#ICAlumiHop Journal Giveaway – Diamonds & Gold

a Video HOP 

We were to do a 9 x 12 journal page, use an artist quote. For group 3, we were to also do an ATC . . . 

GIVE A WAY --- You see the different pages have been bound together by Shel C, including an ATC page, the Journal will be given away to ONE blessed person. Deadline to enter is Monday September 26, 2016, 12 midnight CDT (Central Daylight Time) and Winner announced by Shel on September 29 . . . so if you are reading this and have not watched the HOP – what ya wait’in fer?

AND as promised in the description box that appears below my video #ICAlumiHop Journal Giveaway – Diamonds & Gold 

MY Ingredients Were: Canson cold press 140 lb watercolor paper;

Acrylic Craft Paints – Craftsmart Navy, Apple Barrel – Aquamarine (I made this a wash using water & fluid matt medium), FolkArt – Neon Purple;

Liquitex white gesso;

Stencils: TheCraftersWorkshop – Mini Microbial & Mini TieDyed, StencilGirl – Wonky Eyes by Carolyn Dube;

Sizzix Die 660220;

Deli paper;

My own Hand carved fish stamps;

Liquitex Matt Medium;

Sea Horse Stamp – sorry I don’t know

Silks – ginger peach;

Archival Inks – Plum, Vermilion;

White cardstock;

Embossing Dabber by Ranger;

Recollections Embossing Powder – clear;

American Crafts black precision pen;

Soufflé white pen;

For the accompanying ATC – that was NOT included in the Video – Watercolor background, Hand Carved “water” stamp, Archival Ink – Manganese blue, Glossy Accents

Diamonds & Gold.

Within the flowing souls of humanity there is a treasure that shall not diminish, diamonds – glistening of strength and gold - a thread that forever connects us with our Source, our Creator, our very Breath

Pick Up Video - Coral Bits etc. , AND a Watery ATC featuring stamp carving - shows how I carved the stamp used on the ATC

Thanks for Watching, Sharing and Liking

Happy Art’ing Y’all

THE Grab Bag

prize for the New Year's Eve Stream-a-thon that could be your's if you register

TIME IS RUNNING OUT

 - so um yeah, hurry up already -

{crosses fingers the winner will like it's secret contents}

Did you register yet ? Y'all only need to do it once.

good luck to all

Happy Art'ing Y'all

Give a Way

My husband, Johnny, has been sharing space with me in MY studio (lol) he has enjoyed being out there.

Johnny also really likes how much we (our Arting community) gets a big kick out of winning some one's ART. And in honor of that and this month of Giving Thanks he has made one of his Postcards for ONE VERY LUCKY WINNER . . . to be announced November 16th

that means y'all have about a week to get your comments in to be eligible to win it!!! Random of course.

BE SURE THAT I HAVE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION . . . cause IF I can't get a hold of you . . . that means you lost your chance at winning this super special piece of Johnny Art.

Dead line to enter November 15th midnight Central Time 

Johnny says this Give a Way is Open to ALL 

(including internationals or world wide even)

Happy Art'ing Y'all

Hello Y'alls

Yep more of the Gelli Plate background project, I posted about here and here,  only this time

This Time I’m gonna give away three of the PostCards… so if ya want ta have one y’all Need to leave a comment and your contact information.

  

IF I cannot contact you about the drawling I will choose another lucky person.  Lucky peoples will be chosen by random, only one entry per person please and thank you.

Last chance to enter August 20, 2013 - Midnight - Central Standard Time. Winners announced on August 22 

 Oh and did I mention this little Journal ^ will be given away too {cross fingers I get at least four valid entries}

Please be sure to go over to see more super cool Gelli Plate projects at the party

And this is what is On My Easel

Happy Art’ing Y’all 

A Gift

For me, brought home by my husband, it is from Rose Krupa, she has 83 years of experienced living. I only mention her age because she is proud to be 83. My husband tells me Rose has arthritis and began making these UpCycled bags when she accompanied her husband, Frank, to doctor and hospital visits. She crocheted many bags during the 8 year period of Frank’s battle with cancer, he has gone home now but Rose still works on. Making bags from bags and the one she gifted to me is number 2,080. I am delighted to own it.

