Cocoa Daisy September Project Art kit

The September Project Art kit from Cocoa Daisy contained Liquitex String Gel, two “fragments” designed by Ronda Palazzari to use as masks, an exclusive Cocoa Daisy stamp “little dots”, a Fude Ball pen, a tube of Dina Wakley acrylic paint “ruby”, a graph card and a piece of sewing pattern.

I really love String Gel! It's so fun and messy! :) You can use it as it is (it's white, but dries clear) or you can colour it with paint. Here I used the red Dina W paint and Liquitex Acrylic Ink in gold.

For more images, ideas and info, please visit the Cocoa Daisy blog.

I also tried making patterns with gel + black paint and then filling some of the spaces up with other colours.

I made some green grass...

I used mist and then rubbed some acrylic paint on top of the gel, to make it stand out.

I created this very simple layout with this three year old photo of baby Tuva! :)

I also created this page in my journal, practicing some writing with the gel + black paint.

Crazy life and string gel...

Helloo....! Is anyone out there...? :) I hope to be back to blogging a bit more often. I do have "stuff" to post... I just need to find the time to actually do it. I hope you're all fine! We have been a bit ill on and off for a whole bunch of weeks and life seems to be stuck in "crazy mode". Sometimes I'm totally ok with things being the way they are and I just try to follow along, and other times all I want to do is push the stop button and slow things down. I can't believe Christmas is only a month away!

Anyway... here's a layout with a photo of Alva from this summer. I've used string gel and acrylic paint to create the background and I have to say that string gel is so much fun that I wish I had at least a couple of weeks to do nothing but to experiment with it. :) The effect is sooo cool!

Edit: I guess I didn't explain too well what string gel actually is. :) It's a medium for acrylic paint, with a syrup honey-like consistency. What I did was mix the paint with the gel in a small jar and then I poured the paint onto my layout, slowly moving the jar around. So much fun!

I hope you've had a lovely weekend and that you'll stop by again soon, since I'll be so good at updating from now on... ;)