Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Valentine Classes!

Valentine classes are up and running! I know, it's too soon to think about. Everyone is in the countdown mode to Christmas! I will be in San Jose on Jan 6 and 8, at A Work of Heart Studio. We will be making these darling paper doll tags that are large enough for cards. All materials will be supplied. Other classes will be Jan 14, in Poway at Cool Scrapbook Stuff and Jan 28, at Stamp Your Heart Out in Claremont. I hope to see you there!

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Joyeux Noel


It's been no secret that I LOVE Graphic 45's Christmas line of papers. The black holly paper is so sophisticated and I've been using it in a lot of tags this season. But it was the paper with all the toys; dolls, bears and the sweetest little french Pierrot clown that inspired this piece. That paper has been just screaming at me to do something with it but I didn't want to cut into it! So out came this little lovely. Now, you all know I don't usually do faces but I had to do some clown eyes with  the tiniest heart tear. I hope you like her!

Friday, December 2, 2011

Always Practice First!


Thought I'd share this as I was cleaning out my studio space last month. I found this little wooden cabinet from probably the 80's that I had sponge painted blue. You remember the first sponge painting, right? Blue on white, not blended in at all...very country. Well that's what this baby looked like, complete with mauve trim and black and white checks. Cute in it's day. Yep, must've been the 80"s, maybe early 90's. I took it out of the closet and immediately thought stencils and color. I've been wanting to do paint a piece of furniture like this so I thought this would be a great piece to practice on.
I kept the black and white checks for some definition. I primed the rest of it and then went crazy with stencils and doilies. I used Claudine Hellmuth paints because of their translucent quality. I added some Graphic 45 letter stickers that are newsprint which you all know I love. At the very top of the cabinet is a very 80's cut out heart where I place a little hand painted shrinky-dink girl. it turned out so pretty and it's the perfect size for Stickle storage. So happy to have this little cabinet out again after all these years!