I'M LAUGHING! What was I thinking?

The one thing about art/visual journaling is that there are no mistakes and I just let it take me where ever it wants to go.  With die cuts (Memory Box) and acrylic paints in hand I just went at it. 

 

Here is a close up of all the layers.

 

 

I'm going to add a few more colors and maybe stencils here and there. I think it needs more.

I don't know what I was thinking! Oh yay, I wasn't!!!

 

 

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The Crafter's Workshop - A Wonderful Invitation

Hello everyone!

I'm so excited.

Today I'm a guest blogger on to The Crafter's Workshop blog. 

 

Here is a sneak peak of what you will see!

 

 

 

 THANK YOU JAMIE FOR INVITING ME!

TAGS! Different but the same.

I had my god-daughter, Cassidy, for the weekend and we had an adventure to a new store and had some crafting time.  We headed up to Westbrook to Beautiful Impressions A Rubber Stamps Store. It's in a beautiful Victorian house and Terri has every nook and cranny filled with products. It's one of those stores where you have to walk around a few times because each time you turn around you see something you didn't see before.  Plus there are plenty inspirational creations all around the store.

It's Cassidy's birthday at the end of the month so I did buy plenty of new supplies for her and a few for me too. Once home we decided to use the large #12 manila tags plus her new Prima Mixed Media Doll stamps (Doll 5 and Doll 4) to start creating.

Each tag is so different from each other in color and style but the quotes are the same although written differently.

 

Her quote (it's hard to read):

 

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

 

We both picked these quotes at different times from each other and didn't even discuss them until we both looked at our finished tags together.

 

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Love New Stamps!

One of the new stamps sets I bought at the Ink Pad is by Lynne Perrella - Collection 08. I love her designs.  Her designs are vintage and in collage form. I don't know how else to describe them. I decided to use one of the stamps and make a card. 

 

 

First I found this background paper full of color made with acrylic paint and many stencils.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I added some scraps of paper I found in my stash, stamped the image on another piece of scrap and attached it all to the card.

 

 

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Karenliz

 

 

 

 

TAG YOU'RE IT! - Ugly Green

Today's TAG YOU'RE IT is trying to use the ugly green color on this tag. Here is what it looked like and it already the flowers on it (modeling paste though a stencil (Donna Downey).  I don't like that color green and once I put the flowers on it I just didn't like it.

 

 

Looking at the tag's background it must have been another color I think blue. I decided to spray the flowers with spray ink. I let it dry on it's own which gave me a little more time to decide what to do next.

 

 

 

Next, I added some rub-ons (Tim Holtz) and white acrlyic paint through a stencil (TCW Tiny Cirlces).

 

 

 

Now I'm starting to like it. It just needs some final touches.....

 

 



 

 

The butterfly I cut out and creased his wings so they are more dimensional. Butterflies always seem to give projects that extra touch.

 

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