Rose is not the first person to crochet with plastic shopping and bread bags, but she has proved herself dedicated to the task…if in doubt see the above number. This handy bag will carry my books and art’in pro jects as needed from time to time. Rose told my husband it is washable and that she is pleased to be able to share it with me.

Rose is a long time quilter as well and mentioned that she won a ribbon at the Houston International Quilt Festival in 1974.  She has made quilts for charity auctions that have sold for upwards of $5,000.oo and she is a very lovely woman who keeps track of the items she makes and gifts to super & duper lucky people like me.

Thank you very much Rose you’re awesome and the world is a much sweeter place with you in it. {{{hugs}}}                                              

And now in Honor of receiving a gift I now offer to Y’all a Gift (but not this bag tho)…A Surprise type o'giftie But you have to Comment here And / Or Tweet to Enter… yes this is open to non-U.S. residents. The Deadline to enter is Midnight CST, Thursday April 19, 2012; Winner to be announced Friday April 20^th. So until then…

Happy Art’in Y’all

Things are going

Okay & DooKay around here…and to art off some stress I made some background papers. Which shouldn't be a surprise to those familiar with me and my current favorite pastime.

I just need a way to share them this month!

So it must be time for a Give-Ah-way, don’t ya think? Well I do. Especially since it’s now officially the Holiday Season.

Here is what you need to do in order to win’age one of three. Yes that’s right 3 cause it’s my favorite number & all.

Several Easy Ways to Enter (each will get you in the drawling-use more than 1 for multiple Entries - even)

Leave a comment on this post. (I allow anonymous comments just include your name / ID, so I know who you are)

Tweet about the Give-Ah-Way; use hash tag #2Entry ; I tweet as  @ArtistPoetGirl

Do a Blog Post share the link’age to said post here in comments

BUT if you don’t have a blog & want another Entry send me an email telling me you don’t have a blog but you DID tell friends about my Give-Ah-Way (NO cheating) ArtistPoet dot Girl at sign gmail dot com

Stream  &/or  YouTube about my Give-Ah-Way & you get yet one more Entry. Say something like 'APG Jamie at My Purple Door Studios Blog is having a Give-Ah-Way.' Be sure to leave a link to your video in comments here.

I know a lot of great ways to Enter … I suggest you use at least ALL of ‘em ;-) Or one even

Y’all have 1 week. Yes only 7 days to get busy to win’age by random drawling Because next Thursday December 8 the Three Lucky Entries will be announced.

GOOD LUCK (I hope you win'age)

And the WINNER is ...

Thanks so much for entering my Give-a-Way. I am thrilled with the turn out {insert huge smile} I hope I'll be able to do something like this again {cross fingers}

And the winner is @grafxkat (entry by twitter), wooowhooo Kathy ^5 & wild applause (in my head)

I am so happy that so many of y'all wanted to win my little give a way, thirty-two in all. That's well over the two I had for my first give a way here; one of which never did claim her item. And that leads me on to ... please send me your address Kathy. ArtistPoet dot Girl @ gmail dot com

woooo wwwwhoooooowww & junk for Give A Ways and maybe next time it will be YOU!

Quick!

Ok, be somewhat quick'ish. I'm doing a Give-a-Way. It includes Two sheets of my famous (Laugh) background paper and One set of Clear Halloween Stamps...

But first you must leave a comment to enter and for a second chance tweet it...

I entered 2 win @ArtistPoetGirl #QuickGiveAway http://tinyurl.com/3ra5wff

Deadline to enter 9-14-2011 6:00 pm Central Time; Winner announced 9-15, so be quick or at least quick'ish.

There's something in the air

Besides that long post title. I wanted to show you a background technique to use for ATCs or Journal Pages, this one using Spay paints and recycled glossy / semi glossy papers.

Materials: at least 2 different colors of gloss spray paint (I'm using 3); glossy magazine paper or semi glossy (mine are semi glossy) from a local museum about upcoming events (in this case long past events) & sales papers; Rubber gloves; well ventilated area.

