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Monday, April 8, 2013

Tim Holtz Burlap Panels

These panel sets are just way too cool!








                                             





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Monday, April 1, 2013

Good Girl, Bad Girl Journal Covers


I was in a snarky mood this morning!









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Monday, March 25, 2013

Cameo Frame Card Bases and Retreat Pictures

I had fun making these card bases! And I hope you enjoy the Retreat pictures.







My Society of Decorative Painters' Chapter Retreat was this week and here are some pictures of one of the classes I taught.


 A Cheri Rol design that I painted in class with Cheri (above)
The following pictures are of my Peacock Garden design class I taught.


My Peacock Garden design (above)

 Kelly Hoernig with the Make it Take it she made. (above)


 Donna Harcourt's first layer. (above)



 My Make it Take it Project that I taught. (above)









My Mixed Collage class I taught (below)

Monday, March 18, 2013

Media Mixage Jewelry

Some new toys to play with to make charms, or jewelry!




Here are some finished pictures! Be sure to click on the pics to see close up!






Monday, March 11, 2013

ATC Stenciling with Paint

I just love popping bright colors onto black backgrounds!



The company with the ATC stamp for the back is www.lost-coast-designs.com
Patty Rawlinson's website is www.creativeartslifestyle.com for the stencils.

Here is a photo of the finished ATCs:




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All at a great discounted price!



Monday, March 4, 2013

Ombre Backgrounds with Oil Pastels

Happy Monday everyone! Murphy's Law is hounding me today. I've had camera and uploading problems all morning so this is coming out late in the day! Hope you try this technique for yourselves...it's so easy!








Monday, February 25, 2013

Playing with Color on Canvas

Join me as I play with vibrant Dylusions Ink color on Canvas Journal Covers by Prima.








I put a few embellishments on my covers. I remembered I have a collection of tickets from a swap last year and the colors of these ticket strips went so well with the colors on my covers. the Alice in Wonderland looks perfect with the Night at the Opera/This is art cover!









Monday, February 18, 2013

Sizzix Candy Drawer Die

I just love these little boxes! I hope you will too!





If you make some I would love to see them and feature them here!

Monday, February 11, 2013

Impression Embossing



Here's a different way to use your embossing powders:





The Stephanie Bernard stamp set is called Hearts 2 Die For !









Monday, February 4, 2013

Making Jewelry with Paper supplies

Happy Monday everyone! I am in Ohio with my mother who has had surgery and have been away for 5 days. Here is a video I made for you in advance. I hope you will find some inspiration here!
Back to my regularly schceduled program next week!


Monday, January 28, 2013

Flip It Valentine

Happy Monday Everyone! Before we get into this weeks video, I want to share with you a beautiful tag created by Kathy Paglia. She made this tag after watching my alcohol ink video last week. Isn't it gorgeous!!! Be sure to leave Kathy some love!




Also here is an ATC card I painted for a swap:
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And now on to our regularly scheduled program:








Monday, January 21, 2013

Alcohol Ink Valentines

A fun way to apply alcohol inks!



My camera's battery died before I could show you that I used Picked Raspberry Distress Ink on the embossed areas as well as the entire surface. Then I applied Fired Brick Distress Ink around the border of the paper and finally Black Soot Distress Ink on the card edges and in a smaller area around the Fired Brick boarder to frame the design.
Here are some pictures: