Sweet Pea Stamps: Sea Turtle Kiss

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Sea Turtle Kiss - Mitzi Sato-wiuff

Hallo,
   Stopping in with a little project that I had a lot of fun with. I used a rubber stamped image from Mitzi Sato-Wiuff called 'Sea Turtle Kiss'.
I stamped it and then with my printer enlarged it, and then used tracing paper to copy it onto a tray that I had painted with chalk board paint.
Then I went over the lines with a white paint pen to make them permanent.
I tried a couple different kinds of chalk before I found some that worked like I wanted and ended up doing several layers of the same colors to get them dark enough (I used 'workable fixative' between each layer).
After I had he colored image how I liked, I sprayed it with acrylic sealer and then decorated it with the twine and seashells. A hanger on the back and all is ready to pretty up a wall :) I have several more ideas in mind for similar projects :)
   All for today - Take Care
          Tera

stampqueen

I am about to adventure into the life of Retirement and am looking forward to significantly more time in the studio, playing with my Grandkids and traveling now and then with the hubby. I have spent 41 years as an RN - mostly in Critical Care. I picked up painting and more formal art again when my kids went from High School into college. I have always done some form of art, even in the busy years of Career, Mom, Military wife - mostly in the crafty forms(sewing, rubber stamping, its a long list...) Now I mainly paint with encaustic wax. Encaustic is an ancient art form from Greece and Egypt that uses beeswax, natural tree resin and pigments. Encaustic is painted while melted in thin layers and every layer is fused to those below with heat( I mostly use a torch). True to my 'normal' self I have 3 or 4 other hobbies that keep me busy too , and you will be seeing(and have been) those here too.