Watercolors

Just thought I'd share a little tutorial for ya today! Wet on wet watercolor! I LOVE to play with watercolors this way.

Just a cheap-o set from wal-mart.

Wet the paper with lots of water.

Wet the brush with water and paint and just touch it to the paper and it just bleeds or wick, what ever you want to call it, I just love to watch it! Weird I know.

Add more colors and watch them blend and bleed or wick together! Add more water as you go if needed to keep the paper wet. Keep your brush pretty drippy sometimes too.

Then use salt. I had this on hand so it's what I used.

Sprinkle some in your hand and sprinkle it on the paper.

Especially in the puddles of water and paint. The salt soaks it up.

Let it dry or you can use a heat gun to speed it up, but I like to let it do it's own thing. That's why I do this before I go to bed and when I wake up ,I have a nice surprise!

Then you scrape off the salt and you get this.

And this! So fun! Now go make some art people! We need something perty to look at!

toot tooot!!!

So yesterday was a pretty darn good day! I did a little shopping with my girls and I did go to the book store but didn't see this one, until I got home and it was in my mailbox!!

 WOW! So excited to see this in print! So cool!

 Love the way they layed it out and everything!!

 Yep,I even posted it to Facebook!

I can't wait to get some other things done so I can send them in as well! Am I hooked? I think so! Not trying to toot my own horn but, I'm proud of myself!

 I hope you all had a great weekend!

Dreams

Much better pictures! I kinda like this one!

I thought this triangle needed to be a shark!

Well the picture is better than the scan, but it was so cloudy and rainy yesterday it was  hard to get a really good one.

As you can tell my son never wants his picture taken. EVER. I was quick enough to get his eyes in this one. When he grows up his kids are gonna be like, "Dad, you have eyes! We can see them in this picture!" If I would've kept to my dreams of my youth, why I would be a fashion designer! I wonder what happened to all those fashions I drew out? I had tons of them! This was in highschool too! Well I may not be a fashion designer, but I am an artist and my family is the best creation I've ever made!

Valentines Day flowers. They are so pretty, to bad they won't last long. I can't wait till spring!

There has been alot of this going on. Lookin out the window watching the world go by. I made a scan of my new page in my journal, but I'm going to redo it. It looked blurry on here. So I'll do that tomorrow, just wanted to say "hey"!!!

Stop and smell them.

So finally here is another journal page. I swear this winter is horrible for me! If there is something I can catch, I catch it! I was sick AGAIN this week! I cannot wait till spring to open some windows and let in some fresh air!

As you can tell a little in this photo she has a little sparkle going on. I used some glitter gel pens to jazz her up!

I like the pop of red in this one.

I can't wait to smell my roses! I do stop and smell them everyday too!

Just a little peek at the next page! I hope everyone has a great day!

Sharing a "new" old photo

Just wanted to share a little boy I found at the antique store the other day. He's a very well dressed little fella isnt' he? It's a beautiful day here, 60 degrees! Where is winter? It's in Alaska at -65!!  It can stay there! Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

You are not alone!

Uh sickness has been in this house forever it seems like! My husband was sick then me and Meagan then hubby again! So finally I can make a post! New journal page, you are not alone.

I like this eh, ok I guess.

I do like the background though. I took a white gel pen and "wrote" all over the background. What does it say? Not a darn thing I just made scribbles like I was writing.

I do like the flap as well. But I didn't plan on it reading as, you are not family! lol!

Oh well on to another page later. You can see a peek at the bottom of the this one!