UPTOWN VILLAGE CRAFT MARKET IS THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY!

YES ITS THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY DAY! Go to the website here for all the details! Its going to be a blast... 60 vendors inside a repurposed furniture store, live music , cocktails and opening on the First Fridays event in Bixby Knolls-tons of neato stores and art. Sorry to all of you outside this ares-but I think this will be a wonderful event for everyone in soCAl to attend! I will have the usual letterista stuff and be signing books but wait for it... also Terrariums and Bonsai! So buy handmade and support your local artist by gifting these lovely items!

UPTOWN VILLAGE MARKET THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY!

NEW COOL INDOOR CRAFT MARKET-COME VISIT ME !
Here's just a couple pics of all the wonderful things I will be selling in Long Beach this Friday. I will have books of course and other letterista things-but also Terrariums and Bonsai! Here is the website with the directions-it coincides with First Fridays in Bixby Knolls -which is a super neat open stores walk with lots of live music and shopping. There will be over 60 vendors, live music and bar-support local and handmade and have a great evening out! ( Sorry for those of you not in the SoCAl area!)

SPECIAL BLACK FRIDAY! Sign up now for the Intentional plaques class!

Hey -local peeps If you were interested in signing up for my Intentional Plaques Class on January 14th in Santa Ana Jenny's offering $10 off coupon today on her website! You'll need to click on the editor's letter tab. Go here for more pictures and a description too!

THANK you and Check out Jill Berry's work!

AWESOME! Thanks to all of you who checked out my blog yesterday and a big ups to those of you who ordered stuff! Now you simply must check out Jill Berry's Geo papers-simply wonderful mark making and watercolors. Go to http://jillberrydesign.com/blog/

MY TURN! -The great Art Spark Tutorial begins now!

EXPERIMENTAL INITIALS


HERE WE GO! I’m going to share with you the super easy way to create cool Experimental initials.





First-using a Micron Pigma pen or any medium point black pen write an initial quickly. Overlap the strokes and get artist-y and sketchy-maybe even don't lift your pen from the paper




Here Ive overlapped the strokes and even gone back over them-creating spots to color in




Using glittery gel pens fill in a couple spots-here i’ve used the super neato Sparkling pens from Signo- you can get them from Jet pens.com -or you can order the kit from me below!
Ive used the gold and pink and blended them together




Then onto adding the Signo Angelic colors-these are super opaque and really nice on black as you will see! Ive also added some Stickles dots-any glitter glue will do-but I like the dimensionality of the Stickles! Don't color in every space- you’re looking for a stained glass effect!




Heres the final product...now lets try it on black paper!




Same deal on the letters-as above but Ive used the Sakura Calligrapher gold pen in large size for the strokes part




again the Signo Sparkling is added and blended ( any glittery gels would work just fine here too)



The Signo opaques are added



The final product with the Stickles-Voila!




OK- OK- I know you want to have a kit full of these pens to make your own initials! so Ive packaged them up just for you- This special package contains a Micron Pigma pen, a Gold Calligrapher pen, A Sparkling Pen and an Angelic pen in random colors. You can order this now on my website RIGHT HERE!( where, ahem... you can also order my book that features this technique!) The low price of $ 22 per kit includes shipping and 4 quarter page pieces of Black Art Again paper and 4 Sheets of Bristol paper to begin creating immediately! MY website is right here!

Kelli's Tutorial today and Its ME! tomorrow!

We are mid way through an amazing Blog roll-full of fun fun tutorials all week and more! Today Its Kelli Perkins with the cutest spool garlands-Click on the above title to take you there right now-oh and if youve missed any of them go down a couple posts and click away-the colors dont show but you can click on them for fun times....tomorrow its me with experimental Initials-stay tuned-dont touch that dial!

Oh the Blog hop is on!

CHECK OUT LYRIC'S BLOG AND ORNAMENT HOW TO!
Day two of ARTSPARK's winter tutorial blog hop features artist Lyric Kinard.
http://lyrickinard.blogspot.com/2011/11/glitter-glisten-glimmer-beaded-ornament.html
She shows you how to make a lovely little beaded ornament to hang on your tree, in your window, or if you're feeling wild, on your rearview mirror!

AND YOU MAY BE ASKING YOURSELF...just what is a Blog Hop anyways? Wellll its talented beyond belief artists sharing and combining their strengths-every day a new blog and artist to check out! Im coming up next week on the 17th! stay tuned and stay hoppin

HOLIDAY CARDS THIS WEEKEND AT ART SUPPLY WAREHOUSE IN WESTMINSTER

Its this Saturday! I apologize to all my friends out of the area=-this will be fun! -Its from 10-1 at the Art Supply Warehouse in Westminster. I will be teaching Gothic and a fun casual scripty style that anyone can do-here are a few samples-we'll add stickles and glitter and bling -oh my! So... all supplies included and its $45. You can sign up on line ( go to the Catalyst tab) or even call to sign up!

ITS TIME FOR A FUN FREE TUTORIAL ROLL!

Artspark Winter Tutorial Bloghop

Are you ready!!!!??? The fabulous ladies at Artspark begin our winter round of free tutorials for you to follow. You don't want to miss this!
JUST CLICK HERE AND FOLLOW THE ROLL!
Im up on the 17th-but dont miss the fun before me!
oh and just cruise these blogs-they are such amazing women!


November 9:: Jane LaFazio Sketch & Stitch Gift Bags
November 10: Lyric Kinard Glitter, Glisten, Glimmer: Beaded Snowflake Ornament
November 11: Tracie Lyn Huskamp
November 12: Melanie Testa
November 13: Traci Bunkers Moldable Foam Stamps
November 14: Diana Trout Japanese-Style Fabric Wrap(Furoshiko)
November 15: Judy Perez Folk Art Inspired Ornament

November 16: Kelli Nina Perkins Whimsical Spool Garland
November. 17: Lisa Engelbrecht Experimental Lettering

November 18: Jill Berry Geo Papers and Projects
November 19: Gloria Hansen Resizing an Image

OLYMPIA, JOURNALFEST AND THE GREAT NORTHWEST!

Ahhh-back to normal almost after a 10 day trip to Seattle-It all started with a visit to my daughters Kristin and Sarah and grandkitty Cairo-and then on to Olympia and the wonderful workshop organized by the awesome Kathy Peterson ( her amazing work apron above!) -more on her later! Her Husband Jim and she hosted me for a grand dinner of steelhead trout and amazing wine-look at Flickr for all these pics-fortunately Kathy had organized the entire workshop and wow am I super grateful. This is only my first post about this trip -but alllll the pics are up there at the ol Flickr site-from Olympia to Journalfest to Sheriffs class-please go check it out!More to come!
OH and this Saturday please come to Art supply Warehouse in Westminster for a fast fun Card class from 10-1-all supplies included and I'll teach you Gothic Christmas style lettering and funky script to make those cards that will impress all!We'll also play with stamps and a bit of bling-hope to get samples up soon! go to their site to sign up NOW!