Spring

Just working with some adorable pics from my recent trip to France... 

Have a nice day!

The Color Room Palette # 8

A new challenge is up at The Color Room. Another beautiful ans inspiring palette

Here´s my take:

Now it´s your turn!

Just like Mommy

Another cute layout using Crate Paper and My Little Shoebox.

As I worked without a jounaling, I wanted my message to be shown by all the cute elements I mixed in a grid. That´s why I selected some paper elements and embellishments that perfectly matched with my two cute little girls photo. They were playing with dolls, so, I evoked everything that could expressed how adorable they are. I also tried to add some texture and contrast while working a pink-rose-red-brown and blue palette in different patterns".

Scrap Happy Day

A Million Memories May kit projects

Here you can see the four page layouts and a notebook I did with AMM´s May kit! Cuuute!
The first one, Sweet Summer,

The second, Merry Day,

 

Another one, Wishing on the stars, whereI used this month´s sketch provided by Kat Glossop.

And Flowers, a shabby chic layout where I used one of the pics we took when we were in Burgundy flower fields.

Finally, an altered item,  "Vintage finds notebook"

Check out the boards here to find instructions on how to draw the viewer´s eye to the key areas of an image using some photoshop CS 4 tools as I´ve done in the "Merry Day" photo.

Someone loves you - a Crate Paper project

A 3 D project, a hot air balloon, using Paper Doll Collection

You can find the templates to do this hot air balloon here

How has art saved you?

How has art saved you? 

This is the new prompt at Creative Therapy.
We have Jenny Doh as a guest designer.
Jenny Doh is the Founder & President of   CRESCENDOh, LLC — a brand new business that inspires creative passion, authentic community, and focused compassion. One facet of the business is an online media center that features fresh and creative content from artists within all genres, coupled with their uniquely heartfelt ART SAVES stories that highlight the power of art in our lives and Creative Therapy is the guest curator for the week of May 24!

How has art saved me?

If it wasn’t for art, I’d be resigned to live the life others expected from me, to fulfill the expectations from the society, family, with boring tasks and obligations, driving a mediocre life. At the moment, however, I find myself in a paintbrush, feeling the water adding color to my works of art, as if the color were added to my life. It’s like if I let my imagination and all that I keep under lock and key inside myself take its free and beautiful flight.

Technique Highlighted:

To assemble this work, as there wasn’t anything on the market that I could express my feelings, first I drew and painted with watercolor some papers which served as base to a work in a small easel.

I painted the small canvas and added a transparency and next, I cut and added elements from my papers, flowers and a paintbrush.

Let´s see the watercolors ....

Now it´s your turn!

In Portuguese:

Temos uma semana muito especial no Creative Therapy, em que estamos fazendo parte do projeto CRESCENDOh, de Jenny Doh, nossa convidada desta semana, em que o tema é "Como a arte salvou você?"

Se não fosse pela arte, eu estaria resignada a viver a vida que os outros esperam de mim, cumprir as expectativas da sociedade, da família, cumprir deveres e obrigações chatas, tocar uma vida medíocre. No momento, todavia, em que pego em um pincel e sinto a água adicionando cor a meus trabalhos, é como se a mesma cor fosse adicionada a minha vida, é como se eu deixasse minha imaginação e tudo aquilo que guardo a sete chaves trancado dentro de meu ser alçar seu vôo livre e belo.

Técnicas utilizadas: 


Para montar essa peça, como não existia nada no mercado que pudesse exprimir em imagens meus sentimentos, primeiro eu desenhei e pintei com aquarelas alguns papéis que serviram de base para uma peça num pequeno cavalete de pintura. Pintei a pequena tela e adicionei uma transparência e, em seguida, cortei e adicionei elementos de meus papéis, flores e um pincel.

Que tal sentir o poder terapêutico da arte?

Pencillines sketch 188

Here´s this weeks sketch:

And my layout:

 Check out Pencil lines for more inspiration from our wonderful DT!