I am becoming more aware of the little touches that make a piece of art look more polished. Here is my theater from the last post. I liked it overall but I felt like something was missing. After a few details with Pitt Pens. The yellow outlined the words but then I smeared a grey [...]
Mixed Media
Die cuts have been making me happy lately. I broke down and bought a Character Constructions die. What took me so long? It’s heavenly. Every scrap I have that is big enough gets run through that – now I have dolls everywhere. To give the doll a little more strength I also die cut an [...]
I used the same technique as my last post to dress up a photo of a church in Bath, England. The photo was very drab. Not a lot of color – the sun wasn’t out helping my photos. A shocker in England I know…The sky in this one is Shimmerz.
There was a terrible disease I had on vacation – shutterbug-itis. This meant I took photos of everything just to get a few incredible pictures. The results are some very mediocre photos. But the memories were fantastic. So I decided to play around with some of the blah prints. 1. Scratch lines around shapes in [...]
After using Adirondak Color Wash I had the overspray left on my counter. Ignore the mess, just notice the ink. It’s also yesterday’s mess so the in was completely dry. I sprayed a bit (okay, puddles) of water so the ink would become fluid again. I went crazy with the texture fades from Tim Holtz [...]
Alcohol dissolves paint. When I heard that I realized it could so work to my advantage. I used old photos that were less than desirable shots – you know the blurry, off center, etc. photos. I have a huge stack of them. Now some are great starting points for an art something or other.Supplies you [...]
Why did I buy this paper? Did I ever love it? I will now! Add a little spray paint stenciling. Add brown spray inks. When I wiped the ink off the spray painted area, the white popped & the old pattern got a new life.
Do you have any old scrapbooking papers that you may not love anymore or that you never did but they were part of a larger collection of papers? Well I do, actually quite a few. My style has changed over 10 years – no shock. I decided to experiment with them. Since I might never [...]
First charm swap I’ve entered is done and ready to mail! This was a “gremlin” project for me. There were little gremlins saying the most unhelpful things in my ears while I created these. Do you ever have those gremlins that say things like “it’s not good enough” “it won’t be just right” “how can [...]
After taking Alisa Burke’s Graffiti Chic I created stencils from photos. After inking the paper with a stencil & letters I shrunk it on the copier so it would fit on a tag.
