Where the heck...

 I was all set to show my first lesson in Photo shop Elements but it seems the editing is a small matter compared to finding where I need to find the files I've down loaded and saved.  Somehow I find that excruciatingly confusing. ={  So I was very pleased when I found them to show you but it sees that was only step one of about four. I stopped too soon!  lol  So maybe tomorrow I'll have some show and tell. 

So here is Creativity 101.  I was not quite as prepared for Jenn as usual so we covered her magazine journal with Mulberry paper and made various pages to tip in.

This is a sheet of cheap tissue paper with gel medium used to attach it to a previous paper with doodles.

She likes the painting with acrylics but really lit up with splattering and then dripping!

She likes hearts and  and we are still stuck on dots and circles.

Acrylic paint on the back of the doodle page and then I laid the fabric we had stamped on over the wet and some transferred to the fabric.  We used pink and then purple.   We felt it was successful.

Now we have a light denim shirt for a cover-up for Jen.  She is much too neat so we just added some of our own art.  We'll continue to do this and see how it all turns out.  Perhaps it can be her graduation present!
Now where the heck did I file the coat hanger?

Creativity with Dots and Circles

The dot and circle family have been a fun bunch to party with!

Some shapes are more user friendly than others in terms of drawing but the point is to begin to be aware of subtle differences.  Practicing will make them flow without those jagged edges that hesitation brings.  The key is just to GO for it!

We did some large movements with our finger on a door, then practiced on paper and finally on some fabric.

Somewhere in blogland I read about a magazine journal which is perfect for a young gal so we began to modge podge some pages together placing wax paper between pairs until they dry.

We added some gesso to cover over some of the page and placed the fabric onto the page.  We'll probably add some gel medium to the fabric next week.

We did some stamping on another piece of fabric and 'cleaned' the stamps on some scrap doodle paper.  It will all be useful for the mixed media magazine journal!