Saturday, May 5, 2012

Art Journal Page

I loved the latest prompt at A Year In The Life Of An Art Journal, so much so that I used the same prompt for a different journal as well. Everything I did is pretty self explanatory.

THE PROMPT: Nature is a wondrous thing
ie: use pics of nature

THE STUFF: Don't quote me on it
ie: use a quote or quotes
THE TECHNIQUE: Gesso & stencils ie: try something different and use Gesso on your stencils for texture!

Want to see what others came up with? http://oneyearartjournal.blogspot.com/

 
This page was something else i began sketching on but then didn't like where it was going, so it's a great thing to just cover with some layers.

love the texture and this will dry clear!

Gelatto fun of course. The gel acts as a resist which I loved playing with.

spray with some water and then brushed out and then blotted with a cloth to get it off all of the letters.



I then sprayed the entire page with some watered down gesso. And added a tag.



Pan Patels and new Art Journal Page

Okay, I loooove Pan Pastels!!! There's this very nifty store here locally that I support as much as I can. Luckily for me alot of their supplies that I love, I can even find cheaper there than anywhere online!! Anywho, I go in there about every other week and buy 1-2 new colors. I will do this until I have them ALL!! If you haven't used any of these! WHY NOT??? This week one lucky person will win a black pan pastel! Just comment ans share on your blog with your friends!

Another great art journal page to come using pan pastels!
Okay, so onto a journal page A Year In The Life Of An Art Journal. HERE is the prompt.

THE PROMPT: Nature is a wondrous thing
ie: use pics of nature
THE STUFF: Don't quote me on it
ie: use a quote or quotes
THE TECHNIQUE: Gesso & stencils ie: try something different and use Gesso on your stencils for texture!

I used a very gritty Golden Course Pumice Gel. Love this stuff!!


After it dried, some gesso over the entire page.

I then used some great pan pastels. Blending some greens and yellows then some finishing touches. I didn't do too much "nature" stuff but I really feel as though the greens bring out a feeling of nature. I also reused my word of the year. Relax! Just to remind myself!


I'm also playing along wtih Berry71Bleu Challenges. you can check out their blog here:   http://berry71bleu.blogspot.com

Altered Wooden Box


So, I am a fan of Dollar Tree. I bought a number of boxes from there and then before I could get to it, Kory over there at Scrapiverse posted one of his creations using one of the exact same boxes. So, I was definitely inspired to no longer let them sit in the bag and get one done. of course I have about 6 different styles of them. What I did is pretty self-explanatory as you look at the picture tutorials. Love Graphic 45 papers! I just wanted somethign simple that onlu too about 20 minutes to make. Love it's simplicity.

I collect fortune cookie fortunes so I think this little creation will just hold them. Until I come up with some other purpose for it.



More Duct Tape Fun


So, it's never been any secret that I'm obsessed with tapes of all kinds. For my birthday one of my good friends thought he would get me some camo duct tape. It made me laugh, partially because I wasn't really sure I'd ever use it! But none the less I was happy I had it. Funny how that works. So, I decided that since I had no clue what to do with it, but wanted to use it since it was a gift I made something for the guy friend who gave it to me. I made him a clip board he can hang to hold pictures of his hunting trips.  This is just one of many posts to come playing with tapes of course!

Here's also also a journal page I created. Super fun with the duct tape on the pages that I then used my heat gun on to bubble a but. Then I tore the insides out of a mini composition book and then inserted about 6 pages that I wanted to write on and I wrote a little something. 

I've been absent as I'm sure no one really noticed. LOL But I've been crafting and playing alot. In fact I already have about 12 posts ready to be posted after I add my comments to them. Also some great giveaways for some of my new fave products to play with.



 


Of course this is only a fraction of the tapes I have. At last count I have over 45 rolls of tapes. haha

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Say Hello To My Little Friend

Okay, so here is my newest Donkey addition to the family. Isn't it the nicest ass you've ever seen? No? Okay well she needs some touching up, but I do love it to pieces. 

This donkey has a story behind it. Of people I don't know AT ALL. Enjoy. Please remember this story is completely FICTIONAL! I just needed an entertaining story for you all. 

So one Easter Eve a very nice girl and her friends and family went out to play some intoxicated midnight golf in small town Western Kansas. While, they were not prepared for such an adventure being a last minute thought and all they quickly thought on their feet. They gathered solar lights from the home they were staying in and the neighbors yard. 10 or so would do to light the path of a nice swing off the tee box. Then went walking towards the golf coarse, on the way they picked up a striking young man, who brought along his clubs and about 10 white shinny golf balls. They set off for the golf coarse with lights, drinks, a lack of better judgement  and of course  Easter eggs. On the way a tragic things happen and they loose a few lights. It's okay they can replace those two, and they were getting heavy to carry.  It was going to be a marvelous evening. 

Once to the coarse a few Easter eggs were given a nice drive down the fairway, landing about at the end of the tee box. Note to all, use hard boiled eggs! They fly so much further than those shinny easy to find but easily broken plastic ones. Everyone takes their turn hitting their ball.... they all ooo and awww and in a drunken state pretend we know just how far and where the ball landed, it occurs to us all we should have brought more solar yard lights.  They scale the hole, first assuming it was a long shot right down the fairway, then we venture to just as far out but maybe along the edges and then we work our way back to the tee box. SHUCKS... one person found their ball on hole one. They all watched while it was hit a 2nd time.... to never be seen again. Moving on to hole two, one of the wonderful participants, was alittle off her rocker and each time a car passed in fear it may be a cop she hit the ground like 100 pounds of rocks. Therefore, like any good friends would do they began yelling car just to watch her hit the ground.  Hole two began with all new balls and a sadness they hadn't planned better in bringing glow in the dark balls at least. Everyone tries not to hit them as hard this time in hopes of finding more than one down the fairway, or in the tree, or the parking lot next door, or anywhere. Alas, there was no such luck, 5 hits later and about 45 minutes passing of hide and seek and they were defeated. They left in good spirits however, because they had each other and had learned a valuable lesson of golfing at midnight: glow in the dark balls and head lamps!

On the way home, the discussed what everyone had been doing for the last few weeks, months and years. One of the highly happy participants decided that it was unfair that dogs have no lights in the back yard when their sleeping and proceeded to put all of the remaining solar yard lights in the back yard of all the dogs they passed by. A good deed had been done. While dropping off the young man mentioned above they decided it wasn't fair none of them had gotten his parents an Easter gift and then proceeded to roll a large trash can into their home, down the hall and in front of their bedroom door. NOW they will wake up to an Easter Surprise they all thought. On the way home one of the nice ladies was asked if there was anything she wanted for Easter or her birthday, she piped up that she's always wanted a large donkey figure. You know the cement kind. One girl takes off jogging, all others were waiting for her to fall down in all honesty because the running, it just wasn't pretty, instead she stops about 4 blocks away in front of a lovely home.. with a giant 70 pound yellow donkey. All oww and awww!!! It's just what she's always wanted. After about 45 minutes of struggling the donkey makes it home with them. It followed them like a lost puppy in need of a home. 

While home later, they sat on the porch wondering why cars are parked on the street. It made no sense. So they decided to try it out in the front yard right at the beginning of the steps. It surely has to sit there over night they thought because something always looks weird when it's new. The neighbor girl was gone for the weekend and the logically discussed who needed to buy her more solar lights. in the mist of this conversation they decided maybe they should do some mowing on her lawn... you know to be nice and all, come to find out after the large X was mowed in lawn they were tired and should retire to bed. 

Anyways in honor of this blogs wonderful anniversary/birthday, I think Mrs. Easter is a wonderful gift and addition.