Me and my paints

I love to paint, I really do, and I've been wanting to try watercolor, so far I've only used acrylic paints and markers and other types of paints, but not watercolor.  So one day as I was walking around Michael's looking for yarn, I noticed they had a clearance section and they had this big watercolor tablet, it was pretty big and really cheap, so I said to myself why not, today is the day to give this a try, got the water colors and brushes and never did find the yarn I wanted. It did take a while to give this a try, we had parties and other things that took place and prevented me to play with my new materials.

Not sure if it's a coincidence, or I suddenly just had this urge to be creative, so I've been painting everyday this month so far and I would love to share some of what I've done, now I have a lot to learn, and this is the fun part for me every time I try something new in crafting, I'm like a kid with a new toy, excited and waiting for the evening to come so I can sit and paint.

I am going to see if I can find some classes so I can improve my painting with watercolors and oils too.

Now some of the paintings are watercolors only, but I sorta started to mix watercolors, acrylics and oils, just for fun.

Well I decided to try something new, with prom coming very soon and my daughter having two proms, well we are going to try and embellish her shoes, and she will have some special jewelry done as well.   So we went to buy a new pair of shoes, not for prom but to play around with.  I got some tulip crystals a pair of shoes and well let me show you the photos, this was done last night, they should be dried by now.  At first all I did was add the Tulip crystals on the hills, that was it. 

Today when I looked at the shoes, it seem like it needed something else.  As you can see on the top photo, the shoes have glitter on two straps, but there is one strap that has no glitter, so I decide to change that. 

 I figure the hills needed something more than the crystals, so I decided to go ahead and add some glitter to the areas with no crystals and to the strap that had no glitter.  

 I had to add two coats of the glitter to the straps and below you can see how the hills look after I added the glitter. 

It only took some glitter liner, 3D Crystal Lacquer, and Tulip's white crystals in three different sizes to change the look of these shoes. 

 Now here is a photo of the front of the shoes, you can see all three straps are now sparkly, thanks to Viva Decor Glitter Liner Haematite

 A close up of the strap I covered with Viva Decor's Glitter Liner Haematite

 A close up of the hills that I added Viva Decor Glitter Liner Haematite, talk about glitter and sparkly shoes. Ready for the dance floor!

I will be playing with more shoes, eventually we will find the shoes she wants and by then she will know exactly how she wants them embellished.  I love playing with my crafting materials and making new things, but I also love altering items, like shoes!!!!

Viva Decor and Glass!!!

I've been working with my +Viva Decor  favorite products all this week, and wanted to share some of the glass items I've done so far, some will be holding candles, so I can't wait to see how these look with the light coming through all the beautiful colors.

In the center I  Mod Podge a  paper napkin that has pretty flowers, I added this to the front and back of the bottle +Mod Podge Rocks  then I let it alone for a very long time cause I was not sure what else to do.  I found out about Crystal Gel from +Viva Decor  and well as soon as it arrived in the mail, I got busy this weekend and here is the final bottle, I added the Crystal Gel all around the napkin, I let it dry for 24 hours and  then I took my 3D stamp paints in purple, pink and the precious metal mother of pearl, buff it all after it was dried, took some of Viva Decors glass effect paint pens and added colors to the flowers and leaves to bring out the pretty flowers from the paper napkin and added a few pearls to the neck of the bottle and well this is it - it looks so much beautiful in real life, this photo is not showing how bright the colors are!

here is a pretty blue violet glass base  I had for a long time, I love the color of the glass already so I didn't want  to cover it up, so I took the glass effect pens and added some purple flowers on a vine these go around the entire glass,  it's stunning.

I used  a very think layer on this glass, and then just took the tip of the paper clip and scribbled all over, let it dry over night and  today all I did was use my inka gold in red, my fingers to apply all over and once done it was dried so I took a clean sponge and buffed it - it is very shiny in person, I did not want to add any other colors, I like the red so I just took the glass effect pen in red and added some all around the glass and made some little pearls at the base and for now it's done.

