Art journal sample ~ monoprinting

I finished my art journal sample snd had it bound at Office Max... Here are a few of the pages.  I used a mix of craft acrylics, and love using metallics! I wish the bottom picture showed as much depth as you see in person on the brown page. It has layers of gold & copper...   Too much fun ~

 

 

 

 

Calendar Samples ~ monoprinting

I finished my samples in time for display so parents can sign their kids up for camp.  They turned out so fun, so I had to share! All on 110 pound cardstock ~ 
 

And a collage of s few of the pages...  
 

 

Collage prints ~ monoprinting

I'm loving using my prints to collage pictures.  Using bits and pieces from my favorite color combinations and putting them together with clear gesso make me so happy!  I was so stoked to use my Distress Crayons from Tim Holtz, too!  
 

 I made my own clear gesso using the recipe given by Pink Poodle Crafts onYouTube found in the link below...  As much as I love love love Mod Podge, the dry & cure time of the gesso is perfect for my impatient self. I also played around with other messages for my 5th graders and a name sign for my daughter...   

I love finding inexpensive and "found" ways of creating texture!  Shelf liner, bubble wrap and empty sticker sheets were used to create these textures, printed on music sheets and dictionary paper... 

 

https://youtu.be/cRjj3WXthEU

Lost, but not forgotten...

This little blog has been neglected and fitfully, is being repurposed!  I have a new love, and want to watch it evolve and share it with others...  It was fun to peruse the pics of old projects and remember them....  On to new adventures with the same creativity and new materials!

I'm in love with monoprinting and can't wait to share my projects and fun...  Now I get to figure out how to add pictures & posts to the blog from my phone...

Loved this movie!

I just adored The Help so I've been wanting to make something around this fantastic quote...   So when I found this piece of wood in the .51 pile at Home Depot, I put it together ~ I cut Contact Paper with my Silhouette, used it as a stencil, sanded and distressed...  Using baker's twine and little bulldog clips for easy trading out of pics, I found a cute way to display the kiddo's school pix...

Big S little s What begins with S?

A Dr. Seuss Stepstool, if you really had to guess!

One of my kids' favorite books, Dr. Seuss's ABCs is one that I pretty much have memorized after 13 years of reading it... I found a copy at Goodwill and knew that it was going to get a new life... This was a little hard to explain to the 4 year old, "You're cutting up mine ABC book?!" He was OK after he had one of our two copies in his hot little hands, AND I promised him he'd be able to step on the Red Rhinoceros someday soon... :) I Mod Podged the top with some wrapping paper that my sis sent me on a gift (it spoke to me clearly enough that I knew it couldn't just get crumpled up and tossed) and then picked and chose the perfect pictures and on they went... In their place of honor on top, the Ten Tired Turtles (whom I can often relate to) and Uncle Ubb, who always gets a giggle...

If you haven't read Dr. Seuss's ABCs a million times, it's time to pick it up!

There are more pages, awaiting the Mod Podge that I'm sure will get their own post at a later date... :)

it's about time...

...time for me to get any blogging done... hopefully I can slip in some posts on this one and my fam bloggy quietly and then be able to tell my peeps, "of COURSE I've been posting! why in the world haven't you been following?!" haha! to everything, there is a season, right? I've been feeling like I really need to figure out what I wanna do when I grow up ~ I guess at 37, I still have lots of time to figure it out, right?! :O

Anyway, my beloved Silhouette machine has been smOkin' lately and I've been having a blast! Getting a project from conception, THROUGH production and then finalized is always hard for me, so that is also something I want to get better at. Maybe that's what I'll be when I grow up, a project finisher. I would have to tease my mother and say that I will be a First Generation Project Finisher, but I have her to thank for a lot of my creativity and ingenuity, so I can't knock her too hard!

So I fell in love with this Hero Arts alpha in the Silhouette store and made this cute alphabet art on an old cupboard door...

I also completely love these retro flowers in the Silhouette store. I painted an old 1x6 that had been floating around, then added some holes and fencing wire and my own little Happy Spring. Living symmetrically can be SO overrated... sometimes...

We are having an auction on the 15th at church to raise money for the teenage girls to go to camp, so I think these will both make it into the auction... and then I have the excuse to make some more!