Art Journaling 9.11

Art Journaling!!!

Sorry this post & Video is going up a little slow this time around.. was down with a cold and a couple other things earlier this week. I finally got my FULL voice back and was able to voice over this baby. We built upon the lesson from the week before with more mark making tools and did some REVERSE STENCILING!

I promise it's a lot easier to do than it looks -- it's all about layers and building up. Here's the video followed by some closeup shots. Feel free to join my facebook group and share your interpretation plus see those of others!

Do you love this page??? You can visit my Society6 store to see this artwork on some products.

Canson Watercolor Pad, 30 Sheets Liquitex Acrylic Gesso Flat Wash, 1" Ranger Heat It Craft Tool Quinacridone Magenta Titanium Buff Primary Red Neutral Gray 12 by 12-Inch, Crossed Petals Stencil Fragrance Free Quilted Baby Wipes Re-Inkers, 5 oz, Black Soot Distress It Yourself Ink Pad #2 Soft Pencils Black Stabilo Marks All Striping Brushes Transparent Shading Gray Simply Simmons Synthetic Mix Watercolor Brushes

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Some Kind Of Genius {VLVS & TCW Tag}

Hi hi hihiiiiiiiiiiiii! Welcome to my blog today :)

I'm excited to be sharing some inspiration with you for Viva Las VegaStamps! and The Crafter's Workshop blog hop! Start at the VLVS! blog for all details.

I've put together a tag to share with you :)

The base is black cardstock layered with watercolor paper. I recently got some Golden Fluid acrylics and had to give them a go... I can't believe how fun they are!

I went back and forth between layering up the Golden Acrylics and Gesso through the TCW456 Sketch Grid stencil. It really created a beautiful background in bold bright colors with a nice contrast of stark white. 

Then I stamped the Cheshire Cat Sitting in the bottom corner of the tag and used more acrylic paint to shadow him. Thicker paint closer to his outline, thinner paint in a feather outward from the edge. The tag was adorned with a Tim Holtz bulb wrapped in wire and held down with Tiny Attacher staples.

I also used the Set of 2 Hands Pointing in the title. GENIUS is spelled out with Pink Paislee alphas, and SOME KIND OF comes from Tim Holtz's label stickers. The top of the tag is finished with a little May Arts ribbon. 

Don't forget to see what everyone else is up to today in our hop, and be sure to stay tuned all week to the Viva Las VegaStamps! blog. We'll be giving away prizes to a few of the commenters! 

Art Journaling Class RECAP

Whoo!! we had art journaling class this past weekend with a whopping ELEVEN participants and some AMAZING art journaling!

I brought in a stack of 6x6 Amazing Crafting Products MOLD RUBBER printing plates and introduced the class to MONOPRINTING. We used good ol' craft paint in different colors, our printing plates, some cardstock and brayers. We also had stencils from UmWowStudio, The Crafter's Workshop and Stencil Girl, stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps!, Punchinella from Gauche Alchemy, Ribbons and Fibers from May Arts Ribbon and a slew of vintage laces, doilies and other bits to help us create one of a kind patterns in our printing.


After some instruction and demonstrating.. the class got to work and had fun creating their own prints. Here are some highlights:

And here are some prints of my own from the class time:

Let me know what you think of my prints! I'll be doing a video asap on a new technique I picked up -- can't wait to share it :)