Day 28- #90daysofblogging

Today I am using Deco Art's Media Line Matte Medium to add some printed napkin to my notebook insert for my a Dori bles.. 

first I scrunched up the napkin I used for my cover and pushed it to the side.

Then I took off the lid of my DecoArt Media Matte Medium.  Why mate medium you may ask?  Well I think I want to leave the option of adding additional paints to the surface and to me, the matte medium is better than decoupage for this purpose.  

Then I took my dry brush and slathered matte medium on the surface.  I do not need it to be a thin coat because my tissue papers have been squished  and scrunched.  The thickness of the matte medium will allow for gripping and greater under coverage.

Here I place the napkin on the cover, trying not to get all the wrinkles out.  

I want a textured cover.  This technique will allow so.

Then I place another layer of matte medium over the napkin.  This second layer will allow for allow a base for other mediums.  Not sure if I will add more.  this here is busy enough for me.. ::chuckles:: 

Added the  Deco Art Andy Skinner Stencil with Media line glack gesso..  Not my favorite look..  Added some bubble gum pink dylusions paint along the edges..  So that's two books in my A Dori Bles.. I need one to write in and use for a calender...  and some pockets for collage and napkin art.. and and and.. :)  It's beautiful.. soon to be full of lovely arty pages!!

Don't forget to check out my friends here.. and see what they are doing.. :)

Sharon Estes 

Yvonne Armitage Gebauer 

Sandee Setliff

Sandy Beach
Donna Lueders

Sin City Stamps.. DT Teaser

Happy Friday folks, it's Tamiko here!  Everyone has been doing fairy related pieces and to tell the truth I have been a little jealous.  I have found a way to make up for it though!  Who doesn't like a good fairy tale?  I know I do to this day!  Having a almost 10 year old doesn't automatically give me the get out of fairy tale free card either, but you k now what, I'm cool with that.  Just a teaser from my journal page tutorial.  YOU can find the FINISHED PAGE HERE !! 

 

My supply list for this project includes:

Sin City Stamps- Clockworks Inspired by Terri Sproul 

 Sin City Stamps- Pattern 2 Stencil by Terri Sproul

Sin City Stamps- Plate of Rubber- Bingo

Dylusions Creative Journal

Liquitex Clear Gesso

Faber Castell Gelatos (various colors)

Deco Art Media Line Acrylics (various colors)

Faber Castell Glass Bead Glitter

Faber Castell Big Brush Pitt Pens 

Paint brushes

Baby wipes

Helmar Super-Tac Glue

White Unibal Signo UM 153 Broad Gel Pen

Faber Castell Pitt Pen (medium) Black

Stazon Ink Pads (various colors)

Darice Heat gun

Ranger Embossing powder in Black Soot

Versamark Watermark Stamp pad

I LOVE HELMAR GLUE.. NOTHING ELSE DOES IT FOR ME!!  Whew, I SAID IT!! 

  Added some good old Helmars Super-Tac for a QUICK hold to my page. (yep iI think that's called CROSS PROMOTING!!)  Thanks Sandee! lol

 

Every MIRACLE takes a little time- is the popular quote from Cinderella that I included on the stairway of my piece today to remind not just YOU, but also myself.  Cool thing to ponder!  I hope you are able to be on the receiving end of a few miracles, heck, even better, why not make a few come true for other folks.. :)  Have a MAGICAL weekend and don't forget to visit SIN CITY STAMPS for all your stamping desires and GREAT POST, (like MINE lol) from our wonderful DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS. :)

Thanks for stopping by!!!  Have a grand weekend!!!!

Sin City Stamps.. DT Post.. :)

Happy Friday.  Posting a great card I would love for you to check out on the Sin City Stamps blog.  

It can be used as a non traditional save the date card! I did this one for my brother and his fiance and their up and coming wedding on June 14th, 2015.  I have the Clockworks Inspired by Terri Sproul Rubber Plate and I was convinced that my first post using this stamp set WOULD NOT be a CLOCK as it is perfectly geared for, ::chuckles at pun:: 

Here are a list of the supplies used to create the card front. Finished project can be found by CLICKING HERE! 

• Sin City Stamps- Clockworks Inspired by Terri Sproul & Pattern 2 Stencil by Terri Sproul
• Liquitex Matte Medium
• Deco Art- Media Line Titanium White Fluid Acrylic and White Gesso
• Deco Art- Americana Multi-Surface Satin- Canary, Flamingo, Iris, Deep Turquoise
• Strathsmore 400 Series Mixed Media Paper (not seen)
• Stazon Ink Pad-  Gothic Purple
• Beacon 3 in  1 Adhesive
• Stabilo ALL pencil in black
• Misc. - brayer, paint brush, (Tim Holtz Tissue paper bits from my stash not seen)

Hope you come over to see my creative process by CLICKING HERE.. Leave a comment and let me know you came by!!  Your comments and time is ALWAYS APPRECIATED and NOTICED!!  Thank YOU!!

DecoArt Media Line Acrylics

This picture I began by writing a letter to myself..  A letting go.. of yet another person.  I dislike when it happens, but when you don't consider other people and how you can affect them. Eventually you will get tired.. and care less.. then slowly walk away.  

On the artsy part..   I told myself I would no longer use actual brown in my pictures anymore.  So whenever you see it, with me.. 9 times out 10.. it's a conscious combination of colors.  I used my media line fluid acrylics and after gessoing over my letter.. they were applied.  I used the tinting base to add and give variations of the colors.. mainly a magenta, a blue and a green.  To create this brown.. I did an orange and a drop of the ultramarine blue.. I did this skin tone 3-4 times.. it was too light.. then too dark.. then too streaky.. I just hoped i would ruin the image I had in my head.

I put it down.. and come back.. and I finally had something I was pleased with.  Deco Art's Media Line acrylics are fluid.  They are highly pigmented.. not sure if I can emphasize that enough.  When adding the tinting base.. I am able to not only stretch the life of my acrylics by allowing a little more drying time.. I am also able to play with the lighter hues of the color.  Anywho.. this is the picture I created...

Deco Art Media Line Acrylics and Mediums, #100faces

A friend mentioned to me the idea of #100faces.. It seems like a lot, but it isn't really!  If I work up the courage to share all the faces I create, I am sure I would exceed it!  Faces are something I practice, pretty much weekly.  I do not like to draw the more realistic versions.  I prefer cartoonish type figures, unless I am sketching.  When I sketch you are bound to see it all.  From bold deep dark lines.. to scribbles, cross hatching and side pencil shadings.

Today I am sharing a picture I created over the weekend. I started out with wet watercolor paper and some watercolor crayons by Stamp It Up. I sprayed the paper with water and just scribbled color on it.  Simple as it sounds.  Then I took my Deco Arts Media Line Acrylics and loosely scribbled features on the page.. I am using the term scribble more because of Dina Wakley.  In her radiance faces lesson and in her book Art Journal Freedom she refers to some of her drawings as Scribbles.  I can get with a scribble..  (smiles)  I love loosely creating images. Imperfectly creating images.  Setting the viewer up for what I call..The eye dance.  Giving the viewer a reason to question, if the artist meant to do this.. or wonder if there is a bit of an illusion and perhaps a image was somehow formed that is more than visable as a face.

For me.. I liked the idea of the loose scribble and I used it.  To me pictures like this are freeing.  No expectations.. No need for perfection.  No real accountability of size or shape.  Anywho.. let me post my picture..