Nataliya Simpson Presents Zentangle Elephant By Courtney McAnsh

 Good day everyone. Here is another project that i made for Sweet Pea Stamps. This time i decided to play with my heat press and vinyl. This gorgeous Zentangle Elephant image by Courtney McAnsh. As i like everything to be sparkle, i used black glitter vinyl. It was lots of work to weed it out, but i like the way it's turnout .

 And this is how i decorated Shirt on the front.

 Love glitter....

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Thanks for looking.
Nataliya

To the Moon and Back - Jane's view

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Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image To the Moon and Back by Courtney McAnsh which is available from the Sweet Pea Store.

The challenge this month on the Sweet Pea challenge blog, One Sweet Challenge is Art Inspiration Day.  When I saw the theme of this challenge I fell in love hahahaha, interpreting this as using inspiration from artists who are close to my heart.  I have three artists from the old schools which send tingles through me, Michelangelo (I am sure I was a concubine of his in a past life hehehehe), El-Greco, so different and for his time with his elongated images instead of realism and Van Gogh (not his dark realistic stuff but his more manic style of painting), I just love his mega amounts of movement in his artwork.  So for my creation I decided to use the inspiration from Van Gogh and his Starry Night, one of my favourite paintings of all time and one where the image from Sweet Pea, To the Moon and Back by Courtney fitted perfectly.

To begin I printed my sentiment and the hands and then coloured the background using regular oil pastels so try and create the texture of the brush strokes.

Next I coloured the image with Promarkers and used gold pen to embellish it.  A few gold stickles finished off the image and the surrounding area later on.

Now to deconstruct a wee book by removing the inner section.  I then covered the book with my design.

Two coats of Gesso to protect the cover and make it hard wearing.  It is the first time I have used this product and I just love the way it feels - awesome stuff.

While that was drying I coloured a small pencil with Promarkers and gold paint then added a small bead chain for a bit of interest. The pencil is attached to the book with a ribbon loop.  Once the book was dry and the loop in place I then backed the paper insert with card and used this section to stick to the front and back covers thereby covering up my inside image folds at the same time as putting it all back together.

Front cover

Side view

Ingredients:-

• Image - To the Moon and Back by Courtney McAnsh
• Small note book and an IKEA pencil
• Sentiment  - by me plus the hands
• Colouring media - oil pastels, Promarkers
• Gesso to seal the image

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a happy crafting time ahead of you :) xx

To The Moon and Back - Jane's view

Hi folks, hope you day is going well.  Time for me to share another Sweet Pea creation, this time a candle using the fabulous image Courtney McAnsh's To the Moon and Back.

To begin with I sprayed my tissue paper with a light adhesive spray and stuck it to some A4 paper.  I then printed my candle wrapper.  I know some folks use paper when covering candles but I find this far to heavy and suspect it it a bit of a fire hazard.

Normally I create my candle wrappers 100% digitally but many artist do not allow digital colouring of their digi images.  Recently, while in the UK I invested in the Spectrum Noir blendable crayons and wondered if it would be possible to colour on tissue paper with them as they are fairly soft.  Success :) :) After my wee practice I coloured this image with the SN blendable crayons.

Next I removed the backing paper and attacked my low tack wrapper to my candle.

After having wrapped it in wax paper I then used my heat gun to melt the wax from the candle through the tissue paper.  Once done, I then added some candle gold dust in areas on the background and then, finished off with some water based candle varnish for a lovely sheen.

And here is the finished candle.

Ingredients:-

• Courtney McAnsh's To the Moon and Back
• Background by me
• Candle
• Tissue paper
• Candle varnish
• Heat gun
• Gold dust for candle

Thank you for stopping by and hope you have a happy crafting day ahead of you :)

Inspiration With Nataliya

Hello all.
Today i like to show you my card that i made for Sweet Pea Stamps, with this very cute digital image by Courtney McAnsh. She is a new Artist, and i think she is amazing. This digi could be just prefect for a Baby's cards, Boys or Girls.
I used Water coloring Pencils only this time.

Here is some of mine work with polymer clay .

See you next time, have a good day.
Nataliya

To the moon and back

I just love this stamp. The moon has this absolutely gorgeous expression, that is so versatile for so many cards and projects. I could easily see this colored, cut out and used as embellishment on scrapbook pages to.

As always I colored with my Copics. These are the ones I used:
Beige: E40, E41, E42, E43
Reds: R32, R35, R37, R39
Yellows: Y32, Y35, Y38
Greens: BG93, BG95, BG99

Since I used warm colors, I decided to make this into an autumn card, going for yellow and orange flowers. The gold star seequins seemed the perfect addition.

The stamp is To the Moon and Back by Courtney McAnsh. It's available in the Sweet Pea Stamp store as digi and rubber.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.
-Lina