Exciting News!!

I am very honored and excited to be a member of the Creative Team for Ann Butler Designs!! Looking forward to sharing projects created with some really fantastic products! Stencils, stamps, ink and iridescent paint!! And be sure to check out the rest of the creative team as well, there are some incredibly talented ladies ready to show you their creations too!

So here is my first ever "unboxing" video!! I'm trying to be brave and try new things. My apologies that it's sideways, told you it was my first one, but you can still see all the fabulous products that the creative team will be working with!

Thanks for stopping by and having a look. Stay tuned to see what's coming soon as the creative team gets busy!

You can find follow along at 

Ann Butler Designs website and you can also find her on Facebook HERE 

Here is a pic of the whole team...see, I told you there was some talented ladies here!

Lisa Rojas - Creative Team Coordinator and co-publisher of  

Bella Crafts Publishing

  Candice Lee Windham 

 Donna Braaten-Budzynski 

Anita Scroggins 

Madeline Arendt 

 Beth Watson 

Tammy Santana 

 Vishu Reberholt 

 Bev Code

Have a great day everyone!!

Cathy

Art Journalling and Me

I have so many journals, but haven't made it a habit to use them. I think the time to start is now! Not a new year's resolution but something I want to do. Once I'm sitting there getting inky/painty/gluey I love it and feel relaxed and I love that feeling. So I need to get in there and just play far more often! So I've started with one page, over a couple of days but used colours that are not my go to choices and stencils and metal and an old piece of cardboard. And I loved it! 

Here is my finished page in my larger Dylusions journal.

The background is done with 3 colours of Distress Oxides, Fired Brick, Vintage Photo and Wild Honey. On the left hand side is a Stencil Girl stencil that I did with gesso first so it acted as a resist. I used the same stencil on the right in Walnut Stain.

Over top of the inked stencil I used a TH stencil with clear texture paste for an added layer.

Again over the ripped up piece of TH Etcetera Stash, I used clear texture paste for another layer.

One of my TH word bands that I had in my stash...also one of my plans for the year is to "use what I have" and dig into my stash and get into a project instead of just sitting around looking pretty haha I used some hemp twine and a piece of cardboard from my last Wild Whisper order.

Loving the foil thing right now!! I need more foil and I really want the Rebekah Meier Mixed Media Medium from Therm Web and some of her transfer foil in Antique Pearl and patina!! So many great colours. The foil I have and used on this one is the Ranger Holiday package, I used the gold and the Vintage package is a must have too.

Thank you so much for stopping by and hope you all have a wonderful start to your week!!

Cathy