See Me on The Crafters Workshop blog!

Today I'm featured on The Crafter's Workshop Blog.  They are featuring my piece when I was taking over by stencil aliens (they do exist!).   

 

 

THANK YOU JAMIE!

 

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Collage: A Mom's Journal

I have one journal that I don't share here but I have one collage page to show you. This journal is from Michael's Crafts. They have their own version and this one is black and white. The pages already have backgrounds and you just had what you want. The paper is pretty thick and you do use them with wet or dry mediums.

In this journal I use my daughter's eyes. Its all about me as a mom and I wanted to use my daughter in it in some way.  Here eyes are perfect. I found a great picture of her and in Photoshop Essentials changed it to look like a pencil drawing, then cropped it to see her eyes only.  I adore this page. I don't know why.

 

 

Here is a close up.

All the bits and pieces are from my box of bits and the "20 tab" doesn't represent her age it was just another pop of color.

I'm linking this to Julie's Art Journal Every Day!

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Sooooooo Bored

At work on Friday is was so quiet and by the afternoon there were only two of us. I didn't have very much work and I was on the first floor all by myself.  I was so bored.  All I can think of was what I can do in my art room.  Then a light bulb went off. I don't have any supplies with me but what can I use.  The only thing installed on the computers is Paint. It's one of those programs that no one really uses and it's not exactly state of the art.  Here are two pieces I completed.

 

Delight in the Beauty of Every Day Blessings

 

 

The one below is called Three Friends. I love this one. I don't know why. I think its because they are so abstract I guess.

 

Three Friends

 

I might give this a try again. Like a said its not state of the art but it does make you have to think about what you can use to create a picture. There are not very many tools.

 

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Corn Flowers

 

For some reason I keep focusing on this one stencil, Corn Flowers (TCW375). I have two sizes, 6x6 and 12 x 12. This is a mixed media piece on watercolor paper (4x6). I am going to frame it.

 

First I added stamps to the background with jet black archival ink.

 

 

Second, I added acrylic paints to the background.

 

 

 

I finished it with a tag and corn flowers (white acrylic paint). I also used the tiny circles stencil (TCW361). Another favorite!

 

 

I have been buying frames for many of my creations. I will post pictures of with and without frames in a post in the future. It's amazing what a frame does for art work.

 

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Karenliz

Anyone else having problems uploading pictures in blogger?

 

 

Art Journal Page: The Singing Birds

Here is a journal page I created while I was in Chicago. Here are the supplies I used to make the page plus the large image stamp.

 

I used gelatos for the background. I just made a small circles of color then sprayed the page and all the color spread. I love to do that. For the stamps I used archival inks.  Here is the final page.

 

 

 

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