July Remarkable Women Tag Swap

I am ahead of the game for the July swap at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group.  It's a Remarkable Women tag swap.  I've always been fascinated by the art and life of Frida Kahlo. I used inventory tags from Collage Stuff and stenciled the background with Stencil Girl Stencils and acrylic paint.  The "Frida" image is a stencil from the Crafter's Workshop.  I made adjustments to the stenciled image, closing in some lines, adding white dots to the eyes, etc.  I decided to color in the "Frida" image with Titan Buff acrylic paint and then went on to experiment with Distress Crayons on one of the images.  The majority of the acrylics paints are from the Dylusions line.  I added some Stickles glitter glue to the "necklaces."  The paper flowers were colored to match using the Dylusions paints.  I added sayings from Tim Holtz that I believe reflect on Frida's life.  I had fun making these tags and experimenting!

Letter C ATC Swap

The April swap at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group is a Letter C themed swap.  I used a gelli plate, stencil, black and white gel pens to create these ATC's.  I printed the letter C and the word creative on my PC.  Be creative and thank you!

Favorite Quote ATC

At the artisttradingcards yahoo group, I'm hosting a Favorite Quote ATC swap.  I created the background using a gelli print. Some of the prints show a bit of a Tim Holtz background stamp. I used a punch to punch out the holes.  The checked paper and vintage text were applied to an ATC base with the hole punched background applied next.  I printed out the quote on my computer printer.  I used a Fude ball pen to highlight the circles and the text as well apply dots here and there. Thanks for coming by the blog today!

July Art Journal Page Swap Entry

For July, my recipient for the art journal page swap asked for bright colors.  Here they are!  I had fun creating these pages!

May Tag Swap

The May swap at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group is a rubber stamped tag swap, meaning to use at least one rubber stamped image in the art.  I made my usual background on vintage text or sheet music using stencils and acrylic paint. I used a text stamp in the background as well.  I used glitter bead gel through stencils as the final background layer, but it's hard to see in the photos.  The stamped images are from Dylusions colored with glaze pens, metallic gelly roll pens and colored pencils.  The stamped image are popped up.  The little flowers are old chipboard buttons from Maya Road embellished with a white Signo pen.  Thanks for coming by my blog today!

Ticket to Ride ATC Swap

The April swap at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group is an ATC swap themed "Ticket to Ride".  This could be done as a Beatles song swap or a travel-theme.  I used vintage phone book pages for the base and stenciled with acrylic paint using the Tim Holtz mini layering stencils.  They are perfect for ATC's. Next came the car image from Itkupilli, followed up by an image from the Collage Stuff Beauties Post collage sheet.  I used a black Fude ball pen to outline the car, the words and to make a border on the ATC.  Thanks for coming by to see my "Ticket to Ride" ATC's!

Asian-themed art journal pages

 For the art journal page swap for April, my pages needed an "Oriental" theme.  I used images from Tumble Fish Studio for this page.  I outlined the images with a Fude ball pen and applied washi tape as a frame.

I painted this page red and then stenciled black and silver flowers with a stencil from Stencil Girl.  I used pages from a vintage dictionary on both pages.  I glued the dictionary page onto cardstock and die cut it with a Tim Holtz die for the lattice.  The playing card is available at Collage Stuff. I applied washi tape on the left side of the page.  Thanks for visiting my blog today!

March Art Journal Page Swap

 The theme of the pages I needed to make for March was "home".  I used stencils by Stencil Girl, Tim Holtz, and The Crafter's Workshop with acrylic paint.  On the home sweet home page, I used a Tim Holtz die and Tim Holtz label letters. On the heart makes a good home page, I started out with a gelli print, put down the women mask and sponged black paint around the mask.  After that, I put another stencil down over the mask and sponged gold paint. I used a white signo pen and black Fude ball pen. I had fun making these pages!  Thanks for taking a peek at my pages!

Out of Focus Art Journal Page

I call this art journal page "Out of Focus".  It's not really out of focus, but at first glance.....  I used some Golden High Flow acrylic paints to put down some background color.  I used the Stencil Girl Trio of Houses stencil (I think that's the name of it.) with blue and then black paint with the stencil shifted down and to the right slightly.  I used a Stencil Girl flower stencil at the top.  I cut up some pages from a vintage book in half circles and strips and glued then down to frame the page.  Hot pink paint over the text next.  I used a Stencil Girl word stencil around the edges, then painted black paint around the pink parts.  The rest was adding paint and letter stickers in different places.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Faces Art Journal - Face One

I am starting a new art journal to practice painting faces.  I'm challenging myself to paint faces.  The journal has 22 pages so I'm shooting for 44 new faces.  I'm excited about this new journey!  I highly recommend Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's "All About Faces" video. I used the Dylusions Journaling Block to make the lines in the background.  The background is actually yellow, but looks yellow-green in the photo.  Thanks for coming by my blog!  Stay tuned for more faces!