Come and join me in Material Musings today. I have been playing around in my fabric art journals and experimenting with my foam stamps. I had created a set of foam stamps from the last 100-day project, and really liked how some of them came out.
Here is a selection of them. I have been working on using them on fabric and incorporating slow stitching which I will be doing in this current fabric art journal that you will see in the video.
I really like some of the foam stamps I created and will be sharing more of them. The foam stamps digital images are going to be available as digital stamps that you can incorporate in digital art work on my Etsy Store Here.
Take a look at the video and you will also catch some information about other things that are happening in the studio and some of the FREE courses that are available on my course platform. You can check it out HERE
These bold foam stamp designs are some of my favorite and look really effective on an art journal page and can be used to decorate your art journals and create prints on fabric.
I achieved the goal of creating 100 Handmade Foam Stamps as part of the #dothe100dayproject!! This is my 100th Stamp...
What always amazes me is the different emotions that you feel along the way for any challenge. At the start you have doubts and wonder if you can finish, midway you can sometimes feel fed up and not sure if you can go on. At the finish line you can feel as if you could quite easily do another 100 days!
Looking back from this vantage point it feels as if the time has gone really quickly. I look back to when I started a little over 3 months ago and start to wonder about all the other challenges I could get myself to do and all the things that I could achieve in that time.
I think one of the good things was knowing that others were doing the challenge too, all be it different projects, but you had others who knew what it was like to make that 100 day commitment and share their ups and downs as well.
Here are all the stamps that I shared over the 100 days
The stamps were all made from recycled foam or thin sheet of craft foam that had been layered. I will be making some of the designs available on my Etsy store and Course Platform
Let me know if you took the challenge and how you found it, are you going to do another, take a break, how do you feel now you have completed it?
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Mixed Media Art Courses to Check out
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Have you wanted to create your own stamps and stencils, I share with you a variety of supplies you can use and create two mixed media art paintings.
A Year In Color is back with the FREE sampler for a total of 4 days starting Friday 13th May
I was invited by Larissa Russell of Creative U to join her in the online A Year in Color - in my session I show you how to create a mixed media art page.
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Here is the page and prompt that I work with
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In the Mixed media art collaboration today, I share how you can create this art journal cover. You create some lovely texture on the surface and it looks gorgeous. You only need a few supplies. We gather every second Tuesday of the month and share a mixed media art project.
You can see the video below.
You can catch up on previous collaboration projects that I have created with HERE
This Week was Week 8 of my Handmade Foam Stamps and each week I end it with a painting of all the stamps for that week.
Going through the stamps means that I get to organize what I have an make new ones. I have been enjoying the process especially as I now have a heat tool which makes creating the designs even easier and you get some great details on the foam.
You can check out this week video below
Artsy Second Sunday
Every second Sunday of the month I take part in a video hop with a group of other artists on YouTube and we work by a monthly theme. This week was 'Ladybugs and Rainbows' I went for Ladybug and played with my supplies on the page.
It was funny as part way though I forgot exactly how a ladybug looks, so the video is just an interpretation of one.
They actually look quite different and I have been privy to some unusual ones in the garden. There are over 6000 species world wide and I think that we have about 4 different varieties in the garden, helping to keep down pests such as aphids that can attack some plants.
Here 3 of the 4 that we have the forth one is brown with pink spots or the other way round, I couldn't find the photo that I took of that one.
Anyway, you can check out the video of the Ladybug that I painting for this blog hop below. I will have to paint it again to do it justice in the style that I would normally paint in.
I hope you enjoy and would love you to join us on the challenges, you will be inspired by the work of the artists who share.
If you would like to see the stamps daily you can check out my Instagram HERE
You can check out the supplies used to create the paintings and foam stamps HERE
One of the things that I love doing is spending time in my garden. I have been creating a 'Food Forest' for the past 5 years and have a range of trees and plants.
I try and spend time on a daily basis to take note of what is happening, how plants are growing and check up on the birds that call my garden home.
We have around 7 species of bird in the garden and the main ones that seem to build their nests in the trees are the 'Banana Quits'.
In the video above I share with you the different families that we currently have boarding with us. Check out some of the other videos I have on my channel HERE.
Foam Stamps
I am also on day 53 of the 100 Days of Foam stamps and they too happen to be a series of birds that I am sharing over the next week or so.
Here are the birds that have been shared over the past few days
If you would like to see the stamps daily you can check out my Instagram HERE
Here is the latest video which shows the most recent stamps created. I am also now at the half way mark for the 100 Day Project, of 100 Handmade Foam Stamps.
One of the reason I started to create my own stamps was the price of stamps and the lack of variety of the kind that I like, and having the stamp I needed for what ever project I was working on. I kept seeing designs in my head and after practicing a few different techniques found a style that helped me create the stamps that I wanted to bring forth.
50 Stamps
Here are the first 50 stamps, they have been organized, had a foamboard backing and image printed for easy identification. I am on the home stretch with 50 more to go for the challenge. I have probably sketched just a bit over 100 and there is inspiration all around when it comes to creating designs.
1-25
26 - 50
If you would like to see the stamps daily you can check out my Instagram HERE
You can check out the supplies used to create the paintings and foam stamps HERE
So I am taking part in April's Ultimate Blog Challenge where we blog every day for the next 30 Days - today marks the first day!!. It coincides with my current 100 Day Project which I am half way through, so you will be seeing some of these posts included as well, and much of the other things that I have going on.
I thought for my challenge this time round on the blog I would share all the projects that I am involved with, from art collaborations, course creation, publishing a poetry book and more and you get in blog form to be in on some of the wonderful creativity, I will share some of the videos and reflect on some of the work that I am doing.
It is a great way to stretch yourself, and do some of the things that you have always wanted to do. I like the challenge as it gets me to stretch myself a bit and really step out of my comfort zone. One of my challenges this month is to type up my poetry and publish a book, I will keep you posted to how this is going along the way.
I have been enjoying doing the Homemade Foam Stamps, as an artist you never have too many supplies (ok as a collector then) so creating my own stamps was a great way to get some new designs without breaking the bank (all I needed was a sheet of sleeping bag foam). You will see some of the designs, will be showing the past 50 at the weekend - that halfway mark. I just need somewhere to store them now, might have to make something - I love creating and upcycling.
Next up you can see last weeks selection of stamps and the mixed media art piece that was created with them.
Home Made Foam Stamps Week 6 - The 100 Day Project,
Here is the art page for this current week. I will resume to share the pages on Saturday, but wanted you to get caught up with all the deliciousness that has been going on. It has been a pleasure creating the pages, and I have loved how the stamps have turned out. I have some ideas for future projects once I have completed the 100 Days.
Explore, Imagine, Dream
You can catch the Handmade foams stamps daily on my Instagram - HERE
As well as creating I have been reviewing some of the books that I have on my shelf and sharing them, you can see the latest one The Drawing Lab, which has tons of great ideas in it, and was a good investment as you can continually dip in and out of it.
In this video I review the book 'Drawing Lab' by Carla Sonheim
Thank you so much for hanging out with me today and checking out some of the videos that I have shared. You can also check out some of the courses that I am teaching on, and the current discount available for the month of April.
Blessings.
Courses to Check out
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