Challenge #110 - get rid of the box

The Diva Challenge for the week was to work outside your comfort zone and do something different -  stepping out of your individual "box".

This week ended up being an experimental journey rather than the completion of a finished piece for me, which was fun too.

For ZIA's I always work in journals, using pen and sometimes markers, but I have an entire room full of art and craft tools and mediums that I have collected and used prolifically over the years. I had to think hard about something to tackle that I hadn't really played with before and remembered that I had some foam blocks that could be moulded into designs to create your own stamps. Always wanted to play with them. Never had. Here was my big chance.

Here's how they work:

the block

 

 

Heat with heat gun

 

Press into something to make impression (remember it will stamp as a negative from the design you are creating the impression from). I used the chimney surround from my wood heater.

 

the stamped image

 

 

embellished with some linework, dimensional medium and white perfect pearls

the finished result

 The dimensional paint led me onto a bit more play......

mooka in white dimensional paint

mooka in black dimensional paint with perfect pearls sprinkled over the top to create marble effect

 

 

It was fun to drag out some of the old tools and have a play.

hx