Crepe Paper Roses

Too beautiful for words!

I think no one could believe what they saw once

 they completed their roses.

We had a wonderful bunch of people on Saturday

for the two workshops. Everyone chose their own colour and 

then the cutting started. 

After a while we started

curling and cupping.... 

ok, important words when you are making flowers.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the workshops,

we had a wonderful day.

Preparing for the market.

It is the end of the year and the crafters I know

are working very hard to prepare for the markets at 

which they sell their products.

I have been painting these tiny creations

and the joy and anticipation of how the paint will dry 

is exhilarating.

The free motion sewing is something I have always 

wanted to do and I hope these are just the first few steps.

Do I keep the thread or do I cut it off?

You are welcome to leave a comment and help me decide.

Giant Rose Workshop

Come and join us for this workshop

Saturday 14 November 2015

Moreletapark

Pretoria

The Grey Ladder Studio

09:30 - 12:30

&

 13:00 - 16:00

R 350.00 pp class kit and refreshments included

email: info@lunaartistry.co.za

to book your space.

In a very happy place.

Using my Distress ink, Distress markers and Distress stains, 

puts me in a happy place and on Saturday it worked for my friends too!

Everyone created two pages. One of which I gave them a sample

and the other one they had to create on their own.

 Lizette.

Ann.

 Lizl.

 Benice.

Daleen.

Not all of the pages are completed, but we all had fun 

and were in a happy place for three hours.

Materials we used:

Water colour paper

Gesso 

Palette knife

Distress ink

Distress stains

Distress markers

Craft sheet

Stamps 

Scissors

Archival ink

Water pen

Black permanent pen

White marker

Aquarelle pencils

Stencils

Make up sponges

Wet wipes

Kitchen paper roll

Take out your stuff and create!
It puts you in a happy place.

Have a happy day!

My niece came over last week for a visit.

She is nine 8½ months pregnant, in fact the baby is due tomorrow!

It is a little boy and we are all very excited!

She was feeling frustrated and hot so to take her mind off things 

we started to create a page.

We worked together as she has never done this technique.

This is my page.

We started off with Distress stains to create the blue background.

Then a bit of stenciling and

a bit of stamping.

We stained a separate piece of paper 

to use for stamping the words and images we wanted to use

as color accents. 

This is her page.

 We used the Distress markers and a water pen for extra

color on the page.

We ended off with a bit of doodling and scribbling

 with black and white pens.

I think they both came out blooming good!

This way Honey....

This is what today was like...

I wrote down what bothered me and then I 

covered the whole page with gesso.

As you can see, I am feeling a bit blue...

so I had to paint the page blue.

Direction is also a problem today, so 

 lots of arrows, some hand painted, some stenciled.

Then I wrote, 

Watter kant toe Bokkie!

Which way Honey!

Now all my "not for public consumption" thoughts

on this side of the page are covered up. 

This is what the other side of the page looks like.

 Now  I have to go and paint....

Keep well.

Gesso your pages

Hi Everyone

For Saturday's class you need to bring all your 

art journaling supplies and a few pages covered with gesso. 

This is more or less what you will be creating.

Spraying with inks to create a background. 

See you Saturday.