Tutorial

So before I post the iron oxide canvas I thought I would let you know how I did it



First I painted a small canvas with Black Guesso ( ignore the messy workspace) add some iron oxide
this is the finished sculpy clay piece with the iron oxide painted on
I used my beeswax for added depth
Can't forget Big Daddy's idea for the fake eyelases

Here is the canvas with just the black guesso and no iron oxide as you can see it is has a glare to it
Sculpey and some plastic forms
The piece without the iron oxide big difference
Next I used some skinner blend clay for her hair

You have to bake the iron oxide on so unless you have a dedicated over DO NOT USE IN YOUR HOME OVEN AS IT WILL SMOKE. After watching Tim he uses his UTEE pot so ... I did too and it works

Now for the finished piece

IT is almost finish

My iron oxide canvas but Big Daddy came up with a great fantastic amazing idea so I am off to Sally's to pick something up when I get back I will post it.

Micaceous Iron Oxide

So here is my Black Guesso and my Micaceous Iron Oxide and below you can see how cool it looks. I can't wait to try this stuff out

I received Tim Holtz's the Journey Continues DVD for Christmas this year and in one of the segments he used Micaceous Iron Oxide. So here is what it looks like and later you will see what I do with it.

Basically you paint this onto something black they use mica interference powders and man oh man it is beautiful when you are done. So, off to work on my oxide

Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers

So, Jeri my new friend from this wonderful world of blogging invited me to join and in following I asked Toni to join so now we are in a group of wonderful women who love the art of stamping.
I am so looking forward to meeting everyone and getting some new inspiration.
Let me tell you just a little bit about myself.
I have a wonderful husband who fuels my passion for this crazy thing called art. He surprises me all the time with art supplies and didn't complain too much when I pushed him out of his office and made it my studio. I call this wonderful man Big Daddy...lol don't know why he is a beanpole but after watching Beth call Dog Chapman her Big Daddy it just stuck with me. lol
I raised two daughters with my Big Daddy...his and mine both girls are now grown young women and out on their own and live states away, so it is just BD and myself at home.
I started scrapbooking and stamping 12-13 years ago but have always been a crafter and loved to sew.
Recently about two years ago I met Toni and started doing mixed media with her... ( she was my inpsiration) and now I am having the time of my life.
Retirement is not far off and when we do look out Canada or Minnesota cause we're coming your way. Both BD and I love the lake (I grew up in Canada every summer from toddler thru my late teens) on a lake working at my grandparents fishing lodge.
I am not happy unless I am somewhere close to water (thus I live on the east coast less than five miles from the ocean) and I HATE IT. I need Lake WATER and I need pine trees, birch trees and SNOW. I need to be able to drop what I am doing and jump in the boat and fish with BD. We lived in Michigan a few years back on a lake and the water was less than 20 feet from my back door BD would go fishing in his boat and I would load up my stamping supplies and stamp while he fished a site to see.
I currently am a store manager for a big box retailer
I love my job but hate the east coast. Someday BD and I along with Toni and her Double B will be going to Italy to just sip our coffee in a small cafe and talk to the locals... reminder to self study Italian.
Well, that is me now tell me about yourself all my SBS 11 friends

Blog candy winner

cheryl since no one else posted you won the book send me your address and I will ship it off to you congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here is my before

I bought this book and it was all cardboard. So I covered it with Valentine type paper and now I have to embellish it. So hang tight and by the weekend I should post the after.

Another great mail day

So, today I got two stamps that were backordered from KTCRAFTS and a really cool CD that I got from http://krislhurst.blogspot.com/ of vintage halloween images she also added some really cool tickets. I am so ready for Halloween now.

So now that I have my deal of the day

This was a canvas I did a few weeks ago. I love the look of the vintage stand.

Now what is this?

This was my deal of the day!!!! Guess how much this cost? Go ahead GUESS....

