Back to school

Spark some Kreativity Saturday @ the Kraaft Shaak 

Hello all my Blogger friends.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look and see what I've been doing.  Today is my day sharing with you as a design team member for the Kraaft Shaak for the August challenge. It is my honor and privilege to be chosen for this amazing team. Heather is the sweet store owner who truly cares about the community she has created and shares her talent with us all on a regular basis. This month we are talking about back to school. Yup, not that far away now. I have a few little people in my life who are readying for this life event. So this is some of how I plan to help. Following are projects I created,, are easy enough for you to do and could be done with the kiddos. 

Starting with a wooden panel from the craft store...sand rough surfaces and

paint the surface with a blue chalk paint. Add lettering, doodles, a cute fox and command clips. Now it is a great way to display artwork from school. 

Then I found a premade apron to dress up and keep painty spills off school clothes at the local craft store. The hot pink ruffle just said, take me home and jumped in my shopping cart. Well, you know how I am with a blank canvas. I had to alter it. I remembered the stencils that came in my Mixed Media kit from the Kraaft Shaak and knew what I wanted to do.

Using the stencil supplied in my mixed media kit I painted the ruffle. Then I use some white Dina Wakley paint  with the new  tip to write and draw designs.  The heavy bodied paint is similar to dimensional paint, thick and creamy. Then I found a bottle of hot pink glitter glue to jazz it up some more. 

Oh and I wasn't done yet. There are surfaces still available for me to paint. lol

I figure every kid needs a lap board to clip paper to when doing homework while flopped on the bed or couch. Right??? I started with dollar store clip boards. The blue one is done with book covering from the same store, chalkboard and Dina Wakley paints using Tim Holtz's Schoolhouse stencil. The pink and white is Dina heavy body paint and hot pink Pebeo. I wanted it to look like the bokeh camera effect so I painted using a round sponge.

Well that's my take on the back to school challenge. 

   check out the other posts over at the Kraaft Shaak. There are a ton of videos to watch, other blogs to follow and loads of inspiration and fun! ttfn

P.S. If you stop by the Kraafters Kommunity on Google+ you can see pictures of a Gelli®  play day we had recently. I printed scarves, shirts and pencil cases.
P.P.S. Heather has some awesome exclusive products made from her own art. What a great way to share her talent with others while supporting the Shaak.

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Spark some Kreativity Saturday @ the Kraaft Shaak 

Hello my fellow bloggers,

Today is my first day sharing with you as a design team member for the Kraaft Shaak. It is my honor and privilege to be chosen for this amazing team. After you read this post, I hope you will consider following Heather and all the designers. They will blow you away. Please join our friendly Kraafters Kommunity on google plus too. It is a safe and friendly environment for sharing art and crafting with friends. Anyway on to the project.
 I received this wonderful mixed media kit which Heather sells at the Kraaft Shaak and have been having a ton of fun playing with it. I can't imagine all the things I can make with what's inside the box. If you'd like to preview a box I have a video here. So let's get started, shall we?

My first project is this cute easel blackboard/corkboard. I had a good time applying all of the products to this. First I had to mask off the cork and blackboard.
 Then I painted it with a coat of gesso. After the second coat of gesso, I applied the chalkboard paint in a golden green. Then came the crackle paste which takes about five hours to dry.

Just be prepared to be patient. Once dry I applied some glazing medium, taupe and cobalt green.

After those were dry I used some archival ink's in the colors of watering can and coneflower to accentuate the crackle. Everything is then coated with matte gel to seal in the crackle coat.
 I then created the flowers and embellishments. If you'd like to know how to make those I have a video here.

For the leaves and vines I cut watercolor paper I had painted with Magicals using a die. The florals  are applied with heavy gel medium. I added Color Bloom spray ink in Tea-stain, Soft Teal and Summer Sky to the flowers for some shimmer. The flowers are on 120 lb watercolor paper.

Cork side

Thumb tacks

Didn't this really turn out cute? The little bird is from the dollar store. He looks so comfy sitting atop this antiqued easel.

The products used can be found at the Kraaft Shaak. Please visit and tell Heather I sent you. Oh yes, don't forget to sign up for  the news letter. That is where you find out about coupons.

Gesso
Gold Green Chalk Paint
Crackle Medium
Matte Gel
Colorbloom Spray
Watercolor paper
Inica flakes Art ingredients
Magicals merry go round green
Copper paint
Memory Box die
Rubbernecker stamps
Archival ink


Oh and before you go...Bonus
Here is a glimpse of what I did with some more of the supplies in the kit. Stay tuned for a post tomorrow.

Shhh Don't Tell

Okay my crafty blogger friends,
 I have been very naughty. I am itching to play and now that I have my Mixed Media Kit from The Kraaft Shaak it is even worse. watch this...

So check out the store and get an awesome kit or some Neo colors or some stamps and dies and make something. It is sooo much fun.

Kraaft Shaak Design Team Reveal

Hello Hello Hello
That is the cheerful greeting I hear from Heather of Kraaft It Live on the Kraaft Shaak video each week on You Tube or live with a Google login on The Kraaft Shaak web site. Read all about it here.  Heather produces a number of wonderful, informative video throughout the week and if you can't catch them live she saves them for you to review later.
I am pleased to be joining the design team along with this Kraafty bunch and sharing uses for all the Kraafty goodness found in the mixed media kits. What is that you ask? Well let me show you.

Want one of your own to play along? Find it here... There are tabs at the top of my page if you ever forget who is crafting this week and how to find them. I will be giving you the updates so stay tuned. Thanks for stopping by today and taking a look around. see you again soon. Peg