Art Doll

What do you get when you combine all of the following..??

Well an art doll of course!! 

I began with a regular doll, picked up second hand.  I always use baby wipes to clean up my work space after spraying with glimmermists and I like to recycle these, for just such a project. 

I used the pre-coloured baby wipes to wrap the doll and adhered it with Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive.

Using the Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive you can manipulate the shape of the wet ones to create a nice shape for your doll.  

Next using Helmar Gemstone Glue I created wavey lines and coated them with glitter to decorate the doll.  I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive to attach flowers to the front of the doll and then painted the doll with Viva Precious Metal Colour.

Finally, I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive to attach some lace around the head. and Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue to secure the strips of wet ones to create the skirt at the bottom.

I hope you enjoyed this project and I hope to see you sharing your creations on the Helmar Facebook Page.

Just before I go, I'd like to thank my good friend Linda Baldock for the inspiration in creating this project, she creates many amazing art dolls, and is another fan of Helmar adhesives too!

Till next time

Happy Creating

xC

Cindy Porter

Helmar Design Team 2013

EDIT:  This post has been highlighted on the Party Time Tuesday Blog where a wonderful Design Team posts daily to inspire you. On Tuesdays they have weekly challenges offering prizes for participants. Go check Party Time Tuesdays Your Daily Dose out! Your going to love it!

Thank you & A Winner

Hi I would like to thank everyone who participated in the Scrap FX blog hop... it was fantastic to have so many people actively participate in the hop.  I would also like to thank everyone for the wonderful comments and encouragement that I have received.... The joy of sharing even just a little of what one knows is so fulfilling when you hear how it encourages others.... So thank you one and all....
and now I bet you are all dying to know who won my little blog giveaway ... although I didn't actually get a chance to do the draw on Tuesday like I promised... before I knew it, it was the early hours of Wednesday morning already, sorry about that.... but without further a due ....

the winner is                  Buffy Esser

 So Buffy if you could please email your address to me at ascrappetiger@gmail.com, I can get your prize sent out to you....Congratulations Buffy...

Till next time

Happy Crafting

xC

Scrap FX Blog Hop

Welcome to our Scrap FX blog hop if you are hoping along you should have arrived here from Anita's blog, hope you're enjoying the hop and getting loads of inspiration along the way.... and don't forget your chance to win the major prize pack on the Scrap FX blog....

First up I have the get to know us better questions....
What is your scrapbook "Kryptonite"(what style/colour/etc will people never see on your creations because you cannot deal with it???)  Well, my Kryptonite has to be "cutsie" .....give me grunge any day...
What do you listen to or watch wile you scrap and why?   Well, I love to play movies or TV series on DVD, preferably  something I have already seen and enjoyed..... that way I can create and not be distracted....currently I am enjoying the TV series' "Eureka and Friday Night Lights"
Do you snack or drink while scrapping? What?  Confession time yes I snack while scrapping.... preferred snack: "Raspberry Choc Bits" OMG! totally irresistible....
How do you jump start your creativity when you find that it is missing?  Tough question to answer, but I force myself to start painting, drawing or stamping anything and I just keep doing it until it's back.... Usually, the hardest part is to actually start, get over that hurdle and your back!
What is your favourite technique(s) to use right now and why? What are some tried and true techniques you love to use? Right now I love making textured backgrounds with stencils, impasto, gesso and modelling paste.... Tried and true  techniques, distressing and inking everything, has to be right up there for me...
At what time of day are you most creative, or do you prefer to create?  My most creative time is from midnight to three am! Creative juices freely flowing after midnight!!
What makes you heart race?  Easy, riding my Harley Davidson!! Creating!! Teaching!! Oh and my hubby of course, lol!
If you were to describe one emotion while scrapbooking, what would it be?  Fulfillment!
What are you afraid of? Without question SNAKES! Oh, my Gawd, just typing it gives me chills!!!
If you could choose a talent/gift, what would you take? Tough question, hmmm, and I'm probably supposed to choose something arty/crafty but.... I think I'd have to say Time Travel....you know like in the movies "Jumper/Time Travelers Wife" so I can jump to any point/place in time.... that would be awesome... Yep I think that would have to be it for me...

So now onto my little bit of inspiration that I have created to share with you all today.... "Dream" An Altered Frame...

I wanted to create something using some of my favourite products, naturally Scrap FX (the best chippie), modelling paste/impasto and fantasy film and all put together using Helmar adhesives.

