I want to share with you one of my absolutely favourite artists....she is having a giveaway right now and so you should run over and join in.   I watch everything Steff does and she is my biggest inspiration in journals...amazing young lady....plus she always makes me smile...

http://withagrin.blogspot.com/

I just love her work and can't praise her enough....also check out her videos on you tube..you will learn lots....

Good Morning Everyone,  Beautiful weather again today...so far...had a lazy day yesterday which was nice.  I spent most of my time catching up on my email lists and watching workshop videos I signed up for....but today I must be productive...physically productive...

I found the blog that I learned to do the Pinesol transfer from.....it is http://harmonyroadstudio.blogspot.com/2011/05/another-inkjet-transfer-tutorial.html   Lesley does great art and shares with all of us on her blog...well worth sitting with a cut of tea and exploring.

I should tell you that buying inkjet transparencies here in Canada is very expensive and so I brought cases in to sell at a very reasonable price to my Canadian friends....I'm here if you need me....I use so many transparencies in my art that it was well worth it to me and I thought it would help you out as well....

A girlfriend sent me a piece of material with cats all over it because she knows how much I love my cats. I photocopied the material (inkjet) on to cardstock and then I put it in my journal using pinesol....it came out pretty good I think....so there you have it....transfers are so much fun!!!

This was done in my journal with an inkjet transparency and water...it even does the colours where the glossy paper does not....I got three transfers  from this one photocopy in my transparency....if you look above at the transfer in the journal with the two pages below on the left hand side of the book you will see the large part face with eye and below that in the green paint if you look closely you will see the hand with the finger pointing up...that is the third try with the transparency...it shows up better on the book than this picture but it is faint but you can still tell it is a hand with a pointed finger.....

This transfer is done with glossy photo paper and water..so easy....

I have been busy painting again....gave up doing some swaps so I would have time for me to create; so many things to do and so little time to do it in....My muse came back to me with a vengence and I am now working on a golf painting for my darling partner in life and a canvas painting for me and a couple scratch art pieces...no I can't just do one thing at a time....isn't that an illness? lol.

Well today I broke to play with some transfers and these are just too easy and too much fun to do...

This transfer (right hand side) was done with pinesol and the book is an altered book I am doing with a partner...I will work in my book for a month and then we send it to the other one and we will work in each other's books for awhile...my friend picked the topic "Melancholy" and I froze at first, but once the thoughts started coming I just can't stop...I picked an old book on Paris and it has so many little sentences I can use right on the pages...it is so much fun.