Category Archives: stones

Splatter stones

painted stones, stones

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More fun painted stones, this time inspired by a video tutorial for painting nails by CelestialDreamsx3.  I used acrylic paint over a white gesso background and I would like to give them a few more coats of varnish but as usual I am waiting for the rain to stop so I can do it outside!  I am sure I would get an even nicer effect if I had used nail varnish or thinned my acrylic paint out more.  It was great fun to do but I did manage to get splatters everywhere – even my hair – and did you know that some splatters come off the paint brush behind you too so don’t just put down papers in front of you.

Painted stones

painted stones, stones

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I have been painting stones again and my inspiration for these is a little lumbar cushion that I bought a while ago and a video I saw on you tube by starbraz.
I haven’t glazed them yet as I use a very smelly gloss varnish which I prefer to spray outside – so I am  still waiting for the rain to stop!

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The large stone is about 19cm x 11cm and the small stone is roughly 5cm x 2.5cm.
They are both strange shapes especially the little stone as it has grooves on 2 sides and one flat side.
All I have used are acrylic paints over a black gesso undercoat.  I like to paint underneath too.

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Time to create 005 decorate it, paint it or alter it…

snail shells, stones, TTC005

I have been having great fun painting and decorating found objects: snail shells and stones so if you want to join in pop over to Crafts by Carolyn in the Time to Create section TTC005 decorate it, paint it or alter it and show us your lovely creations (the wackier the better).

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Most of the stones have been painted using acrylic paints but I glued on a picture cut out from a napkin on the bottom left stone (frog face).

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Here I have used black paint and decoupatch tissues with PVA glue. I did highlight the coil and edges with gold pilot pen but you can’t see that very clearly.

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This one was painted white the decorated with daisy rub-ons (very gently), green ink and a small green gem.
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Here I have used white paint and stamped small flowers and leaves then decorated the flowers with flower soft and lime stickles.

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This last one I painted with white first then with Distress crackle paint Broken china (when the cracks appeared it also cracked the white undercoat so I painted some white over the cracks and wiped away the excess) and added a brad top.
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No snail was harmed in any way as the shells were empty before decorating.  Sadly nobody bothered to join in the challenge!