Asilomar Fatbook 2009 "Art & Soul Retreat"

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Here Comes PeterCottonTail

Mother always made a beautiful and delightful Bunny Cake for Easter Dinner! It was always such fun and all of us kids thoroughly enjoyed it and always felt a little funny EATING that Easter Bunny! Well, my video shows the 2nd Generation in honor of Mother's Easter Cake. I don't know if Mr. Bunny will still standing tomorrow morning or even in one piece so I took pictures tonight, just in case. The cake is a Pineapply Moist Cake mix and the cake used is by Nordic Ware. Great Pan! Lots of work to get it done but lots more fun than work!

Prototype Line Drawing for Quote Swap

Prototype Line Drawing - Quote Swap at CCSwaps hosted by Kathy Beringer. We are given a quote and are to create our own interpretation of the quote. The quote is "Hold Fast to Dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." By Langston Hughes

My Puppies! My Boys! Benji O'Hara McBryde (biege one) and Teddi McKenzie McBryde(white one).

Top of The MOrnin' Collage

My St. Patrick's Day collage is created using images from Ten Two Studios, The Original Printable Holiday Countdown. I don't know how Lisa Vollrath does this so many times a year! Lisa shares so much with all of us. Be sure to stop by her many websites, Ten Two Studios (www.tentwostudios.com), Go Make Something. She has beautiful collage sheets in her store.

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2009

Image credits to: http://countdown.tentwostudios.com

Art & Soul Retreat 2009 - Asilomar

I am hosting a Fatbook Swap for the Art & Soul Retreat in Asilomar, CA in May, 2009. These are a couple of pages I have designed for the book. (The top page is for the Artists page.)

The theme of this Swap is "Dancing Through the Decades." Each artists will be selecting a decade and then select a favorite dance and music during that decade and can further enhance the theme by adding the fads, fashions, and culture during that period of time. I can't wait to see their pages!

I haven't finished the cover, yet. I have it all layed out but it is still a work in progress!

DANCE LIKE NO ONE IS WATCHING.

Sunday Sunrise

 

Portland Fatbook Swap 2008

Make a Smilebox postcard

Having Fun with Stamping!

 

Altered Clock

 

TIME FOR ART: Calendars & Clocks

 
 
 
 

Altered Paper Mache Angels

Using paper mache Angel figures purchased from Oriental Trading Company, I coated with White Spray Gesso by Krylon. After letting that dry, the fun began. But, first I trimmed the Angel's hands. I didn't like the shape--thought they were too long.

Then for the first one, I sprayed the Angel with Willow Walnut Ink--heat set, and then sprayed with Terra Cotta. It took a long time for the Walnut Ink to dry even with a heat gun. And, then I discovered that the Walnut Inks grew lighter! Oh Well. Moving on, I reduced the size of the wings and made a template.

Using old music textbooks pages, I stamped the wings and the skirt piece then attached to the Angel. This Angel has a fiber halo with some scrapper's floss and a rose to hold. For Blue Bird Angel, I painted the sprayed gesso paper first with Quacker Grey acrlyic paint and then blended in French Blue. All the stamping on the music paper was stamped with the French Blue and then highlighted with Glacier Blue Opalite ink. The little tite she is holding is stamped on a game tile with Stazon.

From the Library Lounge Car:Vintage Advertisements 1923

Holeproof Hosiery Company -Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Women of Fashion prefer Holeproof Hosiery because it is beautiful --- sheer--- exquisite." Photoplay Magazine March, 1923
I am collector of anything that is old books. I am captivated by the engraving, the words, the illustrations, the line drawings, the colors, the paper--just everything. Recently, I have been collecting old magazines and have had the good fortune of finding some old film related magazines. The magazines I have collected so far are mainly in black and white but many of the advertisements are in color and are just beautiful.

I am sharing some of these advertisements with you. Please feel free to upload the photos for your personal use. Sometimes, "altering an ad" into something more current is great fun! If you do this from one of these, please share. I will be sharing more pages from these magazines over time so please stop back by, take in the seat in The ArTTrain's library lounge and enjoy the ride.
---Marian


















"My wife asked me to do this"
Palmolive Shampoo
by V. K. Cassady, B.S., M.S., Chief Chemist
Photoplay Magazine
September, 1923










"The Net of the Life-Like Lustre"
Gainsborough Genuine Hair Net
The Lyman Bros. & Co. Canada
Photoplay Magazine
September, 1923

" A Clean Tooth
Never Decays"

Tooth Brush Vintage Advertisement

Florence Manufacturing Company

Florence, Mass
Photoplay Magazine
March, 1923

6 X 6 Art Canvas: Inspired by Angela Cartwright

At the Art & Soul Retreat in Asilomar, California, this year, I took a class from Angela Cartwright entitled, "Working Small in a Big Way." We spent the morning making textured backgrounds and in the afternoon we began building a piece of art on a stretched 6 X 6 canvas using "inchies" we had created. This piece is totally inspired by Angela's class.
Instead of using "inchies" this time, I wanted to make a wall hanging for my black and white kitchen with some favorite quotes. To begin, I painted the entire canvas with Black Gesso. While that was drying, I stamped my pieces on Karen Foster scrapbook paper with Versamark and embossed in Black.
The original class we covered the entire 6 X 6 front with the inchies by gluing each piece down with a glue stick. Then, after we glued all the inchies down, we took a glue stick and went around each piece and then sprinkled embossing powder between each piece. For this piece I wanted to try something a little different. So, instead of covering the entire surface, I left open areas between the quotes and medallions. I used a quick dry Tacky Glue that comes in a slender tube with a pointy top. This really worked great for the glue around the edges for the embossing.

After each stamped piece was glued down, I ran a medium strip of glue around each piece edge and the sprinkled black embossing powder. This really gives alot of depth to the project. (If following the original class, I would have black embossed every open surface.) The edges of the canvas are also decorated with the paper and more quotes so you see something from every side. This class was lots of fun!

Thank you, Angela, for a great class and for this inspiration!

Happy Mother's Day Puzzle 2008

 
Happy Mother's Day! I made this wooden puzzle using 1 inch square blocks. Taking old photographs of my siblings and using a 1 inch on the computer, I printed the photos and then glued to the blocks, cutting the overall picture with an Xcto knife placing on the block and then finally coating each block with ModPodge glossy. Each of the six sides has a puzzle. I made a little booklet with a copy of each finished puzzle.

One Last Camellia

 
I have a beautiful Camellia bush that has grown into a tree outside my backdoor. Each year, the camellias bloom just like clockwork right about Christmas Day. They are a gorgeous color. This, I think, is the last one for the season. I will miss them!

Simple Demo on Fatbook Pages Creation

Alice in Wonderland Chunky Page