Just got my classes listed for the next 6 weeks on www.blissbee.net! Most are small easy under 3 hour classes ,unlike my workshops and retreats. I am working on making these smaller classes into kits and already have 3 listed on my etsy site. Boy all this takes so much time. When you come up with this ideas .You think... oh ya I will do this and then that and then this !!! and theeeeeen 2 months later you only have a tad of your ideas done. Why can't the days be 48 hours long and why can't we live a lot longer too ! So much fun stuff to do and so little time. Do any of you every feel this way??
This is an update to Sundays post . I had time to play with the Tim Holtz rusted doll I showed in the last post and YES you can drill into the plastic!! I drilled a hole for the wings so that they are secured with glue and a small nail and I drilled her head and added a wire wrapped hanger. SOO Easy and kind of nifty looking ?? Oh she has a wee real pearl necklace .
Today I am going to show a mini "how to" on creating real rust finishes on metal, wood ,paper and plastic. I use a 2 part process using real iron paint and then an easy rusting solution . Both can be cleaned up with water .
I started with a piece of card stock paper , a Tim Holtz plastic
"fractured doll" ,
A wood tag and a tin bottle cap.
Next I painted them all with the "Blissbee iron paint".
2 heavy coats on the wood and paper and 4 heavy coats on the plastic doll and tin bottle cap.
I allowed each coat to dry before re-coating . The iron paint is then cleaned up with water .
I then coated each with 2 coats of the rusting solution. I used a paint brush for this as it agitates the surface a bit . Also use gloves for this process and allow each coat to dry naturally . The first coat will not show much rusting action. The second coat will. You can then clean the solution up with water . Dispose of excess properly.
The iron paint and rusting solution(enough to cover 3 sq. feet) can be bought on the Blissbee web site
These are Tim Holtz's plastic" fractured dolls" (small 2 " large 3).
You should be able to drill into these unlike porcelain. So an eye hook could possibly be added for hanging. I have not yet tried this but I would add a clear matt sealer to the finish if I was to do so and use it for a necklace .
It was off to Art Unraveled in Phoenix this last weekend. A fellow artist friend and wearable art artist Lorri Scott ruptured her retina YIKESSS!! So was unable to teach and run her booth at Art Unraveled . She asked if Lori Garver, my sister Lorrie and myself would run her vendor booth for the event. It was a shopping frenzy all day as we played Barbie arraigning and rearranging clothes and we sold like mad!!! The rest of the weekend was spent in quite play time as my sister and I journaled at our Mom's dining room table. It was a wonderful weekend all around and nice to get away from the shop . Cal was left in charge there and did a fine job of it too.
On the way to phoenix .Yes this really is the Arizona Desert!!!
A happy customer in Lorri Scott's wonderful clothing .
The Business of vending
The end of the day -Lori , Julie and Lorrie
Journaling fun !!
You are given one little spark of madness.....
You mustn't lose it.
2 pages from my journal - simply dry brush painted backgrounds using Claudine Helmuth paints (which I LOVE ) a few collage elements and some letter stamping.
