stencils!

Julie Balzer is running competitions on her blog to win some of her wonderful stencils. All you need to do is leave a comment answering the question What is a stencil design that you wish existed? I would love to have a stencil of gum leaves possibly with some gum blossoms as well. This is an example of what I mean....I hand cut the leaves and glued them to this layout.

Having a stencil would open up the possibility of endless variations!

some art journal backgrounds

while on holidays I have been finding some time most days to play with painting backgrounds. I have been following Julie Balzer's free stencil class and my head is bursting with new ideas. I also recently bought her DVD. It is so much fun to just play!

I used a corner of this one to make this card from a Let's Scrap sketch

 

the orange in the one above is actually a little more yellow. The other colours are quite accurate. It needs more doing to it yet.

this is one I am loving!

I painted over this as I paint flowers like this all the time and I am trying to do something different. However when I do a suitable background I may put some of these on top.

Texture Tuesday

I have missed doing my textures lately....just so busy. I decided to try a different type of image today and am pleased with the results. I used Kim's Autumn Burst texture on multiply @93%.



and this is the original

my first finished art journal page

for the last couple of months I have been signing up for Julie Balzer's art journal every day   Until now, signing up has been as far as I have got! I have started four pages and today have finished this one. Hopefully the first of many.....

anything goes

Anything goes is the theme this week at Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday I chose a photo of one of my original paintings and have used all three of Kim's Magic textures.

 and here is the original

what a day for a daydream......

The theme for Texture Tuesay this week is Dream and this is my effort. I used 1 layer of Kim's dream using multiply at 82&%. Then a layer of canvasback.....overlay at 54%. Also made hue and sat adjustments.

and here is the original