Last Year's Stuff is This Year's Use-by

New Year's Resolution:  USE what I already have!

A box canvas - already meant as an art print, with tomatoes, leaves and other fruit printed on it.  Painted over in gold Lumiere paint, then stencilled - finished off the tube of texture paste.  

Crackle paste over the dried stencilled patches (sortof). 

Layer of medium over the crackle to stop it all cracking right off. 

Skulls from October. (Time to make a new batch).

I don't "do" floral-pretty, yet I have a stash of flowers.  weird huh?  

So I pulled out heaps of white flowers, leaves and arranged them 

around the piece (oops, where was the camera???)  

And a few metal leaves and filigrees, 

resisting the temptation to go steampunk 

(apart from the clock bottom right).  

Some discs out of computer hard drives, 

some top-hat-wearing skull cameos

 that have been round forever.  

Sprinkled Paper Artsy infusions powder over all

 the flowers and leaves, then water-spritzed to activate.  

You wouldn't believe there was any lime green used, 

it has been overwhelmed.  

I oversprayed with Lindy Stamp Gang's Moonshadow Golden Dubloons, 

and their Fabio black round the edges.  The black has rather disappeared, 

but gave some of the crackle areas a pewter look.

And the whole piece...

.....

What a great resolution - I really, really should do that too ...

hmmmmm .... well, anyhow, this time I had some NEW

stamps with me from Unity Stamp and I made a tag,

coloring it with Inktense pens.

You know... sometime it feels like there is a sorrow for

every happy moment in life...

But, I (Granne) wish you all a very happy

 and creative year 2018, hope to see

many, many wonderful art pieces linked to our froggy, :=D

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Day 17 31 Days of Halloween~EyeFly Postcard

Welcome to Day 17 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

"EyeFly" Postcard sized canvas, mixed media.

The background is layered with various acrylic paints, DecoArt Media Misters and some stamping using the Chicken Wire stamp by Unity and some splats by Visible Image. I love the eye creature by Viva Las Vegas Stamps! Such an odd stamp to have a great play with, it is heat embossed in black to help it POP!

Happy Hoppin'!

~CT kim