the 15 minute journal page challenge...

the head of shipping & receiving (aka Rick) and I are going full speed ahead here at kit making central...

we're getting ready for my last 2 store visits for this year...

first up is a new all day mixed media tag art journal that's happening on Saturday October 19th in Bloomington, Illinois at The Scrapbooking Studio...

that's my home store...only 65 miles away!

sorry to cut you out Southwest...

this time I can drive!

the following weekend is a new to me store & I'm excited to be teaching at Craft Fancy in Arlington Heights, Illinois on Saturday October 26th & Sunday the 27th.

Saturday is an all day (8 hour) Ranger inks studio 490 style techniques class...I totally LOVE to teach this class...

and Sunday is another all day art journal class, with loads of fun techniques...this is a marathon...so if you're signed up...rest up!

Carol said they are doing a major store re-do with a huge expanded classroom...

it sounds fabulous...

another drivable store makes me happy...

I took needed a break so

yesterday I set the timer & challenged myself to do a quickie art journal page...

this is in my small art parts journal & the page size is 3 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches...

I like to make my own pages using different surfaces using 

specialty stamping paper, manila or kraft cardstock, Clearly For Art or distress watercolor cardstock...

I like the fact that I can work on the individual pages on a flat surface & if it turns out ugly...I can trash it & it's my secret...

I like the small page size sometimes, because even with a short play time, you can still accomplish something & actually complete a page...

here's the result of my 15 minutes...

this time I worked on the new distress watercolor cardstock...

this is the smooth side...

the base was created with distress paints, using broken china, crushed olive & wild honey...

I stenciled my flower with a combo of red geranium & orange blossom archivals & if you look closely, you'll see that I stamped some random text thru the flower stencil with watering can archival...

the stem/leaves are a quickie doodle with a waterproof pen & colored in with the peeled paint distress marker & the detail water brush...

MWAH...yes...kissing the lid before I open...

watering can archival is perfect for the subtle script stamping in the background & for the chandelier...

using jet black archival for the main sentiment & stenciled words makes the chandelier appear to be stuck further in the background...watering can & jet black work very well together...

by using just a small portion of the ornate dots background stamp, it creates a fence type effect...

love it lots!

the numbers (35927)  border on the left was stamped multiple times with orange blossom archival...

and I finished it off with glaze pen dots...and a little pen stitching around the edges...

so the moral of today's post is that even if you only have 15 minutes to play...

you REALLY CAN...

make art!

wendy

WAIT...

stop the press!

this just popped into my email...

"can I use your archival reinkers to change the color of the embossing paste"?

YES!!! you sure can...just 1 drop is all you need! it works very well!