The Other Woman

So, I have had this movie for about 3 weeks and have not watched "The Other Woman". I have to say that this is pretty funny. Not "Bridesmaids" funny, but pretty damn funny.  Not to mention that the main male character is Jaime, from Game of Thrones. LOVE HIM!!!  And the secondary male character is the hot guy from "Chicago Fire".  He is definitely "do-able".

I have continued to create this weekend. Still focusing on the main objects for the page layouts.  I really didn't paint at all this session. I did some sprays and I started playing with my Wendi Vecchi embossing paste.

Hope you like this page and have a blessed Sunday.

Again, I love my digital images, wink of stella and Copic Markers.  Who needs more??

Until later

SS

Crafty Creations

So, I am at a retreat this weekend. I got an e-mail from a friend telling me about it. So I had no plans and figured I would try it.  It is pretty cool. The owner is really nice and overall I like the place. I absolutely love that I didn't have to bring anything. Everything that I would need pretty much is here. I did a little shopping with the group but of course I don't need anything.
I have been creating. I actually brought my copic markers.  I have been coloring up a storm. I found a blog a couple of nights ago that has copic color of the day. This blogger uses different copic color combinations and comes up with a new color name. I am trying to recreate what she has on the cards by creating my own samples. So far I am in "need" of a lot of copic markers. LMAO

Here is one of the pages I created this weekend. I did some backgrounds but I really wanted to focus on getting pages done.  Hopefully you like it. I used mostly sprays for this background and then I focused on the main image.

Oh well, I hope you like the page.

Not a morning person

So, I have definitely come to terms with the fact that I am just not a "morning person". I mean, there are times where I can be downright mean if my sleep is broken. I don't get much to begin with but if you wake me up before 7am it is on. I am not afternoon sleep in person. I guess you really can't be when you have a career but I would much rather work from 8 to whenever and then if needed work later. I don't mind putting in the hours but can we make it after 8am. LOL

So my next creation is from a few months ago. I am a fan of magazine articles so I try to take advantage of the tons of them I have from friends.  This one was done with Dylusions sprays and I was in my washi tape mode as well. I can't begin to tell you how much of this stuff I have. I absolutely refuse to buy one more roll until I have used up almost all of this. I believe I will have to start doing some Christmas cards and make my decoration a washi tape tree. But just how many of those can you do?  I don't have that many addresses. (LMAO)

I am definitely into the warm backgrounds.  I am going to start putting more on my pages for backgrounds. I find that while I don't like a lot of texture I do like depth.

In any case, I hope you like this one. As you can see, i also did a little journalling on the page. I plan to do a little more of that where I see feasible.  Until later.

SS

Ok, I know I am on a roll now

Yes,

I love Blogging. I don't think it's because I really want to share every little thing in my life but it is definitely an outlet for my emotions.  I consider myself a pretty happy person.  Overall I have accomplished almost everything I thought valuable to me over the last forty something years of my life. Don't get me wrong, there is much still to come but so far so good. 
 I fell into art journaling about 2 years ago. I absolutely love it. I am pretty obsessed actually. My goal is to try and get at least a couple of pages done a week. I normally spend 4-5 hours on a page. That would include backgrounds. My new favorite Youtube artist is the lady on jogglesllc. I love her work. She is so quick and really inspires my own personal style. If you have never seen it you should take a look sometime. Oh well, enough of the blabbering. Here is the art journal page for the day. This one was done with dylusions and then I just did some doodling. The figures are from the Cricut "forever friends" cartridge. You can't get it anymore at regular stores. It is one of the few cartridges that I have and love. One day, I was at DCM and started cutting these and a friend gave me some of her paper scraps that she was going to throw away. Well, I ended up making these into a bunch of these girls. Now, I use them in a bunch of my page layouts.

I am a doodler, I am trying to practice so that I get better I don't exactly have the expertise of someone that has done it all her life but each day I get better. I am working on pages that do just that so I can perfect the art.  The one thing that is not on this page is extra background art. You can tell that it leaves a little something to be desired. I think this layout needs depth.You never know, I might go in a couple of weeks and see what stamps I can add to help bring out the color scheme,

Until then,

SS

Back in the saddle

Here is the coordinating page to my post on 8/25. So I have to admit, I am a Twilight fan. Not the books but the movies. Someday I will explain why without sounding so self righteous. However I am a triangle love theme junkie. Now, I like Jacob. I am definitely team wolf but I could not pass up this image of Kristin. She is not exactly Bella here but close enough.  She has the same background as Michonne has and I did the hand embellishing as well. The only difference is that I used some washi tape on this layout. But since I have over 100 rolls I figure that was a good way to start getting rid of it.
I recently asked a friend of mine how many pages a month she gets done in her journals. She was estimating 5 or 6. I think some months I am on that but if I would have to average it out I am more like 3 or 4. So ask me why do I continue to by journals? I am clearly a collector. My new commitment it to use the stuff I have and believe me I have a LOT of stuff. I was successful this weekend. I did not go to Michael's, Joann's, or Hobby Lobby once. I think I will be at least 50 before I go through the craft room I have.  Needless to say, here is the journal page. I hope that you like it.

Alright, until later. 

SS

Caran d'ache neocolor ii

I have looked at these watersoluble crayons for so long and talked myself out of spending that much. I bought the 84 pack from Merriartist.  They had the best price of anyone so I broke down. I then ordered some additional single colors from Dick Blick so that now I have the whole set of 126.  I love them. I work with them as a wet medium as the norm.  So I can't use them on my sketch books. I did get my Pan Pastels and I have to tell you. Other than having to use a fixative I LOVE them. I mean they ROCK. I can use them on my basic sketchbooks as well because they are a dry medium. I also love the way that they spread across the paper and the blending. I have not layered them yet. I will try that when I come back from my trip but so far they are the best thing since sliced bread. I will use up my acrylic paints but I will more than likely not buy any more. I have enough to last me for years. : )

I am still on the fence with watercolors. Since I really like the new H2O's and have always liked my Koi's I will stay with them.  If nothing else to work on the pages that I just doodle on.

Still sketching faces. I really enjoy it. I will continue to do it. I have so much fun doing it. I think I am going to purchase the Dilly Beans Whimsical Girls on-line faces class.  It's $45. I have been putting it off and I just need to do it. I will most likely start some on my cruise. I just need to get some circle templates.  I found one but it was too small.  I will keep looking.

Until later
SS

It's been a while

I know I have slacked but I went to DCM this weekend and I thought this would be a good opportunity to show you a few things I have been working on.  I have recently found my love of "create a color" paint now. I got it from Close to my heart. They no longer make it so I had my consultant hunt me down every tube that she could find. Luckily I am in possession of 15.  I have gone through 3 so far which means I will have to find a new method to showcase my love of iridescent backgrounds.
Let me just say that I actually finished this layout a while ago but I wanted to show you something that I am pretty proud of. This was actually done with the inexpensive metallic paints you get from any hobby store. I put a few colors together and spread them around with a hotel room key. I have a few of them to say the least. This is done in my large journal. The picture is of my favorite character from "The Walking Dead", Michonne.

I used some sharpie markers and pens to do the accents. I am kind of a fan of doodling which you will see a lot in my work. I am not as die hard as Dyan Reavely but I do love to see the accents in most cases.  You can't really see the great color but it has green, gold and rust as the background and they are all metallic.  The actual picture is black and white. I found it in one of my favorite magazines for clipping art, W.  Alright, enough for now. I will try to get this posted.  

Until later

SS