JOURNALS

I seem to be okay with making journals. LOTS of journals. I don't have a desire to paint yet or create 2D works of art, but I can get lost in making the journals. Besides, I have TONS of paper....painted papers, fabric papers, scrap papers, printed papers, wall paper and on and on and this is a great way to use that stuff up. My idea right now is to purge all the stuff I have and then see where I am. Either move on with new art or stop all together. I have no idea....so, for now.....journals!

 Covers made from fabric paper, art board, old book covers, whatever I have.

All kinds of interesting pages inside!!

THE ROCK

"A time to morn, A time to weep, A time to Dance" - Ecclesiastes

On March 11, 2013, my world came to a screeching halt when my precious daughter, Shari, passed unexpectedly from this world to be with Our Heavenly Father. She was 47 years old. The light of my life.

My son-in-law is disabled and lives 8 hours away and his family is in another country so we are having to take care of him. He's a delight and I don't mind.

My life has changed forever. Art? It's not in me at this time...I'm enjoying making journals but that is about it.

My husband called me one day while I was gone taking care of my son-in-law....he said "How long has this rock been here?" I assured him I had no idea what he was talking about, so he advised me that he had just seen it at the base of a huge Oak Tree we are around frequently. Above is the rock....no one has come forward to claim the deed....

I know who did it though......Shari's Angel.

Peace. And by the way....Yes, they spelled Mourn "Morn"

BROKEN

Going to be out for awhile. Mourning the loss of my precious daughter. I think I'll be back some day but can't feel it right now. Thank you all for your support.
Suzi

PAPER TOWEL AND TISSUE PAPER

I'm putting together a new workshop on making and using fabric paper so while I was cleaning up yesterday I had a sheet of paper towel and several scraps of tissue paper. Decided to put it together just like I would do fabric paper and this is the result.

I like :) I will probably be making more of this!

RECENT PAINTED PAPERS

IF you have seen my You Tube Video on Painting Papers you will see that I cover a 24"x18" (approx) board with paper and that is what I use to paint on and/or roll my brayer on, etc. Then when it fills up with paint, I add to it to make it interesting.

 These are some of the ones I have done lately.

 4 together above

This is the one I demonstrated on You Tube

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 The one above I did today. I masked the areas I wanted to leave with masking tape, then pulled the tape off and rescued it for paper tape!! (below)

It made me a big ole fat roll of paper tape!!

If interested in my method of making paper tape, I have a short little workshop on it. Just click here:

"MAKING PAPER TAPE"

I <3 PAPER TAPE!!

FABRIC PAPER JOURNAL

IN my workshops we make fabric paper. I love fabric paper, but had accumulated several pieces from demos, SO...decided the best thing to do is make a journal of fabric paper.

Love the way it turned out.

I LOVE A CHALLENGE!

One of my subscribers to my You Tube Channel watched my video on Gelli Printing and asked me what I thought it would do on fabric......well......that's all I needed :)

SO..........................

This is the fabric I choose. this is the way it comes straight off the shelf.

 Painted the Gelli Plate with some turquoise and yellow (this image is a little dark. Colors in next photo are true)

Scraped through the paint with a scraper I had. 

And.....Ta ta!!....the finished piece!! I LOVE IT!! going to be doing more of this! Thanks "symphonie gee". Good call!!

GELLI PRINT VIDEO ON YOU TUBE

CHECK IT OUT!! A little Video I made today on some of my experiments with Gelli Printing!

GELLI PRINTING AGAIN!!

I just can't get enough of this Gelli Printing!!

I discover something new each time I go after it and the thing is I never know what is going to happen. That's what I love! So here is a new batch. I made a video of these for You tube, but haven't finished producing it yet. If you are a subscriber then you will get notice when it comes out, if not then get on board and please subscribe to my You Tube Channel! I've always got something going. The link is on the Home page at the top but in case you have trouble finding it, just click on here:

SO, here are today's creations!

STUDIO WORKSHOP DAY

Fun time was had by all today in my Studio workshop!! I had Denise and Fran in and we just played and played and got paint everywhere! The fav thing was making fabric paper (one of my favs too!!) Here are some pics of the day.

Fran thinking it over...making marks on her fabric getting ready to work.

Okay, let's get it just right......

There. Now smile :)

 Fabric Paper in progress....

Denise's finished fabric paper! Can you say "Gorgeous"?

And Fran's getting the finishing touches...can you say "Another Gorgeous??"

And then they painted lots of wonderful papers!

Fran at work...

 Denise finishing up her favorite paper piece.

THANKS girls for coming in!! I had a good time!!

STUDIO TIME WITH MY GRAND DAUGHTER

Got to spend time in my Studio today with my 13 year old grand daughter. Look at her Gelli Prints!!

 I LOVE THEM!! And especially the one below! Metallics on black paper. BEAUTIFUL......

And did I mention how creative she is? (And before you say anything...she is my step grand daughter, so I can't take credit)

She took this little bottle I gave her and rolled up little balls of clay and stuck blades of grass in the balls.

Is that not adorable!!!

SEWING PAPERS

Do you ever get to wondering what to do with all those scrap pieces of paper that you have left from your art?

I don't know about you but I have boxes full...all different sizes and shapes!

SO......SEW!!

And Layer.....

Get out your sewing machine and just start sewing all those little scraps together and when you get that done, start layering on those little bitty scraps and funky shaped scraps and just have a good time.

Next thing you know you have a big piece of paper and scraps all gone!!

Now have fun doing something with this new piece of paper.

Next Post I will have something to show you.....:)

MY SURPRISE AND MORE GELLI PRINTS

NOW you have to understand that for me to get 20 hits on my blog in a day is just great! I'm not one of these new young and up coming artists that have MONSTER followers....I'm just a "little old lady" doing her art and having fun...SO imagine my surprise when I checked today and found that 216 people had been on my blog and 193 of them were on the Gelli Plate post!! I could not figure out what happened....I had not even put it out on Pinterest! So I began investigating and what I found was that "Gelli Arts" had picked it up and posted it on their Pinterest Board!! Well...considering I have 192 followers on Pinterest and they have 1181....well, you do the math. Anyway....I am grateful!! It really was a nice surprise. No one ever pins my work off of my pages except me!! I wasn't use to that. SO...I did some more Gelli printing today. I have students coming in the studio Monday and I'm getting ready!!

(Hey, thank everyone for checking out my blog :)

INTERFACING MATERIAL

PAPER TAPE