I do my spraying out on the breezeway, on a covered table. I use one of those really cheap plastic table cloths from the dollar store. Tape it up to the side of my studio and run it over the table and use a couple of pieces of tape to keep the other end from flapping up. I also put a tiny bit of tape on a corner of each sheet I'll be painting, because it never fails for a breeze to blow. But keep a couple / three to use as gabbers.

Spay your lightest color first make it a fairly heavy coat (almost puddle / runs) one sheet at a time on a hot dry day or you can try more than one at time on a humid and cold day. Then spray your next color, again liberally on top of that and follow with the next and so on.

Next pick up one of your grabbers and lay it on top of a sprayed sheet, smooch it around if you like then lift it up and off...if you want lay it on and lift in different areas.

Lay out your wet grabber sheets and spray your can upside down towards the papers to clean your nozzles, add a bit of tape or sit the can on a corner to keep that breeze from flipping your wet page over on the ground.

Once they are good and dry carry them inside to cut to ATC size 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches (standard) 4 x 6 inches (large size) 1 x 1 inch (for inches). My pages were thin and didn't cut very well on my guillotine so I used a craft knife. On the day I spayed these I did two different sets, pink, red and purple and yellow, orange and brown.

Tips: if the words/pictures bleed though you can spray your lightest color or another color on sheet, let it dry and then try the technique. I had some bleed though but I felt it added to the layering quality of the finished pages. If you don't like a particular portion of the painted page / ATC cover it up with a collage item or cut into strips or around the portion you don't care for.  And / Or you can adhere the painted paper to card stock before cutting to size.

You could try flat spray paint or a combo thereof, if you do please let me know how it turns out.

Here are the ATCs made that day.

Title: 1914

Title: Dino

Yes of course I'm going to give them both away. Just leave a comment (be sure I can contact you) tweet this post and mention that you tweeted (be honest) your name is entered twice and best still include a link in one of your blog post and get another chance to win. Please be sure to link back to your post and how to contact you so I can let you know you are a winner on January 25th.

I hope you win!

Paper Tattooing - Plus Give-Away

Yes, you read that right. I'm going to show you how to tattoo paper to make a standard 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" ATC.

Back story; My friend Geo mentioned using a removable tattoo on one of her ATCs a while back and that thought has sat in my brain ever since. Recently when the gettin-store had a package of these removable tats for sale as Christmas stocking stuffers I grabbed some for experimenting with. I suppose they are sort of like a sticker but not a sticker, well okay more like a cross between a decal and a sticker.

Here is my list of supplies: ATC base, small removable child's tattoo, small amount of water, other embellishments, some type of sealer (I used plain white glue). Remember that techniques work just about the same way whether you are doing an ATC or a Journal Page.

I'm going to make one with regular cardstock and one with acrylic painted cardstock, both work for me. Follow the directions for applying the tattoo to skin, only apply it to your paper (I used less water then called for). This particular type required some pressure, especially since I was using less water then was typical.

Plain card stock- applied the tattoo

Painted with acrylics a very basic snowy background

Applied the tattoo

I used the heat gun for a couple of minutes to dry them before I applied a light coating of white glue over the tattoos. I did this only because the tattoos were a tiny bit tacky to the touch, but you may not need to do this.

I went on to embellish the cards.

Title: Send Snow

Title: Snow Day



Now here's the really good part -- commenters will be entered to win one of these ATCs, there will be 2 winners of course. Be sure that your comment links back to you or at least let me how to contact you. Mention in your comment that you tweeted and you will have an extra chance to win. And better still have a third chance by bloging about this give away-please be sure to provide a link back to your blog post for everyone.

Entry Deadline December 23rd Midnight Central Time Zone (USA) Winners will be picked on December 24th.

I so hope you win!

Tips: use light colored background; This does not work on metalic, slick or textured backgrounds. Good Luck and let me know if you tried this.

EDIT- a Friend E-mailed saying she had issues with leaving a comment So if this happens to you just drop me an email at ArtistPoet.Girl at gmail dot com.