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Artful Lettering Touches for Your Holidays

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If you aren’t familiar with Joanne Sharpe, I’d like to introduce her to you. She is is a gifted artist and teacher, who is known for her colorful and whimsical work. She has a number of online classes, but I wanted to call your attention to her  Five Golden Letterings class which is absolutely free! It will cost you nada, zilch, zero…nothing!

Five Golden Letterings Free Class by Joanne SharpeThe class was done in 2012, but I’m sure you can find some useful ideas.These ideas are just as useful now as they were when she created the class.  Watch the videos and see which techniques you’ll want to try!  You can even use other colors besides gold! Shhh… I won’t tell!

She will show some great ways to spiff up wrapping paper, gift bags, and cards!  It’s amazing how a handful of supplies can be used to de-stress and make something artful and useful all at the same time!  There is no doubt you’ll find ideas to artfully add some special touches to your holidays!

Stop by and check out her Five Golden Letterings class!  Then come back and share with us what you’ve made!

You can also find Joanne on her Whimspirations blog.

 

Monthly Art Journal Diary Page – March

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Some of you may remember the pages we did for a monthly calendar, using a cross between art journaling and scrapbooking. Here was last year’s March layout. This year, I am doing something a little different. I have been participating in Joanne Sharpe’s wonderful online class, Draw Your Awesome Year. We are each working on a journal, and each month we are creating an artful layout to use in documenting little bits about each day.

This is great for me, because I don’t typically journal every day; at least not a full page. That’s why just a snippet of info is a great way to keep a bit of info so that I can look back and remember the year.

March daily calendar art journal.

This particular spread’s design was created with Inktense pencils and a water brush. Isn’t it great how you can create something by only coloring in the negative space? I love these pencils because they are so vivid and not too messy!  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not opposed to being messy!

I pulled out my greens and just went to work. Not a great idea! I should have looked at my color swatches and realized that “Leaf Green” has a brown tone in it! Yes, I dove in right around the title of my page, and it was hard to get that color toned down. I tried to pull it into other areas of the page, but the top of the right page has a little too much more my taste. The background and design are done, and for me, it’s time to move on!

Do you often find that you spend a great deal of time trying to “fix” something you didn’t plan on happening in your art or crafting? Share your stories so I don’t feel like I am all alone!

Word for 2014

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I can’t believe today is the last day of January 2014! What kinds of wonderful things are you planning to accomplish this year? Whatever you plan to do, wherever you plan to go, I wish you the best year ever.  Now I am waving my fairy godmother wand over you, so you know you have the power to go out and do it!

I have a theme this year of “More Doing, Less Thinking about Doing!” Towards the end of last year I really got sidetracked with so many things that were going on around me. I did so much more thinking about doing than the actual doing of the things I wanted to get done.  That brings me to something many of you have heard of, or may do yourself, which is select a single word for your year.  My word this year is “NOW!”

Here is a dictionary definition

Now – adverb

1. at the present time or moment

2. without further delay; immediately; at once

For me, this goes along with more doing and less thinking about doing! However, it is so much more. I want to make sure that I enjoy the moments of everyday, being in the present, being in the now. Each day I wake up to a new day, enjoy it now!  Each day I have with my family – enjoy them now. I want to be grateful for all the little things we take for granted – now. I don’t want to put things off that I want to do – so I want to work them in – now! If I can’t actually do it now, write time on the calendar to make the time.  I’m sure you get the picture!

This page was done in an online class I’m taking with Joanne Sharpe, called “Draw Your Awesome Year.” It was colored by using Inktense Pencils, which are a water soluble ink. If you like using bright colors and water – you would love these!

Have you selected a word for the year? Please share it in the comments!

Now-word of the year-Kristie-Sloan

Five Golden Letterings Class, with Joanne Sharpe

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Five Golden Letterings Free Class by Joanne SharpeJoanne Sharpe is such a gifted artist and teacher and I would be remiss if I did not share her wonderful free class she is doing now!  It is called Five Golden Letterings and is yours to enjoy at no cost!

She is already on day 3 of the class, so if you watch the videos, you’ll have an idea of what you may have on hand that you can already use.  You could also use the techniques you’ll see and use whatever colors you want!  Shhh… I won’t tell you didn’t use gold!

So far she has shown some great ways to spiff up some wrapping paper, gift bags, and cards!  It’s amazing how a handful of supplies can be used to de-stress and make something artful and useful all at the same time!  You are sure to pick up a some ideas to artfully add some special touches to your holidays!

Stop by and check out her Five Golden Letterings class!  Then come back and share with us what you’ve made!

 

Magical Marker Mystery Tour

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Where does the time slip away to?  It is already time for another FUN, informative class with the fantastic Joanne Sharpe!  You have to love the internet with its wide array of classes and virtual places to meet and hang out with new friends with similar interests!  Joanne’s class, Magical Marker Mystery Tour, started today and will run for 4 weeks if you play along in “real time” with the rest of the group.

Her lessons will come out three days for each of the weeks, with 5 lessons each week.  She uses video and shares pdf files.  This class promises to continue on the information she has shared in previous classes, yet don’t feel that you must have already taken other classes.  One of the great things about Joanne’s classes is her ability to give you information so that you can just jump in and run with the class you have chosen.  This class is going to cover several kinds/brands of markers.  She will show the differences in how each can be used and what they may work best for in your art projects.

Joanne says her classes are like buying a book; you buy it and it is yours to keep going back to over and over again.  Not all online classes offer that availability, which really provides great value when you consider the fact that you can keep going over the lessons time after time if you want to.

Besides the training videos she does, Joanne has started creating a Facebook page for each class group.  It has been so inspiring to meet artists from all over the world and see their work as they upload pictures of their take on the lessons!  If you ever wanted to learn more about different kinds of markers, jump in and join us!