$2.81 cents and that included tax

Glimmer MIST

So, my favorite ebay seller has her glimmer mist on sale for 5.74 so I just bought four colors
keylime pie
deep blue
lemon zest
and pink bubblegum

This stuff is amazing. Oh and I bought something vintage and really cool will post a pic in a few

oh so sorry I forgot to tell you who it is....

http://stores.ebay.com/Jacksonbelle-Embellishments_Glimmer-Mist_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ16386756QQftidZ2QQtZkm


I forgot to say also that it is on sale for only three days longer.

Oh and just because Miss T posted

a picture of her feet..... here are mine today

AT last here is Tim Holtz inspired canvas

so first I added distressed inks to my canvas then you let that dry and paint on a really thin coat of beeswax. Next add some tissue paper I used pieces of a pattern that Toni sent to me. Lightly coat that with beeswax. Then you use hinges and put two together but since I didn't get the exact effect I wanted I am making two different ones instead of one. May be blog candy....hum
next I painted a D that I found at Michaels for .99 cents and some letters and some other findings with hot glue. I used the paris stamp that Miss T sent to me. Hope you like it

So, even after talking with Tim I still can't find unprimed canvases anywhere. Even the site he sent me too didn't have the size I needed so I used a primed canvas. You don't get the effect that you want but...... overall it really isn't that bad is it?

Just a thought

So, this morning while just hanging out ( gosh I love this new schedule) I was thinking....
Where else in the world can you email someone so popular as Tim Holtz, Heidi Swapp, Donna Downey, Nancy Doreen, SuziBlu, or Claudine Hellmuth and they reply? They take time to visit our blogs they take time to answer our questions. Do you really think that Mrs. Butterworth, Mr. Flogers or Miss Cottonelle would ever answer our questions?
That is why I love the world of art it is such a close knit family that is so willing to not only help but give ideas to it's family members.
So I thank you all the above mention celebrities from all of us .... Thank you for inspiring us thank you for answering our questions and most of all thank you for pushing us forward.

hahahaha Tim Holtz emailed me

not once but twice. Of course it was only about where to find the unprimed canvas but hey at least he has my email address.

For Ciera

This is a little mail box Ciera can keep in her room for letters from Dad or Aunt Toni.

When she has a letter in her box all you have to do is raise the flag that way Ciera will know when she has mail.

Please be patient

So, today I went to Michael's to find my canvas for my Tim Holtz canvas thingy I am doing. I had no idea that unprimed natural canvases would be like a major hunt.... WHERE DO YOU FIND THEM? They had some that were primed with oil, guesso, and acrylic and some musuem that were 20.00 bucks each but still not unprimed. oy vey
So, I bought the cheapy ones 3.99 cents for three and will figure it out some way. My little bitty hinges were .99 cents and I am going to sweet talk Big Daddy into using the dremel to put them in for me tomorrow.
I also bought my 4x6 canvas for my ultra secret squirrel thingy not saying what it is yet but it will be BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and Toni, I need a cute picture of Miss C for her secret squirrel thing too. Tell Cam or is it Chris to take a picture of C smiling but not too big of a smile maybe just a grin. Can't tell you yet what it is but C and C will love love love it. Something BD did when our girls were little that made them smile and I really think they will love it
okay off to work on Mr. Tim Holtz and to work some on Miss C's secret thingy.

Oh Miss Toni Please GO BACK

Miss THANG ( TONI) posted this on her blog undertones ( see side bar) Lucky Duck gets to go to antique malls.

I have to have this dress form unless of course it is you know outta my price range. THIS IS SO ME AND SO TOTALLY AMAZING. I am seeing myself hanging tags from it.

Oh please oh please ms T how much was it?

don't forget

to search older posts for blog candy

I am loving this new schedule thing

woo hoo
yesterday, today and tomorrow off.....FINALLY THANK YOU

This is too cool

Tomorrow my game plan is something TOTALLY new (thank you TIM HOLTZ) I am going to do the hinged canvas you did. AMAZING so stay tuned hopefully I will have it started and finished tomorrow otherwise it will be next weekend before I can get it finished.

Finally this is for Toni

The chicken feed isn't quite dry yet when it does dry it will be all crystal looking

OH CRUD I SEE THE GLUE ISN'T DRY EITHER OH WELL OVER LOOK THAT TOO IT WILL BE CLEAR WHEN DRY

Six months ago Toni sent me a journal that she had started and asked that I add a few journal pages to it....... well, finally six months later I added a page and gosh this is fun.

