Showing posts with label step outside your box saturdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label step outside your box saturdays. Show all posts

Monday, May 26, 2008

Experimenting with Acrylic Paints

Last Friday . . . dh#2 was away for most of the day . . . so I was able to invite some of the retired teachers/stamping buddies over to play . . . I served my FAMOUS Costco pizza and Bag 'O Salad (salad that comes in a bag!!! LOL!!!!)!


We played for 6 - 11 hours . . . I decided to experiment with some techniques I found in Chris Cozen's ALTERED SURFACES, her new AWESOME book . . . but as I was telling Lisa Gifford, an internet stamping buddy who owns STEP OUTSIDE YOUR BOX SATURDAYS, an internet mixed media challenge group . . . I was too CHICKEN to use my expensive paints so I used Liquitex BASICS to start off my experiments with . . .


I used modeling paste . . . stencils . . . string gel (also known as tar gel) . . . splattered paint with a silicon basting brush I bought 2 for a dollar at the dollar store . . . scraped paint with an old credit card thingy (Traci Bautista technique) . . .


Do you like it?

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Cecilia Charm

Lisa Gifford, owner of Step Outside Your Box Saturdays, challenged her group with creating a charm this week . . . Mine is inspired by Sharon Diskin of LuminArte . . . the Cecilia image is by Cherry Pie and the words are by Hero Arts