Swamped

I can't believe I have been so swamped today with work. So I have not been inky-painty today. However I have a past project to share with bloggerland.

This is one more page layout that I did while I was having a great time on my retreat.  I used my Prima Doll stamps with an acrylic paint background.  I used some stamps for background texture and then some Cricket cut outs in various papers. I just need to embellish.

This will be short.

Until later

SS

I have been a little remiss

Yes, I know it has been a month and a half since you heard from me. However I assure you I have not just been sitting on my butt. I was actually working on a lot of projects. I finally got to take some pictures. I have been on a retreat at one of my favorite places. Memory Lane Inn. I love the owner, Jennifer. She is really awesome and has such a great atmosphere to be creative.  
I have worked on sketching faces as well. I keep telling myself not to be scared. The more I do it the better I will become. So I try to do at least one a day.  Once I think I am finally good enough to share even my amateur sketches I will share.

So here is a page that was started. Basically I have the background and images. Now I just need to spend sometime with a few pens and embellish, doodle, etc.

I used one of my Prima girls for this spread. I realized that I had not really used them so I spent some time stamping them up and fussy cutting. They are on quite a few of my pages. The background is Tim Holtz distress stains, which I absolutely love for a quick background of color.

The cut outs are from a Cricket machine with the close to my heart cartridge. I did find out that I would definitely like to do more stem and leaves this way.  I will make sure to post a pic once it is done.

Take care, until later

SS

A little more Inky-Painty

So, I have been working away in my art journals.  Gesso, paint, ink and some background work. I haven't finished another page so I thought I would show an old one that I am pretty drawn to the color scheme and layout.

This is one of my favorite Dylusion backgrounds. I added some leaf stamps and faces for back ground. The image is from Kenny K.  And then there is some doodling of hearts and used glitter washi tape and cut out hearts from scrapbook paper. 

Well, it is TV time. I didn't get an opportunity to watch a few new episodes of my favorite shows and I don't want to be up all night. Until next time.

SS

Another Great Day

In case you could not tell, I absolutely love crafting. I mean it is my stress reliever.  I have a great career but as everyone knows there are those days.
As today is Halloween I thought it would be appropriate to have a page that had at least something remotely spooky.  This one has an image of Dark Shadows the movie which I got from the American Way magazine.

This particular lay out still needs some work. I had not yet added borders but it has a lot of accents. Another one done with Tim Holtz Distress stains.  I have some pretty decent magazine images that I wanted to try out so this is my way of incorporating them. Some of the accents were done with some die cuts I did from a friend's quik cutz stash, loving them. The stamps you probably recognize as being from Dylusions. I just love the leaves and accenting them.

This is my last post for the month of October. I am so proud of myself. I managed to blog at least 3/4 of the time this month. I had only hoped for a couple of times a week. I have to tell you, I have felt better about it.

Oh well, I will go for now and hope to hear from you soon. As always please don't hesitate to comment on my blog with questions or words of praise (hint-hint).

Until Later

SS

Just keep working away

I absolutely love working in my art journals. I need to reorganize my room still so my desk is not as messy but I am having so much fun. I managed to finish inking the rest of my layout pages tonight and even get a couple of layouts inked in one of my Canson XL journal I purchased on sale. I wanted to make sure it would take the ink and water. It absolutely will. So now I am happy I purchased 7 of them at WalMart for dirt cheap.  OK, you caught me, I have issues with journals.  I just love them. But Dyan Reavely says that she has at least 6 or 7 journals started at any given time. So right now I have 4 that I am working in. One Dylusions, a Canson XL, my altered atlas and finally my "Ross for Less" journal that has turned out to be simply awesome.  I found out that I the "Ross" journal is really a Carnet journal. They normally run $20 but I got it for $4 because it was missing a pen. I am now looking for others at each Ross I go to.  : ). I told you I had issues.

So here is the background start to part of my Ross journal.  I did the background with distress stains that I had.  I added some glitter washi tape that matched.  I added some borders from my Prima Doll stamp collection. I think I will just add a little distress ink through stencils and then journal on this page.  But as you can see I love the Kenny K images.

Oh well, until later

SS

Another great day of crafting

So I made it home safe an sound and now I have been spending a couple hours a day on my art journal. Sometimes just creating backgrounds and other times adding all of the focal points.  And when I don't feel like getting off my ass then I will just use pens to accent.  I can't complain because at least I get a chance to be creative and let off steam.

I am not quite finished with this page yet. But I don't really know what it needs.  Definitely a border but I think I need to actually journal on this page to give it more fullness. I will try it with a colored pen that might pull out some color but not overwhelm the page. The background is claudine Helmuth paint.

I found these images in a magazine and decided they recognized the thought of being faceless or invisible. And as you can see I can't spell because I used an "A" instead of "I" in the word. I never claimed I could. : )

Oh well,

Until later

SS

Absolutely Exhausted

So, I am still recovering from the Crafting Marathon I had this past weekend. I am watching a little bit of the World Series. I truly want Boston to Win. Go RED SOX!!

I wanted to show you a page that I worked on while I was crafting with what I hope will become some really good friends.

I did my normal on this page. I used some Dylusions sprays that I diluted because I saw it on You Tube from joggles.com.  I then did some shadowing an some other background work with stamps and punches. I used some cool glitter tape I got from JoAnn Fabrics for 40% off. I will definitely use more of this. I really accents the page and comes in some cool colors that somehow seem to match the sprays.  I added an image from "The Greeting Farm".  I had colored her with Copic markers, fussy cut and then applied with Claudine Helmuth's matte medium.  There was charcoal used around some of the images and white gel pen to make them pop. I hope you like the page. I had fun creating this little work of art.  You can barely see the text but it says, "yes, I am cute".

Until Later

SS