My Living Art Journal

I’ve mentioned that I’ve been taking a lot of artsy online classes but I haven’t been sharing much of the art that I’ve been creating.  Today, I’m going to share a project I made for Christy Tomlinson’s Living Canvas class.

I am loving this class.  Remember the She Art class that I took last year (my artwork here).  Once again, I’ve made other pieces for this class that I haven’t shared!  I have learned so much from Christy about collage art that when I heard about this class I jumped in with both feet.

I truly believe that ART HEALS and this is what the Living Canvas class is all about.  Christy has teamed up with Art McCracken.  I’m not sure what is official title is but he’s a kind of life/business coach.  Each week, Art shares an exercise dealing with specific things in your life.  I’ve only worked on the first week, but Christy shared some art journaling (3 different pages) using at least one technique that she has never shared in one of her other classes.  The first exercise was to create your art journal cover.  This is mine.

I have made a couple of small changes since this picture.  I’ll share it again with you when I share my first page.  It’s currently in a drying stage with more stages to go.  I’ll be sharing it sometime this week.

The journal is a Visual Art Journal from Strathmore.  I love these because the have nice thick paper and are spiral bound so I don’t have to worry to much about adding bulk.  I used a lot of stuff laying around my room.  I used Studio Calico dp (from the Scarlet Lime mixed media kit) for the background.  The Embracing Change image is a card from GCD by Melody Ross.  The tassel and the loop fringe is from my friend Nancy from Linens and Laurels.  She has some beautiful trims on her site.  The flowers are Prima and most of the rubons are from Chatterbox, Melody Ross’ previous company.  Everything else is just from my stash, including the vintage bingo number!

Also, I didn’t mention on my McMahon Five Designs post last week that we are taking somewhat of a break this summer.  We will only be having two releases each month—the Breast Cancer Awareness image on the 26th of each month and a new image release the last Friday of the month.  That’s to give the design team and the illustrators a bit of a break for the summer.  The store will still be open and orders will be processed but we will not be releasing as many images.

Thanks for stopping by.  I’ll be tending my mom’s doggy this week.  Let’s hope that I don’t have fur flying around here!!!  Chloe and Cutie (mom’s pup) see each other twice a week when mom and I get together for art days so I don’t think there will be a problem.  Chloe will just probably eat all the food so Cutie starves to death!

Now, back to my art journal I go!

Blessings,

Christine

Shiny Squiggleflies and Turtles

I finally remembered to post my Squigglefly challenge card before I go to bed.  Yay!!!  Aren’t you proud of me?  The challenge this week is to include shiny embellishments on your card.  I just love this cute Groovy Gus.  I’m such a hippy at heart so these things always speak to me.    Don’t ya’ just love that peace sign sun?  The shiny sequin flowers were a rak from my good friend Nancy. 

The other ladies have made some great cards for you to all to see so hop on over to the Squigglefly Challenge blog and have a look.  All you need to do is use a Squigglefly image (there are several freebies in the store) and use a shiny embellishment!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-watercolor; Image-Squigglefly; Paper-S.E.I.; Punch-Fiskars; Flowers-Linens and Laurels.

Linens and Laurels Giveaway

I’m sure you remember me telling you about my friend, Nancy at La Chambre Rose. She’s the one who sent me a package of beautiful trims from her shop, Linens and Laurels, to use in my cardmaking and other crafts. You can get some of her beautiful trims (like the rose trim above) for yourself with the $25 gift certificate that she is giving away. Yes, you heard that right. She is giving away a $25 gift certificate so you can get lots of beautiful trims to use on your own creations!!! She has some beautiful new Christmas items in stock as well.

Just head to her blog and leave a comment on her 11-14 Pink Saturday post!!!

Blessings,

Christine