To create the background on the frame, I used modelling paste and a simple plastic knife (you know like you'd use at a picnic) they create great texture and are so cheap!!

For my background inside the frame I used the Scrap FX stencil, (Daisy Garden) with impasto, I then force dried the impasto to get it to bubble up...  the whole thing was then painted with gesso and sprayed with various colour sprays, a little metallic rubs applied to the stenciled area and the background is complete.

 For the wings I used the Scrap FX (Flourish P, Damask Corner) painted them black and using Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue adhered fantasy film to the back of each corner.  Once the glue had dried, I heated the fantasy film, causing it to shrink and cling to the corners, next using a soldering iron I created the holes and rugged edges of the wings.

  The final chipboard pieces were painted black, and all pieces were coated with glossy accents to finish them off.  The embellishments were adhered with Helmar 450 Quickdry Adhesive to finish the project off.

Here's a list of all the glorious Scrap FX chippie I used:

Flourish P, Damask Corner 2010144

Daisy Garden Stencil 2013030

Wrought Iron Corners 2013084

Dress Form A Classic 2011248

Dream - Script 2006304

I hope you've been inspired to create your own wonderful chippie creations.

Now before I send you on your way to continue on with our hop, I have a little bit of blog candy for one lucky person to win.

So I am going to ask you to follow my blog, and for your chance to win leave me a comment below and you will be in the draw.  The winner will be drawn Tuesday 21st May, good luck.

So now it's time for you to continue on your way and hop on over to Claire's blog.
Thanks for joining us on our hop.
Till next time,
Happy Crafting
xC

Scrap FX Blog

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Adrienne

Amy Lynne

Anita

Cindy   << you are here

Claire

Elisabeth

Maria

Michelle H

Misty

Rachelle

Renata

Scarlett

Helmar Altered Bottle

Hi everyone, this is my first ever official post for Helmar.   I was so thrilled to be invited to join this team, I have used Helmar glues for as long as I can remember and there is no doubt they are the best adhesives available on the market.  So I am super stoked to share with you my first offical creation an altered bottle.  

I found this bottle in Vinnie's store and just fell in love with it, it was screaming for a make over.

So my first step was to give the whole bottle a good spray of Helmar Crystal Kote Fixative Spray, I wanted to create a more workable surface, as glass is quite unfriendly to many mediums... the Helmar Crystal Kote Fixative Spray drys in seconds and creates a great workable surface.  

Next step was to give it the once over with gesso and let that dry.

Then to add some colour I used a couple of Glimmermist sprays.  What I discovered using the Helmar Crystal Kote Fixative Spray as a base allows the gesso to give an almost fake crackle look when soaked with the Glimmermist, leaving you with all these great textures and patterns.

After the bottle had dried it was time for all the finishing touches, so I grab the 450 quick dry adhesive  and use it to adhere lots of flowers, then grab for the Gemstone glue to stick rhinestones in the flower centres.   Gemstone glue has to be your adhesive of choice for rhinestones as it does not cloud them in any way and drys perfectly clear... even if you get some on the top of the rhinestone it won't loose it's shine....what more could you ask for...

Well I hope you enjoyed the project and I hope to see you sharing your projects over on the Helmar facebook page.

Till next time,

Happy Creating, xC 

 

Cindy Porter

Helmar Design Team 2013

EDIT:  This post has been highlighted on the Party Time Tuesday Blog where

a wonderful Design Team posts daily to inspire you. On Tuesdays they

have weekly challenges offering prizes for participants. Go check Party Time Tuesdays Your Daily Dose out! Your going to love it!

More Fabulous Scrap FX

Today I'd like to share with you some layouts I've  been creating using some of the fabulous new Scrap FX chippy designs, I just fell in love with the new graphic circles, frame and corner.... just love, love, love them....

So first up I want to share with you "Snapshots" a fun colourful layout using some of those great new graphic pieces...  naturally the layout was all put together using the best of Helmar adhesives...

I raised the Snapshots title and Moments title using Helmar Scrap Dots, the photo's were secured using Helmar Quickfix Adhesive Runner, and the rest of the Scrap FX elements were secured using Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue.

 

The  Scrap FX Pieces used in creating this layout  are:

Graphic Corner: 2013078

Graphic Circles: 2013076

Stained Glass Stencil: 2012159

Snapshots: 2012121

Moments Words: 2013054

Scribble Circles: 2013044

Playground Alphabet: 2012306

Next up is a layout I created "Good Times Together" , loved this new chippy title, perfect for this layout.

