Feature Artist Guest Post - Katie Zoey Ho

 

Hello Artsy Addicts,

I'm Katie from this tiny tropical country of Singapore, surrounded with lots of greeneries; widely known as the green city. Blissfully married, we lived in a small apartment away from downtown area where we enjoy peace and fresh air together with our little pots of plants and herbs. I started paper crafting as young as 3 years old, mainly in cutting and folding of papers. The start of all addictions in getting artsy and crafty was in the year 2008 when I discovered what scrapbooking is all about in one of my local craft stores. That's where my crafty journey begins... But due to various commitments in my career, as well as my wedding preparation and house renovation, I stopped crafting coming to 4 years... When I lost my job last August at my career's most prime stage, it occurred to me life is just too short to strive so hard to climb up the corporate ladder. I was earning a living, not living a life. At that very point (since I've too much time to spare), I decided to get myself crafty again. I re-learn and pick up skills all over again after losing touch with the scrapping community for so long... Being a self-taught artist, I explore beyond paper crafting and love to create works that will encourage and inspire. Love everything that's artsy, shabby, vintage, grunge and beautiful, I enjoy creating, designing and love to play with different elements and art mediums to give dimensions and depth to my projects. As of current I'm a Resident Designer at The Art Republic (AR); a small craft studio in Singapore where I design, teach and inspire...

I got to know about Artsy Addicts through one of the scrappers on FB, and that's where I decided to join the group to inspire and get inspired. I'm so glad to know my recent Botanical Tea altered clock project has inspired quite a number of people, which led Tonya & Peggy from the Artsy Addicts Team to send me an invitation to be a Featured Artist!!! Thanks for this wonderful opportunity and it's my pleasure to be featured and share my creations with everyone. Over here, I'm going to share more about this project together with another altered clock project as well, showing what you can do to transform a plain Ikea clock into a piece of Art...

 

You can easily purchase this RUSCH wall clock for less than $2 at your nearest Ikea store, which is the one I used for my altered clock projects. The initial idea was to upcycle the clock as the face of the clock in AR's studio was badly torn instead of thrashing it away. Hence the revived look of this clock.

 

 

I started off by removing the plastic front cover and the hands of the clock, and gesso them to prime the surface. To match the papers I intended to use, I decided to create a chocolate-minty vintage look. Using a mix of latte and chocolate as the base colors and mint as the top coat, I created this weather-worn out look with the aid of weather crackle paint in between.

 

 

On the inside, I used a mix of latte and chocolate paints, applying strokes of contrasting paints to create a shabby worn out look. To add some depth, I apply the surfaces lightly with a small amount of gold metallic paint. Once I was happy with the entire look, I sealed it with some PU gloss varnish before embellishing.

 

 

So this was the fun part; choosing the elements to embellish the clock. I love the feel of having a cup of hot tea in the garden where you are surrounded with lovely flowers and fluttering butterflies. To bring this idea out, I specifically fussy cut all the roses and flowers to create this huge floral bush surrounding this huge teapot and embedded this whimsical lady inside. To make the butterfly "fly", I adhered one of them onto the second hand. As the hand moves around the clock, it gives an illusion that it is fluttering around the garden...

 

 

Here is the list of supplies for this project:

• Gesso
• Docrafts Artiste All Purpose Acrylic Paint (Latte)
• Martha Stewart Satin Acrylic Paint (Mint)
• Daler-Rowney Heavy Body Acrylic Paint (Burnt Umber & Metallic Gold)
• Martha Steward Weather Crackle Effect Medium
• Americiana Duraclear PU Gloss Varnish
• Graphic 45 Botanical Tea Papers (Botanical Tea, Fauna & Sweet Chamomile)

For the other altered clock project, using similar way in altering I created this By the Sea clock by using a different color scheme and elements. For this, I used contrasting colors; blue on the outside and orange red on the inside of the clock. I added some yellow to tone down the red so that the colors will blend well together. To create this by the seaside, on the beach feel I actually added some twigs and twine ropes on the clock.

 

For a comparison, I used white glue to create the crackle effect instead of any commercial crackle medium which is easily achievable and it's much cost effective. If you're on a budget, this option will be a perfect solution. How much you want to "crack" depends on how much glue you apply. The thicker the layer, the deeper the crack and vice versa. You will need to apply the top coat of paint quickly before the glue dries up. The best time to apply is when the glue starts to get tacky. This is crucial or else you won't be able to achieve the effect especially for finer cracks as the glue will tend to dry up faster.

 

 

Once again, I fussy cut almost all the seashells from the paper for embellishments. To give the clock a more on the beach feel, I added some glitter over the seashells. And this completes the look!!!

 

Here is the list of supplies for this project:

• Gesso
• Ceramcoat Acrylic Paints as base coats (Morocan Red & Navy Blue)
• Ceramcoat Acrylic Paint (Butter Yellow)
• Martha Stewart Satin & Gloss Acrylic Paints as top coats(Pond & Gernium)
• Elmer's Glue All Multi-purpose Glue
• Americiana Duraclear PU Gloss Varnish
• Ranger Frosted Lace Glitter Sticklers  
• Graphic 45 By the Sea Papers (By the Sea & Splash)

I hope you've enjoyed what I've shared over here. Do drop by my blog for more inspirations... Give it a try and trust me you will see upcycling via altering a different way... 

Have a lovely day ahead... Good luck and have fun!!!
 

http://www.katsignerscrapbookingcafe.blogspot.com
 

Featured Artist: Tati Scrap

Hi!! my name is Raquel, though I’m known as Tati Scrap in the art world.

 

I´m 38 years old, I was born in Cádiz city, Spain. I started to be a crafter in June 2013, at the beginning I did not have any king of materials only  scissors and many ideas in my mind.  I'm a nurse by profession and scraper by passion.

