Claudine Hellmuth's Black Gesso & GIVE-A-WAY

Today my daughter and I went to an art journaling class with our fabulous teacher Karen Bearse!! The theme this month was on Claudine Hellmuth's Black Gesso by Ranger We had a great time playing with it, it's so smooth and creamy, I just love it. 
Anyway, I figured that since we were playing with it and it's such a neat product and to celebrate having over 100 fabulous followers on my blog that I would do another give-a-way!! YAY!! 
Here are the fun pages my Daughter and I did with the gesso:

This is the page that I did

This is the fabulous page that my daughter did. She used the black gesso on the entire page and then used a stencil and then some acrylic paints and dotted them inside the stencil, it turned out so cool.

 

 

So in order to win a brand new bottle of this wonderful product (and this is the large bottle too, no small stuff here )

1. You have to be a follower of my blog

2. Leave a comment to this post. :-) I want to hear from my followers!!

3. LEAVE YOUR EMAIL - the last winner hasn't checked my blog and I haven't been able to award her her prize so please leave me your email address or a way to get a-hold of you.

The drawing will be in the morning on Valentine's Day Feb. 14th. 

Thanks for following and good luck to everyone.

*Please only comment once - I moderate my comments so if it doesn't show up right away don't worry, it will show up soon.

 

Atcs I've been working on

I have been frantically working on ATCs this week. Here are a few that I've finished. 

Blogger, please stop turning my pictures sideways!!! LOL

This one was for the Raven swap on ATC_FUN, I love the way it turned out.

The next project I've been working on is my recycled charm swap. These were made out of cardboard that had been painted and sprayed and also some paper towel that was spritzed with glimmer mists. They were so much fun to do. I added small beads and a brad.

 

Art Journaling Pages

I have been working on several fun things lately and one of them is my art journal. I'm really loving putting this journal together. I wanted to do a sort of calendar journal so I started one this past Jan. Here are a few of my pages so far....

Well Blogger decided to turn my pictures sideways again and I have no idea why but this pic is of my February page and it's sideways lol....

These are my March Pages, I haven't added the March on top yet, that comes next. My daughter's Birthday is on March 30th so I have done some flowers around that day. :)

Thank you Valerie!!

I want to take a moment and give some KUDOS to Valerie Brinchek for my new blog look. She did such an amazing job and it really expresses my love for Steampunk, THANK YOU VAL!!!
Val has a blog here:  The Sum of All Crafts and also an amazing etsy store here:  Necklaces ...

Kudos to you Val!!! Your amazing.
 

Grungy Monday 35

So I had to do some ATCs yesterday for a corrugated Valentine swap and I thought I would incorporate the Grungy Monday challenge of the week along with this one. Linda over at Studio L3 has challenged us to do a Tim inspired ATC!! It's right up my alley. 

I used Tim's distress stains to stain the cardboard first and then tore some of it to expose the inside of the corrugated cardboard. Then I cut the butterfly out of one of Tim's movers and shaper dies and also used the cardboard for that as well. I sprayed that with the Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists. I drug a paintbrush across the top with white paint and then used a template of Tim's heart die cut to paint the heart. The "Love" stamp was from Michael's dollar bin. I used some really thin wire to make the butterfly's antenna. I topped it all of with Ranger's Perfect Pearl spray.

My Birthday Giveaway yay!!!

I want to thank you all for stopping by my blog and sharing your last Birthday fun with me!! It was so much fun reading about everyone's celebrations. Thank you for taking the time to post and also look through my blog and leave comments. I really cherish my blog friends. I now have over 100 followers, yay!!
So the winner of the Tim Holtz set of inks is: 

Mary-BethJan 31, 2012 03:43 PM

Congratulations and a very Happy Birthday to you Claudine and this is a wonderful giveaway. I wasn't able to get this set when it was being sold so I'm very glad to have a chance to win one!!! I have become a follower!

Congrats Mary-Beth - please email me with your mailing info and I will get these to you in the mail tomorrow along with a little surprise as well.


So in honor of reaching over 100 followers I will be doing another giveaway next week so keep watching out for that everyone!!! See ya soon, :)
Claudine

ATC's That I Have Been Working On

While we are all waiting for my blog give-a-way I have been working on some ATCs for a swap on the Ink Stains With Roni Blog - The theme for this one is "general", so I can basically do what I want on them. Boy did I run with that. haha!! I went with a sort of Wendy Vecchi theme, I love her stamps. I also used Tim Holtz Distress stains on these and made a background for the first ATC, the stamp is from Hero Arts and the I just used the stains to dot each spot. I stamped the flowers and then embossed them and colored them with distress stains. On the 2nd one, I used sticky back canvas, by Claudine Hellmuth, to stamp the flower and then adhered it to a piece of grunge paper and then cut it out. I again, used the distress stains to color the flower and stamped again for the words on the petals. The background it just some layered stamps and the "Art" word is from a Wendy Vecchi set and I stamped it on Tim Holtz Cordinations grunge paper.  Hope you like them.