Show & tell night at ArtFest

This was my favorite! I am not sure who did it but it was absolutely wonderful. Another one from Anahata's Wallpaper People class.

This is from the Wallpaper People class instructed by Anahata. These are around 5 feet tall. Can you image doing all this in one day? They were all quite beautiful.

Check out this one! This was done in a shadow box class (I believe) by a 15 year old girl that attended ArtFest with her mother. How's this for talent?? This young lady was as nice as she is talented. I am not sure who instructed this class.

Another wonderful doll at show & tell night.

Show & tell night. Doll made in Linda & Opie O'Brien's class, Who's your Dada. Not sure who the artist was.

Memories Mist on Stampboard

I've been out of touch for a few days being down with a nasty cold! Finally feeling better today so I am back into the artwork. I saw a site referenced on Elaine Barr's blog http://elainebarrdesigns.blogspot.com/ for some wonderful rubber stamps & stampboard at http://www.stampscapes.com/home.html). I ordered this butterfly stamp from them which I absolutely love. Not only are their stamps wonderful, the service is absolutely top notch! I had my order in 2 days! I was impressed. This stampboard I did has memories mist for the background (various colors) & I stamped the butterfly with black Stazon ink. I did just a little coloring with some colored pencils & then placed glitter around the perimeter of the butterfly.
My first experiment with this. It was such fun, I ordered some more stamps & stampboard last night. I can't wait to play some more with this.

Monday, April 21, 2008

I've been tagged by http://elainebarrdesigns.blogspot.com/ , this is how it goes:
1. Once you are tagged, link back to the person who tagged you.

2. Post THE RULES on your blog.

3. Post 7 weird or random facts about yourself on your blog.

4. Tag 7 people and link to them.

5. Comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged.


Here are seven random facts about me:

1. I love music.

2. I hate hominy

3. I have a collection of 600 sets of salt & pepper shakers.

4. I love flea markets.

5. I own 45 pairs of shoes.

6. I have never broken a bone.

7. I love to laugh!!! HA HA

Seven bloggers to tag:

1. Minnie Helvey: http://herminnie.blogspot.com/

2. Ashley Helvey: http://ashleyrosehelvey.blogspot.com/

3. Tyn Atol: pookieville.typepad.com/

4. Kecia: lemoncholys.blogspot.com/

5. Dawn: http://www.dawnsellers.typepad.com/

6. Heather: http://paperfollies.typepad.com/

7. Stephanie: http://earthmothr.typepad.com/wabi_sabi/

More transfer using acrylic paint

This is a transfer on 8x10 canvas using Lumiere acrylic paint. These are dear family friends. This wedding picture is 60+ years old. Quite the handsome couple! I am going to surprise them with this photo.

This is a transfer done using the Lumiere acrylic paint & transferred directly to canvas. It is a laser print from a vintage postcard.

Yikes...More transfers

This image transfer is the one I am most happy with. I transferred her directly to canvas using Lumiere gold acrylic paint. Once the image was transferred I added the rest. I have always prepared my background first but I've ruined so many backgrounds with bad image transfers that I believe this is the better way to do it.

This photo was transferred to stone using the Lumiere acrylic gold paint. A little bit of the image came off around her arm & her face peeled in half when I rubbed off the paper. I had to cut out another head from the same image & did the head alone a 2nd time. I'm pretty happy with her, too.

This is transferred directly to canvas using Lumiere gold acrylic paint. She has the crackle going on.

Now that I'm home from ArtFest I have returned to my image transfer obsession! This is one that I transferred directly to the canvas using Lumiere acrylic gold paint . I was pretty darn happy with this one!

More ArtFest trades & class projects

This is the morpheus box Gail made in Michael DeMeng's class. The center turns so there's 4 sides to it. Very very nice!

This is the beautiful butterfly my sister, Gail mosaiced in Katherine England's class, Break Your Art. It is so gorgeous & look at those edges! Fabulous job! Gail was so lucky to have classes with Katherine & Michael DeMeng. She said they were both wonderful instructors.

This is another one done by Kathy. I believe it was in her Misty Mawn class, Adaptations. What a great job!

This is another picture that Kathy completed in her Family Paintover class. This is her mother & father. We were all so impressed with Kathy's natural talent. She did a fabulous job on everything she made at ArtFest & it was her first time there.

Another ArtFest trade . This one came from Brenda Kessler. We had so much fun the first night sitting in the floor going through our bags of trades. It was like Christmas!

I had to post a few trades from ArtFest. I absolutely love these three. From what I can read on the reverse side it looks like Anna Schwindt did the one on the left, Dorte Bistrup did the one in the middle & Cristy Hersley did the wonderful one on the right. I just love the flowers in her little hand!

Our last day at Artfest...Boo Hoo!! What a great time we all had. We all took different classes so our knowledge could be shared with our dorm mates. The entire event was wonderful. I will post more pics in a few days.

