Painted Puzzle

I’ve been playing with paint, inspired by the challenge on the Arty Girlz blog.


The jigsaw puzzle piece was coated with pale green paint (found lurking in the garage). Once dry, I applied Adirondack Acrylic Paint (Lettuce) through a dotty template (which I made using a Crop-a-dile). I then added further colour by dry brushing.
I stamped the text stamp by Crafty Individuals, using Distress Ink (peeled paint).

The two grungeboard elements were coated in the lettuce acrylic paint & a silver 3d acrylic paint by Reeves. I added Perfect Pearls (Green Patina) over the green piece.

The two metal charms were coloured silver using a Krylon silver leafing pen & then a hint of Adirondack Alcohol Ink (Lettuce) was added to their wings.

Two eyelets were added to the top & bottom. Ribbon tied through the top & green cord with a silver Tibetan bead secured through the bottom eyelet.

Two silver brads were coloured with the lettuce alcohol ink & added

The whole puzzle piece was then edged with the silver leafing pen & a few blobs of Glossy Accents were added.


This altered jigsaw puzzle piece also fits two other challenges:-
My Time to Craft which is Brads & Eyelets
Wednesday Stamper which is Eyelets

Diva

Wednesday Stamper set a challenge this week to bring out the Diva in us, Scrummy Stash Café challenged us to make something with an unusual shape & My Time to Craft asked us to use ribbons, so I have combined the three together to create an altered jigsaw piece.

Being a Diva of course, I always do as I want, so I can combine all three challenges & no-one will dare challenge me about it.



The base was painted & left to dry. It was stamped using a Non-Sequitur stamp with clear Versamark & heat embossed with gold powder, to create the background.

The image is from a copyright-free graphics cd from Crafty Computer Paper. Glossy Accents was added to the ribbon in her hair & the butterfly.

I printed off the wording & added a strip of vellum. I set an eyelet in the top & added the ribbons. Finally it was edged with a Krylon 18ct gold leafing pen.

je t’aime

The challenge theme on Arty Girlz was handmade backgrounds & on Wednesday Stamper the theme was insects.


I took a large blank jigsaw piece & covered it with acrylic paint. To create the background pattern I used a gingham stamp by CleverCut & my own handmade wiggly lines stamp. These stamps were inked with Distress Ink (aged mahogany) & randomly stamped over the jigsaw piece. My own stamp was then re-inked with black ink & again randomly stamped over the jigsaw piece.

The je t’aime stamp by Paper Artsy & the dragonfly image by Claritystamp were stamped using Archival Ink (Jet Black).

I re-stamped the PA image, once onto green paper & then yellow paper & cut out the letters. The green letters were covered in Glossy Accents.

I used Distress Inks to colour in the PA image (aged mahogany, peeled paint, mustard seed) & the dragonflies (weathered wood).

To highlight other areas of the stamped images I used 3d glaze pens from Sakura.


I added three green buttons by Lasting Impressions, to which I added gold metallic thread.

The jigsaw piece was edged with Distress Ink (peeled paint).

To make the hanger, I twisted craft wire around a piercing tool, threaded through another piece of straight wire & added a few transparent beads.