A New Gig

Howdy Folks, I am back, with big news.

 If you haven't been following my Instagram or Facebook,

 you may have missed the TCW 2018-2019 DT announcement.

Wooooot to me!

Of all the mixed media products in my stash, my The Crafters Workshop collection, 

would have to be my most used and beloved tools.

I am super excited to be joining the team and playing with new 2018 summer releases.

While I patiently wait, I'm sharing a few older pieces I have created using TCW stencils.

Thanks for dropping by. 

Lisa xx

A few Arty Journal pieces

Sharing a few art Journal Pieces from the last few months ..

 I've been a very slack Blogger .

Doing a little catch up today,in the last days of my 2 week creative working holiday .

I've been to lovely Victor Harbour in South Australia for 5 days , back home and then up to the Hunter Valley here in NSW for another 5 days of creative fun, with some of my creative besties . 

Check my Instagram feed for all the fun.

A little watercolour fun after work.

I love these Prima Watercolour sets, this one is Tropical.

After a rough in with watercolour , out comes the acrylics and a little stencil rub back

A class project from a few months ago, lots of lovely colourful heart layering onto black pages..

Love the effect .

Thanks for Dropping By..

I'll be back , sooner than you know it .

Art Angel

Howdy Bloggers. Here today to share a mistake made right.

You know those times when you make a background and its not at all what you wanted.

Yeah this is one of those pages .

I vomited colour onto a page and it was blerrrrr. 

wtf do I do with this mistake??

Well, firstly hit it with a little Colour Blast coloured texture and look at it as an Art Journal piece. 

I drew in a face ,body then added a wing to make the most of the  colour and texture on the page,added some house paint drips, waited till it was dry and painted out the background.

Because it was a 12"x 12" page and NOT in my art journal ,

 turning it into a Layout was an after thought .

Here's the piece before scrapping it .

A little stamping, some Stabio pencil magik, a few butteflies ,muslin,tissue paper 

plus a few embellies highlight this Art Journal Scrap Page about Camp Mojos dressup night 2015 and sharing it with my Charlies Angels roomies, Jo and Peg.

         Have you every created a mistake that you made good? 

Share a link with me, Id love to see it !

getting my artJOURNAL on

 "Keep busy doing the things you love and destiny will find you"

 Howdy Bloggers , another art journal update.

Do you struggle finding appropriate words to incorporate on to your art journal pieces?

I'm not a big lover of cliches,or single word titles(not that i haven't used them before) but finding something that is interesting and works with my pieces is sometimes difficult.

For these two pieces I've grabbed my phone and googled 'life & love' quotes for the above piece and 'heart' for this piece below.Up pops a a plethora of known and obscure quotes and one finds the best quote that work for ones piece.

" Let my soul smile through my heart ,

 and my heart smile through my eyes,

that I may scatter rich smiles to sad hearts "

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For this piece I tried to make it a little random.

So I love listening to music when i get arty,it helps my work flow

 and I find it inspiring to the whole creative process.

This week here in Oz ,it was Australia Day and 

the annual Triple J Hottest 100 is always a part of our celebration.

As I'm listening to the radio,I wanted to create a piece that incorporated words into my background. so I shazzam'd the Courtney Barnett song on the radio, Pedestrian At Best and used the words within the song to facilitate the background and the direction of the piece.

From that ,this Silhouette piece was born.

I would love to know how you add journaling to your art?