Where do you find a PINK OCTOPUS?

I found one here on my tag. Couldn't resist creating one with an unusual color. Who knows maybe there are pink ones in this world!!!

 

The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with stencils and mediums to create this project.

The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

 

 

To create it I used TCW781s Scrollwork on the background. I love to roll on the color with a brayer, take off the color through the stencil with a baby wipe, dry it, and then add more color and more wiping. Just layer upon layer.

 

Next I added the Octopus (TCW607s) and while I was waiting for it to try I added TCW568s Moving Vines.  When everything dried I painted it.  

 

That's it. Pretty simple and colorful. This one is going to my art sister Sherie!!!

 

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Laugh: An Art Journal Page

Here is another Instagram art journal page. The background was created with TCW stencil called Moving Vines, Ranger Oxide Inks, and black acrylic paint for the words (same stencil). Created in Dina Wakley's Media Journal.

The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with stencils and mediums to create this project.

The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

You can see I work on a tiny spot on my table because it's full of supplies. Do you clean up before you start another project? 

 

The words were created with black acrylic paint and when it dried I outlined it in a white Signo pen.

 

 

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Be The Sunshine - An Art Journal Page

I love Instagram. I find it easy to use and once I start scrolling I could be on it for hours. What I post there I rarely post here so I thought I would change that.  There will be no tutorials but I can tell you what supplies I used to create the project and link them to where you can get them.

You can following me on Instagram searching for karenlizhenderson or click on the link on the top right-hand side of my blog.

This is an art journal page the I used (again!) the Joyful Sunflower stencil, Ranger Distress Oxide Inks for the background using the Bricks Stencil, various acrylic paints for the Joyful Sunflower and the Love Sonnet stencil, Dina Wakely Media Journal. 

The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with stencils and mediums to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

As you can see I added the Bricks and the Love Sonnet stencils in different directions. Never be afraid to turn the stencils in different directions. You'll be surprised how they look.

This page was created in Dina Wakely's Media Journal. My all time favorite journal because of all the variety of different surfaces inside (canvas, burlap, cotton rag, watercolor paper and kraft).  Confession...I have tons of art journal but none of them are full. They all have tons of blank pages. I do believe I will finishing this one!

That's it for today!

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I Framed a Sunflower!!!

Well, not a real one. One of my favorite stencils from The Crafters Workshop is the Joyful Sunflower. Although I have quite a few favorites the flowers are the ones I use all the time. Today I'm going to show you my Design Team project for The Crafters Workshop.

The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with stencils and mediums to create this project.

The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

I want to show you the fun background I created for this piece. It is something everyone can do! I found I had a box of pre-made corrugated cards so I thought it would be fun to use the card for mark making and texture. If you don't have the cards use cardboard or anything corrugated!

I took a piece 11" x 14" mixed media paper and added paint to it, sprayed it with water lightly, and then used the card to create the marks.  Keep move the card around the paper.

Since I have a whole box of these cards I will be using this technique over and over. For the background I used blue, white and black acrylic paint. I believe they were all Golden Paint but I can't guarantee it since there are always tons sitting on my table. I wish I could use just one brand. Do you only one brand of paint?

The background dried and I started adding the Joyful Sunflower. Remember to move your stencil designs around especially flowers. You'll see I created shadows behind the flowers by moving it.

I finished the piece and framed it right away. I'm in the process of varnishing paintings I want to keep and painting Gesso on the ones I don't want so I can start over.

You can see more of my tutorial on The Crafters Workshop blog. Don't forget to leave a comment and check out all the other projects created by the Design Team!!

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Forgetting My Creations

I keep forgetting to share my Design Team projects for The Crafters Workshop here. Today I'm going to share a few projects with links to the tutorials so you can see how they were made. You can see the tutorials by clicking on the date.    Lets get started!

MAY 15, 2018:

MAY 1, 2018: This is a quick and easy technique to create backgrounds

APRIL 17, 2018

APRIL 3, 2018 - Tea Bag Art

MARCH 20, 2018

The Crafters Workshop provided me with stencils and mediums to create all these projects. The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

 

 

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

 



That's it! I'm all caught up. I hope you enjoy my tutorials and check out the rest of the Design Teams' projects.

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