (cathedral pines green, azure sea asters, buccaneer bay blue and bayou boogie gold) I lightly sprayed areas and let it drip and run around. After drying it with my heat tool i added more of certain colours here and there where needed.

I then used finnabair wax (Peacock) to highlight the beads on the thread and other parts of jewellery, beads and chipboards. I also used a fin brush to added the lindy's spray colours to the cardboard frame. I used the wax on the lettering and on the resin faces.

I also added a chipboard to the bottom corner as well as some flat back bling.

My altered coffee jar. So much fun to create and share with you all. 
Check out www.randomarts.com.au for the amazing lindy's sprays i used in this artwork, as well as finnabair wax's, resins, chipboards, texture paste, gesso, gel medium and much much more. 

I hope this jar has inspired you to give one ago yourself. 
​Thankyou for viewing my blog, much love.

This months mood board is so colourful and fun. I was inspired by these colours and used Dylusions paint, glitter and stamps to create this fun little canvas.

September Mood Board

These are the Fabulous products i used to create my mini canvas.
dylusions paint:
tangerine dream, funky fuchsia, vanilla custard, periwinkle blue, calypso teal.
finnabair Opal Magic Pink-blue.
FW Acrylic Ink (Lemon Yellow)
Little birdie Sparkle paste. (mandarin Glaze)
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I started bu using texture paste through stencils. Once dry i painted the whole thing in white gesso.

I then used black gesso and bottle lids to create circles.

Then using the dylusions paint i painted the circles.

I lightly brushed the background with vanilla custard dylusions paint. Once dry with the heat tool i used the Lemon Yellow ink over the top. I started by dripping it onto the canvas. I lightly brushed the yellow around the canvas. I then dripped spots of yellow randomly from high over the canvas. I used a baby wipe to clean away any yellow that landed n the coloured circles.

Then i covered the canvas with stamps. I personally love the look of a rough stamped image. Only seeing part of the stamp creates a story.

I then used the opal magic on the pink circles and the sparkle paste on the orange. Both these products are so versatile and fun to use,

I then used white gesso and an old dry paint brush to rough in some lines and a boarder. I also used some gesso on a bottle lid and roughed in circles in the corners and over the top of the circles. I added some Tim Holtz words and framed them with gesso.

Then to finish it off i used black gesso dots with some white gesso highlights.

So there we go. A super fun mini canvas for this months mood board challenge.

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Thank you for checking out my blog. Much love.

Using the fantastic colours of this months mood board as inspiration i came up with this fun art journal page.

I started by using white texture paste and tissue paper to dive an old page look to the journal page. Tissue paper is so versatile and fun to use. I used an old stiff brush to move the tissue paper around the page, using the texture paste to hold the tissue paper to the page.

I started with Dylusions Paint Vanilla Custard painted directly onto the page. I then placed a stencil onto the page and using a baby wipe wiped the paint away from the stencil leaving a reversed stencil effect (rubbing). I love doing this as it gives a slightly different effect to the stencil. I used the same technique with Laidback Lilac Dylusions paint.

Then is used some super groovy stencils over the page. Loving the paint brushes in this stencil.

I then googled an image of a ladies face. I cut out the image using the lips ,eye and eyebrow for the page. I also used the outline of the face as a stencil for the page. I placed the out line on the page as a stencil and used Dylusions Paint (Periwinkle Blue) to frame out the face. I then glued down the eye, lips and eyebrow to the page. 

I stenciled flowers with Dylusions Paint (vanilla Custard) as well as used yellow rust paste on the face. I used black pen to outline the face, lips, eye and eyebrow. I used Finnabair wax on the lips and eye (electric violet and old denim) for the eye and (Rose Gold) for the lips.
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I used Tim Holtz words on the face and brown rust paste to out line the words. I also used black pen to scribble over the bottom half of the page as well as go over the stamped words art for arts sake.
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Then i finished off the page with Dylusions paint (Calypso teal) with a stencil around the top of the page. 



Thank you so much for viewing my journal page. 
Please check out www.randomarts.com.au for all of these fantastic products and so much more.

Products used:
Dylusions paint
(Calypso teal, Periwinkle blue, Laidback lilac, Vanilla Custard)
Finnabair rust paste
(yellow, brown)
Finnabair wax
(Rose Gold, Old Denim, Electric Violet)
Tim Holtz(words)


​Tissue paper and white texture paste.

Again thank you so much for viewing my blog.