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Two April Classes at The Creative Quest...

Here are my two classes for April at The Creative Quest in downtown Glendale. Call them directly to sign up: 623.847.2215

 

“Dear Me” Mini Art Journal: A love note to yourself.

$35

Friday, April 8^th, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Join me and we’ll create a love note to yourself...a little pep talk, a little self-affirmation. We’ll create a mini art journal and fill it with paint, images and stamped messages.

Please bring:

• 6 to 8 photographs of you. I used photographs from my childhood. I just printed them out on a regular printer on regular paper...no need to print them on photo paper. Black & white is great because it blends with any color palette.
• White acrylic gesso
• Acrylic paint (I will have the colors I used for you, but you may want to change the color scheme)
• Paint brushes
• Black pen for journaling
• Black ink pad (I prefer Ranger Archival in Jet Black)
• Optional: Sewing machine, a set of alphabet stamps. I will bring mine to share, but you may want to bring your own so you don’t have to wait or so you can customize your journal.

 

 

Gratitudes Tag Book: An Adventure in Alcohol and ColorWash Ink

(thanks for the idea, kl yeary!)

$35

Saturday, April 23^rd, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Join me for an inky adventure! We’ll use alcohol inks to create glass emblems for a sweet little gratitude tag book. We’ll use ColorWash ink and brayers to make our inky tags.

Please bring:

• White acrylic gesso
• Paint brushes
• Black pen for journaling
• Black ink pad (I prefer Ranger Archival in Jet Black)
• Rubber brayer
• Optional: Sewing machine, stamps. I will bring mine to share, but you may want to bring your own so you don’t have to wait or so you can customize your book.

Some girly faces...

Some quick faces I did last week....unfinished, of course, because that is how I roll lately.

Feeling super overwhelmed today. Hate that...deep breath, deep breath.

Methinks I have a new obsession....

Hee hee...so fun! Me as a stencil! Who can I stencil-fy next?

This & that...

Howdy...I am still working on my (secret) project. Hope to be done with that this week! And I do have a few half-done journal pages to photograph, will try to get that done today, too.

I have a few random things to share:

• I have a new little article on Get It Scrapped called, "Six Ways to Start a Scrapbook Page with Paint or Ink." 

• My newest class, Art Journaling 103 is now available in self-paced form. Buy it singly or in a bundle with Art Journaling 101 and 102. The bundle price is currently $150 (a $45 savings) BUT it will increase to $170 on April 1st. Here are links to the bundle and Art Journaling 103.

• The amazing and awesome Kerry Lynn Yeary has put together a limited-edition Kenner Road project kit available exclusively through Jenni Bowlin Studios. Swoon! Buy the kit here.

I need to have a super-productive, artsy day today. I hope you have the same! :)

March Jenni Bowlin Studios goodness...

The March JBS kits are fun...the main kit is full of Jenni's newest release, and the "His" and "Hers" add-on kits are fab. The project kit is one of the new Hodgepodge Minis, too...plus vintage goodness to make a cute album.

 

A little peekie...

Here's a little peek of a super-inky, super-grungy page that will be going up on the Entreartistes blog in the next couple of days...I'll be sure & post when the challenge goes live!

 

Typical Dina page....

Typical page for me...I still love silhouettes. And grunge. And color. Oh, how I love color.

Guest today over at The Play Date Cafe...

Check out The Play Date Cafe for a color challenge inspired by one of my art journal pages. I'm honored!

Lots of pages unfinished....and that's okay.

Lately I've been starting pages and then getting impatient quickly and moving on. As a result, I have a journal with TONS of unfinished pages. I'm sure at some point inspiration will strike and I will go back and finish them. Or maybe I won't. Who knows?

 

Visitor on my (very) messy desk....

 

Can you spot my visitor? And yes, I know I need to clean up this mess. I will, after I'm done with my current project. And maybe after dinner. And after I go to Target. You know, I'll clean it then.

 

I'm the guest at Simply ArTistiC...

Head over to the Simply ArTistiC and play along with a fun challenge. Best part? You just have to make an ATC...easy peasy! You can win a 7Gypsies library drawer, too. Rockin.

Here's my card:

I'm baaack!

Whew! I am finally feeling better (energy is back, cough is easing up). Being sick really put me behind on everything...oh well. It will all get done somehow, right?

A few fun things I want to share:

• This weekend is an online crop at Jenni Bowlin Studios! The DT has lots of challenges and chats and prizes planned. The crop will be at our new message board. Join us!

• The March JBS Gallery is live...lots of fun projects there! Remember that the gallery is updated with even more layouts and projects on the 10th of the month.

• I wrote a little article for Get It Scrapped with 6 ideas for using tags in your scrapbooking. You know how I love my tags! Here's a confession...I buy them in bulk. I buy boxes of 1000 tags at a time!

• A lot of my time has been consumed with working on a project that I can't share (yet). hee hee. But, I did manage to do a bit of journaling.