Sunday, August 30, 2015

12 Techniques With Gelatos

Yesterday, I taught a class to a bunch of fabulous ladies in my local area. They wanted to learn more about Faber-Castell Gelatos, so I came up with a sea themed tag with 12 techniques using them. Everyone did awesome, and they made me feel so good. I LOVE my job!
 
 
 
I totally forgot to take pics of the ladies and their projects...sorry. But if you look on my FB Page, Anita Houston's Crafty Place, some of the ladies uploaded their tags!

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Flowers In A Vase Monochromatic Tag

Only hours to go, but I got my monochromatic project done for Wendy Vecchi's Make Art Challenge for August...PHEW!!! Sometimes I can thrive under pressure! ;0) If you haven't gotten your project done you still have a few hours to go!
I used lots of oldies but goodies to create flowers in a vase, and I wanted to use some things in a different way.
I used Wendy's Archival Inks and rubbing alcohol for the background on both Manila and Specialty Stamping Paper from Ranger.
I inked the Art Parts and stamped images with Archival Ink as well.
Background stamping with Archival.
More stamping.
And still more stamping, and these I cut out, and foam taped.
I inked some of Tim's Linen Ribbon with Archival and doodled a little on the tag. I also added Glossy Accents to the center parts of the flowers.
 
 

FYI...in the coming week, I'll be bringing you some pictures of my upcoming Autumn and Halloween classes that I will be teaching in the Dallas area. I've been a little behind in posting, but hopefully I'll catch up soon. Again, thanks so very much for all the comments, emails, and messages checking up on the family and me. I treasure all of you!!!

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Sunday, August 23, 2015

12 Tags of 2015 - August

Hello everyone!!! I'm so glad to be able to blog again! Life has been so crazy for me over the last month with lots of family commitments,  and what little time I've had to myself and my crafting I've spent designing classes and kitting for the Autumn season. Soooo, I stayed up very late last night to get this tag done for Tim's August tag for 2015. I'd have to be on my death bed not to get my Tim tag done...seriously! I didn't have time to do step out photos though, but I pretty much followed Tim's instructions, and I have to say that this just might be my favorite tag of this year. I've been waiting to use this little 'cutie' for awhile, and I LOVE her on this tag, and I LOVE the heavy texture...yum! Thanks for the inspiration Tim!
 
 
 

Also...please forgive me for not visiting your blogs lately. I promise to get back on track soon. Now I'm off to try to get my Wendy project done for the Make Art Challenge...yikes!


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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!