Making Bath Bombs with Daddy

I just love, love, love it when my daughter texts me real time photos of her and her life happening over 2,700 km away. It makes me feel a little more connected, and that's always a good thing.

Season of Art 101 - Acrylics on Book Paper

How do you best learn how to do do something new? I learn best by doing ... show me what to do in a step by step process and I will give it a go! These simple pages come about as a result of Katie's Get Messy acrylic tutorial: playing with acrylic paints on pages ripped out of a book, just like Katie did! :-)

Art 101 - Layering Acrylics

I really enjoyed this week's Get Messy art tutorial by Pam Garrison on how to layer acrylics. Her step by step process was just what I needed. I'm pretty happy with my first attempt and will definitely be using these techniques again!

Art 101 - Acrylics: Mountain & Moon

This week it's all about acrylics in the Get Messy Community. Last night Andy and I went to "Glow", a light festival and this painting was inspired by one of the images I saw during the show.

Quality Time

My daughter Rachel posted this photo on her timeline, along with a conversation she had with my granddaughter Brynne. When I saw her post, I knew another scrapbook page would soon be in the making, and here it is. Rachel is a full time student pursuing a PhD, and even although she doesn't have much "free time", recognizes the importance of spending quality time with her daughters. I couldn't be more proud of her!

Season of Art 101 - Watercolours & Texture

Still playing with texture, thanks for this week's awesome Get Messy's texture tutorial by Riet. I spread some light molding paste through some bright orange plastic netting from a bag of oranges, to represent the wheat field in the foreground. Once that was dry, I used watercolours to create the background & add colour to the wheat field. Although this page does not do it justice, this is a typical view from the outskirts of Calgary looking west: rolling fields to the foothills and in the distance, the majestic Rocky Mountains.

December Daily 2016 - Completed!

I don't even know why I procrastinated finishing this album but I finished it up today & it's done, done, done. Hurray!

Art 101 - Texture!

Another textured background, this time created using light molding paste into which I pressed the bottom of a plastic vegetable container.

Art 101 - Creating Textured Background

This page was inspired by a Get Messy tutorial ... I started creating the background with yellow & bronze acrylic, applied with a credit card. I created some texture by partially leaving the credit card flat against the wet paint & lifting it off the page, but after it dried, the texture was too fine so I covered the page with a generous layer of white gesso which I squiggled through using the end of a paint brush, revealing the painted background below. After adding some black splatters, throwing in a few embossed gold splatters, and gluing on the sentiment, the page looked far from completed at which point I added in some more black, clustering cut arrow shapes about the page. To finish the page I added 3 black brads and added some bronze acrylic paint around the edges of the page.

Days 26-29

Almost done ...

Day 25

Day 25 ... no surprise this special day required a 2 page spread!

Season of Art 101 - A Dreamy Watercoloured Background

I'm so, so happy to be part of the Get Messy community. I am learning so much! This page was inspired after watching Sasha's video tutorial on how to create a dreamy watercoloured background. Once the page was dry, I added an image I clipped from a magazine, stamped on the scripture, and then played a bit more with watercolours and some water soluble oil pastels to complete the background and lastly, glued on some sequins and called it done!

Season of Art 101!

Hurray, the first season of 2017 has started with Get Messy ... Art 101! This week's art prompt: watercolours!

A few positive thoughts

Day 24

Another photo heavy day resulting in a 2 page spread :-)

Don't be a victim!

I experimented with masking fluid to create this watercoloured art journal page. I really like this quote that I found online. Probably the most challenging thing about negative self-talk is learning how to shut it down, but shut it down we must!

Day 23

Another photo heavy day ...

Baking is Love Made Edible!

I had fun creating this layout based on the HipKit weekly sketch challenge. I think my son-in-law Tyler will wholeheartedly agree with the title; he really enjoys baking and is rather awesome at it!