Monday Morning and I am ready to get in to the studio and produce!!
I want to work on some clay this morning as I am wanting to get back to my roots....molds and altering....going to be a good day....

I have been playing with toilet paper molds today....I have Pam Carriker's book
Art at the Speed of Lite and she has lots of neat techniques in the book; this being one of them.  I thought I would show you that now you buy toilet paper not to use in the bathroom but in the studio room....the toilet tubes for journals and the tissue for molds...
I didn't cut them really close and well because they still are a little damp and this is my first crack at doing this.  It sure is fun..the hearts are made from the toilet tissue..the fleur de lis was made from the backing of napkins.  I have a napkin one drying and decided I would let it dry naturally until tomorrow morning.  I also have a face from a polymer clay mold drying and will leave that one until tomorrow...the leaves one I sprayed after it was almost dry to see what Glimmer Mist would be like on it...I only did a couple of sprays so the next time I will do more...I did the little flower out of patterned tissue paper and it came out okay but it was too hard to cut out because of the pattern so I will try on some plain tissue next....Thanks Pam...this is going to be lots of fun to do and to add the embellisments to cards and other projects....
Any questions you have just email me....
So instead of working on my swaps I played....me bad!!!

Here is another tag for the swap.

I am doing a fabric journal and tag swap on our Mixedmediaart group.  This is one of the tags I did for one of my partners...This has been so much fun and I am almost ready to start putting my journal together....

I just couldn't help myself making this card for Jacob's 15th b'day.  He is a big Tim Burton fan as I am also and so  I had to put his head in this custom (I think it was a Dover download)...see his lucky #7 at the edge of his cloak...

I have been working with different techniques lately and having so much fun with them.  Here is a postcard I made for a special friend.  The tree image is printed on fabric...I love printing on fabric....

Next we have a picture painted and collaged by my grandson for art in highschool...I learn so much from Nicole and Jacob's art. I never took art courses in school and the kids learn so much today.

Here is Nicky and the team in Pittsburg where, on a tournament won all of their games and came home proud with the trophy.

here is a picture of my grandaughter. She plays hockey on the boy's team Meadowvale Mohawks.  She won the shovel a couple weeks ago for player of the game.  Nicole is an avid Hockery player and is determined to be in the olympics one day.

Here is Step 2....the horse and girl are my paintings and the other is a mixed digital I played with....

Good Morning World! The sun is shining and it is warm and beautiful outside. That alone should make us smile.

Step one

Well this morning I revamped the technique on the paper towel that was on youtube...when I was pulling the top layer of napkin off it was going okay but one little area caught and made a hole...and the bottom layer of towel was stuck to the cardstock...didn't like the fact that I was wasting a piece of cardstock so I decided to try it this morning without the adhesive and just with tape....here are the pictures of doing it this way....came out perfectly and I can resuse the cardstock.....