a friend sent me an email with a wonderful blog post praising my beloved copic markers...an amazing artist and wonderful woman has discovered them and is doing fabulous things with them...
go read what mary has to say about using the best markers in the world (my words...cause you know how much i love them!)...old dog, new tricks post by mary englebreit...
go play with your markers ladies!!!
chelle
another fabulous copic marker class...i am so passionate about the markers, i think i get a little too excited during class...we have a lot of fun and the ladies do wonderful work!
we played with red, and nobody cried!!! this was the first class where they had to stay in the lines, and they did beautifully!
we reviewed all of the blending techniques that we learned in the past three classes (two marker blending, single marker blending, blending with the blender and removing color) as well as practicing three marker blending...we continued to learn about shading and learned how to pick up color from a marker with our blender pen...yes, we packed a whole lot into this class!
i so enjoy teaching these classes and sharing my love of copic markers!
i teach this class again on Dec 10 at SGT, i will post details and review some tips and tricks after that class!
chelle
november...seriously? november? wow...i can't believe it...i am in denial, and plan on leaving my halloween decorations up a few days longer just so i don't freak out that thanksgiving is so close...which means christmas is just around the corner...that hurt...
a little bit more about those bottles and jars i showed you yesterday...
the images are found here and here as well as ms labels...i just printed them off onto different neutral card stocks and cut them out...
i then inked the labels with combinations of walnut, black soot, milled lavender, and painted shutters distress ink...then i adhered them to various jars and bottles with pva...
once the labels were on, i added fingerprints with the distress ink, smeared distress stickles in various colors and used copic markers to distress the corks and lids...
on a baby jar, i covered the jar lid with foil and inked it with copic marker re-inker...on another one, i used a prima flowers jar...i inked the silver lid with my black copic marker and rubbed it off with a paper towel...it looks like an old jar lid worn and distressed...
i tied lots of natural and colored jute on the jars and dripped some hot glue on to the jars...they look like well used ingredients...just love how they came out!
getting ready for another copic marker class at sgt tomorrow night...can't wait!
chelle
we had so much fun around here for halloween! chicka dressed as kat von d for the party she went to...she looked a little too good with all those tattoos...
and, i had some fun with potion and poison labels and vintage bottles...
they look so cool with my spell book! i filled a few of them, but still have to add colored water, etc to some for next year...now i will be on the lookout for a vintage medicine cabinet to display them in...
i hope you all had fun and got lotsa candy!
chelle
thank you to the amazing women that support and encourage me in my classes...the fact that you keep coming back for more must mean you like me...or at least the cards...
cosmo cricket joy card...all of the cards in class were inked up with walnut distress ink...
i love taking misc papers and using them together in unexpected ways...cosmo cricket's lil man and basic grey's marrakech are used on this card along with vintage sheet music...
here again...paper used for the mitten is a scenic route fourth of july paper...stamps are inkadoo
i was going for a vintage 'bethany lowe' look with this glitttery card...the paper is so cool...the best creations glitter won't budge!
thank you for stopping in!
chelle
i have been off having an adventure...and, oh how wonderful it was! here is an unedited favorite picture from my fabulous vacation to hold you over...
cafe au lait and beignets at cafe du monde, new orleans...be still my heart...i can still taste their sweet deliciousness!
i have hundreds of pictures to go through, edit, and enjoy...will share more soon!
chelle
last night's class at scrappin' good times was my 'harvest thyme' card class...fabulous students as usual!!!
i love using digital images to add vintage touches...and mixing my papers...i used scrapworks, basic grey, and graphic 45 here...
i just love graphic 45 papers...they made for a perfect thanksgiving card...those pearl embellishments were all vintagfied with a E43 (dull ivory) copic marker...just the perfect touch!
happy fall!
chelle
are you scared?
a dear friend was over playing yesterday...we had so much fun! we just love to decorate for halloween...witches, ghosts, and goblins...spells, potions, and spider webs...all in fun and fantasy...
we made this fun boo banner along with the spell and potion books...here is her version of the book i showed you yesterday...
so much fun! we found a similar idea in an etsy store and we loved the wax houses that we came across last weekend in temecula...that's the best part about the blogging world and cruising the craft shows & antique sales...you take an idea here and an idea there....get all inspired...and viola...your own fabulous creations!
i hope you found a wee bit o' inspiration here today!
chelle
...fire burn, and caldron bubble...
vintage book, family photo, eye of newt, ribbon, lace, tulle, and such...
oh my...spilt a wee bit of candle wax from my candelabra...
beware...
happy haunting!
chelle
...for syd...
a sunny spot, feet from mama...a piece of sissy's layette...perfect sunday afternoon!
the 'pillow'...remember this post where i spoke of 'needing' a baby? well, whilst cleaning out a sewing drawer, i came across a bag of nic's baby layette gowns...i had cut them and put them away to one day make a quilt...15 years later...i looked through them (yes, they still smell like her!!!) and one is too bright to match the others..i pulled it out to throw away, however, sydney loves it...that is what she is laying her head on...so cute!
smelling the pieces of nic's gowns just reinforced the baby desire...you are working on it for me, aren't you????
i am thinking about making something later...that would be nice, now wouldn't it??!!
chelle