I really had fun creating this layout, and spent loads of time playing with the background to get it just right, and set the whole thing off with the delicate touches of the gorgeous chippy ruffled feather...

Scrap FX chippy used in creating this layout:

Ruffled Feather: 2012223

Good Times Together: 2013072

Flourish D:  2006153

And finally, I have for you a quick layout I created "Simply the Best" again focusing on those new graphic designs.   In this layout I used distress embossing powders on the chippy to give it a ruff finish...

Graphic Frame: 2013077

Playground Alphabet: 2012306

Graphic Circles: 2013076

Urban Corner: 2013081

Simply the Best: 2012280

Arrow Collage Stencil: 2012130

Arrow Boxes: 20122373

Cogs: 2007184

That's all from me today, hope to see you all sharing your Scrap FX creations over on the Scrap FX facebook page.

Till next time, 

Happy Creating

xC

Good Times Together

Next up is a layout I created "Good Times Together" , loved this new chippy title, perfect for this layout.

I really had fun creating this layout, and spent loads of time playing with the background to get it just right, and set the whole thing off with the delicate touches of the gorgeous chippy ruffled feather...
The background was created using different coloured embossing powders layered up and then coated with different coloured glimmermist sprays.... The layered tags are also embossed with multiple layers of different coloured embossing powders and stamps...
this layout shows how I love to use embossing and is perfect for the Mixed Media Palace challenge: 
How U Use embossing

Scrap FX chippy used in creating this layout:

Ruffled Feather: 2012223

Good Times Together: 2013072

Flourish D:  2006153

Helmar Challenge!

Have you seen this??
Helmar's challenge for April, there is still time to get in there and win a voucher to the Helmar store!!!
click on the link here for all the details..... what a great challenge, to record a week of your life!! there are some great examples on the blog...

when I checked there weren't a lot of entries yet, so big opportunity for you to win!!!

so off you go, get moving and have a go!! 

good luck

xC

Quick Layout

Been busy lately just trying to get my head around what is required of you when you join a design team.... different teams, different requirements, but for me (who has never been on a team before) it's taking a little getting used to...  But I am loving every minute of it....

I thought today I would share a layout I made from a sketch comp that my friend Shazz had on her online forum Scrap Lounge over Easter....  Scrap Lounge is a great online forum, with some lovely helpful peeps if you want to chat or get in on the challenges there... 

The layout is of a pic I took while taking a gondola ride in Venice.  Riding in the gondola gives you a whole different view of Venice, something not to be missed if you are every lucky enough to have the opportunity!!

Anyway here is the layout I created...

As always I have created this layout using my favourite adhesives, Helmar 450 and Helmar Acid Free Glue, and of course fabulous chippy from Scrap FX.... for this layout I used :

Venice 2009318

Flourish E 2006154

Till next time,

happy crafting

xC

EDIT:  This post has been highlighted on the Party Time Tuesday Blog where a wonderful Design Team posts daily to inspire you. On Tuesdays they have weekly challenges offering prizes for participants. Go check Party Time Tuesdays Your Daily Dose out! Your going to love it!

Have you heard the news!!!

Have you heard the news?? Helmar USA have just announced their design team...... and yep! you guessed it I made it onto the team..... I am so excited, a very big congratulations to my fellow team members.... I have been promoting Helmar glues for as long as I can remember, they have always been my go to glue, they are perfect to work with all the Scrap FX chipboard I am playing with..... and now I get to play with them all the time and officially promote them, awesome!!

here is a link to the official announcement.... 

http://helmarusa.typepad.com/blog/2013/04/announcing-our-2013-helmar-design-team.html#comments

till next time,

keep on crafting,

xC

A quick Tag

Been busy this weekend with things around the home, like putting in a cat door for little miss Cleopatra.... so haven't had that much time in my studio to create and share... but I did manage to whip up a little tag....
I made it using Scrap FX chipboard and stencil all held together and texturized with Helmar glues...
hope you like it...

Cherish words 2013053

Garden in Paradise Stencil 2013028

Arrows solid Circles 2007143

Helmar 450

Helmar Acid Free Glue

Till next time

xC

Favourite Things - A Scrap FX Mini Blog Hop

Well welcome to my first blog hop post...  if you have followed along you should have arrived here from Adrienne's blog.....

The theme of our blog hop is "Favourites Things"...so I thought I would share my favourite things with you all....

Firstly their is my family, my hubby Bill and my two furbabies, Tiger and Cleo...

