Friday, February 25, 2011

Art Journal Page 4

Well it has been a gloomy, rainy day here and the art for this page reflects that.  I did the background in red with some black Donna Downey "drippage".  I tore the "dreary" from my thesaurus (shame, shame) and the poetry is by Robert Frost.  I used some of my new Glimmer Mists going for a wet look, they are raindrops after all.   I regret the numbers but after you glue them down you just gotta go with it.  TTFN!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Art Journal Page 3

So Michael's had a coupon for 40% off paints and I decided to try some gloss gel medium.  I do like the shine it gives the plain ole cheapo paints.  I started by mixing the gel with some blue for the background then i mixed the gel with some glass beads and used a palette knife to spread it onto the page.  Then I started with the purple and it made me think of those purple clumps of flowers that bloom in spring and that is how glass beads became flowers.  I added the green for the foliage and used some black to accent.  The bright colors made me think of the saying "dream in COLOR!"  I used an edge punch to make the date tag and that brings me to the end of page 3 in my art journal.  I have to say that I am beginning to like the journal.  It makes me happy to look back at the previous pages.  TTFN! 

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

From This to That

Today while I was at Wal-Mart I went over to check out the Valentine clearance isle.  I found some pretty red paper bags for my new addiction to making paper bag albums and I found these great metal lockers (I got 2 at half price).  I know they have Strawberry Shortcake on them but I can fix that!
So I used my new Miraposa stack to embellish along with a metal butterfly, stickles, pearls and bling, prima flowers, iamroses.com flowers and gold ink.  (Did I mention black spray paint, LOL)  Her is the finished project:


Sunday, February 13, 2011

Tag Mini Class

It's almost time for another class at Scrapbooker's Emporium!!  This is a chipboard tag mini album with a birthday theme using a Technique Tuesday mini stamp set.  The date for the class is March 12.  There are two session and the cost is $15 which includes all the supplies for the book!!!  Registration will start this week and space is limited so call the store and reserve your spot today!!!
Hope to see you there!!!

Valentine Project For My Daughter

Tomorrow is of course Valentine's Day and my daughter had to have a box for her Valentine's so this is what we came up with from supplies in my stash!  First we covered the box with 2 layers of tissue.  We used K&Co. Ka-Zoo paper pad papers and embellishments to decorate along with lots of glitter and a feather boa.  On the handle we tied some tulle and added a paper flower.
Thanks for looking!  Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Thursday, February 10, 2011

KEYS

Michi got some great new dies for her Accucut at the scrapbook store and this scallop circle is one of them.  I decided to use some pictures that I took of my girls last spring so I chose some patterened paper and colored cardstock to match the flowered tank tops they were wearing. (I'm behind on printing my pics so I dont have them printed out yet, shame on me!)  I also got these great chipboard keys by Bazzill and that is how I decided on the title.  The flowers are Prima, the leaves are from iamroses.com and the title is done with Thickers.  I used my Ranger paint dabber in espresso to distress the edges and cover the raw chipboard edge.  The cover is all I have done since I dont have the pictures printed.  I will post the rest later!  Until then thanks for visiting.  HAPPY SCRAPPING!