Roben-Marie Smith's AJ Class

I love taking classes online. Some have really bombed but this class was at the top of the list. Best class I have taken in awhile. Roben really has a great style and I learned some great techniques.  Class Link

Here are some of the Art Journal pages that I have created so far with the class. It is all about the layers!!

 

Donna Downey's Canvas Create January 2012

Monthly Video Class Class link

Here is my creation for January 2012

12 x 12 canvas 

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ATC's for Christys "things with wings" swap
I love these vintage images and grungeboard wings.

canvas board play - working on depth -

AJ pages done with a Giant puzzle piece creating by my one of my BBF's cheryl henderson

I have been published...

I have been published in SCRAPBOOK NEWS AND REVIEW MAGAZINE.

The first time I have ever submitted anything for publication and it was accepted and published in the July 2011 issue. If you are a member of SNR, mine is a ATC titled =-DREAM.

location is:

Mixed Media section

Artist Trading Cards:

Strut Your Stuff

badger is 6 months old

Badger was born on 01/10/2011, so he was 6 months old this past Sunday. I was dealing with a hurting back so we had a little photo shoot right in the living room.

Shelby is the best big sister a boy could ask for. She is gentle (most of the time) with him and still loves to play as if she was still 6 months old. They are best friends.. He seems so lost when she is outside is the big puppy pen and he is still inside. They love each other to death....

Vintage Children ATC swap

I just finished up hosting a Vintage Children ATC swap. It had 8 ladies to play and all the ATC's are amazing. I didn't take a photo of each ATC before mailing them back out to the players today, but here are ones that I got to keep. These are a bunch of talented ladies. All the different styles and levels of layers made for a great swap.

Free creative - canvas art

This is a canvas that I created last weekend. It was inspired by a combination of Christy Tomlinson workshops that I have taken over the past couple of months and Dina Wakley Art Journaling workshops that I took about one year ago. It was alot of fun to create because there was no pressure to create anything in paticular , follow a certain style from a certain artist.

collage art -Donna Downey wk 1

I love this piece! It is my take on Donna Downey's Collage Monday Challenge for Week 1. I covered the pages with book text and then used double sided paper , simply torn the paper into pieces and glued them down with a glue stick. I then used a Bazzill card stock scrap and cut out the letters with the Opposites- cricut font. Outlined the letters with charcoal pencil and used Oil Pastel crayons to darken the cardstock color some. Lastly I outlined the whole page with the same Oil pastel crayon and stamped on the letter T with stazon black ink and DD's This is art stamp.

she had 3 hearts wk 3 UTEE

she had 3 hearts wk 2

She had 3 hearts class wk 1

Great time with great FRIENDS

Cheryl H.



Our table

Donna Downey teaching

Julie F.

Pam C.

Paula

Our gift to Donna Downey

Carol M.

Christy B.

Christy and her girls

Donna Downey teaching

hard at work

Flat friends

the group

the guffy group

last two Art journal pages

These are the third and fourth art journal pages that I have done for the AJ swap on PAO.
The top one has Paris themes tissue paper in the background.


This one was inspired by a page that I saw on Twopeas but can't remember who posted it. I had these canvas birds in my stash and really wanted to try them out. I love the birds!!

2nd art journal ready

Here is the latest Art Journal to mail out in the latest swap. It is inspired by a Donna Downey inspiration journal video.

Altered Gaint puzzle pieces swap

I received the swapped puzzle pieces back from Rachelle today. Below are two of the pieces from Pam C. and Cheryl M.

Below, these are from Julie S. and Cheryl H.

Art Journal page for a swap

This is a art journal page for a PAO swap that I am in. The theme seems a little out in left field but I think it fits the overall theme of the book well. To bad, I can't show you the book to but these pages are a secret until the end.

Playing around with some new techniques

This is something that I created last night, just so that I could try out some new background techniques. I am rather pleased with it. enjoy

Artsy stuff at work

I decided to take some of my favorite pieces to work so that I can enjoy them all day long.


These are the houses that were done in two different PAO swaps last year. I finally found them again and hinged them together. they look so great in my office window. Thanks to Pam Cook, Cheryl H., Honey, Pam P. and Marianne for these wonderful houses.

this is a canvas that I did a couple weeks ago for a challenge. Is is made of the scrap/trash that was laying around on my scrapping desk. I really like it alot too.

This is the altered art doll that was made by Sue and sent to me in a PAO swap also.