Zenspirations Monogram "B" (Zens #30)

Now I'll start with a quick post to show you how my progress with monograms is going.  Now I'm trying my hand at the letter B.  This one was easier to start and finish than the letter A.  As always I colored mine with gel pens and here are some pictures of a few B's I did!

I am going to try the letter C next and see it I can be a good student and finish my alphabet. :)

For information about Zenspiration click HERE and it will direct you to Joanne Fink blog where you can find all kinds of information.  I also have a Google Community dedicated to Zenspiration, where I would love you to join and share your Zenspirations!

Thanks for visiting and take great care of yourself...finding something to smile and feel content about is what gets you through the hard times!

WonderingMindField

Pocket Letter #2

"Butterflies" Themed Pocket Letter #2

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." - Helen Keller 

Materials:

-Mixed Media Paper

-Prima  Bloom Stencil (Sharon)

-Blick Modeling paste

-Assorted dictionary papers

-Reeves acrylic paint: deep turquoise

-TimHoltz paper washi tape

-Dylusions spray paints:  squeezed orange, postbox red, crushed grape and pure sunshine

 I first created this pocket letter to try something different, which is to create a journal page then cut it up and create a pocket letter out of it!

This page started with mixed media paper that was covered in dictionary paper, washi tape, and stencils to add background texture.  I then covered the page with Reeves acrylic paint (deep turquoise) and then with modeling paste I use the Prima stencil to create the image.

Using modeling paste adds dimension and texture to the piece.  I thought about coloring the entire piece but decided to just let the background come through the piece.

The butterflies were painted with Dylusions spray paints and a fine bush to keep the paints on the lines.  After I used a guillotine cutter to make sure to cut the page in 9 pieces each 2.5 inches wide by 3.5 inches long.  This is the standard sizes of he trading card protector used to create the pocket letter.

When cutting the piece I lightly traced the section on he piece to make sure I could preserved the image as best as possible so when put in the pocket the image still look pleasing.  This is the reason the words where glued last after the piece was cut to make sure I could keep them together.

The back of the pocket letter is filled with all kind of goodies and useful things you like to give the recipient of the letter.  I filled mine with washi tape samples, tea, clips, tags, post-it, twine, stickers, wood embellishments, and a little enveloped filled with more stickers and embellishments.

I do like the back of my pocket letters to be pleasing to look at without too much work so I stamped leaves and used kraft paper.  This way when all the goodies are taken the page still looks finished.

I hope the recipient of this pocket letter likes it and enjoys the goodies. This is a lovely way to express yourself and let others get to know you through art.  For more pocket letter information visit the pocket letter pals network.

Thank you for visiting this corner of my art soul and hope you come back.  Take care and always enjoy the journey!

Wonderingmindfield

"Lady Dress" Journal

I have been away too long.  Life can be quite a struggle when you are juggling too many things in the air.  One of them is bound to fall and you are so distracted by everything else that you forget about it.

My crafts and my creative soul have suffered greatly in the last few months and it wasn't until my daughter pointed out that I haven't been in my studio for over a month that it really hit me how much I had been neglecting something I love doing.

Finishing school, getting a new job and still having a second job and trying to take care of family has left me with very little time for anything else.

But over this Christmas (by the way, hope your Holidays were happy ones!) I got quite a few supplies for crafting as gifts and it gave me a spur of energy to get back to blogging and creating in my little corner of the world.  So in the next few weeks I will be posting some old posts I've saved but never posted work and work on some nee things.

I purchased a Cinch by Memory Keepers and my first try at it was this journal.  I actually created this journal a while back and put it in a box and forgot all about it.  I was re-organizing my studio and found it!

For this cover I used:

• dress form from my Brother Scan n Cut patterns.
• dress form from Fiskar patterns.
• Dylusions "around the corner" stamps
• Washi tape by Tim Holtz
• Tim Holtz layering stencil (eye exam)
• dictionary pages
• Reeves vermillion acrylic paint
• Dylusions "dirty martini" spray paint.
• Stampendous! TC01-Marble Texture Cube
• Drywall tape
• Neocolor II crayons

What I did:

1. Decoupage the dictionary pages and washi tape to the chipboard and added some drywall tape strips as well as stamped marble texture to the background.  I diluted the vermilion acrylic paint with water and colored the whole thing.  

2.  I cut out heart and used stamps and drywall strips to decorate.  I cut them in half and glued them around the cover. 

3.  The dress from was also decorated with the same stamps and color as the background except I did not dilute the paint.

4.  The dress was a pattern on the Brother Scan n Cut machine and decorated with smaller hearts and Dylusions "vine" (mini).

5.  All the aging and black shadowing was done with Neocolor II crayons.

6.3  The inside of the cover was decorated with the paints and stamps as the cover with the exception of drawing larger heart s and coloring them with black Neocolor II crayon.

7.  I cut out drawing papers to the size of the cover and then used the Cinch machine by We r Memory Keepers to bind the journal together.

Overall It think is not a bad first attempt at using this machine.  i like the wire bound look and hope to get the chance to use this machine more often.

For more information on the Cinch you can visit their website or look at We r Memory Keepers YouTube channel.

Thanks for visiting this corner of my world and have a safe day.  Take care!

WonderingMindField