This is my Symbolic Icon picture. Minnie took this class with Anahata on Friday & we stayed up until 1:00 A.M while she went over all the techniques with the rest of the group. The following pictures are the result of her night time class with us. We all so enjoyed learning this & we love Minnie for always sharing with us!

Gail's Symbolic Icon picture.

Yvonne's Symbolic Icon picture.

This is Kathy's Anahata inspired photo. This was under Minnie's instructions from her Symbolic Icons class.

This was a picture done by Minnie in her Symbolic Icons class instructed by Anahata Katkin. (anahataart.com)

This is a great picture that Kathy made in her Family Paintover class instructed by Lisa Bebi (lisabebiart.com)

This is the copper bracelet I made in my Flat to Stacked class with Linda & Opie O'Brien. They were wonderful instructors. (burntofferings.com)

ArtFest Trades

Faux dichroic glass for ArtFest trades. I made about 100 of these.

More faux dichroic glass.

Artfest is finally about to happen. I've actually been making trades for months! It's been like living & breathing ArtFest for last six months and let me tell you...it's been WONDERFUL! I am so excited to attend but not happy to hear it's snowing in Seattle! Oh well, a little snow won't stop us. I have three wonderful days of classes starting with The Ultimate Art Journal with Tom & Romona Ashman, day 2 is with Linda & Opie O'Brien for Flat to Stacked (a bracelet) & last but not least Patricia Seggebruch with Alcohol Acrylic Magic.

How's that for a line-up? I've made around 225 trades to exchange with other ArtFesters. I have faux dichroic glass, bookmarks and brass & copper etchings. The event is held in Pt Townsend Wa. I am leaving early Monday morning to join my sister in Everett, Wa. We also have a friend coming from Connecticut as well as 2 others from So. Ca. I will be posting photos when I return.

Last minute ArtFest trades. All etched copper.

Image Transfers using Liquid Sculpey

A 3x5 Kinkos laser copy using Liquid Sculpey. Picture baked for 30 minutes at 275 degrees. What a lovely young lady! I love image transfers!!!

These were done using sculpey also & baked for 30 minutes. Kinkos laser copy used.

While Minnie's was here this weekend we also dabbled in some image transfers. This one was a laser print from Kinkos using sculpey on the front & baking for 30 minutes at 275 degrees. I was quite happy with her.

Minnie paid me a visit this weekend & brought a sample of some of her ArtFest trades with her. Just look at the etching on that key!!! She did a wonderful job on these.

One of Minnie's trades for ArtFest.

Dexter, the beautiful Bengal boy

This is my dear sweet Dexter. He is almost 18 months old. My brother breeds Bengals in Everett, Wa. which is how I came to own Dexter. He took an Alaska Air flight to California when he was 3 months old. He was really a handful in the beginning, unlike ANY cat I've ever had. He is an absolute joy!

I had to include this one. Yes, this is really his mouth & the picture has not been altered. He has the largest mouth of any cat I have ever owned. With all that mouth you would think he'd be giving out kisses but believe me, he isn't! Everything is on Dexter's terms.

I am feeling just a little bit tired right now. Posing for all these pictures is exhausting!

Rubber stamped after Memories Mist application. Elaine Barr tells me there's actually 24 variations of this stuff plus 3 metallics.

Another Memories Mist evening.

Messin with Memories Mist

I learned about Memory Mist in my amstamps (amstamps.com) Yahoo group. Finally after hearing so much about them I viewed Elaine Barr's You Tube video & I was HOOKED! It is like a pigment ink spray that leaves a watercolor type affect. It is made by Superior (stewartsuperior.com) & it's pretty new. I purchased mine on Ebay but Superior has some places listed on their website where it can be purchased. I used 4 colors for all of mine but there's apparently 12 colors available. I've done some pictures with just the backgrounds & then some I rubber stamped & laminated. These are done on a glossy type bookmarks. You can use on a matte type paper but it just has a different look. The colors I used on these were, Orange Juice, Blueberry Shake, Margarita & Mango Lemonade.

Kind of like a 60's memory!

I just love the way the colors mix together.

More backgrounds.

Some glossy cards done with 2 different crocheted doilies.

San Francisco Trip

What a weekend! Left Thursday for San Francisco. I met my sister, Gail & we stayed with my niece, Alexis. We also met our good friend Minnie & her daughter, Ashley there. We hit Flax on Friday & saw Beach Blanket Babylon Friday night. Saturday we hit Scrap in San Francisco. OMG....that was an experience too. From there we hit the Annie Leibovitz exhibit at one of the local museums. It was just fabulous, the entire weekend. L-R Ashley, Alexis, Minnie & Gail

My first trip to Flax on Market St. in San Francisco. Love it, love it, love it!!!! Over 7000 varieties of paper! Very exciting!

I thought this record store was so cute! It is located across the street from Flax in San Francisco.