COLORING, BLENDING AND ALCOHOL MARKERS ARE COMING TO SU!

HEY BLOGGIES,

While at Leadership last week, several announcements were made and I would like to share one of those with you today.

WE ARE GETTING ALCOHOL MARKERS FOR SHADING AND COLORING IMAGES!!!  YES, YOU READ IT RIGHT - ALCOHOL MARKERS FOR SHADING AND COLORING!!

We will ALSO be selling MEMENTO BLACK INK to stamp with because it WILL NOT SMEAR when using alcohol markers.  They will be called:

• Blendabilities.  I love coloring stamped images with either markers or aqua painters and stamp pads, but we will soon have another option for coloring.  BLENDABILITIES.  They will come in 3 shade of one color - light, medium and dark.  (Think of Copics 00, 02 and 04)  There will be 12 colors introduced in the first go round, along with a color remover in case we have a BOO BOO and need to remove some color.  The pack of 3 markers of the one color (say Smoky Slate) will be $11.95.  The Smoky Slate pack is a MUST because you use these first for shading and then other colors over them and it is AWESOME.  See my mixed media OWL Art piece  from a few days ago and you will understand what I am talking about.

Can't wait for the release of these new Blendabilities.  It will be this quarter and as soon as I hear the exact date I will let you know.

COMPLETED MIXED MEDIA OWL

HELLO BLOGGIES - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

My friend, Tammy, and I completed our Mixed Media  owl pieces today.  I wanted to share with you the final photos.

 The base of the owl art piece is a 4 x 4 drink coaster, covered with scrapbook papers.  The owl is drawn on chipboard with fine tipped marker, shaded with markers and the have added embellishments.

So we both drew our own owls and you can see they came out very different.  The scarf and the vest on the owls are similar but still different so we did them ourselves.  Tammy added a cute treat with signs on it, while I added a hanging word sign below the piece.

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Stay tuned for more crafting, quilting and paper playing.

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Look what I made.

MOSTLY NON STAMPIN' UP! MIXED MEDIA ART PIECE

HEY BLOGGIES,

I thought I would share with you some of the NON-Stampin' Up! hobbies I also have.  Besides my quilting, which you can see the quilts I made last year by clicking the QUILTS tab at the top of this blog, I also like many other crafting mediums.

I used to do wood pieces and sold them every year at the craft fairs.  I made checkerboards with fun pieces like frogs and turtles, I made wooden signs of all kinds, snowmen were my favorite and every one in my family have a snowman family with their names on them.  I even made fun mini nativity sets and sure wish I kept one for ME!!  Most of my things I was so tired of by the time I made so many that I just sold them until they were gone.  Unfortunately, with all the China imports, it is no longer cost effective to do my woodworking so I quit about 5 yrs ago.

However, I am into mixed media art and really enjoying trying new things.  My friend, Tammy, and I are working on some pieces to hang on the wall.  We are close to being finished with our OWL piece, but still have a few more things to add - some baubles and beads, twine, glitter, etc.  but I thought I would share with you so you could see some of the other things I enjoy doing:

This first photo is after we got the owl drawn, shaded, painted and cut out, then we added designer papers on the 4 x 4 coaster:

The drawing of the whimsey owl is done with fine point marker on Braithwaite paper.  It is double outlined everywhere so the lines show up well.  Then I used various shades of gray to shade the whole picture of owl and scarf, etc.  Then used markers to color him in, and sharpies too.

Then used paper snips (YIPPEE TO STAMPIN' UP! FOR THOSE!!) to cut out the owl and set him aside.  I used a pressed paper drink coaster that is 4 x 4 inches.  I covered it with three different papers in the woodlands theme.  I even found that TREES word on one of the papers and knew I had to use it here.  The eyebrows are separately cut out and glued onto the owl for dimension.  The rest of the dimension is from shading and highlighting.  That was the FUN part to do.

Here he is now with the fringe on his scarf.  Isn't he just a dandy looking guy ready for some winter fun??!!

He is attached with SU's STAMPIN DIMENSIONALS and I used GLUE DOTS for the snowflake button and TOMBOW GLUE for the yarn fringe.

Hope you enjoyed seeing my cute little OWL.  Stop back again and I will show him all finished with his hanger and his hanging beads, etc. that completed the piece.

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