Little box full of courage and birthday card

Hello Arty Souls!

Today I want to share with you my special project for my beautiful  friend- Ali. She is very special girl with a kind heart and colourful soul- my soul mate... It is a very late birthday gift for her:)

I altered a little vintage tin with vintage book paper. Then I made felted heart and clay dwarf:) I also added some moss and dried flowers:)

And I also made a card... (designed and inspired by Craft for The Craic Challenge blog)

Happy Birthday my Ali!!!

xx

Sylwia

Altered house- special commission

Hello Arty Souls!

I have been busy recently with few commissions. This one my customer ordered for his wife who loves knitting. I askde my fiend Vics Knitt to knit little woolly knit :) as this is only think I really have no patience for- knitting :) Maybe one day... Then I made a doll base on my customer's wife photo. I made also a table and little vase (out of old jewellery bead). I decorated roof with flowers by Prima and Zeus and Zoe Etsy shop

Enjoy!!!

I woul kie to enter this project to Scrapki- Wyzwaniowo Challenge- Tajemnicze opowiesci:)

xx

Sylwia

' Days are so long without you...' Altered house

Hello Arty Souls!

I would love to share with you my new project, which I was working on for the past two weeks. I bought this beautiful metal house designed by Finnabair  (Mixed Media Place- online shop)some time ago and I was waiting for inspiration to alter it :)

I decided to make a vintage scene of a girl who is spending her lonely evening sewing...

I handmade a doll, a table and a lamp:)

I repainted the house, added glass beads by Finnabair and flowers by Prima and IamRoses

the sewing machine is a pencil sharpener from 1960:)

Different stages of making my doll:)

I hope you enjoyed it!

Love,

xx 

Sylwia

Mixed media tag mobile- GT project for Scrap Africa + video tutorial

Hello Arty Souls!

I was invited as a Guest Designer in Scrap Africa. Thank you for that! It was a pleasure to create for you:)

The theme for the challenge was to use two tags in the project. I decided to use three of them and create a winter mobile. Every year I make a new hand made christmas decoration for my house so I guess I can tick it off from my list to do this year:)

In this project I used tags and flowers by Prima, chipboards by Scrapiniec, glitter and metal embellishments by Finnabair,spray by Lindy's Stamp Gang,  some nature elements from Polish forest and the fairies from my own paintings ;-)

Scroll down to the video tutorial!

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial:

I hope you liked it!

Stay warm!

xx

Sylwia

Altered frames

Hello Arty Souls!

I love altering frames. I usually buy them in charity shop and up-cycle them or in some discount store. The idea is not to spend too much money on it and to change it into an art piece:)

It is a great gift idea!

' Embrace your Dream' mixed media on wood for Cozy Challenge with Finnabair + video tutorial

Hello Arty Souls!

Today I wanted to share with you my new project inspired by Finnbair  and her Creative Design team:)

I decided to enter her Finnabair's Cozy Challenge as winter just came and I love to feel wooly and cozy:) And also those colours are outside of my comfort zone (as I always use very vibrant colours). But we need to challenge ourselves sometimes, right? :)

So I decided to work on wood, as it has a cozy texture already:) I used many materials by Prima and Finnbair and also some materials by Lindy's Gang Stamp, Docrafts, 13arts, FaberCastell.

I also did a video! (scroll down to the bottom of this post)

I created my cozy moodboard for inspiration. I use the images from internet but also in the bottom left corner is a journal spread of my friend Marta, who is also a team member of Finnabair's DT:) Her art work is out of this world!

As I am in love with fairies, I decided to add the little one:)

And there is a video tutorial:) Enjoy!

Altered Frame with Video Tutorial

Hello Arty Soul!

Today I wanted to show you how did I altered a 1 euro frame from charity shop:)

And I have a first video tutorial for you!!!

Big flower from Zeus and Zoe Etsy shop, small flowers by Prima

Chipboard by Wycinanka

Glass beads and Mica flakes by Finnabair

Video Tutorial

Enjoy!!!

'Simplicity Girl' Mixed media notebook/art journal cover

Hello Arty Souls!

This is my DT project for  Craft for The Craic October challenge: 

I decided to alter plain notebook/art journal with print of one of my girls, some doodles, pieces of fabric and paper

The pattern continues on the back cover

I hope you like this little project:)

Love, 

Sylwia

Doilies and denim- my future wedding dress ;)

Hello Arty Souls!

Recently I got inspired by creative Marta (Maremi's Small Art) who made a video tutorial how to make a paper mache dress and convert it into mixed media art piece on canvas. I love Marta and her amazing talent!!!

Make sure that you will visit her blog

So I decided to put a little twist on the project, because there is many artists who like making art pieces using the dress idea but important  is to got inspired  and try to make it in your own style:) And because I am a denim girl, I decided to combine this material (bye bye too small jeans) with my beloved vintage laces and doilies. I also design the background using vintage music notes, vintage dress pattern, inks and stamps

Now I have to find someone who will make this dress in my size:P

 I am serious!!! If I ever get married, that will be my wedding dress!!! 

This project will take part in Rhedd's Creative Spirit An Altered Art Challenge Blog - August Challenge

Altered brush- first project as a part of DT in Craft for the Craic

Hey Arty Souls!!!!

Great News!!!  I am thrilled to announce that I have joined very creative DT in Craft for the Craic challenge blog:) Which means that every month I will be making a project according to the theme. So I hope you will get inspired by our projects and you will join the challenge.

August Challenge #7 - A Craft Item you have never used before

I decided to alter old big brush, which I never used before. It was just sitting in my art room. This time it will be used as a painting surface. I just put gesso all over it and it was ready for painting. I couldn't resist and I painted one of my little fairies on it :)

I hope you got inspired:)

xx

Sylwia

Live life in full colour

Hey Art Souls!

Recently I have an obsession with 3D Flowers. I absolutely love flowers made by Prima Marketing. I bought few of them recently and they look fabulous in mixed media projects:)

For this project I also used house hold items: 

-old credit card for spreading the paint

- pen's lid to make small circles in a background

- soft wire (I found it in my boyfriend's tool box) to make a house:)

and also: acrylics, scrapbooking paper, stamps, stencils, modelling paste, gel pen, rub ons

This project is for following challenges: 

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge - Around the house

Rhedd's Ceative Spirit. An altered Art Challenge Blog

Love,

Sylwia