Something exciting!

11 Wednesday Dec 2013

Posted by Sara in Mixed Media, This & That, Tutorials

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Several months ago I received a twitter message from Ronda Palazzari. And it was just a little bit exciting for me – I love her! I was over the moon when she asked if she could feature one of my projects on a blog post of work using her Crafter’s Workshop stencils. Would I mind, she asked?

Um… NO! You just go ahead and like my work Ms. Palazzari, I’m totally ok with that!

And then, a while later, she asked again! And this time my friend Cathie was featured too. 🙂

So when Ronda asked me to email her about a question,I didn’t think much of it. Until I read said email – three or four times to get over my shock!

She asked me to use her stencils and do a step by step Christmas project as a guest blog post! What!?!?! She likes me, she really likes me!

Excited might be an understatement…

So, long story longer, I did a guest post. And it’s live today.

Want to see what this turned out like?

And how about a larger view of this?

Go check it out and then come back and tell me what you think! Hope you enjoy them!

November Stencil Round Up & Winner (rondapalazzari.typepad.com)
Guest Blogger: Miriam Pranter (rondapalazzari.typepad.com)
Guest Blogger: Sanna Lippert (rondapalazzari.typepad.com)

Something exciting….

28 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by Sara in Mixed Media, Yearlong Album

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Ronda Palazzari, Stencils, The Crafter's Workshop, Yearlong Album

…happened to me about a week and a half ago.

I tweeted sneak peek pics of the Yearlong album cover for the class participants to get an idea of what we would be doing in class.

Ronda Palazzari, who designed the awesome Confetti stencil I used, saw the pics and sent me a direct message through Twitter, saying she loved it and could she please include it in a blog post about her stencils?

Umm, let me think about that, YES!

So today the post is up on her blog and to be included with artists such as May Flaum and Marjie Kemper is a total thrill!

And thanks Ronda, I’m so glad you like the album!

By the way, Ronda also teased me, saying that her new stencils (coming in July) were even better than this past release! I offered to give them a test run, make sure they worked ok and all, but I don’t think she’s going for it – sigh. 🙂

YLA2013 | Album Cover

19 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by Sara in Classes, Mixed Media, Techniques, Yearlong Album

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Album cover, Luminarte, Mixed media, Ronda Palazzari, Silks, Stencil, The Crafter's Workshop, Yearlong Album, YLA2013

This may be one of my favourite projects ever. The colours, the texture, the dimension, the shine and, hello! That stencil.

Seriously people, that stencil may be my favourite of all time, maybe even edging out the Pomegranate one. Yes, it’s that good. It’s so good that I could even say I’m in love with Ronda Palazzari for designing it and Jamie at The Crafter’s Workshop for making it. I love it so much that I made sure everyone in my Yearlong class got the 12×12 one as well.

Moving along, this lovely project also happens to be the album cover we are making for the Yearlong 2013 class. Obviously, as it is a mixed media album no one will have the exact same cover but I’ll be teaching all the techniques I used and showing how I got that awesome texture (hint: teabags may have been involved!).

I also used modeling paste which made the hearts pop:

And gave fabulous dimension to the spine:

The paints I used were Luminarte Silks to give it that awesome shimmer and shine:

And for those who don’t have Silks yet (I stress the word yet, they are a necessity!) I’m working on a way to use your regular acrylics and make them into a faux shimmer glaze. If it works, I’ll do a tutorial some Tuesday soon.

If you can’t already see the reason I love the Confetti stencil, here’s why:

It’s like paint spatters, and blobs of molding paste, and quirky hearts all thrown together with great, but still imperfect, border to tie it all together.

And here’s a closeup of the front so you can really see how it all came together:

The back is very similar, but the paints blended a little differently. Plus, I still think I’m going to add a small camera stamp and my signature:

I had truly planned to do an album title and some decoration but I couldn’t bear to cover this up so… I guess we’ll have to go with Happy as an album title! 🙂

I’ll be back next week with the LO for this month, so look out for that later and keep an eye on Instagram (#YLA2013) for sneaks of it!