Valentine Canvas

I made a Valentine Canvas for Altered Pages, and it's on their site (here) as a kit! There are lots of awesome collage pages here, as well as stamps, papers and lots more! Come take a look!

I made this canvas because I had a canvas that I made a few years ago that I didn't like, and it was just sitting around. I had a brainstorm one night as to what to do with it, and I came up with this:

It will probably be a Valentines gift for hubby! I painted over the canvas, and you can see some of the previous design coming through the paint, which is awesome! If you buy the kit you get everything you need to make it, including the (new) canvas! You could always do a quick collage on the new canvas, then just paint over it to let the design come through.  


Thanks for looking!

Some journal pages...

I now have 4 journals on the go - my Moleskine, my daughter's travel journal to make for her, my large art journal, and my journal that I'm hoping to use for my Kelly Kilmer class that I haven't started yet. My idea for going back to the Moleskine journal for everyday was that it was small, and I could prepare it easily to work on everyday for a week on each double page. At first I wanted it to be more private, and I wasn't going to post it, but it's so much fun I have to. So I took photos rather than scan it so that (hopefully) no one can actually read the words. Here goes:

This was when I started back into my Moleskine in November. It was also the first day we had snow which was gone by the afternoon! The next day that we had enough snow to stay was last Friday!

 Got out my Christmas stamps which I hadn't used at all yet because I hadn't made any Christmas cards yet!

 More Christmas stamps. First I scribble neo-colors (watercolor crayons) all over the page, then wipe with a baby-wipe. This smooths the background color out. I do this for the next 2 or 3 pages, not really worrying about which colors I'm choosing, although for December I did choose "Christmasy" colors.

 For this page I scribble dark red around the edges, then pulled the color into the middle. The envelope is from a swap I was in with the Byhand artists group, a 12 days of Christmas Swap. The envelope was from the 1st day of Christmas giftie.

 This next page I did in green and red stripes. It was AWFUL and I hated it, and wondered what the heck I was going to do with it. I decided to showcase the 12 days of Christmas swap gifties and I had 2 different circular shaped "shapes', not doilies exactly, just some shapes I had bought a few months ago thinking to use them as stencils, which is what I did. I sprayed over them with Maya Mist red, and I loved the effect! Then I spent my TV watching evenings doodling away, making each shape different, and used my 12 Days of Christmas stamps for each spot. I added anything like tags etc. that came from the gifties as well.I'm also using my Bienfang watercolor pens to color in the stamps.

 This page was better with the green on the border and red inside.

Gifties 7-10-I remade the ugly page to match the other one, and have made each circular shape different by the way I doodled them.

 These are the Character construction stamps my daughter gave me for Christmas. I had pre-stamped this page, not knowing what would go in the banner yet, but as it worked out, it was New Years Day at that spot!

I needed more 2 pages for my 12 days gifties so I remade the same ugly pages as before. More character construction stamps that CJs boyfriend gave to me! So lucky that he lives near Bizzy Bee stamp store! I used these stamps to make a birthday card for my step-father.

So that's it for today! Don't forget to stop by Altered Pages to what what new goodies they have! They now have LOTS more than just collage images!

Happy New Year!

I know, I'm a week late, but I hope everyone has a wonderful and creative 2012! New Years Day was my 58th birthday. I don't feel 58! We always go to brunch on New years Day, and take a 3-generation photo. Here's this year's photo:

 

I'm in the middle, my Mom is 75, and my daughter is 25.

I also got sick on my birthday, a very bad cold, that sent me to my bed for the next 3 days. Today (Sunday) is the first day I've had enough energy to get me through the whole day! Good thing too, because I start back to school with all my preschoolers tomorrow!

I didn't have much time to really do anything but write in my journal, which I will show you on my next post. Today, I wanted you to see what I saw this morning when I looked into my Stamp Room:

It was treacherous just to walk to my work table...

 and even worse ON my table!

my goal today was to finish figuring out what to do with my unmounted stamps to make getting to them even easier...

and to be able to get some space on my table to do some work this week.

Mission accomplished!

Hopefully NOW I can get down to some serious creating!

Talk to you soon!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas (and Happy Hanukkah!) to all my wonderful blog friends who keep me up when I am down! All of you are such wonderful and caring people, and I am so thankful to have each and every one of you in my cyber-life!

I was only able to make 4 cards this year, and I only have 3 of them to show you. I really have to start Christmas card-making in January!

All images are from Altered Pages

I will be posting some Journal pages after Christmas when I have more time (2 weeks holiday!!!) and I am starting a new Kelly Kilmer Workshop called Revel in the Moment, so I will show you what I'm doing there too.


Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Hope everyone has a fabulous holiday!

November already!

Boy, time is flying by. I'm not getting much done, barely started thinking about Christmas, but everyone else seems to be - it was so busy today at the stores! Working on a few journal pages that I can share anyway. . .



 I thought this background was done. . .

but then I started doodling!

This is the next page background, the writing isn't quite done yet, and I have one more page on the go. 

Not much to show, but then I haven't been working on it much, either too tired at the end of the day or too busy on the weekends. But I'm trying to get a few minutes in before I go to work, and a few minutes in just before bed (but that doesn't last long, I'm no good at night). I'm also trying to get into my art room before I do the things I HAVE to do!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends! Hope your Turkey / Tofurkey Day is a delicious one!

Birthday Card

Hopefully this card reaches my good friend Marg before she sees this post. It better! But here it is, I had no idea what I was going to do for this card when I started, except that I had just bought the new Tim Holtz pad of paper and knew I wanted to use it.

I had also just bought a new Crafters Workshop swirly stencil that I thought I would christen. The "Life is nothing" stamp is from Viva Las Vegas Stamps. This is the result. I like it! Hope Marg does too!

Check out the giveaway on my sidebar for Ink On My Finger's blog!

Finally - an art post!!

Hives are all gone, hopefully NEVER to return! But if they do, I am armed! Thank you for all the sympathy I received. I needed it!!

OK, so here are some new journal pages. I've been experimenting a lot with backgrounds and stencils. Not sure how I like it.

The cross is a canvas I'm doing for a good friend who is sadly moving away. I will miss her very much!

My friend Therese came to play with me!!

I thought I would use my Character Construction stamps and create some people on my journal - unfortunately, I only have a couple of these stamps - I have to get more!! Well I'm off to finish this page.

My thoughts go out to all of you who are remembering 911 today, especially those personally affected. It was a horrible day, and though we don't want to remember it, we need to.