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12 on Twelve | November & December 2015

15 Tuesday Dec 2015

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Not sure how I completely missed posting my 12on12 last month, especially since I was in BC visiting my brother for those, but rather than make you sit through two posts I’ll just do them at once!

November

november1. Mom made us Partridgeberry Orange muffins – my favourites!

2. First Eggnog Latte of the season, yay! Decaf, for those who know me, lol!

3. Harbour in Vancouver – it was beautiful.

4. Selfie with my bro!

5. Graham photobombing my drink pic.

6. Very cool, and very old, photo processing technique that Graham’s friend did.

7. Graham setting up to take my picture for Mom (he has a fine arts degree from Emily Carr in photography).

8. fancy mocha on Granville Island (decaf again, of course!)

9. Macarons!

10.  Mom demoing a costume I bought for a friend (hi Cathy!)

11. Absolut Vodka gay pride bottles. They have an amazing message on them but I don’t think I got the photo, unfortunately.

12. New shoes, handmade John Fluevogs – I’m in love.

 

December

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  1. waiting for Santa to show up after breakfast at the church.

2. Gabe as a cartoon John Travolta – Darrell was entertaining him while we waited!

3. having a chat with the big guy.

4. Molly pretending to be Santa, deep voice and all!

5. Santa Claus is here!

6. rehearsing for the Christmas Pageant/White Gift service

7. wearing my new favourite shoes.

8. Lego Advent calendars – Gabe got presents….

9. …Molly got a little bunny.

10. Great sign and idea at the grocery store this afternoon.

11. watching a movie.

12. Reading by the tree.

Cheers!

S.

 

hello best smiles!

14 Monday Dec 2015

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This past Thursday was the last class of the year at The Paperie and it was the second last class of My Favourite Things for 2015 (we’ll finish up the album in January).

I knew I wanted to use watercolours, specifically my favourite Twinkling H2O’s, but was unsure how to incorporate them until I saw Kristina Werner do a simple masking technique to make some trees. I simply extrapolated to a larger size and made what might be my favourite pages for this class ever! The colours are amazing!

As a head’s up, if you want to try this, it works just as well with regular (and super cheap) watercolours. You won’t get quite the intensity of colour, or the shimmer, but they still work perfectly – I demoed with regular watercolours for class just to see!

21 - love this xoxoThis was the simpler, but still impressive, first LO. We used black gesso for the center and the Twinks around the border.

For the title we used Heidi Swapp watercolour paper words and coloured them with the same paints. I also added some Dear Lizzy gold foam Thickers.

21 - titleThe second LO used a ton of masking but it was worth it!

22 - hello best smilesHow much fun are all those colours?!? Looks just like stained glass, especially with the shimmer!

This time, we used black gesso on the watercolour words, plus some more of those Thickers:

22 - titleAnd just look at the sparkle from those paints!

22 - shimmerSeriously, these shine and shimmer like crazy!

Do you love them? We all did – it was a fun class and worth the masking work – please tag me if you try it out because I’d love to see!

Cheers!

S.

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10 Thursday Dec 2015

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It’s December and there’s snow falling on my blog! I love that feature of WordPress – so awesome!

I’m teaching the last Fave Things class of the year tonight (we have one more class in January to clue up 2015) and it occurred to me that I hadn’t shared last month’s metallic goodness with you all!

The base layer and texture layers for both of these LO’s were made using Dina Wakley Media metallic paint. In class, someone used red for the base instead and layered the metallic over and it looked incredible!

19 - happyWe also punched circles from Tim Holtz Metallic Kraft Core and sprinkled on some Stampendous embossing enamel.

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My most favourite thing are these Dear Lizzy Thickers – they’re gold foil over foam and all kinds of awesomeness.

19 - titleThe second LO uses the Gilt paint which is an orange-y gold:

20 - best everYou can see we dripped paint for texture in this one, but we still used those awesome Thickers – with a twist!

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I showed everyone how to make their own silver ones! The best part? It looks like they were made this way!

I’m hoping to be back tomorrow with the LO’s we do tonight – they just may be my most favourite ever!

Cheers!

S.