More Letter C ATC's

More letter C ATCs.  I colored the Tim Holtz Crazy Cats images with acrylic paints, Tim Holtz Distress Crayons and pearlescent watercolors.  The backgrounds are geli prints.  I outlined the cats and the edges of the ATCs with a Fude Ball Pen.  Meow!

2017 Valentine's Day Cards

I watched a video tutorial over at Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's blog about masking and gelli plates.  Here's the link.  http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/balzer_designs/2017/01/blogiversary-tutorial-redo-double-masked-gelatin-prints.html  I have done a similar technique before. I  added some very light stenciling on the blue portion.  I used a white Signo pen to make the dots around the heart and the lines on the sides of the blue background. Since I love the Tim Holtz Crazy Dogs stamps so much I decided to make a doggie Valentine's Day card!  I stamped the doggie on watercolor paper with black ink and clear embossed the image.  I used the matching dies to cut out the image.  I watercolored the image with Gelatos and Distress Crayons. The sticker is from the Tim Holtz Big Chat stickers.  Thanks for visiting my blog today!

2017 Handmade Calendar Swap

At the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, I'm hosting a handmade calendar swap.  The pages are 4" x 6" and 13 pages must be handmade.  The backgrounds are made with acrylic paints and stencils.  I used Dylusions stamps, a Unity stamp, and a Dina Media stamp.  The images are colored with glaze pens, colored pencils and souffle pens.  Usually I made all of my 13 pages the same, but this time it's looking like they will all be different!  Thanks for stopping by to see some of my calendar pages.

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!

Another Christmas Card Design

I made the background using my gelli plate, acrylic paint and stencils.  The word stencil came with the Dina Media Christmas bird stamps.  I stamped the birds on watercolor paper with black ink and clear embossed.  After cutting them out, I used watercolors and a water brush to color the images.  The "hello december" is from the Tim Holtz small talk occasions.  I added some washi tape with jewels for the bird to stand on.  I added glitter glue to the white portion and puff on the Santa hat.  I hope you're having fun making your own Christmas cards and thanks for coming by my blog today!

December Art Journal Page Swap - Nature

My December person has a nature theme for her art journal.  I used Dina Wakley stamps, tons of stencils from different manufacturers, acrylic paint and Inktense pencils.  I'm done with my pages for the Art Journal Page Swap for this year! Thanks for coming by to view my nature page!

Standards Art Journal Spread

This is another art journal spread in Lin's journal.  The base of the pages are vintage phone book pages.  I added some stenciled deli paper done in red tones with glitter bead gel added for texture.  It was too bright, so I toned it down with white paint.  In the middle of spread, I used a flower stencil with red paint, toned down the red with white paint, stamped in black and more white paint over the black stamping.  The woman image is from Tim Holtz.  The woman images were colored with Copic markers and a red glitter gel pen.  The words are a Dylusions stamp.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Blue Girls art journal spread

This is a spread in my own art journal.  When I play in my art journal, I never know what I'll end up with.  The bottom layer is all vintage ephemera, magazine images, Victorian scrap, washi tape and one image from a Collage Stuff collage sheet. Next blue Color Burst.  Next white paint through a stencil, and the black stenciled images were next to last.  To give it a little shimmer, I used a word stencil with gold paint.  It's very busy.  It's very me. Thanks for coming by my blog!

Sometimes art journal spread

This is another one of my journal spreads where I got carried away on the background.  With some adjustments, it worked out fine!  The background uses acrylic paint, stencils, Color Burst and a Dylusion stamps.  I used Permapaque and Posca paint markers around the main image.   Thanks for coming by my blog.

Opposites Attract Art Journal Spread

 

I got the new Ranger Transparent Texture Paste in at Collage Stuff, so I thought I'd test it out.  The consistency was that of soft gel medium - not what I expected.  First I applied gesso to the pages.  I used a The Crafter's Workshop template and traced the circles on the page.  Then I traced the circle on an old dictionary page and cut out enough circles.  I applied the circles with a glue stick.  I applied the texture paste over the circles with the stencil.  I wanted to see if it would act as a resist for the spray inks I used.  It did, sort of.  The lines were made with a Stencil Girl stencil.  I used the new Dina Wakley Insects Mask/Stencils to apply the butterflies and bee.  I used a The Crafter's Workshop 4x4 stencil for the black/white tiny boxes.  I stamped the word "fly" on Tim Holtz labels and applied those last.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Discover Yourself Art Journal Pages

 

Here's another art journal spread made with lots of paint, stencils, and modeling paste.  The bees are Dina Wakley stamps.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Fantasy Art Journal Page

I'm hosting an art journal page swap this year at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group.  I had to make a replacement page for one of the participants.  Her theme is fantasy.  For the first photo, I sketched a face in the Jane Davenport style - sort of!  I didn't intend to have the pink drips under the eyes, but art happens!  I was using a Posca paint pen to put dots around the eyes and ended up with a blob instead.  I pulled the blob down and made the same paint blob on the other eye.  I rather like it!  The bottom photo uses Dylsuions stamps.  I tend to overdo on the backgrounds, so I painted gesso in the middle of the page and overstamped with a text stamp.  This way my "mermaid" stands out from the background a little.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Spirited and Strong Art Journal Pages

 

I finished up this art journal spread last night.  I recently bought some Spellbinders dies on clearance and used one set for this spread.  I love these arch dies. The stamps are from Dina Wakley.  I used stencil from Joggles, Stencil Girl, The Crafter's Workshop, Tim Holtz and Dina Wakley.  The hearts were made using a stencil and flexible modeling paste. I colored the women with Copic makers.   Thanks for coming by my blog!

Flower Fairy Art Journal Page

I got Jane Davenport's new book about drawing/painting faces.  Of course, this looks nothing like any of the art in the book.  This work was done in a larger art journal.  I tried to make her a fairy with a pointy ear, but didn't have a reference how to do the shading of the ear.  I am happy with my effort.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

1954 Dreams Art Journal Spread

I recently scanned in some photos from my Mom's wedding album.  Here's an art journal spread using some of the photos.  I used different stencils, paints, gesso,  and white tulle glued down in the background.  The photo of my Mom was printed on cotton fabric.  I had fun making this!  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Art Journaling Pages for Lin's Journal

Lin and I have been exchanging art journals for several months.  Here's the latest for her art journal.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Faces Art Journal - Faces #12

I sketched out these 2 faces last week and the proportions are off.  Way off!  That's OK, because flowers make everyone beautiful!  Thanks for coming by my blog!

You'll Never Know Art Journal Page

I can't draw.  I've had a DVD from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer around for a while "All About Faces."  I watched it last night and decided to give it a go! The tag on this spread is the second face I tried to paint.  It's not great art, but at least you can tell it's a face!  I am encouraged to continue experimenting and trying to draw/paint faces.  Thanks for coming by the blog!

Make a Wish art journal page

This is an art journal page I finished last night.  I used Dylusions stamps, stencils from the Crafter's Workshop  and Stencil Girl, acrylic paints, glaze pens, stamper's white big brush pen, modeling paste and remnant rubs.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

2015 handmade calendar covers

Every year at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, we do a handmade calendar swap.  I'm doing the covers again this year.  Here are two of them! Very different, but both very me!  Thanks for coming by my blog!  Leave a comment if you would please!