 

Today, I am sharing an altered box I created called Summer Box. I recycled the box from my Mobile phone to create the base.  It has been a long process of selecting images, trim, decorate and compose. I have converted the box on a desktop object to store small things such as clips, staples, thumbtacks, and similar. I used Graphic 45's On the Boardwalk and Place in Time paper collections.

 

 

I hope you liked it.

My blog is www.tatiscrap.wordpress.com and my facebook is tati scrap " recortando ideas"

Thank you

Tati Scraphttp://tatiscrap.wordpress.com/



Secret Keepsake Box

I thought I would share with you all one of my little creations I did just recently for the Graphic 45 DT Call they had out. Sadly I didn't make the second round but it was so fun to try out for this team. I created this little secret keepsake box, I painted it black and then distressed all edges of the papers glued them down leaving a 1/4 edge of the painted black box showing.

I used the Olde Curiosity Shoppe paper collection from G45. I fuzzy cut most of the images right from the paper collection, along with some chipboard piece I had left in my stash.

I used the "tattered floral die" by Tim Holtz to create my flowers from the paper collection. Added some Prima bling, purple feather from the department store. The pic below I glued images under the glass top of the box, it's really cool seeing the pig with wings, bottles, butterflies and an eye ball staring up at you!!

love the eye glasses...

for the finishing touches I covered the inside of the box as well...

Thanks for stopping by today,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies used all Graphic 45, Prima, Tim Holtz, wooden box and little creative thinking!

Stashed Treasures Part 2

Last week I shared with you a layout that I was making. The layout is going to be used as a collaborate book with a group of other friends.   My theme was to use something that I had never used before or scraps. 

Today I wanted to share with you the other side to the layout.

Everything on this side was a scrap. The paper in the background was scraps from the other side, and was quilted together to form the base. A Strip of Prima Almanac paper was used to form a pocket in the middle of the page.  The Inspire label was a remnant from the April Journal from Marion, and the Pocket was also one of the left over pieces from one of Marion's Journals.  The two flowers were cut from scraps of book pages, and the trim and lace were all less than 3 inch pieces that were in my stash.

I love using my scraps, and look how beautiful this all turned out.  I hear people say all the time, I toss my scraps.  Well I don't when I'm between projects I pull those scraps out and I make cards, layouts, journal pages.  

I love how the small pieces of trim on the right side mimic the piano keys on the left.  Funny thing was I didn't realize I had done that until the photographs were taken.

I have a challenge on my blog http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com for using your scraps and/or a product that you have purchased and never used.   Contest ends Sept. 1.  See my blog for details.

Thanks for stopping in today,

Tonya

http://www.psychomomscrpabooks.blogspot.com

RESOURCES:   

1. Prima:   Reflections Paper - Shalamar, Almanac Paper. Black sequin fiber
2. Graphic 45:  Stamped Girl - Ladies Diary
3. Ranger:  Distress Markers (colored the girl with them).
4. Marion Smith Designs:  Envelope and  Journal Card
5. Tonya Gibbs Designs:  Inspire Label
6. EK Success Scallop Circle Punch
7. Tonic Studios: Lacy Scallop Border Punch
8. Misc. Pearl Trim, Lace, Twine, Buttons, Doily, Black Cardstock.
 

Thinking of You Card

I wanted to share with you today a card that I created with the Graphic 45 Ladies' Diary paper collection.  I LOVE the vintage look of this paper, and thought the stamped image would be beautiful colored with my Distress Markers by Tim Holtz.

These markers are a bit tricky to color with, but I think the image turned out beautiful.  I used the Ranger Stamping Paper for the base.  Then used Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet to color her dress.  To achieve the shading I just put a small amount of water on the paper before applying the ink.  Then I spread the ink with a water brush, and tapped the excess water away with a paper towel to keep the paper from buckling.  Here is a close up of the girl.



In this photo, you can see the Prima Cabbage roses were also painted with the Tim Holtz Spun Sugar pen,  I put streaks of color onto the roses then used the water brush to spread the ink around.  This technique gave the flowers a variegated look.

Do you have the Distress Markers?  If so, how are you using them.

Thanks for stopping in today.

Tonya Gibbs

Resources:

• Graphic 45:   Ladies' Diary "Moment in Time" paper, Lady's Diary Stamp No. 6
• Prima: wooden clock, cabbage roses, mini roses
• Ranger: Tim Holtz Distress Markers:  Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet (Dress & Hat), Aged Mahogany (Hat), Tattered Rose (Skin), Pumice Stone (shadow), Scattered Straw (background)
• Gelly Roll - Crystal Star Glitter pen (hat), gold pen for buttons.
• lace
• black card stock
 

All Babies are Little Darlings

Little Darlings Graphic 45 paper line is the sweetest, I am creating these little gems for a baby shower I am throwing for my niece. Here are the baby invites all the card bases are the same, but the little cut outs  are all different but still so cute.

 This little darlings baby banner is so adorable, started out with a banner pennant that I traced the pennants on card stock, and backed the pennant with white crepe paper. Added a card cutouts, fuzzy cut out the tiny butterflies and titles. Punched out the scallop circles and the word BABY were stickers from the Graphic 45 sticker sheet. Lastly added some pretty pink ribbon to hang the banner tied with tiny bows.

 Close ups of the pennants.

 

 

Baby Shower decorations can be simple but adorable to make.
Invites can fit into a scrapbook layout, the banner can hang on the wall in the babies room.

What party creations have you made?

Peggy Lee
/http://pegbaker.blogspot.com/

Supplies:
Graphic 45- Little Darlings paper line
Bazzil card stock
Distress Ink-Vintage Photo
Helmar- 450 Glue
pop dots 3-D
Punches
Ribbon, crepe paper, flowers, buttons