Wow! What an amazing time

and what amazing generosity.

This morning I went with Nicky and Morag to a workshop hosted by Personal Impressions and taught by Tim Holtz.

We all had a kit each with everything we needed to make a tag book.  These are my manila tags with the first layer of the background using Distress Stains.

These are the backs of them after stencilling with Tim's new stencils.

The front and backs of inked and stencilled Kraft tags.

And the front of the manila tags as far as I got during the session.

And then it was prezzie time.  We were all given a bag, a signed copy of Tim's book, a Ranger apron (actually we had that at the start) and a scrubbie.

And all of the kit we had been working with.

And just to prove that I was there!  Me!

There was a shop there and I was very restrained.  I only bought some Multi-Medium and some tissue tape.

Although I did come home and order all the stencils from Art from the Heart!  Oops!

Thanks for stopping by.

Bernice

Little Details

Carolyn has a weekly meme on Thursdays called Messy Little Details.  Find out about it here.  Why don't you join in?

And finally for August a 'cupboard' which was high up in a wall.  I love the monotone colours in this.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Art challenge

On 12 Months in View today's Art Challenge is to use one of the techniques used over the last 6 months.  I thought I would have a go with the alcohol dripping technique again.

Of course it might have helped if I'd gone back to watch the video.  But no I just started.  I put gesso on the page and then a layer of acrylic paint.

I dropped the Surgical Spirit on it and it didn't have much effect.  I tried putting another colour on top and tried again and that didn't work.  I realised that the paint was too thick so I used the bleachout technique - using a wet wipe through a stencil which is what produced the mosaic look.

By this time it looked muddy so I sprayed some White Linen Ink on it.  That didn't make it look any better.

As I was working in my journal rather than on paper I had to stick with it.  Although I suppose I could have put gesso over the whole thing and started again.  Instead of using the Amsterdam paints I moved on to using the Ranger Dabbers and diluting the paint rather more. This was more successful.

I'm not sure what colour I put on after the pink but this was the final colour.  I drew the swirls and leaves with a Stabilo pencil.  I put some modelling paste through the mosaic stencil and stamped randomly with Archival Ink.

I went over the pencil with a water brush.  I stuck some map flowers onto the 'stem'.

I added some writing.

It still didn't look finished so I added the quote from the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice