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Artist Feature - Alison

Today I'm honoured to have lovely Alison as my guest. 

I met Alison last November. She is lovely person and very talented!

I love her projects!  Below you will find a few words from Alison and her amazing projects.

Here you will find her blog.

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Hi, my name is Alison, aka Craftytrog. I live in Kent, on the outskirts of London, with lots of lovely countryside around me which I love, but also near to the wonderful art galleries, concert venues and other delights of London.

I have been crafting since I was little, starting with knitting, crochet & cross-stitch, then a few years ago I discovered rubber stamping, and now it's all about ink, paint and mixed media.

I first discovered Magda's gorgeous stamps back in November, when I met this lovely lady at a class. My vast stamp collection now includes 'Agatha Heart' and 'Agatha Crown', and here are some artworks that I have created with them...

This is a journal page spread that was started at the class where Magda and I met.

Magda's friend Karen let us play with Magda's 'Nina'. I have finally added a few finishing touches to it! Lol! Blue features rather a lot in my art, it's my favourite colour.

Here's a collage style card that I made in December 2014, featuring 'Agatha Heart'.

I used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint, and the red dots were stamped with a piece of lego. I love to use red with my blue!

And finally, here's the January page that I made for Kate Crane's Art Journal Calendar Challenge. On this page, I featured 'Agatha Crown', and used Fresco Finish Paint and a splat stencil by The Artistic Stamper.

Again, lots of blue! It goes with every colour! :-)

Thank you dear Magda for featuring my art on your blog, and thank you all for visiting. I hope that I've inspired you a little.

Alison xox

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Tomorrow I will be back with my art journal pages.

Magda x

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Stampotique + 13arts

I'm sorry that I didn't show you my last 4 art journal pages yet.

I was having problems with Blogger, once again!
But here I am with new projects.

Today I want to show you my tags for Stampotique and 13arts but tomorrow I will return with my art journal pages (I hope no more issues with Blogger!)

Here is a tag for 13arts. If you want to see more photos and how I have made a background for this project pop in to 13arts blog for step by step tutorial. 

More tags...these are for Stampotique challenge - Citrus colours.

I used my Ignis Kisses and Raindrops stamps and also Heads and Superhero text.

Magda x

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6 + step by step

Few more pages and I will be done with my art journal counting. 

The 6th page is with step by step pics.

I simply stuck some paper, fabric, canvas scraps using gel medium Everything which normally would be binned. I also stuck pieces of masking tape - love the texture of it.
I used Liquitex Gloss Gel, it was the only one on my shelf - I think it is time for shopping! - but I love it.

I applied a layer of gesso - Winsor&Newton White Gesso Primer. There is a few reasons why I like it but in this case - the gesso has nice consistency and it is easy to apply on the background like this.

And here it is! Pink! 

When the gesso was completely dry I applied a think layer of ColourArte Silks Acrylic Glaze - Pink Azalea. What can I say? I love it!

One more layer of ColourArte Silks Acrylic Glaze but this time Teal Zircon.

When the paints were dry I applied white acrylic paint in a few places.

Ok, now the fun bit. Tried it for the first time and I loooove the effect. I mixed LuminArte Primary Elements - Blushing Rose with DecoArt Media Crackle Glaze - and it worked! The crackles appeared as normal. And one more thing...because the Crackle Glaze is fluid there is a few options to applied it - smear or 'drop it' from brush.

No project without stamping!

I applied Silks on Stampotique stamp (France's design) and simply stamp it on my project. I really like stamping using paints or fluid inks (but about this another time ;))

No pink thread in the studio? No problem!

Silks + water = coloured thread

 Magda x

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