Colorful Notecards

I like to keep some blank cards around to personalize for the occasion - birthday, thinking of you etc.  I used pre-cut and folded card blanks in 5.5" x 4.25".  All of the paints I used are from the Dina Wakley line.  I love the bright colors and thicker paint consistency is perfect for stencils. I used stencils from Tim Holtz, Dylusions, The Crafter's Workshop and Stencil Girl.  When the paint was dry, I used a white Signo pen to add the white accents.  It was fun making these cards.  Now all I have to do is a sentiment (or not!) to each one.

Celestial Tag Swap

At the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, the January swap is a celestial tag swap.  I started out by applying some vintage text to a tag.  I painted a pearl paint over the text.  I applied gold paint to my 4" round gelli plate and stamped it at the top right and bottom left. I stenciled the woman and the dots at the top with navy blue paint.  I applied the jewel stars and glued a mirror star in the middle.  I ran a strip of gold German scrap border up the right side.  I painted the white lace with the gold and navy blue paint.  The "twinkle"letters are Tim Holtz label letters.  I had fun making these tags!  Thanks for coming by to see my celestial tag!

I Will Create art journal page

This is a spread in my small Dylusions art journal.  I started up with some deli paper that was mop up paper from another project.  I glued it down and some vintage text at the bottom of the pages.  I used 3 or 4 different 4x4" flower stencils with acrylic paint and stenciled the lines across the bottom of the page.  I added the dots with another 4x4" stencil and highlighted some of them with a white glaze pen.  I cut out circles of vintage text, cut them in two and glued them along the sides.  I painted them like little flowers with black paint.  The words were made using a Stencil Girl word stencil.  To finish it off, I added more highlights with a black and a white glaze pen.  Thanks for coming by my blog.