A Wonderful Art Experience

Call me crazy, but last weekend my friend Sue and I drove 4 hours one way to Cape Code to take a 2 hr. class with Cheryl Mezzetti an accomplished designer and artist who works in the paper arts industry. Once there, and the class had started I had no regrets about getting up at 4 am and starting this journey into her altered world.

    

 

Cheryl started us out with a kit that consisted of 7gypsies chipboard covers, chipboard, canvas mat boards, canvas material and showed us how to turn it into a work of art. She took us through a journey with all the latest and greatest mixed media products to hit the market.

Cheryl motivated and educated us with knowledge about ways of using Luminarte H20's, Radiant Rain Sprayers and the new Primary Elements and Silks. She eagerly shared her knowledge and enthusiasm of Luminarte and Viva Colours with a glimpse into her wonderful altered world.

Thank you Cheryl for teaching such an inspiring class.

The rest of the weekend was spent with Sue and her sister and brother in law (Brenda and Tony).

Tony played tour guide for me and gave Sue and I a wonderful tour of the East Harwich.

 

Thank you to Brenda and Tony for     welcoming me into their beautiful home on the cape.

 

 

Character Construct Swap-Glamour Girl

Time for the next Character Construct Swap

Theme for this swap was Glamour Girls

 

“Patchwork Pandemonium”

                           

I recently took a class at Captured Moments in Rotterdam, NY  my favorite scrapbooking store, where I created  a variation Tim Holtz’s  “Patchwork Pandemonium”.

In a 4 hour period of time I created a framed 8×10 art piece made of  patch worked pieces of grunge board compilation, and adorned them with Ideology trinkets and Tim Holtz’s collection of stamps from Stampers Anonymous.  The grunge board pieces were altered with texture fades, distress stains, inks, paints, tapes, all which resulted in a one of kind piece.  Many thanks to our instructor Annette for making this class possible.

Chads Valentines

So here it is February 11th already, and some of you know what that means...lol.  For the past six years (K-5) I have been making a special little boys Valentines for his classmates.  Chad and I come up with the theme for the Valentines and once that's done I go to work on them.  This year he wanted Creeper from the  Mine Craft Computer Game and wasn't sure what he wanted for the girls, he left that up to me.  So this is what I came up with for both.

 

The center 12 x 12 framed card is the original design. It is Chads Valentine from me.

 

For the boys it's  the Creeper Character roaming the world wishing everyone

 a Happy Valentines Day.

 

And for the girls I used a Digi Image from Saturated Canary and colored her with

my Copic Markers and added a bottle cap necklace to them. 

 

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This was the first project I have actually done with the Copics and love working with them.

Because of this project I have decided to take the  two day Standard and Intermediate Certification classes in Boston, Mass in March...I am so excited to be going.

 

Here's the results of my 1st coloring project

 

I know there's so much to learn about coloring and shading.  I actually sort of cheated

doing this project I only colored the 4 girls shown here, I then photo copied them

so I had what I needed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Character Construct Swap

I have been asked several times to post the art I received back from the Character Construct swaps

 I have participated in.  The3 swaps I have done so far were for tags,

I love the art work from this group of ladies.

2013 Holiday Tags

2012 Fall Tags                  (Can you guess which one is my Favorite Fall Tag.......lol.)

Coco's Christmas Wish

  I thought I would share a cute story with everyone.     Pictured to the right is my beautiful great niece Kaila and her puppy (baby) Coco.  My sister Joanna, and my niece Melissa (Kaila's mom) put Kaila up to helping Coco write a letter to Santa Clause telling him what she (Coco) wanted for Christmas. Keep in mind this was done as joke. Kaila showed me the letter Coco had her write because as we all know dogs can't write, but I guess they can talk...lol...all knowing that once I saw this letter I would get Coco something from her list.  Well Coco asked Santa for clothes, boots, and a coat. OK no problem Aunt Doe can do.  But then on her list is what she really wants A PINK PALACE DOG HOUSE and she knows it's expensive but this is really all she wants and she really doesn't need anything else if he brings her this.  Coco also goes on to say that her mommy has been saving for the house so if she got money for Christmas she would give it to mommy for her house. Coco being a very polite puppy thanked Santa for anything he brings her and wished him a Very Merry Christmas and told him she would leave cookies and milk out for him, and signed it with her paw print.

                           Pink Palace Dog House








Coco writing her letter to Santa

Well Aunt Doe (me) knowing that Kaila doesn't really ask for much (and not knowing this was done as a joke) and would go with out any Christmas presents for herself to get Coco this house does some searching on the Internet to find this house.  Success I found it on ebay for less than half of what the local pet store wanted for it and it was free shipping.  So Coco got her PINK PALACE DOG HOUSE.  To the right is Coco on her present waiting for help to open it.   I have to say honestly to see Kaila smile was worth any amout of money, because it was a suprise to her. 

Character Construct Swap

I am sure I have said this before but I love working with Character Construct Stamps. 
This is my third tag swap and this time  it was the Valententine Swap.