Pocket Letter #3: "Summer Time"

Pocket Letter #3:  "Summer Time"

This pocket letter was the first mixed media pocket letter I made, even if it was not the first I sent.

I love creating pocket letters doing this because it gives them an element of puzzle.

There were however a few mistakes made along the way.  The good thing is that I learned from those mistakes and my other mixed media pocket letter came out better.

The most important thing I learned was to make a template of the 9 pocket on the page before placing or creating the important features of the pocket letter.

On my next PL I lightly traced with a pencil 9 squares (2.5 x 3.5) after creating the background.  This help to greatly with the placement of the words.

Words are a very important aspect of my pages so making sure to know where the cuts are going to be will help me in the future to have a more pleasing and complete pocket letter image.  As you can see my message got a little cut up on this pocket letter.

Some materials I used were:  Zenspirations stencil, summertime seahorse stencil, Dylusions letter stencils (background), and some sea shell stencils for the images in the background.  Other materials are mixed media paper and Reeves deep turquoise acrylic paint.

As you can see mistakes are just learning opportunities!!!

Thanks for coming this way and visiting and remember that in art there are never mistakes but opportunities for beautiful things.

WonderingMindField

Mixed Media Card #5

For this card I used the following materials:

1. Dylusions "around the corner" stamps.
2. Dylusions "vibrant turquoise" spray paint.
3. FolkArt:  yellow light, magenta, gray and berry wine acrylic paints
4. Music sheet paper, dry wall tape strips, and modeling paste.
5. Tim Holtz washi tape
6. Black card stock.

For this card I decoupaged the music sheets, drywall tape, washi tape and stamped leaf vines to mixed media paper.  All of it was painted with the "vibrant turquoise" spray paint.  Because I wanted the hearts to be the focal point I did not do too much to the background on the right side of the card.

The hearts were decorated with the acrylic pains and I added dry wall tape and stamps to add texture.  Cut them out and glued them to the card.  The words were printed on white card stock and then cut out and glued to the card.  With a Uniball black pen I highlighted the words and hearts to give them dimension.  

I used a stencil and modeling paste to add more texture to the background.  I made this card to keep for when I needed to express my feelings when a loved one was going through a rough time.

Can thank you enough for stopping by and letting me share my passion with you.  Have a great day and always remember to express your creativity.

WonderingMindField

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

Zentangle Tile #22 (Tangle-Pattern.com String #6)

Tile #22 and part of my Tangle Pattern.com String Challenge is complete!   This is "String #6" in the Strings sections of Tangle-Pattern.com, which is run by Linda Farmer.

This string, as you can see on the picture below, had an "s" shape to it. I wanted to use tangles that were not to intricate and give the tile a unclutter look to it.  Some of my other tiles had one too many tangles :(

Tangles used are:

Bales - on this tangle I omitted the small dot in the middle.  I found it a little distracting.

Cadent - this particular tangle had very versatile style.  If you click on the link you will see a few variations to this tangle.

Tipple - I drew a variation that resemble bubbles.  This a great filler for those spaces you don't know what to do with.

Is always very relaxing to create these little works of arts.  Give it a try!  have a great day and as always thank you for visiting!

WonderingMindField

Zenspirations Monogram "A" (Zens#29)

Colored

Boy was it a shock to me when all of a sudden on my lunch break at work and I grabbed a little square piece of drawing paper and drew this letter.  I had no thought or expectations and all of it sudden it all came together!

The short story is that I have been trying to draw the letter A in a Zenspiration style for the longest time and it was disaster uglier disaster.  I gave up!!!  What was different this time?  I think the fact that I did not have the book in front of me and I wasn't looking at anyone else's monogram as reference.  I just went with the flow and did not do too bad.  I did drew another just to reassure myself I could do it again.  :)ha!

With a yellow and blue gel pen I added some color.  Overall, I am please with my progress, maybe now I can move on and tackle the letter B!  Ahi!

Thanks for the visit and always remember that progress is better slow and steady than none at all!  Have a blessed day!

WonderingMindField