Category: Scrapbooking

 

 

I missed a lot in the past few weeks so I am still just catching up.  I am rounding up two more small groups of photos from CHA but in the mean time here is a layout that was part of an article over at Get It Scrapped.  We were going artistic and creating abstract faces to include on our layouts.  I am blown away by the creations and variety of the entire Creative Team.  You will want to check them all out HERE!

My Christmas Angels by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: card stock; American Crafts, watercolor paper; Strathmore, foil; Mona Lisa, oil pastels; Portfolio Series, sticker letters; American Crafts, My Minds Eye and Making Memories, tree; Making Memories, feathers; unknown

The faces that I created are on a layer of watercolor paper.  I marked where I wanted my photo to sit then worked with oil pastels to create the two faces hovering over the photo.  I tend to work very thickly with oil pastels, blending them on the page as if they were paints.  My daughters think they were intentionally done to look like the two of them and although there are similarities they are un-intentional.  I added gold foil where I knew it would create a frame for my photo and then added my photo and letters.  (If you would like to see more about working with gold foil take a peek HERE) The feathers were a complete accident, I found one floating through my office, I am sure it had escaped the girl’s craft closet and was lying quietly on the floor.  I decided way to perfect for my theme and found two more small feathers to go with the original and tucked them all in.

Well back to my writing, still on a mission to get caught up!

Happy Friday!  Stay warm!

I also got to take a class from Tim Holtz.   I laughed when I ended up in the very front row front and center.  I like his stuff but I am not a groupie and so here I was up close and personal.  It made me chuckle.  They have a few photos of that on their blog as well if you want to scroll through their post you will see me. We made 3 cards and used a ton of different materials to complete them.

I am not sure which one is my favorite.  The first is a gift card holder which is very fun.  The gift card tucks in and is pulled out on a tag attached to the big puffy bow.  The second uses Tim’s distress markers and you know me anything about coloring is right up my ally.  I also got to try and keep  one of the “new” marker misters.  It is by his own admit ion not a new concept it just has been re-designed and released by Ranger.  It is find of fun and will work with just about any marker since the tube that hold the marker can be adjusted in size and then has a screw that fastens down on the marker.  But it is truly just little puffs of air so gives little individual puffs of mist.  This is NOT to be mistaken as a replacement for an airbrush system!!  The third little card is fun I LOVE the chunky glitter that we added to the heart and the paper bow that is made from a new die cut.

On Saturday evening I took a class from Kuretake the manufacturer of Zig it was a very fun class introducing a new way to make simple post cards in a very old traditional Japanese method.  It is called Etegami;

The concept is quick and easy with ink and a form of water coloring.  It is very loose and you hold the brushes way at the back end which keeps control much looser as well.  You go very slow in the actual inking then the painting is done in a dabbing motion.  To finish we made our own rubber signature stamps.  Then the final step is mailing them.  They actually had stamps and envelopes and asked everyone to send them off that very night.  I finished 3 cards so Sara and Lori got my practice apples and this one will go to another friend 🙂  I was quite pleased with how they all turned out, and very impressed with how well the class was run.

I should have one or two more quick reports from the CHA to finish off.  If you are still soaking in the aftermath and would like a little more Get It Scrapped did a wonderful roundup of sites that posted post CHA HERE.

Happy Wednesday!

 

 

Friday at CHA was full of creating for me!  I took 3 classes all of which were VERY fun!

Here is the process or at least half of the process of my 2nd class of the day!  This was with Ranger’s Dyan Reaveley

We started by gessoing a trip tick of canvases – We added torn book pages and small amounts of gesso on them as well –

 

 

Then we added wonderful color all with our hands VERY FUN!  You can see how messy my hands got over at the Ranger blog  They got a close up of my hands in the mix 🙂

 

Next came spray mists strategically places both positives and negatives of a new stencil –

 

 

We added a band of bright color next with paint again this time using a paint scraper.

We added a layer of gesso through the stencil next and that is where I had to depart!  Off to airbrushing with the Copic crew.  I will finish this project later when I get my head above water on my current projects.

Thank you Ranger for a great class!

Happy Tuesday!