Deb's Thingy Holder

Hey, everyone. Here is a pic of what some of us gals did at Deb's house last week. Such fun! 

Deb had laid out a book at each of our chairs. They were old Golden Book Encyclopedias, all filled with lovely, colorful drawings. My book must have been all about foreign countries.

I hope you can tell that mine leans a little bit, and the tops of the rolled pages are not even. But that is how I wanted it. Well, maybe not the leaning part!

Instead of putting things inside this little treasure, I decided to put some of my prized artist's brushes inside the tubes that were made by rolling up the pages of the encyclopedia and then glued to the outside of a tin can.

I will undoubtedly put something inside the can as well, just have not figured out yet what that will be.

Thanks, Deb, for making this Playdate a reality, for making it fun, and for letting us express ourselves freely.

Remember girls: There is no comparing ourselves to others.

"Love" with 23K gold leaf

Hey, everyone,
Here is a link to a YouTube video by Dr. Joe Vitolo using 23K gold leaf over the word "Love," The way he uses gold makes it look REALLY EASY!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG0dvt9LeoQ&feature=em-share_video_user

What's Up?

Hey! What have y'all been up to, creatively, lately? I want to know! I want to see!

Some Inspiration

Hey, everybody. This was fun to do, and it was easy. I am sure all of you have some stamps lying around and some pitt brush pens and some watercolors. That's all you need. Well, you also need to make a tree template first. I used a sheet of clear plastic. Once I drew out the template on a piece of scrap/computer paper, I laid the clear plastic over it and cut out the template using an exacto knife. Make sure you have a pad under all this! Next came the stamping. I put the template on top of a piece of watercolor paper and stamped on the top of that so that only the marks would be inside the tree (except for the one that actually goes outside the tree). Once the marks were dry, I came in with my watercolors for the tree and trunk. Pitt brushes were used for coloring in the stamped areas. Be sure to scan in your design once you are done. Or take a good picture. It is now ready to be your colored-in template to add whatever lettering you want on it, over and over. You won't have to do the whole tree over again. Just print it out on heavy stock or whatever you want to letter on. I took this scan into my software and added text that way. It will be our Christmas card.

Hey, everyone. Do y'all want to get together and just hang out around one of our tables and think about Thanksgiving/Christmas works of art to be made into cards or something?

Here are my notes from today's TCG meeting.

Copic Markers

Have any of you ever tried using Copic Markers? I am just now trying them out. I had no idea that one end of them was a brush! So that is why I just never thought to use them. But I am doing a project right now that I thought those markers might be better than something else. Any helpful hints or tips?