I love new products. It can be pretty bad for my bank account, because it is often (really) hard to resist buying new art supply to play with, discover and maybe adore.
Background building is maybe the part I usually prefer in the creative process. Because I don’t know where I am going when I start, I just grab what is calling me, what I feel like using on that specific moment. And see where I am told to go. Listening to the Inner Voice(s) and letting myself be guided. This is when I feel the most connected to the Source.
Trust is essential. Add a sprinkle of faith. A dollop of courage. And you got my recipe for a good painting (when I say «good» I mean «one that leaves me satisfied»).
For 2013, my guiding word(s) are TRY {Be Daring}. I even started to put them into action in December. I want to be less shy. I want to do all I can to be discovered. This is how I ended up talking with Jaime from the amazing brand The Crafter’s Workshop and received stencils and dies to try, play and make a project she could use in their booth during CHA in Anaheim »(if you are not familiar with it, CHA *Craft and Hobby Association* is a huge trade show that happens twice a year; it is when the craft and scrapbooking brands share their new lines and products, and stores can order them).
The dies I received are some words, some beautiful ones that could become part of a background, and most of them are really nice for your Project Life album. I wanted to find a way to feature both the dies and the stencils, and came up with the idea to make a hardbook. I had little time to make it on time so Jaime could get it for the show (thank you Deanna from Clipper Street, my local scrapbook store, for taking care of the delivery for me !).
What I love is the versatility of stencils in general, and the ones I got had good space to be used with gel medium or any heavy medium so I could play with textures as well.
There dies are simply amazing and you can use (for lots of them) both the negative and posititive (you can see I’ve played with that on the spread with the arrow). You’ll see more of them in my Project Life pages for sure. The size is perfect, neither too big nor too small so it does not outshine your picture and you can still clearly see it on there.
Just an important note: these are «snapped in the moment. in progress» pictures of my project. I don’t have pics of the finished one yet.
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I would love to know if you’ve seen it in person if you were attending CHA somehow. Let me know.
Thanks again a lot Jaime for the opportunity. Learned a lot along the way.
Here are the pics:
Items I have been playing with:
Stencils: Confetti, Honeycomb, Cell Theory, Quatrafoil.
Dies: Solace, Circles, Mini Dots, Blank 4×6, Blank 3×4, Horizontal Chevrons, Chicken Wire, Top Five, Arrow Here, Everyday, Today Is, Right Now, This Week, Love this, Today, Now, Hello, Sweet.