Now I wanted to make some flowers out of the crystal gel and  I decided  cover the entire glass with crystal gel, then I took some extra gel and made some little piles of gel on top of the almost dried gel so they sorta pop from the glass, then took my paper clip (the tip) and started shaping the little clump of gel into flowers one at a time, there are like six flowers that go all around the glass left it all dry over night and then took my inka gold paint in gold and painted the center of the glass.  I used me 3D paints in pink and purple to color the top and bottom, the flowers are colored with the 3D pink paint and then I took the glass effect pen in purple and went over the edges of the flowers, this came out really pretty, I'm so happy I tried these flowers, they were tricky at first but they really look pretty, cant' wait to add a candle inside to see how the light reflects. 

Crystal gel, ice white pen were used to decorate this set.  Just waiting for some flowers and ribbons to be added.

These two glasses were done all in white, by using the crystal  gel, glass effect pen and ice white pen, and mother of pearl precious metal paint.  However I decided to add some color and well the picture below shows how they look now

This one is still in the works - "Field of Flowers"

Here is my table right now, shows what I'm still working on,  I still have a case full of glass containers.  I guess I will be ordering more products soon.

All the containers you see here are done for now, but I'm thinking on making some tiny paper flower from velum and coloring them to go with the glass items I've done so far and some pretty ribbons, I think the way they are right now, they are pretty but I don't feel they are "complete" I just wanted to share what I've been working on this week.   I love to paint, and I'm really having fun using Viva Decor products.

Paint, paint, paint!!!

So it's been a while since I post a project, I got sick as soon as the new year started and I just got better.  I spent so much time at home and thought about crafting, but the bug that got me sick, was too much for me that I just couldn't get in a creative mood, so now that I started back it seems I don't want to stop.

I have mention on several posts how much I love using +Viva Decor  products and I have been spending a lot of time on-line looking for as many as I can and I have found some.  I just got my hands on their Crystal gel, glass effect paint pens, paper color soft, 3D stamp inks, and more inka golds, oh and some wax pens.  I still need to find some more, but until then I will keep busy crafting away with what I have right now.

To start let me show you some of the chip board Christmas ornaments I got after the holidays, these are small and are all painted and just waiting for a ribbon to be added so they become part of Christmas cards for 2013.

just look at the dimension even after the paint is dry

these little pearls are totally dried -

Recycle-Reuse, Enjoy!!!

Hi everyone, glad to be here once again at "So You Think You’re Crafty".  I love to create new things, but I love even more, when i can create something new from something old.  I wanted to make something for the holidays, I always make my own ornaments and this time I wanted to make them out of something recycled.  I purchased a make up kit and it came with a nice bag, the bag was wrapped on this thin material.

I love working with Viva Decor paints, and I have found several types of paints on-line and decided to make some little ornaments to hang for the holidays. I've been making my own ornaments for over 10 years now, and each year I like to add to my collection by making different types. I really enjoy using recycled materials in some of my projects, this one was easy and fun and looks so pretty. I will be making a few more to add to my tree, when I get one since I got rid of my old tree last year. 

So first lets show you the materials I used, here is a photo that shows everything I used. 

Here is a photo showing my tracing the star on the recycled material, I made a poinsettia flower too, cut four petals twice and also a leaf and a circle for the center of the flower. 

For the stars I used the 3D stamp paint in blue and for the flower I used the inka gold paint in red. I love the fact you can use a sponge to add the paint to the material, it's easy and fast.  once dried (and it dries fast) I cut the shapes and began to put together.  then I took the paper and pearl pens to add more dimension to the ornaments and finally the glitter in copper was added as little drops to the center of each flower. 

I did not use any glue to put the flower together, instead I used small paper clips that I opened and folded in half and made them into brads to keep the flower together, I bend the ends of the paper clip on the back of the flower to be able to used a big paper clip as a hanger.  See photos below.

Now for the final results- here are my pretty sparkly ornaments, they are fragile, for this material can tear easy and by using paper clips if you are not careful they will tear up. 

I hope you enjoy my project, you are welcome to stop by any time to see what I'm up to over at http://chuy-creativity.blogspot.com/ .  

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all, and Missy, thank you for having me here once again.