Paris in the Springtime Tag Postcard Swap

I just finished swapping out the tags for this swap. I hosted this swap at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group. If you're interested in participating in fun swaps like this, be sure to join the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group!

La Belle

Something different than the other 2 canvases. I wanted to do a more vintage collage, so here she is, La Belle. This is a mixed media collage on 6" x 8" canvas board. The background is done with acrylic paints. I stamped with a scroll stamp with white paint. I used one The Crafter's Worckshop flower templates and sprayed with sour apple Perfect Pearls Mist. It's a soft, yet interesting background. The rest of the stuff is glued down with gel medium. Thanks for stopping by!

Walk or Dance

I call this piece "Walk or Dance". I started with a 6" x 8" canvas board. I used various stamps, acrylic paints, The Crafter's Workshop Cosmic Swirl template, gesso, gel sticks, Tim Holtz Distress Markers, various spray inks and vintage Chinese text. The main image is a Dyan Reaveley Dylusion stamp that was stamped on white cardstock, embossed with black embossing powder, and colored with various spray inks. I used a paintbrush with the spray inks. The words are from another Dylusions stamp. I had fun creating this! Thanks for stopping by!

You are Beautiful!

This is called "You are Beautiful." It's a mixed media piece on 6" x 8"canvas board. I bought Kate Crane's Art Journaling CD's and decided to try something in one of her styles. The main image is from Crowabout Studio B at the Deviant Scrap website. I used acrylic paints, white gesso, oil pastels, gel sticks, Pitt pens, a white gel pen, a template from The Crafter's Workshop and vintage dictionary scraps. The title of one of Kate's CD's is "There are no mistakes in art." I made mistakes creating this that I was able to turn around, so they were no longer mistakes! Working with acrylic paints is pretty forgiving. Everything doesn't have to be perfectly stamped as the tone of this is not perfect. If you are thinking about art journaling or want to learn some new techniques, I highly recommend Kate's CD's. You can find more info at Kate's blog. As time permits I will work on some smaller canvases. Thanks for stopping by!

Something fun!

This is a 4 x 4 page for my monthly swap group for March! I am ahead for once! The theme is wings. I bought some new collage sheets from Crowabout Studio B and was anxious to create wth the new images. You can find the Crowabout Studio B images at the Deviant Scraps website. I purposely made the head a little big for the body to emphasize the head and add to the whimsical feel of this page. I added shading and color with my Copic Microliners, Ranger White Opaque Pen and Spica Glitter Pens. This was really fun to put together! Thanks for taking a look!

Paris in the Springtime Tag Postcard

At the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, we're doing a "Paris in the Springtime" tag postcard swap. I haven't decided if I'll make mine all like this or not. I have a couple of other ideas spinning around in my head. Collage Stuff products used in this design include the tag postcard, floral German scrap and the photo of the Eiffel Tower. This is pretty much a cut and paste design. I colored the tag using my own homemade sparkle spray using distress inks and Perfect Pearls. I like being able to customize the colors of the sparkle spray. I love the black and white checks in my art. I make this checked paper in Excel. I can make the checks just about any color I want using Excel like this. I did tone down the white in the checks by spraying some sparkly spray I made with Victorian Velvet re-inker. Thanks for stopping by!

February 4 x 4"

I finished this February 4 x 4" page before the last day of February! Yay! This page was supposed to have a quote. I ran out of room on the front, so the quote is on the back of the page.

For the front: Collage Stuff products used in this design include the vintage English vocabulary card, large brass flying bird charm, vintage sheet music and a 4" round paper doily.

The construction of this was pretty simple - pretty much gluing all the elements down. Before I glued everything down, I edged everything with a gold Copic marker. I used some images that I acquired taking an online class with Green Paper Packages. I did tone done the white doily with some Sandal Paint (Ranger Paint Dabber). The Sandal paint is a perfect shade of beige as far as I'm concerned. I ran out of glue dots, so the bird charm is adhered with gel medium. Gel medium glues down just anything.

For the back: No explanation necessary - print, cut, and paste everything down! I printed the words with my computer, & colored them with the gold Copic marker. After the words were glued down, I highlighted them with a black Copic marker.

Thanks for stopping by!