ArtiphyTheHeart

Dans Ma Maison, Il y a...du Vintage, et L'Amour!

Dans Ma Maison il y a...

Dans Ma Maison, Il y a ...du Vintage!  I began my vintage house by cutting a ramshackle shape and distressing it a bit with acrylic paint, alternating layers of matte and gloss gel mediums with pencil, gel pens, and other marks, between the layers. 

Before anything else was added, I decided that something or someone tall needed to be on the left side, so I began scribbling, and my scruffy, gentleman cat began to emerge.  There are layers of mediums between the squiggles of his fur, so in real life, it has lots of definition and dimension.  More thinned gesso, and acrylic paint made translucent with lots of fluid matte medium were added before I looked at the cat, and the round window I had added at the top, and realized that he was gazing up at the window!   And his hand was a bit outstretched, like he was holding something, tentatively....and I knew instantly that he had a rose for his sweetheart!  It took me a while to find the right rose, and no time at all to add the object of his affection.  From there, it was adding more pencil lines, layers of mediums and the hearts.  "L' Amour" was added with a copper Krylon pen, which also was used to outline the house and the window frame.  I cut a tissue paper mask and over-stamped with HeroArts "manuscript background" using "gingerbread" Colorbox chalk ink. 

Step Outside Your Box Saturdays

I had planned to make a separate piece for Step Outside Your Box Saturday's theme of "emotion", but almost from the start, this house became the epitome of emotion, not only in subject, but in reality!  The minute I began drawing my long-necked gentleman, I was drawn to this piece like nothing I've ever done.  I completely lost myself in the textures, the colors, the images and every other aspect of this house, as well.  Not only is it L'amour pour les chats, but making this house was a labor of love!

Have a great weekend, Everyone!

Dans Ma Maison il y a . . . Rapunzel

The theme this week for Dans Ma Maison... is "un conte de fees", or, "In My House there is... a Fairy Tale".

I put Rapunzel in her tower by drawing her onto cardstock, washing her and the castle with watercolors, defining her features with Micron and Sakura Identi-pens, giving the tower a layer of colored tissue paper with matte medium, muting it with titanium buff, cutting-out (from a Nordstroms advert) the rocks and gluing them down with more medium, creating a mask with tracing paper and overstamping with Hero Arts "manuscript background" and black Versafine, gluing a flower and bead to her hair with diamond glaze, then outlining it all with a brown Identi-pen.  The hardest part was letting the layers dry.  I am impatient!

Have a great day, Everyone!

In My House There Is. . .Metal, A Door That Opens, and A Rooster With Wings. . .

Last Friday, Dans Ma Maison...required the use of metal, and my house has metal hinges, a metal door handle, a black metal key, and there is also a metal screen in the door. 

On Saturday, the grand opening celebration party for Layers Of Colors, requires something that opens.  The hinged, screen door to ma maison does indeed open.  As you can see here, the door opens onto some playful kittens inside the house.

And today, a challenge that I've have been wanting to join for ages, Created By Hand, asks that we make something with "wings.  The winged weather-vane rooster fits the theme.

The substrate for my house is museum board painted with acrylics, then lightly distressed with Tim Holtz tea dye ink.  Rooster and milk can stamps are from Close To My Heart.  The key is from 7 Gypsies, the hinges and brads are from Making Memories, the handle was a grab-bag item at a craft show, but I did distress it with Adirondack alcohol inks, and the screen is from the hardware store.  The image of the kitties is from Memories of a Lifetime.  Also used were German scrap, black lace sticker tape, Micron pens in red and black, pencil and cardstock.

Have a great day, Everyone!

Dans Ma Maison, Il y a . . .Papillon!

This is first time I have participated in this wonderful challenge!  I have wanted join in with Dans Ma Maison... since it first began, but time commitments plus the trouble I'm having accessing blogger blogs made me put it off till now.

If you look very closely, you might be able to see the blue butterfly silhouettes against the purple of the background.  My large papillon was cut from this same paper, DCWV's Far East stack, then outlined with fine line sliver Krylon pen and embellished with Art Institute glitters.  The Japanese character is also cut from this paper and outlined in silver.  Both are held in place with dimensional tape.  The image is from Artful Illusions.  More sliver pen and glitter was used around the periphery of the house and the image.  Lilac tulle is held in place with diamond glaze and a scattering of what look like pearls, but are really opalescent beads.  Ribbons are attached at top with diamond glaze also, and the piece is set upon a sheet of lilac homemade paper.

I will try to look at everyone's pieces for this challenge, but if you don't receive a comment from me, it is probably because I am having such a hard time accessing blogger blogs!  The pages have been opening only sporadically for the last few days.  Hopefully, I will be able to post this to the challenge blog, as the Dan Ma Maison site is powered by blogger.

Have a wonderful day, Everyone!