Mix Media Class

This is the cover of a class I taught over the weekend at CropsPlus in VA. It was a really fun, fast paced class with tons of inking going on. We made the book & completed 3 full art journal spreads while learning a good formula for creating a finished page. I will be teaching this class again at ScrapbooksPlus in Chantilly, VA in the next couple of months. You can actually choose whatever color scheme you want for the cover! I'll keep you posted on dates.

Crayon Time!

I have been neglecting my scrapbooking for art journal & decided to remedy that. I have all these photos from Belize that are begging to be put to page. Coming along at just the right moment was a post from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer with this cool crayon technique. I used a stencil & followed right along. Belize was done with a white crayon & stencil. I painted on a strip of Dylusion's sprays which are perfect for this technique-such a vibrant color! Julie's cool crafters workshop lotus stencil was done with oil pastel. I sprayed glimmer mist over this-much more vibrant & shimmery-the photo doesn't do it justice! Definitely fun!

Smash Book

This is a page out of my composition/smash book. It is where I write down (some days) what is going on at home, life, kids...helps me remember for art journal & scrap book pages what to write. I also paste stuff in it, like cool organization ideas, photos of my favorite movies... I got tired of it looking very average so I did this art journal page. The concept was to make a page look like a tag, just a bigger scale version. I love how this turned out, you can see some of the shimmer but it is very shimmery in real life. Just lots of color, and tons of stamps. Fun to do, in fact I may have to go do another one... now.