Using an Experience Homework

This is for the Alisa Burke Sketch Class, "Using an Experience" homework. I chose a pic from our cruise to Puerto Rico. I don't really know what I was doing with the floating trees, but there they are.

More Repeating Shapes

Just another quick try for the repeating shapes homework from the Alisa Burke sketch class. I love that this is only a Micron pen and an aquapen used for this and I still got some good shading.

this is my inspiration for this sketch. it is a chair from West Elm.

Cool Tools Week: Embossing & Debossing Challenge

This is for the Moxie Fab Cool Tools Week: Embossing & Debossing Challenge. I just received my new PTI Filigree Border die. I used a rubber mat to see what it would look like embossed, and loved the back side better: debossed!
I stamped the sentiment from PTI Take Three: Summer, then stamped off 2x. The flower is A Muse Marigold Solid that I stamped in Memento Lady Bug then used Versamark and clear embossing powder and then cut out the whole flower.
So, this card has the border DEBOSSED and the flower is clear EMBOSSED! It has both!!

Class Challenge: Repeating shapes

This is my inspiration pic for my latest sketch class challenge. The pillow is from The Textile Blog which has some pretty cool shapes and pattern work.

We were supposed to draw a repeating pattern, and make it go to the edges of the paper. I was trying to make it look like it has depth, and found I liked using watercolor to make shadows better than pen/crosshatches.

One Layer Card

I loved this painting when I saw it in a Pier 1 ad, and had to keep it for inspiration. This is the card that resulted.

I NEVER do one layer cards. They are so difficult for me. But I am loving this one. I used a PTI Mat Stack die on a post-it note, to make a mask. Then i used the straight edge of other post-its(I went thru quite a few!) to mask off stripes and sponged.
I have been inspired by the Alisa Burke sketch class that I am taking to go out on a limb and paint on this card, instead of stamp. I then sponged PTI tea dye around the edges, and off the top of the mask too, to bring the color up to the top. (It was really a mistake, but a happy one, I went ahead and sponged a mix of colors all the way across, and like the way it turned out.)

Mushroom Sketch

I was inspired by a pic that I saw on Flickr, for this sketch. The homework for Alisa Burke's class was repetition of shapes. I don't think this what she had in mind, but this is all I could think of that was my own idea, and not copying hers. I also like the way she did her shadows very dark. So that is the thought behind this one.

CFC 30

As soon as I saw this Tic Tac Toe challenge from CASual Fridays, I thought : I love the orange and aqua combo! I just had to try it! (especially when Michelle said she would never use it in a million years! This one's for you!) This one uses SEI Dill Blossom paper, an old SU stamp.

Our local scrapbooking store is going out of business, and I just had to get these bright orange jumbo eyelets. I would like to put something in the center of that eyelet on the flower, just not sure what?!