Resist Week over at Tando Creative

Morning all,

I have a post over at Tando today, showing how I made these Artist Trading Coins.  I hope you can hop across to check out the process.

Kindest Wishes,

Nikki.
xxx

Crackle week over at Tando Creative Ltd.

Hi everyone,

It's crackle week over at Tando Creative this week, and it's my turn to share a make with you.  Hop across there to get the details on how I made this tag.  It didn't turn out quite as planned but that's how art goes sometimes.

Hope you all stay safe. xxx

Best Wishes,

Nikki
xxx

'Dark' - Featuring Andy Skinner's New Creative Expressions Products

Morning all,

I've been a bit busy of late, lots of projects going on at the same time, and painting and decorating at home too.  Hope you are all ok out there.

I have a blog post over on Andy's blog today, hope you can hop across and join us to find out more.  It's using his new products for Creative Expressions, some lovely new paints and a fab Structure Paste, along with his brilliant stamps.

Kind wishes,

Nikki
xxx

Day of the Dead at Creative Expressions

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post this morning to share a card I made to celebrate the Day of The Dead, which is today, Saturday 2nd November.  This is an ancient Aztec ritual, and celebrated in Mexico still, and is similar to Halloween. In Mexican culture, death is viewed as a natural part of the human cycle. Mexicans view it not as a day of sadness but as a day of celebration because their loved ones awake and celebrate with them.  Pictures and flowers and a drink for the journey are usually placed somewhere prominent to celebrate.

Over at Creative Expressions today they are celebrating and sharing a whole host of makes, so I thought I'd show you mine.

The card was made using different coloured inks for the layered backgrounds, and edging them in alternate ink colours.  They were matted up to give definition.  I used the Sugar Skull Stamp from Andy Skinner at Creative Expressions.  The top layer is Andy's 'Create' stamp, also new out, which I inked in 3 colours and stamped several times.

I stamped the Sugar Skull once more in Black, and coloured in with Andy's new paints, these are translucent enough not to blur the stamp lines, even neat!  This makes for great layering possibilities too.

The skull was mounted on a bit of acetate for fun, so it hangs over the front panel.

Hope you like it, don't forget to check out Creative Expressions Facebook page today for more inspiration.

Best Wishes,

Nikki
xxx

Products Used:
Creative Expressions:
Andy Skinner 'Create' Stamp
Andy Skinner 'Sugar Skull' Stamp
Andy Skinner Paints in Quinacridone Gold, Cobalt Teal & Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide.

Other: Coloured Inks.

Tando Creative - Same but Different Week

Hi all,

Join me over on the Tando Creative Blog today to find out more about their fab Layering Stencils. x

Best Wishes,

Nikki
xxx


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Andy Skinner's New Products with Creative Expressions

Hi all,

Just a quick blog to share with you something I've made over on Andy Skinner's blog, with his new products from Creative Expressions.

I have used Lava Paste, Mixed Media Transfers and stamps to create this piece, and you can find out more about these products here: 

Best Wishes,

Nikki K
xxx

Anything Goes week at Tando Creative

Morning everyone,

Today I'm over on the Tando blog for Anything Goes week, and sharing how I made a monochrome Tag using Tando Creative products and DecoArt paints.

I hope you can join me over there to find out more, here is the tag!

Come and join me and the rest of the team this week for some more inspiration. xx

Happy Crafting,

Nikki
xx

Tagtastic over at Andy Skinner's Blog today.

Morning all,

I'm very lucky to be part of Andy Skinner's Creative Team, and have a tag to show you over on his blog today.  

If you hop across, all the details of how I made it and the products used are there. x

Best Wishes,

Nikki

xxx

Love & Hearts over on the Tando Blog today.

Morning all,

Just to say hope you can join me over on the Tando Blog today, for the 'Love & Hearts' theme week.

Hop over if you can and take a look at how I created my tag. xx

Best Wishes,

Nikki
xxx

Tando Creative Artist Trading Coins

Morning all,

Hope you can join me over on the Tando blog today to find out more about these Artist Trading Coins.  They are great fun to make and fab to trade! 

Have a great weekend,

Best Wishes,

Nikki
xxx

Mixed Up Magazine Blog Hop!

I hope you are enjoying meeting the Mixed Up Design Team! Welcome to my blog.

As you know, each of us is sharing our favourite makes for Mixed Up today, and the project I’ve chosen to share with you is a canvas I did back in May last year. I haven't shared this one in full previously so here it is!

It's painted in several colours of DecoArt Americana paints, and then stamped with Andy Skinner's stamps and stencils. I moved the stencil 3 times to get the main image in different colours. Some Tando greyboard stars painted to match give some dimension. There was a lot of splattering too!

I’m also showing a sneak peek of something else I’ve got coming up soon!

The Mixed Up website has tons of mixed media projects, including these and many more! If you want to know more pop on over to the website at Mixed Up Magazine.

*Make sure you visit everyone’s blog to be in with a chance of winning the Grand Prize! Here’s the hop list!

Mixed Up Magazine:

Leslie Lineberry www.artfordinner.gallery/blog/2018/4/14/mum-blog-hop

Riikka Kovasin paperiliitin.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/mumhop.html

Erica Evans mixedmediawithericaevans.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/mixed-up-blog-hop.html

Debs Wainwright dawainwright.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/blog-hop-for-mixed-up-mag.html

Carol Fox gingernonutsbits.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/mixed-up-magazine-blog-hop.html

Corrie Herriman madebychook.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/a-mixed-up-mag-bloghop.html

Nikki Killinger - YOU ARE HERE

Fiona Potter fionapotterqd.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/mixed-up-blog-hop.html

Mags Woodcock thetaglady.wordpress.com/2018/05/20/mixed-up-mag-blog-hop

Lisa Taggart inkybliss.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/mixed-up-mag-blog-hop

Hop Rules:

Visit each designer and leave a comment on their blog for a chance to win a fabulous mixed media prize!

