Dreamcatcher on The Darkside

Designed by - Patricia Williams The brief for this article was to recreate a piece by one of the other DT members. I pondered long about this looking at previous blogs. Then I was inspired by Shell North, she did a rather beautiful dream catcher. Me being me of course it was not going to …

A Powertex Spooktacular

Secret Art Box October 2019 Designed by - Gill Goldsmith This month’s Secret Art Box theme was Halloween inspired and was packed full of wonderful spooky contents. Including an MDF panel, MDF elements with skulls, tombstones and spiders webs, a spooky stencil, rice paper, large balls, a texture pack, charms, skeleton leaves, plaster skull heads, …

Fi Potter’s Powertex Hat

Hi there long time no see! I took a nice break and enjoyed 2 weeks in Cornwall in September and October just seemed to disappear!  Then November came along with a fabulous Hobby show at the NEC and I had a great time with the Powertex UK team demonstrating all kinds of texy things. There …

Powertex puts the texture into Halloween

  Halloween crafts are full of dripping, draping and ageing textures and Powertex does this sooo spookily well! Powertex halloween textures This door sign used "The end" stencil for the drips, skull and lettering. Lots of gritty textures here with a sand and balls mixture and plenty of red Powercolor to amp up the gore …

Hipsters and Lattes

Hipsters and LattesAutumn; a beautiful and retrospective time of year. I love winter best but that means I appreciate autumn all the more because we’re one step closer to the magic season. I don’t normally get excited about Halloween (too British, too boring, too old maybe?) but Powertex has worked it’s charms; who wouldn’t be …