Be Fearless

Here is the final piece the stencil aliens made me create. You can see the original post here.  I decided that it needed more white and some words. 

 

 

I've been in my art room late at night recently because of the heat wave so the picture is a little dark. I starting to take picture in my art room so I can do my step by step posts of my projects. I'm on the look out for better lighting.  I found light bulbs for the ceiling light that keeps the natural color in a room but it's not a big light.  I'm waiting for sales on the OTT lights. They may do the trick for step by step photos.

 

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Stencil Aliens!!!!!

AGAIN Stencil aliens took me over the other night. They took me over so much that I never took step by step pictures of how this piece developed.  You can see the aliens first creation HERE. I was so involved that I lost all track of time and if my house collapsed around me I wouldn't have noticed. That's aliens for you!

 

I love all the bright colors and the layers on the piece. I tried to draw my own flowers so I can cut my own stencil but I really can't draw. I do keep trying over and over. My mother and brother were artists but I didn't get the drawing side of it.  Stencils and rubber stamps are my friends in my art room. You can use them in so many way.  

 

There are so many new stencils coming out that I'm afraid I will be visited by stencil aliens over and over. So stay tuned!

 

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TAG YOU'RE IT! HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

Welcome back to my next tag in my new series TAG YOU'RE IT!. If you would like to see my first tag you can go HERE.  Closing my eyes I picked this tag,  Let me tell you that this tag is old. I always left it last because I didn't know what I was going to do with it.

 

But knowing that I was posting this on Thursday and it is the 4th of July the Thank Yous in the background worked to my advantage.  The first thing I did was add some white paint to parts of the back ground.

 

 

My next step was adding red to the tag. I wanted to do stripes but I decided to use this stencil from Donna Downey Studios and my favorite acrylic paint. These paints are thick but I love to use them with stencils and I water them down too for acrylic washes or a watercolor look.

 

 

 

 

I used my stars stencil that I made. I was looking for different sizes of stars a long time ago but couldn't find what I needed. I used my computer to print out different sizes and traced them on the plastic and cut them out. 

 

 

I realized after I put on my first white stars with acrylic paint that the blue on the tag was spray ink. The blue ink started coming through the paint.  My trick for this is to spray on Krylon acrylic coating on the tag. 

 

 

This is my magic trick with spray inks because they react with water and anything wet can start them to run.  Sometimes I don't care if that happens but I wanted white stars. You can see the difference in the stars on my tag. The whiter stars are after I sprayed the acrylic coating.

 

 

As you can see that big star you can't see the blue through and it's nice and white. After this picture I was sort of stuck.  All of a sudden my mojo took a break.  Thank goodness for knocking over a box I found a scrap of grungeboard. So I used my stencil and made more stars and painted them white and blue.

 

 

 

I attached them to the tag and added red, white and blue ribbon. Here is the tag finished.

 

 

 

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Happy Independence Day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picture Perfect

One of my new stencils if from Ronda Palazzari and love all the cameras. I bought both sizes; 12x12 and 6x6. I used the 6x6 with white paint on this tag then used spray inks. I love orange and pink together.

 

 

Close up:

 

 

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She is Brave

I have a art journal page for you today. Ever have one of those pages where you didn't know what you were doing. Well, that's this one.  Once I added all the stamps and sprayed gesso through an alphabet stencil did I start liking it. Then the vintage picture was perfect as she has the same color flowers in her hair.  I didn't realize how many layers it had until I was creating this post.

Here a few close ups.

 

I love her face.

 

Lots of layers.

 

 

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