THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this exciting drawing!!! You are ALL winners to me!!!!! Dh#2 pulled an entry from the hat (so to speak!! LOL!!!) . . .Drumroll, please . . . the winner of the $25 Email Gift Certificate from Artbeads.com is SHIRLEY BOWERS!!!!! Woo!!! Hoo!!! CONGRATULATIONS, Shirley! May you have TOO MUCH FUN with your beaded treasures!!!!! ArtBeads.com will contact you for your $25 ArtBeads.com Email Gift Certificate . . . YOU ROCK, GF!!!! LOL!!!!!
What a great time for beaders! ArtBeads.com is sponsoring a drawing for their blog team designers (moi . . . LOL!!!!) to offer to their readers! All you have to do leave a comment on my blog with an EMAIL ADDRESS so that I can contact the winner!!! I will draw one winner after Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 12:01AM (PST)!! That's Washington's Birthday (I still have a little bit of school teacher left in me!!! LOL!!!) Good luck!!!!!
One of my many groups has two lotteries each month . . . this month was my turn and I elected to create a "Gold" card using acrylic paints . . . Images are from A Stamp in the Hand . . . First, I just took a piece of gold (not mirror gold) cardstock . . .
I put a small dab of acrylic paint on a non-stick teflon sheet and a big dab of acrylic glaze medium . . .
The two were mixed with a plastic palette knife . . .
Spread the length of the cardstock . . .
I labeled the back of the cardstock "top" and "bottom" . . . Lay the cardstock gold side down on the spreaded color . . .
Lifted the cardstock from the "bottom" . . .
Repeat with two other colors . . . I like to lift it in the same direction from the bottom for consistency . . . until I covered the cardstock with color leaving the gold cardstock showing in various places . . .
Here are samples . . . the first one is the original background for the card . . .
The second one is a second generation one with left over paint making it lighter . . .
The third sample is done on silver cardstock . . .
The fourth sample is done on watercolor paper . . .
These acrylic paints and mediums are so versatile and fun . . . I could play with them all day!!! LOL!!!
Hi Everybody! I am retired from being a second grade public school teacher . . . and although the kids made me laugh every day . . . now I get to aspire to my DREAM career . . .
an actress wanna be!!!!!!!!!!!
I also get to play with my mixed media goodies I've hoarded all these years!!
LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this exciting drawing!!! You are ALL winners to me!!!!!
What a great time for beaders! ArtBeads.com is sponsoring a drawing for their blog team designers (moi . . . LOL!!!!) to offer to their readers! All you have to do leave a comment on my blog with an EMAIL ADDRESS so that I can contact the winner!!! I will draw one winner after Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 12:01AM (PST)!! That's Washington's Birthday (I still have a little bit of school teacher left in me!!! LOL!!!) Good luck!!!!!
First, I just took a piece of gold (not mirror gold) cardstock . . .
I put a small dab of acrylic paint on a non-stick teflon sheet and a big dab of acrylic glaze medium . . .
The two were mixed with a plastic palette knife . . .
Spread the length of the cardstock . . .
Lay the cardstock gold side down on the spreaded color . . .
Lifted the cardstock from the "bottom" . . .
Repeat with two other colors . . . I like to lift it in the same direction from the bottom for consistency . . . until I covered the cardstock with color leaving the gold cardstock showing in various places . . .
The second one is a second generation one with left over paint making it lighter . . .
The third sample is done on silver cardstock . . .
The fourth sample is done on watercolor paper . . .
These acrylic paints and mediums are so versatile and fun . . . I could play with them all day!!! LOL!!! 