I would say its a toss up as to what comes next...  but I think probably riding my Harley Davidson would win, there is nothing that compares to that feeling of absolute freedom as you cruise along a highway on a sunny day....

My next love would be of tigers, now let me be very clear that has nothing to do with sport, I am talking giant man eating cats... I have been in love with these animals for as long as I can remember....
Then there is my favourite colour orange, I know a lot of people don't like it, but I absolutely love it along with black (which we all know isn't really a colour, lol)...
Oooohhhh now I couldn't do a post on my favourite things with out mentioning my favourite chocolate... now I must warn you read on at your own risk these are highly addictive.... it's Raspberry choc bites made by Capricorn.... so, so delicious.... everyone should try them, or though maybe not, I don't want everyone buying them and there being a shortage...lol...bugger just telling you about them makes me want one now or maybe two...lol...

So now that you know all about my favourite things in the world.... I would like to share with you my mixed media canvas I created in this theme.... Not only does it depict some of my favourite things but it was created using my favourite crafting products, Scrap FX, Helmar, Impasto and my Silks and Sprays....I hope you like it...

I used the fantastic Scrap FX  "Steampunk stencil"  to create the background.... then layered it up with lots of fabulous chipboard pieces....  I even made use of the external border from the "words of love"  chipboard set... I cut it to form the two corner borders on my canvas....

ScrapFX pieces used:

Steampunk stencil 2012165

words of love 2013050

Play Ground Alphabet, small 2012306

Play Ground Alphabet, large 2012305

Arrows, fancy 2012374

Scribble Heart, small 2013043

Adore Words 2013065

Now, hopefully I didn't loose you in this long post.... so from here you should jump on over to Elizabeth's blog for some more inspiration....

Adrienne Ford

Cindy Porter    <<<  you are here!

Elisabeth Hovden Bakken

Michelle Hernandez

Scrap FX

Ooh La La, something just for Fun!

Hi, so I had trouble sleeping last night and decided to get up and get creative in the studio instead....
Felt like creating something pretty!! Ooh La La, hope you like it...

Paris theme pack 2011319

I created the wings from flowers, and the skirt from ribbon mesh just for something different....
I love how the Scrap FX wordlets will bend to fit any shape surface, just moisten with water or spray such as glimmermist and dry in the bent shape. Once dry they hold the shape beautifully...

Till next time
happy creating
xC

Scrap FX

Hi everyone

Here is my very first design team post!   I have a couple of layouts to share with you all featuring the fab new Scrap FX scribbles and wordlets.

First up is "Paris" featuring a pic from my trip last year. I chose to use gel medium with the Scrap FX Chevron stencil for a subtle effect on the background, and I used inktense water colour pencils on the chippies, as it allows you to easily graduate the colour, and once dry coated them with Glossy accents for extra shine.

 

 

Just a few closeups of the fabulous chippies used for this layout.

Items used:

Moments to Live for (2013073)

Paris theme pack (2011319)

Chevron Stencil (2012152)

Heart Vine Flourish (20113048)

Zipper Pulls (2012302)

Book Plate, Large (2009350)

My next layout is  " Cherish Love Adore"

This layout is a pic of my hubby and I  and I wanted to show off the chippie in it's raw form and how easy it is to work with like this.

   

Just some close ups of the chippies.

Items used:

Chevron Stencil (2012152)

Scribble Heart, small (2013043)

Scribble Sentiments (2013041)

Dandelion Heart (2013049)

Love Words, Fancy (2013051)

Till next time xC

EDIT:  This post has been highlighted on the Party Time Tuesday Blog where a wonderful Design Team posts daily to inspire you. On Tuesdays they have weekly challenges offering prizes for participants. Go check Party Time Tuesdays Your Daily Dose out! Your going to love it!

Playing with Scrap FX & Helmar

Just  a quick post to share with you all a little tag I created using Scrap FX products and Helmar glues....
I hope you like it...

I created the tag using:
Scrap FX book plate large (2009350)
Scrap FX love words fancy (2013051)
Scrap FX leafy swirls stencil (2013029)
Helmar Acid Free Glue
Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
Colour Sprays
Gilding Wax
other embellishments (Resin cherub, doily, fabric flower, heart pins, ribbons, chain& pearls)

till next time

xC

Playing with Scrap FX

Been busy the past few days, just playing around with all the Scrap FX chipboard goodness... just thought I'd give you all a sneak peak at the beginnings of some ideas on my desk...

I'll have more to share later....
till next time, happy creating
xC