A golden mess!

As I was busy teaching this technique on Saturday

one of the girls wanted some gold paint. 

So I took out the paint and start shaking the bottle.

When I released the cap the whole top came off and 

a huge amount of the paint splattered onto the page...

I tried to blot off most of the paint but the damage was done!

Ok, now for the word damage...

It really isn't damage, you need to work with it.

It is like life, you plan one thing and then 

life happens and you have to make things work.

So now I am left with this.

 It is still sitting on my table, but I will make it work.!!

Does it make sense?

Does it have to?

Anyway this is a reminder for the Art Journal Class on Saturday.

10:00 - 13:00

Please bring your mixed media pad and Micron pens.

I think I need a bit of yellow on this page... maybe not.

Music in my Journal

I started on this journal a few weeks back

and decided to use the pages for snippets from the

lyrics of my favorite songs...

.... and then to do freehand writing on these pages!

It takes a bit more planning, but I wanted to do it.

So at the moment the plan is to continue with 

this technique for this specific journal.

Mainly because I love working with

the Distress inks and stencils.

(but the plan may change...)

As you can see, the binding of the book will

come much later. The back of  all of these pages are still blank

and I will have to work carefully when I colour them.

On this page I used a chipboard element that I coloured

with my Gelatos and water pen.

I did some stamping with a grey ink and

then I did some stenciling using my Distress inks.

For the lettering on the bottom, I used a bit of Distress stain to 

 colour the texture paste, to match the rest of the page.

  

There are three journals in progress at the moment.

This one is called Music in my Journal.

Then there is an art workbook for colours and techniques

and then a new journal filled with quotes on a specific topic.

The next art journal class will be all about 

acrylic paints.

Remember there are no rules, have fun and create!

Fabric covered tin

Last week Thursday we had our once a month Social Creativity

get together and we covered a metal tin with fabric.

The fabric is from Liefielove.

The most beautiful fabric and embellishments to work with.

Some of the girls brought their own fabric, ribbon and lace to add to 

the mixture and spice things up.

Although I forgot to photograph the sides and the insides of the lids,

they were also decorated beautifully.

This is the tin that I made as a sample for the class.

I also decorated the inside of the lid, 

because you need to use your embellishments!

As a last thought, add a flower or some Bling!

The tutorial on how to decorate this tin will be in the next

Issue of the Creative Hobbies Magazine.