Monday, January 30, 2017

CAUTION Toxic Heart: Andy Skinner PROJECT, Creative Jump Start

HOWDY All!

Andy Skinner from DecoArt was recently a presenter for Nathalie Kalbach's Creative Jump Start Workshop. It began the first of January and is now coming to an end.  What a GREAT jump start to creativity with so many incredible teachers and projects. 

As a die-hard DecoArt fan ...  I was inspired to create my version of Andy's tag, but, trust me, his was LOTS better! Of course.

Andy used a tag, stamps, a heart, chipboard gears & nuts, and texture products. It was done in earth tone type colors using fabulous techniques.  
I just used what I had in my stash, and since it's close to Valentine's Day... I made it pinkish.  Yes - pink. Very uncharacteristic for me, except this time of year.  Gears and chains, too. Imagine that... I have gone girly industrial steampunkish grunge!!!!!!!!!



Andy began by using DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Metallic Silver on his tag.  So did I, but I added some pink, and mounted that tag on a second pink tag. And, I promise you, Andy's tag had no flowers on it either - hehehhehe!!! Of course, since this was a paid workshop, I can't tell you how it was done, but I will show you some pictures. 
Most of you can guess the steps!







Products Used.
Andy Skinner's Toxic Stamp Set by Stampendous
Dear Lizzy American Craft - Elements - Metal Rose Brad
Dynasty Brushes
StazOn Jet Black
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic: 
~Paynes Grey
~Prussian Blue Hue
~Quinacridone Gold
~Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide
DecoArt Media Mister - Primary Magenta
DecoArt Media Crackle Paste
DecoArt Media Modeling Paste
DecoArt Media Gesso

From stash: chipboard heart, gear, 3 metal studs, metal arrow, chain, flower ribbon. 




And some close-ups of the finished creation. 




Thanks, bunches, for sharing my creativity from Andy's tutorial.

Hugs. j. 


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4 comments:

Redanne said...

Oh wow Joi, this is fabulously grungy but the touches of pink, the pink backing tag and heart and the flowery ribbon give it a feminine feel. I don't know what Andy's looked like but I LOVE your version!! Anne xx

Unknown said...

Love that you made Andy's project girly!!!

Lizzy Hill said...

This is fabulous....love your girly steamppunk.....& whatever the other one was!! Looks totally adorable in a grunge [that's what the word was!!] way. I would be waaaay pleased if I'd created this. AND you used your stash. Win win... & totally different for you, too:):)

sarascloset said...

Oh, yes, Joi, totally different from what I'm use dto seeing from you, but I have to say I do love this grungey-girl side of your artwork! It must have been an incredibly inspiring workshop, because have done incredibly inspiring work here! Squealing at the chain, Joi! Sending hugs!