For One Moment - Little Snippets of my Life and Art...

Happy Birthday Tracy Weinzapfel! May has been a special month at Mixed Media Mondays with Tracy Weinzapfel  as we have been celebrating her birthday with a month of fun! My gift to her was this 10 x 10 inch canvas and just as promised in the sneak peek in  this post , here is a look at the completed project. A list of the products I used will be at the bottom of this post. I started out by spreading on a layer of  101 Artist's Cement Light on my canvas and impressing it with  stamps and bottle tops, etc. to create texture. Next I started adding layers of paint. ...with each layer adding a bit more depth and dimension to the canvas. Here's a little closer look at a portion of the canvas showing the texture created in the Artist's Cement and some of the layers of colors.  Several more layers of color were added after this shot was taken.  While layer of paint were drying on my canvas, I cut a heart out of a heav...

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? If you want to see what everyone is up to for this week's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday ,  check out  Julia's Stamping Ground  and take a peek at workdesks from all over the world.  This is WOYWW Four Year Anniversary and we are celebrating! Just a quick peek at my desk today.   This week I have a new LARGER canvas picked out  and I'm going to  give a got a working a bit larger this time. I've got an idea in my head and I'm hoping that I can bring my vision to life on my canvas. I haven't forgotten to post the reveal from my Sneak Peek last week.  It has been shipped off to its recipient and as soon as I receive word that it has arrived, I will post it.  I actually have a post all written and saved.  It is just waiting for me to push the button. UPDATE - the full post has now been published here. I also treated myself to a little tabletop easel this weekend as ...

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday ? Just a quick peek at my desk today.  I'm working on a project that I can't really show yet...so I'm just going to show you the what I've used so far and one little tiny peek into the project. If you want to see what everyone is up to for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday , check out  Julia's Stamping Ground and take a peek at workdesks around the world.  I'll have to take some time to do that later tonight, since I've on my lunch hour and headed off to a Board Meeting in just a few minutes. I promise I'll be back with a complete blog post once I finish up the project and it has been delivered. ...and here is a little peek at the project.

I made this little card for my Mom's birthday.   Happy Birthday Mom!  I love you!! I had watched some videos by PaperArtsy using Grunge Paste along with  their paints and metallics and I thought I would give it a try with the products I had on hand. I used USArtQuest's  101 Artist's Cement Light and a stencil to create the textured pattern on my paper.  Sorry...I forgot to take a picture of this step.   Then I used USArtQuest Perfect Pigments to add layers of color. After the paint dried Iused my Metallic Rub-Ons that I've had forever and added a few colors over the area with texture to give it some added depth.   There were a couple of areaa where the cement must not have been dry all the way through because some of it tried to pull up when I rubbed the metallics on.  Guess I need to allow a bit more time for it to dry next time. Then I added a handmade paper flower tinted in colors to match. ...

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? As always I'm running late posting my workdesk, but a busy day at work and then I had errands to run  which kept me away from my desk until late this evening. Once I finally had a chance to sit down I dug out my acrylics to work a bit more in my art journal.   My daughter brought me a snack of popcorn and I had to be careful not to eat my brushes or try and wash them out in the popcorn cup. If you look close on the right side you can see Momma Cat.   She thought I needed supervision and it was all I could do to keep her from walking through the wet paint! ...then when I wasn't paying close attention my other black cat, Sneakers, walked right through my little puddle of black paint.   Now THAT was fun trying to get it all off of his paws.   He wasn't too happy with me after that! and here's a little close-up of the journal page that I'm working on. Stamps are by Stamp Camp .   ...

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? A clean desk that's what!! As usual I'm a bit late linking up...but at least I made it!! If you want to see what everyone is up to for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday , be sure and hop on over to  Julia's Stamping Ground and take a peek at everyone's desks.  Not much art going on this week, but I did manage to clean my desk, so I can mess it up again! ...and I have a new little stash of goodies that I picked up at the Scrapbook Expo in Orlando this past weekend. ...a little bit of bling ...some neat chipboard laser cuts by Petticoat Parlor . I can't wait to use these!!  Aren't they cute!!! I'm off to post this and see what everyone else has been up to! Have an Artful Day everyone and thanks for stopping by my little corner of the world! Anna

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? A MESS...that's what!!! My stencil cutter is still on my desk cause I'm planning to do some more stencils...just haven't had the time yet. There's also a couple of stamps and cute little bird shaped wood album from Genuinely Janes  that I won from couple of blog hops. Baby wipes, Copics, Brushes and more...now to clean the mess and put some of it away so I actually have room to mess it up again! I'm a bit late linking up today...but if you want to see what everyone is up to for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday , be sure and stop on over at Julia's Stamping Ground and take a peek at everyone's desks. Have an Artful Day! Anna