Frolicaholic Class With Jane Davenport

I have been taking a journaling class online called Frolicaholic with Jane Davenport. I have taken this class before but finally Jane has made it live. If you have never taken a class with Jane you are missing a wonderful treat. She is a great teacher.
This week I worked on making my journal and cover. The journal is made with one of my favorite papers called Stonehenge. It is a great printmaking paper that takes pencils and acrylic paint well.

I painted my journal with Ceramcoat and Deco Art Traditions paint. The stencil is by Michelle Ward. I shaded the face on the back cover using Pitt Big Brush markers.

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Mermalicious Class With Jane Davenport

I was lucky enough to attend a class taught by Jane Davenport this weekend at Donna Downey Studios in Hunterville, NC. Boy was it fun to spend a whole long weekend creating art. Jane is a great teacher and a lot of fun. We created a book of beautiful mermaid creatures. Here is one of my pages in progress.

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Bracelets Made With Memory Wire

I have gotten addicted to making these cute bracelets. They are so much fun to make.  You can buy some of these bracelets in my Etsy shop listed on the right side of this page.

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Many Thanks Card Using Anna Griffin Dies and Embossing Folders

I just love Anna Griffin's style, so I could not resist last week when she was on HSN buying the TSV. Here is a card I created for a friend who I recently went to visit. This was made with the dies and embossing folders from the kit. The stamp is an old Anna Griffin one that I got at Michael's.

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New Toys

I got some new toys in the mail today. I preordered these awhile ago so I could not wait to play. The black thing is made by Tim Holtz to use with Distress Markers like an airbrush.

I created this card. Stamp is by Memory Box. Inks are Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink by Ranger. Marker airbrush tool and stencil are by Tim Holtz.

I created the 3D flower using embossing paste by Viva Decor. I mixed it with a little Primary Red Americana craft paint. To create the flower I used an old metal stencil by Me and My Big Ideas. I then heated it to make it puffy. I added highlights with Pan Pastels and Faber Castell Big Brush markers.

 

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Chalkboard Flower Pots

These were fun to make. I painted them with Martha Stewart chalkboard paint and tied raffia around the top.

Tip: Use blue painters tape to keep the chalkboard paint away from the top of the pot.

One More Faber Castell Gel Stick Card

I am having so much fun with these Faber Castell Gel Sticks. They are the kids version of the scrumptious Gelatos by Faber Castell. Today I made a super quick card. I applied Gel Sticks in three colors on the Kraft Resist pattern paper by Tim Holtz. Then gently rubbed to blend. I then applied a little moisture with a wet paper towel to blend further and remove some of the color from the resist areas. I used my new memory box stencil to add brown dots to the corner of the card to simulate tread marks. I stamped the Happy Birthday on the card and added the image with foam tape. The Harley image is from Clearly Vintage.

 

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Another Card Using Faber Castell Gel Sticks

Today I was cleaning up my work areas and of course the whole time I kept stopping to make a card. Don't laugh at me. You know what I mean. It breaks my heart to clean up. I know myself and once I put things away I hate to take them back out. Often I forget I even have things when they are put away in boxes. Below is the card I made. I got out my color wheel and picked three colors that went well together. I embossed the background with a Tim Holtz Texture Fades folder. I them colored it with my new Fabell Castell Gel Sticks. I gently rubbed embossing gel across the embossed card stock, applied Antiquities Gold powder to the surface and heated.

The image is from my site Digital Two for Tuesday. I printed it with green ink and colored it with Copic markers.

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A Card Made With Faber Castell Gel Sticks

Today while at Jerry's Artarama I found all kinds of fun artist tools made by Faber Castell for kids. I decided to buy a few different sets including oil pastels, gel sticks and beeswax crayons. I am waiting for the Gelatos from Faber Castell to come in the mail but couldn't resist buying the gel sticks. They were only $16 for both sets. According to Faber Castell they are similar to Gelatos only made for kids. So they are not lightfast or permanent.

I made the card below using several Cuttlebug embossing folders. I cut the embossed circle from the folder and applied several colors of gel sticks directly to the circle. I then used my finger to blend the colors. The gel sticks are similar in consistency to a lipstick. They are extremely creamy. They catch the raised area but leave the recessed areas uncolored if you are gentle.

I then used another folder to emboss the dark brown card stock background. I applied gel stick to the raised areas and the edge of the card stock. What is so great about the gel sticks is that you can use them on lots of surfaces. The little flower is wood with gel stick applied and a liquitex paint pen for the details.

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Playing Around With Paper 53 and My New Pen

I am loving the app for the iPad called Paper53.  It is so much fun creating pictures with this app.  A few weeks ago I was at a restaurant drawing and several of the waiters came over to ask me what app it was.  It is one of the most intuitive drawing apps I have used.  It feels the most like using a brush or pen on paper. Yesterday, I received their new pencil made especially for Paper53.  I am still learning how it works but here is a quick face I drew.  What is really cool is you can now blend and shade.  I attempted to do this on the nose and edge of face.

Here is how the pencil looks.  It will take me some time to get the pressure right so I can control the line thickness.

Fairy

This is a drawing I did this weekend. I am taking an online class called Joynal with Jane Davenport. I am still learning how to use colored pencils. I do like her thoughtful look.

 

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Handmade Book

This is a handmade book I made this weekend. I used Arches 300lb watercolor paper for the cover. The inside papers are made with Stonehenge white paper. I love the consistency of the Stonehenge paper. It is a wonderful paper for mixed media projects. You can use it with pen, ink, watercolors, acrylics and many other media types.

I used Distress Paints and inks to stencil the cover. The stencil is by Michelle Ward.

 

 

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Happy Birthday Tag

Today my daughter had a soccer tournament. I had to get my Sunday art mojo. So in between games I snuck home and made this tag inspired by the Tim Holtz Chemistry 102 class I just finished online. The background was made by applying several colors of Distress Paints to a craft sheet and misting them. I then took the tag and place it on the surface. I resprayed the surface several times and placed the tag through the drops careful not to pop the droplets. I used a Wendy Vechii stamp and stencil with archival ink. The happy birthday is from my collection of stamps by Clearly Vintage.

I colored the metal dog tag with Distress paints and dried them with my Heat It tool to create the bubbles.

I colored the rose with Neocolor II's and finished it off with a little Fruit punch Stickles.

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Embossed Metal Tape Christmas card

I am taking the Chemistry 102 class from Tim Holtz this week. This is a quick card I was inspired to make using metal tape from Home Depot. I attached it to card stock before embossing. This is a new embossing folder I just purchased by Couture Creations called Sugarplum Ball. The paints are Distress Paint by Tim Holtz. They work extremely well on metal. The stamp is by Penny Black. I punched the leaves from a Martha Stewart punch and dripped Stickles on the leaves.

 

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