Steampunk Style Mixed Media Canvas - Flying Unicorn

I am here today to share with you a steampunk style mixed media canvas. I wanted to push my color boundaries and go with something a little different (for me), I tend to stick to the blue/green color palette a lot. I decided to head in a rustic direction, however you can see I still managed to sneak in a little blue and green.

Products Used

Stamp-N-Add Butterfly Wings

Shimmerz Dazzelerz Licorice Stick

Twiddleybitz Rusting Powder

Prima Mechanicals Plated Labels

Prima Mechanicals Tassels

Silks Pretty Peridot

Silks Bolivian Blue

Silks Sky Blue

Inka-Gold 

Handmade rusty nails, rusty resin screws and bolts

I so love the Prima Stamp-N-Add Butterfly Wings, they are so funky and cool. I gave the wings a touch of Silks Pretty Peridot paint combined with a little Inka Gold on the wing edges.

The nuts and bolt have been created using hand poured resin into a mold. I painted the nuts and bolt with a combination of grey and silver paint and finished them off with a light dusting of rusting powder. They look pretty cool right?

Many thanks for looking, I wish you all a happy and creative day.

~ Rebecca ~

Steampunk Mixed Media Canvas - Flying Unicorn

Hello my friends...

I am really excited to share this project with you, why am I so excited? because I LOVE how this project turned out. Especially excited as it will be a gift for someone who needs a little pick me up and I am pretty sure she will love it too.

Products Used

Lumiere Paints by Jacquard

Rub'n Buff Antique Gold

Leaky Shed Studios - Cogs & Gears

ScrapFX Butterflies

Crackle Accents

Many thanks for looking, I wish you a happy and creative day.

~ Rebecca ~

$7 Shoe Conversion - Flying Unicorn

Hi Everyone, 

Yep I am back with another bargain shoe makeover!

Anyone who knows me well enough knows full well I can sniff out a bargain a mile away, blessed with rather large feet I always manage to find my size on the clearance rack at Target. When I spotted these previously black leather numbers for $7 I knew immediately they would be coming home for a makeover. I could have really gone over the top with embellishing these however it would be a shame to never wear them and I want that chance one day. 

Products Used

Gesso

Lumiere Paint - Halo Blue Gren

Lumiere Paint - Metallic Bronze

Lumiere Paint - Iridescent Blue

Black Acrylic Paint

Flying Unicorn Adornments

 

Did you know Flying Unicorn Store stocks Lumiere paints in a handy small size multi packet? If you are looking to try these paints I can HIGHLY recommend them as they are brilliant.

Thanks for looking everyone, I wish you a brilliant and creative day.

~ Rebecca ~

Finnabair Art Journal Cover - Flying Unicorn

Words cannot express how excited I was to find out there was an art journal in January's kit by Flying Unicorn, and not just any art journal, Finnabairs journal (LOVE!). Now I had every intention of filling the book first and decorating my cover last, ahhhhh who was I kidding, I could not wait to start the cover. 

Update to post, wow since sharing this project I have had an amazingly huge amount of positive feedback (thank you all so much!!). A lot of people have asked, how did you do this? I am about to share that with you all. 

I started off by covering my cover with a coat of gesso and allowing to dry. I then took a whole bunch of random stuff and glued it to my cover, I used Glossy Accent's to glue my stuff down, yes an expensive choice but it works. As you can see I have used heaps of different types of objects, lace, metal, chipboard, flowers, resin pieces, fimo set pieces and die cut card. Really anything will work here, buttons, rings pulls from cans, etc. Take a look at what you have laying around. 

Once everything is glued down and dry, you then apply a decent coat of white gesso. Ensure your brush gets into all those small places, everything must be coated.
 

I would recommend leaving overnight to dry, lesson learnt I started applying my paint too early and started to get messy. Once your gesso is 100% dry you then can start applying your paint. I gave the entire cover a coat of Halo Blue Gold Lumiere Paint and then randomly dabbed on Metallic Rust and Pearlescent Blue Lumiere Paints. The glimmering gold addition came from my Antique Gold Rub'n Buf. I LOVE this stuff, one little tube can go such a long way. Apply a little (and I do mean little) bit to your finger and start applying to raised areas. 

The end result is rather spectacular, yes even if I do say so myself. I am going to go out on a limb here and say if you want to give this project a go that it is almost impossible to stuff up. You can see above what I started with, a whole bunch of random bits and bobs. 

Products Used

Lumiere Paints by Jacquard

Gesso

Finnabair Mechanicals Prima

Antique Gold Rub'n Buff

Thanks for looking everyone, have a great day.

~ Rebecca ~

12 Tags of 2014 - Tim Holtz (January)

Hi Everyone,

Wow it is January 2014 already and that for me means the lovely Tim Holtz is back to start a fresh new collection of brilliant ideas and tags for 2014 entitled '12 Tags of 2014'. This time last year I was 8 months pregnant and completed January 2013 tag with gusto and then immediately created 10 more tags. February rolled around and I managed to complete the fabulous tag for that month too. And then new life arrived to the family and all my crafting was put on hold for a little while. Now that I am fully adjusted to life as a Mum I am now managing to juggle home life and craft life. So in saying that I am vowing to complete the 2014 tags along with Tim and everyone else who is joining in. 

In order to make the January tag I had to think a little outside of the box as I did not have the pocket watch die or the metal foil. So instead I cut the pocket watch out on my Circut and then used aluminum foil which worked out not too bad really. 

Without further adieu here is my tag for January.....

 

And ironically the other day I created a steampunk inspired card which looks awfully similar to this tag so I thought I would just display it here also. 

 Many thanks for stopping by, I wish you all a happy and creative day.

~ Rebecca ~