February Calendar Girl

As I said in January I have decided to use an old calendar to do some girlie art work in. Here is my February page and I used fabric for her dress:

I am sharing my art work over at Paint Party Friday and Mix It Up monthly.

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Here are some more patterns for the #28patterns challenge:

Ledger Girl on Black

Tonight over at the PaperArtsy blog I share some of the process involved in creating this girlie portrait onto black gesso. I used JOFY new Fresco Paint colours and also added a few images from Emma Godfrey's new stamp designs.

 

 

I am also going to share my art work over at Paint Party Friday.

Journal Girl Page

 

Here is my art journal page for Week 7 of the documented life project. The theme was cover up so I worked on a gelli print background I had been saving and covered most of it up with my girl.

 

I am going to share my journal page over at Crafty Calendar, Our Creative Corner with their Tic Tac Toe (mine was stencils, stamps and paints) and AJED.

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Here are my patterns for Balzer Designs #28patterns:

Paint Party Friday

Here is a quick step by step project using 1 of  my new images for PaperArtsy. I choose one of the trio of backgrounds I made which had the white space in a place I liked! I have used my favourite technique of late wiping through a stencil.

I am sharing her over at Paint Party Friday.

Week 4...

of the documented life and my page uses the theme 'what lies beneath?' I did a little sketch and also used new PaperArtsy designer Emma Godfrey's new stamps. See more in THIS blog post.

I am also going to share this over at Art Journal Journey's with their 'bird, beast or human' challenge.

#28patterns

Those on instagram may have seen that Julie Balzer challenged people to join a #28patterns challenge through February. I liked the sound of that! Here are my patterns 1 to 7:

I even got a shout out with my day 2 pattern on Julie's blog HERE.

My last...

article for Unruly PaperArts. I have really enjoy my time as a columnist but time for pastures new. The theme for projects this month is 'Full Booked' and my project may be small but is packs a punch!

Smiling through the rain!

I am sharing one of my favourite projects that I made for my new PaperArtsy stamp launch. There are lots of layers of Fresco paints and I have rubbed background elements using stencils and baby wipes. Happy Paint Party Friday and That Craft Place challenge with anything goes!

                               

New Launch...

of four brand new stamp designs I have been working on for PaperArtsy and I think it is probably no surprise that they features lots of faces! I was very fortunate to be able to choose my own team of crafters/artists to work with my new designs. Here are my new designs and some samples I made for the NEC trade fair 'Stitches'.

I was very fortunate to be able to choose my own team of crafters/artists to work with my new designs. Here is some inspiration from them but please head over to their blogs to see more and also the PaperArtsy blog:

Lauren

Catherine

Julie

Susi

Here is a video Leandra has put together:

Inspire...

your heart with Art Day. Hosted by Unruly PaperArts. Make and share a new project that is all about about making something you love. Prizes up for grabs too so just go and share your project at the link up HERE which is open until 2nd February. Here is some artwork I created and I am also going to share my project over at Allsorts with their flower power theme.