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A Pink Cake Card

A pink birthday cake card that I made a while back.

Go on over to Beverly's blog to enjoy more of pink. 

A Jane Davies Class Collage

 

This is one of the collages that I made in Jane Davies' class. We made five collages each but I think this one is my favorite. Jane had brought an amazing array of papers, materials and supplies. And each and every piece of art created in this class was unique, absolutely no two pieces were similar. It was fantastic!

Buzz of the Week: Claudine Hellmuth Acrylic Paints

Stunning, luscious acrylic colors from the Claudine Hellmuth Ranger line have been on my mind this week. They have an interesting catch line - "51 colors from 15 colors". Very, very fun! The colors are bright and look fantastic. Also in the same line, Ranger sells sticky back canvases. I haven't tried these canvas but I can think of several ways of putting these to use. Image is from the Claudine Hellmuth website.

Buzz of the Week: Sketch Saturday

Today's Buzz of the Week is a blog called Sketch Saturday. It is another fun place to visit for inspiration/ideas. They publish templates every week and you can make a card with their template and then share it with them. If you are running low on ideas, need some inspiration or you just want to see some beautiful cards - take a stroll through Sketch Saturday. The template image above is from their site. Do you have any places or things that inspire you that you would like to share?

Silk Scarf

More Happy Mail !!! This was a silk scarf I painted for the lovely Susannah of Ink on my fingers. Susannah is fantastic photographer, blogger and the teacher of "Unravelling". She is the kindest and nicest and I couldn't resist sending her something fun. But there was a bit of a twist to this story. I put it in registered mail just to ensure that it got there. And guess what? It vanished. Two weeks and I hadn't heard about it. So I asked Susannah (and ruined the surprise in doing so) and it hadn't made it to her. I was heartbroken and then I sent over pictures to her (ruining the surprise even more!) and guess what? It reached!!!! Two days after !!! So I am so glad that it made it to her even though it wasn't a surprise anymore. 

Buzz of the Week: Grunge Paper

This is what Grunge paper looks like. Now I know it looks like something meant for building construction. But do you want to see what you can do with it? Take a look below.

This was a collage that I made in a class with Tim Holtz. This class was appropriately called the "Patchwork Pandemonium". It is entirely made out of grunge paper. We did all kinds of things to it, distressed it, stamped it, some of it was dry embossed and then painted with acrylics and then distressed. And this is just one of the things that can be done with grunge paper. You can make flowers like roses, grunge paper will hold shape!

And grunge board, which is thicker than grunge paper, is much easier to work with than chipboard. There are loads of ways to use grunge paper. Take a look at the patchwork collage closeups below.

Magenta Pendants

These are the mostly magenta pendants that I made for Karen P. I think these colors worked well together. Simple and colorful.

Buzz of the Week: K and Company paper

 

Gorgeous, gorgeous paper from K and Company. I have plans to use these in my collages and maybe cards too.

A Pink Card

This was a wallet shaped card that I made for Karen P. Karen is a fantastic artist, a great teacher and a really good mentor. She and Ursula run a creative bootcamp. I made a little something else for Karen too, which I'll share in the coming week. But here's another little secret. Karen runs a business where she designs and sells gorgeous favors, here's the site: afavorsafavor.com.

And don't forget to go to the lovely Beverly's How Sweet the Sound blog to enjoy more of pink!

Buzz of the Week: Martha Stewart Glitter

This week's buzz of the week is glitter. How can a girl resist sparkle and glitter <insert a big smile here>? And if you really like glitter you can get several different colors of glitter in a pack from the Martha Stewart craft line. These bottles are like shakers, where you can pop off the top and sprinkle the glitter just like salt and pepper. So much easier to use! I have actually seen several crafters use salt and pepper shakers to fill up glitter. I think that is a brilliant idea. But it is really convenient that the Martha Stewart glitter comes in these shaker bottles. And there are so many beautiful colors. Happy glittering!!