What do you get when you mix stunning landscapes, a generous host, terrific food, great people, and a class taught by Michelle Ward? Answer – a perfect weekend. This was my first trip to Valley Ridge for a class. I doubt it will be my last. The views from the classroom were amazing especially since [...]
Mixed Media
When I’m painting chipboard, ribbons, die cuts, really anything small, I like to use a journal page, or in this case, a piece of cloth. Then when I am finished with the intended project, I just use up any leftover paint from my palette to fill in any blank spots. A bit of white [...]
A page in process. I’ve been loving circles and arrows lately. Not sure where this will go next but I do know that I really wish I had a free motion foot on my sewing machine for this one….
This is my happy page right now. Wish the camera was able to capture the iridescent inks. Maybe one day there will be a way…The old Probe game (where the letter cards came from) has made me so happy!
I think I may need professional help. I’m hearing voices. The paper is starting to talk to me – perhaps I need to make sure I have adequate ventilation when I am using art supplies…This corrugated paper was a leftover from cutting a circle, and it begged me to put it in an art journal. [...]
Over at The Altered Page, Seth put out a call for stacks. He’d taken a photo of a stack of his journals which led to Heather Campbell from Blissful Things, to say ‘I love stacks of paper and handmade books…we should all take a picture of our own. Maybe Seth you have a place we [...]
Do you remember the old Reese Cup commercial when two people bump into each other which causes the chocolate bar to fall into the jar of peanut butter? That was almost what it was like at my house when I was picking up my daughter’s jeans and then I saw one of my new stencils. [...]
I had to buy this 12×12 stencil by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer the moment I saw it! Didn’t know what I was going to do with it until I was purging my home of stuff. I ran across a bunch of sequin things and it struck me – sequin hair! After I had the face in [...]
Start with a page out of an old book. Die cut some shapes from cheap notebook paper. I used Tim Holtz’s tag with the book plates. Love those! I found really cheap notebooks at Staples this week – 1 cent a notebook! It was darn close to free! Back to the art…I die cut more [...]
I had such fun creating this page! There wasn’t a plan – just play. I’ll share what cool trick I learned while doing it tomorrow!
