Tammi

I started this last Sept.  for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but I couldn't find the "JUST Right" Picture until I was working on a scrapbook for my brother when I found this picture of Tammi.

Tammi, lost her battle with Breast / Lung Cancer on Nov. 26, 2014.  She never gave up and never lost her faith.  I miss her every day all day.

I used Martha Stewart stencils for the fern and the roses.  Tammi loved silver/ Mauve Roses and butterflies.  The pinks in the background are a mixture of Twinkling H2O's, and color art silks.  A little bit of lace and ribbons, and a 3 x 4 card.  I added some metallic flakes to give the roses a bit of sparkle.

LIfe

Hi, thanks for visiting.

This journal page was my take from Terri Sproul's Tuesday nite Live Videos  on Jan 26, 2016 "mixed Media Journal".  I did the background several months ago trying to use up leftover silks (I have No clue what colors are involved)   The Flower stencil is FolkArt Home Decor "Camelia" I used colour Art silks for both flowers with a touch of Autumn Butternut primary pigment for the center of the flower on the right.  The butterfly is a wooden embellishment painted with DecoArt Dazzling Metallics and the sentiment is from Hampton Art.


Colour Art Silks:  Iridescent Gold Mixed with Primary Pigment  Autumn Butternut, Evening Primrose, Pink Grapefruit, Rustic Rose, Apple Blossom, Mallard Green, Vintage Mint  and Black Ice.

DecoArts Dazzling Metallics Peacock Pearl and Teal.

India Ink for the sentiment.

Be Yourself ........... Dare to Be Different

Jan. 27, 2016 .... Just completed the finishing touches on my newest journal page:  Be Yourself .....  Dare to be Different.

My pages had already been gesso'd.  I started with Dylusions stencil " Leaf Flourish - Large"  applying Gesso for texture with a make-up Triangle.  After that dried I put my second layer on using Distress Stains:  Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass and Mermaid Lagoon which I applied with a paper towel.  After that I wiped the center of the leaves removing most of the color, then I applied Bundled sage and Forest Moss over the entire page again using a paper towel.  After that dried I used the blues again around the edges.

I then cut out trees, Owls and grass using my Cricut Explore Air and Cricut Design space. Some of the Owls are layered  most are print and cut.  All the trees and grass are layered.

I used two different stamp sets: Inkadinkado "Meadow" under the grass and Penny Black "Enjoy Life" for the trees in the background  and the wheat grass at the bottom of the page. I used India Ink and the large Black Archival Ink pad.  I fussy cut several of the background trees to use as masks to get the depth of the forest.

I painted the flowers and some of the background stamped grass using Distress paint Dusty Concord, Mowed Lawn, Ripe Persimmon and Salty Ocean.  For the different color flower I used Adirondack Raspberry Acrylic paint.

The black speckles are Dylusions Black Marble and I sprayed the entire page with Perfect Pearls Mists "Heirloom Gold"

I finished the edges with Vintage photo.

Starry, Starry, Night

This was suppose to be my Christmas card in an art Journal dedicated to my sister and for Facebook, what can I say I procrastinated. (I'm really good at that.)

The background sky has 5 colors of acrylic paints in various shades of dark blue.  The ground was a mixture of beiges, also acrylic paints with a handful of kiddie sand mixed in for texture.  The nativity cut out  and the words are from Cricut Design studio.  This was my first attempt at using the writing feature with the Cricut, I'm really like  the outcome of the words.  The smaller stars are cut from CuttleBug snowflake #2 painted with florescent yellow and glitter gold acrylic paint.  And the words are finished with Glamour dust Silver Bling glitter acrylic paint.

Find a Reason to Smile

This journal page started after the live video class with Terri Sproul on resist medium.  I did the circles, then added the background color , it's one of the Lindy Stamp Gang's flat sprays.  Then I just left it.  I finally decided it was time to finish the page.  I added stamps and color to the stamps, then the sentiment, then used the 3d crystal over the bubbles and finally sprayed the page with Tattered Angels gold spray mist.

Cricut cutouts for my Grandnephew's 5th Birthday.

I spent the month of Sept. glued to my cricut.  For this project I used the Carousel and Create a Critter cartridges.

PART 1:  The invitation which was posted on

my niece's facebook events page.

Part 2:  The animals and Tents for decorations:

Part 3 Words and Lettering for the signs:

I went through over 100 sheets of cardstock both 12 x12 and 8 x 11 1/2, 4 bottles of glue, 1 bottle of red and one bottle of white glitter, some feathers, glitter glue, sharpies for highlights, and acrylics for the elephants toes, Ranger spray distress stains for the cotton candy and 6 cotton balls to make the cotton candy.

Was a lot of work and a lot of fun,  I can't wait to see pictures of how this all came together.  My Niece and family live in Calif. and I live in Florida.

Happy Accident

This journal page started out to be my contribution to the ColourArte texture challenge the journal was one of my smaller ones so I set it aside after adding gesso, stamps using archival ink and H20 Fern and sky Blue.  I picked it back up finished the one flower I had started to paint with spiced pumpkin silks (one whole petal) I added some titanium white to some spiced pumpkin to add some highlights and and acrylic yellow for the center.  I added some texture and some more stamps using archival ink.  I dried all that and let it sit.  Then I used several spray mists and misted a bit of  water to make it run.  What I hadn't counted on is the base and the stamps on top of the base to basically slide off the page.  This is what I ended up with.

This is where I decided I needed a bigger page.

First I added texture paste.

I added more stamps.  Then the sprays.

I used flowers I had and some silk flowers from stems from the craft store that were ment for flower arrangements, lace I had, glitter, gem and beads from Michaels.  I finished with Teal zircon and black ice silks splatters from colour arte.