The draw is open internationally.

The draw closes 30th April 2018 at midnight GMT.

Thank you for stopping by and taking time out with me.

Nikki K.

xxx

Crackle Week at Tando

Morning all,

I have a tutorial for you over on the Tando blog today, hop across to find out all the details on how this was done.  I love these new stamps from Illusionary Artists too!

I used an MDF arch blank from Tando for this piece, it lent itself to the stamps perfectly.

There's a lot of texture going on, and plenty of layers!

Hope you can join me to find out more, and catch up with my teamies makes, over at Tando Creative.

Happy Crafting,

Nikki
xxx

Faux Metal week on the Tando Blog.

Hi all,

My first post in the New Year today!  I've been a bit poorly with a kidney infection and then a bad back (twice), but finally hoping I'm getting somewhere.

I have a post for you today over on the Tando Blog, hope you can join me and my colleagues this week for 'Faux Metal' week.  This guy would like to know what you think about him :)

Happy Crafting,

Nikki
xxx

Modelling Paste Week over at Tando Creative

Morning all,

It's Modelling Paste week over at Tando Creative's blog, and I have made a little Mixed Media Board.

You can find the full post over on the blog HERE.

Hope you can join me,

Have a good week,

Nikki. xxx

Route 66 - Mixed Media Canvas with DecoArt Media Acrylics

Morning everyone,

I'm sharing a piece today that I made for Mixed Up Magazine, for February 2017.  You can still get this issue of the magazine from Pocketmags, and I'd really encourage you to take a look at Mixed Up Mag and subscribe to future issues, it has tons and tons of pages of mixed media inspiration and projects. 

This piece was loosely valentines based, well, it had a heart in it!

This piece even made it to page 66!

Hope you like it, you can check out the full details on how I made it in the magazine.

Have a fab weekend,

Nikki
xx

Anything goes week over at the Tando Creative blog. - Backwards Crackle!

Hi everyone,
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It's my turn on the Tando Creative Blog today, and I'm sharing a full tutorial of my own technique for you, backwards crackle on acrylic.

Hope you can hop over to find out more.

Warm wishes,

Nikki

xxx

A few changes to Nikki K..

Hi all,

Well I have decided to streamline my several social media accounts, and re-brand to Nikki K Art in some shape or form.  So the following are my new account addresses that you can find me at, and if you are a new reader then the links are here for you too.  My blog won't disappear, and I'd love it if you wanted to follow my posts.

Blogger :  www.nikkikart.blogspot.co.uk 

Instagram:  www.instagram.com/nikkikartist

Twitter: www.twitter.com/NikkiKArtist

Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/NikkiKArtist

Facebook: www.facebook.com/NikkiKArtist

I hope you can join me on my mixed media journey.

Happy Crafting,

Nikki
xxx

Mixed Up Magazine Blog post.

Morning all,

Today you can join me over on the Mixed Up Magazine blog, sharing 'I'm only Human' with you.  Hope you can pop across and check out how I made it.

Best Wishes,

Nikki
xx

A new technique - Mixed Media Acrylic with DecoArt Chalk Crackle.

Morning all,

I had a brilliant weekend at Dare 2 Create this weekend gone, with Andy Skinner and Tracy Weinzapfel Stratton, and the fab Tando Creative Ltd.  It has taken a couple of days to recover!  I was demonstrating on the Saturday evening, and I had some ideas floating in the grey matter, to try a crackle on the back of an acrylic piece. Bearing in mind painting on acrylic works backwards, it took some working out, and hope that it wouldn't crackle all the layers.

Here is a full tutorial, and pictures of some of the pieces I have made since.

The Acrylic has a protective layer both sides.  I remove just one side to work on, and leave the other for protection on my work surface.  Stamp an image on to the acrylic using Carbon Black Fluid Media Acrylic. You do have to be careful not to let the stamp slip, but the bonus with acrylic is that you can wipe off any mistakes while still wet. Spread the paint thinly on your craft mat to stamp with.

Choose a paint colour, and colour in behind the heart, (always on the same side as your stamping), going over the black stamping as well (this will still show through in places).

When dry, colour in the missing parts of the heart, I used Venetian gold here.  You could colour the whole heart in, some of the gold would still show through the first layer of magenta.

Cover the whole heart in a layer of black, this seals the front colours, and stops light getting through further.  It also makes the black stamping clearer from the front.

Next, splatter some slightly watered down colour all over the acrylic.  You can use one or more colours.  Dry between applications so they don't make mud!

Apply the Crackle Medium to the acrylic.  I went around the edge of the heart, but you can go right over, it won't crackle normal acrylic, or what's underneath it, just what you put on top.  This crackle only works with the chalk paints.

Once completely dry, paint over with your chosen colour of chalk paint and let dry.

The final step is to paint behind the cracks in a contrasting colour.  

Then it's time for the final reveal, just peel back the acrylic from the other side and admire your artwork.

As you can see, I'm slightly hooked.  The best part is peeling away the protective cover and seeing what's beneath.

Hope it inspires you to have a go.

Best Wishes,

Nikki
xxx

Products Used:

Tando Creative Acrylic Cubbie Pieces/Media boards.
Andy Skinner/Stampendous/Laurel Burch Stamps.
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics.
DecoArt Chalk Crackle.
DecoArt Chalk paints.
DecoArt Dazzling Metallics.

Posting for Tando Creative today..

Morning all,

Over on the Tando Creative blog today I have a tutorial on creating a little heart sugar skull shelf.  Hope you can pop over and join me for more details.

Best Wishes,

Nikki.
xxx