February Fave

This was my favourite project in February - mainly because I got to play, play, play. Plus the colours were so happy and smiley.

Project: Canvas Art Bag (I converted a canvas book into a bag. Its for containing all my paintbrushes, pencils, scissors and other art materials - yeah, as if it can all fit in there - haha)

For this project, I used Claudine Hellmuth Studio acrylic paints and made lots of happy colourful washes of colour on the canvas (a bit like watercolour). Then I collaged lots of pictures and whimsical details on the outside using Claudine Hellmuth Studio gloss medium.

A closer look at the outside


Discoveries:
1. Claudine Hellmuth's Studio acrylic paints are really cool - even though you dilute them down, the colours are still super vibrant and rich - really nice.

2. Crepe Paper is really nice incorporated into a collage - the gel medium turns it translucent and it makes beautiful layers.

3. I am abnormally averse to glitter - everyone in my class rubbed stickles over all their pages to get sparkly backgrounds, unlike me who only used it on one page.

Inside page: with elastic for holding pens and brushes.
Did a medium transfer on the canvas with a photocopied photo.
Pocket Pages:
No, its not your eyes (or my camera) - I made it blurry on purpose - stamped in the wash while wet. (And that's why there's fish - cos its wet - haha)
Hope you all had fun at class and felt like an artist for the day - I certainly did.

Mess Mess Mess, I love to make a Mess

I've been doing quite a bit of messing around for March's stamping technique class. Here's a few sneaks:

A bit of the cover... (its actually much dirtier than this - I chose the cleanest part to show you - haha)

Very Happy Accident - guess how I got those flowers in the background

Quite a bit of cooking involved
Cool material to try out Funny but fun technique:Had a lot of fun with techniques on this one. Nyah nya, don't tell you what I used - you'll have to come to class! Tsk tsk so childish Sharon.

And speaking of teasers, check out what Tia is saying about her class at Creative Escape! So exciting! You guys signed up yet?

Die Die Must Attend!!!

I am trying to say this very calmly but it's just not possible:

Donna Downey is coming - she's teaching a mixed media round canvas class (Swoon!)
Kah-Mei Smith is coming - she's teaching a mini album stamping technique class (WoooHooo!)
Tia Bennett is coming - she's teaching a freestyle mini album class with some hybrid digital stuff (Faint!!!)

They'll all be coming to Singapore to an event organised by Laine's on 25th April.

So, you HAVE TO COME!!!! You HAVE TO COME!!! Tell all your scrapbooking friends - this is the first time we ever had so many wonderful guests coming together - its a super rare opportunity! It is going to be SOOOOOO great!

Details here

Forgive me while I go hyperventilate now.

This Needs Photos

Here's some full pics of the "Year in Review" album I designed for February class. We just finished the last class of this and I hope everyone had a good time.

Album Title: "Older and Hopefully Wiser - The Year in Review"
I really love this colour combi - Teal and brown - lovely. Don't you just love that Oliver Owl to bits? And did you know Betty embossed owls and stamped images for every single person in class?This album's made up of all kinds of different chipboard and cardstock pages and plastic pockets a-la-Ali Edwards. (Pages mostly from 7G pages meant for the carousel). Hey, did you notice my dirty black fingerprint on the library pocket?! tsk tsk so messy Sharon)Tags plus gaffer tape = instant mini book.A gaffer tape -hinged flip book, with plastic pockets too.Love this colour of glimmer mist - Patina + Meadow Green + Twilight

Hope your weekend is restful.