Not much going on, but I did do a layout today for my very first ADSR race. Love the way it turned out and I got a chance to scrap about my friend Tangie, whom I love dearly!

Hi Everyone!

Tangie Baxter and I have collaborated on an incredible HUGE kit called Junque Journal. We were inspired by the color palette used by Sally Jean and I am so thrilled with the way it turned out. Did I mention that this kit is HUGE? We have 24 papers and 80+ elements. Hope everyone loves this kit as much as we do.

After all that, I STILL had elements left over. While I thought about saving them for a future kit, I decided they just go too well with Junque Journal and I just shouldn’t split them up. So my over-zelous designing means a little freebie for you! CLICK ON THE PIC to start the download

ENJOY!

Just a little fun give-away for an extremely short amount of time. Just to give my blog readers a little bit of fun, I am giving away (as in FREEBIE) these digitalized, hand-painted art journal papers that were part of painting exercises in a Roxanne Padgett class at JournalFest. Click on the image below to start the download!

If you miss out on the freebie part, the papers will be in my shop on Friday at a very small, penny-saving price

So I have tried the Art Journaling where words are written entirely over the background of my pages. It’s just not me. My preference is to use imagery symbolicly and infer meaning through the use of my materials. What the heck am I talking about? In Rain Fall, the ledger paper is a cool paper background, but ledger paper is also used for accountability; we are accountable for our actions. The white notepaper elements with the hand drawn doodles is cut from a letter written to me from my mother, kept from my collage days. That alone is fraught with meaning and symbolism. Home Sweet Home is what we all fantasize about having. But reality is the Rain is Always on the Horizon. The tissue paper with the vertical lines implies the bars of a prison, the ones that kept me in my “Sweet Home” of youth, that prevented my escape from the storms that gathered there. 

Although all the elements ended up being too close in color range, the colors still make me happy. Contrast will have to come naturally in a different page, cuz it didn’t happen on this one. Used nupastels, gesso, copic markers, charcoal pencil, signo uni-ball white gel pen, rotring ink pen, erengi oil pastels (absolutely LOVE these).

BTW, the house and clouds are coming up in Feb.’s A2A kit and the numbered background will show up soon in a collab I’m doing with Tangie.

Fall Guy was a page that I did during Anahata’s class at JournalFest. I loved Anahata’s class. It was all about intuitive selective process. Don’t think, just let your mind wander and layer and paint without intention. Anyway, love how Fall Guy evolved. The convict is a stencil I hand cut using an antique photo of a prisoner’s mug shot. I spray painted with flat black on regular old sketch paper then cut him out. The leaf is from WA where I picked it up while walking around. Used acrylics, golden gel medium, neo colors II, my rotring ink pen.

While I should have been working on a new collab that Tangie and I have planned, I was playing with my Art Journal instead. I’m still trying to “find” my own style and I think this one is getting closer. I’m discovering I don’t have to cover every single inch of the background and will still be happy with the results. Oh, and that Blue Haired lady is a new paper that will be released with SA’s A2A for February.

As a side note, Patty Anne, I am LOVING, freaking LOVING, my new Copic Markers. Now I want ALL of them

just a little element kit. playing around with vintage dictionary pages, gesso, and my rotring pen. love how they turned out.

Today I went shopping at DickBlick. I am so super excited because I had printed off 2 store coupons for 40% off. I went wild and got two, TWO, copic sketch marker sets. That’s 144 gorgeous alcohol based markers. I discovered them when I took Anahata’s class at JournalFest. Dang, they write over everything. Incredible! So there goes my entire art budget for the next 6 months. But they are so cool. So check back in a couple of days and look for BASIC SPOTS 2. and borders. and maybe some frames. and a doodled flower or two…

Sometimes life, well, sucks. You get in a fight with your husband. Or your daughter tells you she hates you because you have to ground her. Your son cries everytime you make him do his chores. And all the hurt bottles up inside and there’s no where for it to go. Constructively, anyways. So last week, I just needed to let go of some of those feelings. Hope the page doesn’t scare you too much.

Hi Everyone!

This week, I finally had time to repackage the Enchanted Art Box, a wonderful collab that Tangie and I put together a while ago. Since it is “new” to SA, it is on sale for 20% off until midnight tonight. 

 

And I also want to share some incredible layouts from my Creative Team. I am always just floored by how beautiful they make my products look.

Bec: (T)Art Doll

using:
Ultimate Art Doll by sherrieJD and Tangie Baxter
ARTist to ARTist Bad Fog Chalk by SherrieJD
Hollie Day Art Doll Add On by sherrieJD and Tangie Baxter
ARTist to ARTist Bad Fog Papers by SherrieJD
ARTist to ARTist Bad Fog Ink by SherrieJD
Junk Yard by sherrieJD
Santa Cutie by sherrieJD
Rudolf Jive by sherrieJD
Shew Fly Shew by sherrieJD

Madi (Diane): The Milkman

Studio Remnants by sherrieJD and Studio Tangie
Labels Vol. 3 by sherrieJD

Madigirl (Maya): 2001

Studio Remnants collab by SherrieJD and Studio Tangie
12 Deck by SherrieJD (Altered Hearts Freebie)
Yippee Ki Yay collab by SherrieJD and Studio Tangie
Viva Frida collab by SherrieJD and Fidellette
Tickets by SherrieJD
Teen Angst by SherrieJD
Teal Time collab by SherrieJD and Studio Tangie
Sun Shine collab by SherrieJD and Studio Tangie
Bad Fog by SherrieJD
Shew Fly Shew by SherrieJD
Santa Cutie by SherrieJD
Red All Over collab by SherrieJD and Studio Tangie
Paddy Whack collab by SherrieJD and Studio Tangie
Nightmare collab by SherrieJD and Faith True
Make Merrycollab by SherrieJD and Studio Tangie
Junk Yard by SherrieJd
French Twist by SherrieJD
Cu Labels Vol3 by SherrieJD

FlawedPurfektion (Sheena):

Credits: All from SherrieJD

Hollie Day Art Doll Add On available at ScrapArtist
Santa Cutie available at ScrapArtist
Joy and Glee available at ScrapArtist
Christmas Santa Claus available at ScrapArtist
Santa’s Angel available at ScrapArtist
Christmas Frames 1 available at ScrapArtist

Kate (Kate): Stretch Yourself

artist to artist bad fog papers
artist to artist Bad fog alpha
artist to artist bad fog ink
artist to artist bad fog chalk by SherrieJD @ Scrap Artist

We headed into Chick-Fil-A for a quiet, leisurly dinner after a rousing performance of our daughter’s Grade School Chorus.

Sad, but true, this little guy was a Twisted Red Poodle Reject. His tail was not Balloon Animal perfection and he was tossed out with the, well, wife. And how do we know the difference between a Twisted Red Poodle Boy and a Twisted Red Poodle Girl? Why the eyelashes, of course.

Little did we know that the show would continue with an udderly entertaining balloon artist, disguised as comedian, disguised as a clown! Twinklz was the entertainment line-up at our local eatery last night.  We didn’t quite catch Twinklz last name and I didn’t have a camera with me to document all the wit, but it was over the top thoroughly entertaining.

So thanks Chick-Fil-A and Thanks Twinklz. No really, thank you…. no, no, no, you… really, thanks. It’s my blog and I get to have the last thanks!