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Monday, September 05, 2016

Artist Challenges

Hello everyone,

I never thought of myself as a person who always has to take a dare, but recently I have been confronted with a lot of challenges. Not just life challenges but artistic challenges. I think some of you know what I'm talking about but if you don't let me explain. Many groups on Facebook have these challenges or prompts to use to help you create on a daily basis. Well let's just say I find all of them interesting. And then I have a group of friends who are also artistic who prod me in the direction of creating on a more regular basis. I know ideally, this is only going to help me grow in my art. but I think I also need to step back once in a while and reassess the things that I am doing.

I took on the prompts for two months doing an index card a day. While I think it was beneficial, I also feel that two months on one project is a long time when it's a daily project. Additionally while I was doing the two month project I had monthly and weekly challenges to meet. I apologize I haven't spent a lot of time blogging because I was making art and sharing a lot of it on my Facebook page, Instagram and YouTube.

So I've been trying to do several other Facebook groups. There are challenges from international crafters who post both weekly and monthly prompts. And then there is a group that does a mermaid every month and Mission Inspiration and 29 faces...see what I mean. I've also been trying to do a few collaborations with some of my friends. Sheri has a new Facebook group called Tag It Tuesday. She posts prompts for the month and we all create tags based on that. And we cannot forget about pick a stick challenge. That's a journaling group three of my friends and I started that gives 10 prompts for a page each month. It was just the four of us at the beginning of the year and now we have a group of over 600 art journaler.

Additionally Shel C and I have been doing some Gelli print collaborations. Here are a few pics. You can find the complete play list on YouTube. We have another week of fun planned there.

So I hope you understand, dear readers, that my challenges include finding the time to blog. It is always something I want to do but then the studio calls to me. If you want to see more than what you are following here, you can also find me in these other places.

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Saturday, August 08, 2015

Back to school

Spark some Kreativity Saturday @ the Kraaft Shaak

Hello all my Blogger friends.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look and see what I've been doing. Today is my day sharing with you as a design team member for the Kraaft Shaak for the August challenge. It is my honor and privilege to be chosen for this amazing team. Heather is the sweet store owner who truly cares about the community she has created and shares her talent with us all on a regular basis. This month we are talking about back to school. Yup, not that far away now. I have a few little people in my life who are readying for this life event. So this is some of how I plan to help. Following are projects I created,, are easy enough for you to do and could be done with the kiddos.

Starting with a wooden panel from the craft store...sand rough surfaces and

paint the surface with a blue chalk paint. Add lettering, doodles, a cute fox and command clips. Now it is a great way to display artwork from school.

Then I found a premade apron to dress up and keep painty spills off school clothes at the local craft store. The hot pink ruffle just said, take me home and jumped in my shopping cart. Well, you know how I am with a blank canvas. I had to alter it. I remembered the stencils that came in my Mixed Media kit from the Kraaft Shaak and knew what I wanted to do.

Using the stencil supplied in my mixed media kit I painted the ruffle. Then I use some white Dina Wakley paint with the new tip to write and draw designs. The heavy bodied paint is similar to dimensional paint, thick and creamy. Then I found a bottle of hot pink glitter glue to jazz it up some more.

Oh and I wasn't done yet. There are surfaces still available for me to paint. lol

I figure every kid needs a lap board to clip paper to when doing homework while flopped on the bed or couch. Right??? I started with dollar store clip boards. The blue one is done with book covering from the same store, chalkboard and Dina Wakley paints using Tim Holtz's Schoolhouse stencil. The pink and white is Dina heavy body paint and hot pink Pebeo. I wanted it to look like the bokeh camera effect so I painted using a round sponge.

Well that's my take on the back to school challenge.

check out the other posts over at the Kraaft Shaak. There are a ton of videos to watch, other blogs to follow and loads of inspiration and fun! ttfn

P.S. If you stop by the Kraafters Kommunity on Google+ you can see pictures of a Gelli® play day we had recently. I printed scarves, shirts and pencil cases.
P.P.S. Heather has some awesome exclusive products made from her own art. What a great way to share her talent with others while supporting the Shaak.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Wax Resist

Hello everyone,
I found another challenge for you. Miss Moth (Finnabair) has started a regular challenge on the Mixed Media page. The colors this month are black, white and gray plus a few more. I hope you can join in. I thought I would use my black, white and gray backgrounds (with a bit of color added) for my submission this month. I can't wait to see what everyone does.

I had a great day with the Gplus community. Heather was at her best and showed lots of stamping techniques. That always makes my brain work better. Well, something like that anyway. I got to thinking about resist techniques. So I had to come to the studio and play. I don't know if I invented this technique or not, but I've never seen it donequite like this before. I die-cut waxed paper, then ironed the image onto another piece of paper and used the wax as a resist. I videotaped what I had done so you can see firsthand. I also took some stills of the finished cards that I made with the paper backgrounds I created. Here is the video.

Be sure and stop by the Kraafter Shaak and check out Heather's video. She has a real treasure trove waiting for you. If you like what you see, please come and join us in the Google plus group. There are many friendly faces and a boat load of knowledgeable crafters. There will be glass etching and stamp carving to name a few topics coming up this month. I hope to see you there. Also remember to get your challenge submissions done. I will be watching to see what you do.