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Happy Thursday! One more work day and then a nice long Holiday weekend ... Yahoo! Yesterday I took the day off to have my new kitchen cabinets delivered! Boxes are now completely taking over my livingroom. Progress ... slow but sure. Once the cabinets were delivered - all by 7:30AM, I had the rest of the day to myself so I decided to FINALLY start my 2012 CANVAS CREATE workshop hosted by Donna Downey. Check out the details here.  January's canvas is my first canvas with paint only - no patterned paper, no stencils, stamps, rub-ons etc - just paint! I was intimidated - which is why I took me so long to jump in ... but I loved it! I have alot to learn but overall I'm happy with the canvas and I thank Donna for her inspiration and fun personality. I used a 12x12 canvas for this project and the title is personally appropriate. Here's a look and a few close-ups ...

I love the paint splatters the best! My next canvas for February is ready to add some color and I hope to complete it this weekend. Stay tuned and thanks again Donna for your inspiration!

Happy Day After ...

Hope you all had a lovely Valentine's Day. I'm back in the work groove after a much needed weekend with the girls at a crop hosted by my LSS Right at Home Scrapbooking! It's always nice to be with friends that truly enjoy being creative, fun, silly and supportive. It's creative therapy and I can't wait until our next get together!

I created a few projects ... one just for fun. I decorated a 4x4 canvas with a cupcake - the "wrapper" is made from corrugated cardboard by Creative Imaginations - sprayed with a gorgeous plum mist and "topped" with a variety of white buttons from my stash.. It's a great way to use up buttons and makes a great gift for any occasion! Here's a few pics ...

I also managed to complete a few DT layouts for Right at Home. The team was given a color challenge and a sketch challenge. My color challenge layout is below - for details and supplies check out the blog >here< .

My sketch challenge will be posted towards the end of the month - it's a double page with Valentine's paper and some cute pics of Simba!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day and rest of the week!!!
 

Spreading J O Y with Flowers ...

Hi Everyone! Happy Holidays! I love the season but I'm not a fan of the hectic, crazy pace that goes along with the preparations. One of these years I'll take the week prior to the Holidays off ... This week at work has been over the top busy so my post will be a quick one. I wanted to share my latest Petaloo project. Keeping in the canvas mode I created three 4x4 canvases with Petaloo's gorgeous Velvet Hydrangeas. For close-ups check out my post >>HERE<< ... these canvases were super easy and make a great decoration or gift ...

I'll be posting another fun 8x8 Winter canvas for Creative Imaginations within the next few days! Have a great week and wish me luck surviving the next two work days!!! See you soon!

Canvas for FUN!

Just finished up another canvas - just for FUN! This is a 10x10 slim profile canvas with distressed flowers, a banner,a bird and lots of bright colors! I used a non-permanent mist with a stencil and once the mist was thououghly dry, I lightly added mulit-medium to seal it so I could add more layers without smearing the mist. Here's the canvas with some close-ups...

I'll be back soon with a fall layout I did for Petaloo using some gorgeous flowers and leaves and a pic of Simba when she was a year old!! See you soon!

ATC fun!!

Happy Thursday! I wanted to hop on and share my first ever ATC cards I did for Creative Imaginations. I thought, how hard can it be - the canvas is so small it'll be a breeze ... not so much! I was definitely a challenge to create something small, but here's what I came up with ...

I treated each card like a mini canvas and it finally came together! Here's each card separately ...

If you're looking for ATC inspiration, head on over to the CI Blog - it's ATC week and the cards are awesome!! Thanks for stopping by!

If you're in the area, Right at Home Scrapbooking is having their super fun Holiday Bus Express Tour and I'll be demoing lots of mixed media products. So stop by and say HI and have some FUN!!

Sharing ...

Hello, I hope everyone had or will have a great Halloween. We had lots of trick-or-treaters at my house and some ADORABLE costumes! So FUN!!

My niece's LOVE LOVE LOVE Halloween and I wanted to share a layout I did for Right at Home Scrapbooking featuring my niece's kids totally decked out ...

They are too cute!!

Another project I wanted to share is a canvas I did for Creative Imaginations. I created a 4x4 canvas in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For details, check out my post >>here<< ....

Continuing with my sharing mood, stay tuned and I'll share my first ever ATC cards I created for Creative Imaginations ... it's ATC Challenge week at CI so stop by and check out the great ATC ideas this week!! Thanks for stopping by!!

Thanks!!

Thanks to everyone for the lovely Birthday Wishes ... you all made me feel special!

I'm still in canvas mode - although I just finished a fun Halloween Layout for Right at Home Scrapbooking using Pink Paislee's "Phantom" collection ... I'll post soon!

Here's a canvas I created for Creative Imaginations using IOD'S "Loolah" collection ... check out the post HERE for details.

 
Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT holiday weekend!!

Happy Fall and Upcoming Classes!

It's fall here in New England - a beautiful time of year! Cool, crisp air, leaf peeping, pumpkin picking and fall decorating!! This upcoming long weekend - YAHOO - is supposed to be GORGEOUS and I hope to finish up my outside decorating with corn stalks and scarecrows.

I also wanted to hop on to share upcoming Canvas Classes info. The classes are at Right at Home Scrapbooking and I'll be teaching two classes next weekend October 15th and 16th and I'd love for you to come and get messy with me. We'll be creating fun mixed media canvases and learning lots of techniques and applications of different art mediums. For more information head on over to the blog HERE and see what we'll be creating - it's so much FUN! Hope to see you there and have a great Holiday Weekend!

Gotta LOVE Velvet!

Petaloo has released some GORGEOUS new velvet flowers - poinsettias, mini blossoms and hydrangeas. I used some of the new flowers on this 5 x 7 mixed media canvas and card I created. Check out the Petaloo Website for all the new products - you won't be disappointed!! TFL!!

 

 

Mixed Media Class

So, I taught my first class this afternoon at Right at Home Scrapbooking, my FAV LSS!! The class was a 6 x 12 mixed media canvas class and we all got messy with paint, glass beads modeling paste, inks, stamps, rub-ons and decoupage glue!! Here's a look at what we created ...

 
Thanks to all that attended - you made my first class enjoyable and I hope to see you in October for a 10x10 fall canvas!!