Sneak Peak - What I've Been Up to Today

Hello Everyone,

Here are a couple of pictures showing what I have been doing today. I will hopefully show you the finished project soon.

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Texture Tuesday @ Scrap Matrix - 18/11/2014

Hello Everyone,

We had another great day at Scrap Matrix yesterday. Today we were given a kit-let, and the sketch is from Once Upon A Sketch:

Here is a closer look at the sketch from Once Upon A Sketch:

Beautiful isn't it?

This is the page I made with the kit-let, a couple of extra flowers and an extra cameo frame I bought and the classroom supplies:

To create this page I started by using gesso through a Prima stencil. I then used Lindy's Stamp Gang and Primary Elements sprays in orange, white and grey with a paintbrush to color wash the background. I used a baby wipe to wipe some of the color off the gesso. I then splashed some of the orange onto the background. While this dried I painted the dress form with black gesso, and when it was dry "dressed" the form in the washi tape. I then gathered scraps of paper and flowers from previous classes, antique lace, a dry paper towel from my stash I take to class every week and created the bulk of the page. I then added some orange art glass fragments with soft gel matte medium. Next was my title and the extra washi tape to bring my page together. Then I added the splashes of black ink, making sure to cover my photos. Last of all I added my journalling.

Here are some close ups:

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Texture Tuesdays @ Scrap Matrix

Hello Everyone,

Over the last 7 weeks I have been attending Texture Tuesdays @ Scrap Matrix. These "play" sessions are filled with talking, laughing, sharing and creating. Each week Vicki, the owner, supplies a small selection of bits and pieces from the store for us to play with. I try to take a picture of when we start with but I've only managed to a couple of times so far, I just get excited and start, lol. It is quite amazing how different our work ends up, but we bounce ideas off each other and have a wonderful time.

So here are the pages I have created @ Texture Tuesdays:

September 16th: This was official my first week @ Texture Tuesday and I was excited to see what Vicki had selected for us to use... and I wasn't disappointed. Here is the page I completed:

September 23rd: The pack Vicki put together this week was really different to the week before. This week was strong graphic papers. Really happy with completed pages, I got 2 double pages done this week. Here they are:

October 7th: This weeks kit had a vintagey feel to it. Our play session was cut short this week as I headed into Darwin to meet Michelle Bridges, it was a very interesting afternoon and well worth the drive in. Here is the page I created:

 

October 14th: This week Vicki asked me what style I would like to scrap and I said Shabby Chic. She put together an amazing selection of products! There are the resulting pages:

October 21st: This weeks bits and pieces were super cool. Lots of metal trinkets and flowers to use. I We decided to use the 7Dots Studio Oct-Nov Challenge for inspiration.

I created the background with a Prima stencil and the hand colored it in with my H20's. Here's the completed page:

October 28th: This week Vicki allowed me to chose 2 paper from her new papers, a packet of flowers and a chipboard fence from the shop. We decided to create a page about a woman or women who are part of our life. I decided to make a page about my mum and how she has helped to shape the woman I am. Here is my page:

November 4th: Unfortunately I missed this week because as I was driving my DS (dear son) to school  a truck flicked a rock and broke my windscreen, so I had to go and get it fixed and that took pretty much all of our normal scrapping time, but Vicki set our kit aside and we would have used for this week.

November 11th: Finally we are up to this week. As I wrote for last week, we used what was set aside for last week. I forgot to take a picture of the products before I started, but I am really happy with the result. Here is the page I created:

I hope in future that my Texture Tuesday post will be a little more involved to explain more about what I did each week.

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Hello World - New Blog

Hello Everyone,

This year has been a big one for me and I feel that I need a change. A change of scene, a change of pace and a fresh creative start. That is the idea behind this new blog. Leaving the past behind, beginning with fresh ideas, fresh thoughts and an excitement to see where my future leads. 

For the rest of this year I will be sharing my he{ART} and craft with the idea of just getting it out there . Sharing my work from my weekly creative sessions at Scrap Matrix's "Texture Tuesdays", my local scrapbooking store, along with doing some challenges from different challenge blogs, with no pressure to get any particular ones done, just the idea of being inspired and seeing where that leads me. Also I will be gathering inspiration from Wilna's I Heart Studio 'Art Class One' and 'Art Class Two' and from my three 'Pop & Color' classes.

Also a place to show my new art journaling, inspired by Art to the 5th and others like Julie Fei Fan  Balzer. Art journaling is new to me, and I am excited about take Art to the 5th's "The Documented Life -2015" in 2015. But for the remainder of this year I am going to work in my current journal which sadly a little empty at the moment, trying to fill it with some of the challenges from this years "The Documented Life - 2014" and also by whatever inspires me, I have heaps of things pinned on Pinterest already, lol.

I have also discover Rae Missigman and her "15 Minute of Mixed Media". I plan to try to do at least 1 of these a week, but hopefully about 5. We'll see how it goes. Rae also does "10 Things" and I think I would like to do something like it, maybe not 10 things but we'll see, lol.

Finally I plan to go a little gelli print mad, lol,and a little crazy experimenting on tags and ATC sized pieces of cardstock and paper. The idea being that when next year begins I will have a stock pile of bits and pieces to create with. I like the idea of having some jumping off from platforms, somewhere to start, and some easy colors and patterns to add in case I'm feeling uninspired.

So I think that's about it for my first post. A simple telling of where I am coming from right now and where I want to go from here. In my next post I will do a bit of a catch-up post about what I have been doing, creatively, for the last couple of months.

Chat to you again soon.

Love

Michelle