Here you go this is called my morning

Today this is what my hands look like

And I can't get the ink off.

Another FANTASTIC BLOG SITE

you just have to go visit
go through her postings and play fantasy family. She finds these amazing photos and you think up a story for them. Toni this is so right up your alley. I am having a ball with them
http://abundantcuriosities.blogspot.com/

At last here is Summer Splendor

My thought process for this canvas was summertime. I wanted to use some of my Queens Dresser Drawers stamps. Once I put the paint on there and the matching paper I added the stamped images. Then I thought hummmmm a white picket fence. If you click on the photos you can see that I also added blue and sand colored bella baubles from www.stampingbella.com
and fun little flowers from prima flowers.

Of course it isn't summer without a dragonfly right?

Can you see the glimmer from the glimmer mist spray? I totally love this stuff. I bought it from an ebay seller here......http://stores.ebay.com/Jacksonbelle-Embellishments

her prices on shipping are so much better than anywhere.

So what do you think?

This is what it looks like when I create

I have to have all the paper to look at right? psst here is a secret this is only 1/10 of the paper i have
You have to have everything at your fingertips right?
And of course you gotta have all the light you may need right?

Yes I am hanging my head in shame and poor Big Daddy just sighs and shakes his head.

My Bella house is over crowded

Hummm I think it is time to make yet another Bella house. This time it better be a mansion.

A good mail day

My latest order of Bellas
Oops now you can see them better
The Love word book and my Tim Holtz ruler.

Yesterday I got my bellas, tattered angels, and some of my KT CRAFTS order (not all but some)

So I thought I would post photos of it

Blog Candy

Courtesy of Toni

I will send this book to a winner. pick a number between one and 100 and I will use the random number generator to find a winner.

Truly folks it is an amazing book

So post a message and pick a number you have until 1/21/08

Simone Beck will be on it's way to you

Simone Beck

So, my KSS (kindred soul sister) Miss T ( Toni) sent me this great book. Thanks T ! Anyway, I am looking at this book thinking hummmmmmm I don't cook French food but Miss T has a knack of knowing things and she inspires me everyday to seek out new so, I open the book thinking it is just a cookbook.....WRONG!!!!! What an interesting book about Simone Beck her travels, life during the war, her homes in France etc. I read that book cover to cover in just two DAYS!! and it is a big book..lol

Miss T I will send it back to you with your package soon!

Go to your library and check out the book you may even try some of the recipes (not me) but you might. Ms. Beck has a way with words and if you close your eyes you might even feel like you are there.

it's me

Finally HOME at last and what a week it has been. Tomorrow more art will be published as well as a great mail day today. Tattered Angels and Bella made it to my home today.

Finally my girl is here

Thanks so much Toni, I love love love did I say love her? she is adorable.

WOW OH WOW

So I got this from T today

She's Here She's Here

look

OH no another obsession!

limited edition sugar cookie
key lime pie

deep plum

you have to check this out http://mytatteredangels.com/

they have this stuff called glimmer mist oh boy I bought two today. Gingerbread and holly berries (red and brown) too die for. I am saving up my money to buy three bottles a month

here are my next colors I want to buy in February

I always screw up on posts...lol look up those are the colors I want for February. They also have gift sets too. Glimmer mist is a spray paint that adds glimmer to your mixed media art. They have 52 colors year round and 12 for fall and winter that are limited colors. I am in love with these things. oy vey a new obsession

In the process but still not quite dry yet

This is my first attempt at using beeswax it smells soooooooooo good. I love the colors I guess I must be in the mood for valentine's day. I just thought you know I should put this right by my desk and everyday when I read the heading maybe just maybe today will be my best day ever.

So what do you think?

Hummmm I see that the one photo didn't show the entire canvas. I will take another photo tomorrow

Iron Gate challenge.... from Toni's challenge

These are from Big Daddy not me. Toni wanted something made out of this photo she took from her "hood". BD took her up on the challenge so he created this.


Pretty darn cool