Art Happens (teehee) (a kid's sketch book--à la Mo!)

art is at it's
purest & most pleasurable
in serendipitous accident

This is what that Sam in Trouble (heat-embossed digital image) turned into:

A little gifty--for that budding young artiste. It's a kid's sketch book. It was as fast as a card to put together (well as fast as I can seem to go with cards at least, LOL).

These sketch books are really affordable (often under $1o.00 for artist's quality books at your local art supply.) I can't ever get enough of colouring Mo's art at any time--add an excuse to scribble with crayons...and I just giggle myself silly! ;o)

Did you ever art-ify something that was a no-no when you were a kid? I carved into my Mom's good cedar chest with a fork. I remember being fascinated with the fact that the line I gouged would repeat itself with each of the fork tines. I think I got in a little bit of trouble, but my Mom was always letting us use any of her finest art supplies. Our family shared a sketchbook & she even let us oil paint! Crazy huh? I just love you Mommymur!!!

1...Love note to my Readers
2...Caardvarks Microchallenge
3...Digi Stuff with Mo's Sam in Trouble & a 2peas freebie
4...Art Happens! (how to make a mess with Crayons, beads, inky-ness
and cut & paste)
5...Making mini crayon-resist blackboard drawings

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Thanks!

Dear FABulous Readers,

Did you guys know you make me cry with happiness on a regular basis?

You'd think I was ultra emotional or something (well, um, Yeah!) but really it's just that you are all astoundingly kind & generous. You put up with my sicky scheduling, and my hairbrainedness and then the lovely things you say! BLUSH. How did you get so SWEET!?! ;o)

There aren't words enough to thank you, but Thank You
from the bottom of my heart!
oxo
mel

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This project is for the newest 'Varks challenge....

It's a micro challenge &
You can read all about it at


Click if you'd like to visit the Challenge Sponsor:


There are some super sweet creations on their blog here
&
They have a blog hop coming up on Dec. 10th--all the info is here.

and it's a colour challenge:

Don't these colours make you drool? hehehe

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(how I got Sam in a circle with no crayon drawings):

1. Start with digital frame freebie from 2 peas "Thrilling October kit" by Cherie Mask here (You need to log in, but membership is free & they share many free kits.)
   
2. Erase owl from Thrilling frame (Bad me, sorry sweet little owl)
3. Save a copy of Mo's Digital Pencil [Sam in trouble] to resize how you like (to fit in the frame.)
   
4. Copy Sam from it & paste Sam in the middle of the circle frame
5. Erase crayon drawings (Sorry Mo's cuties--by permission of Mo) :o)

Don't want to use software?

If you like the look of the round frame--but you you don't want to play about digitally--you could just print/emboss it separately, cut it out & paste it over the image. :o)

(If you missed the mini tutorial & would like to read about
heat-embossing embossing digital images please click here):

This image is from Mo's Digital Pencil.

It's called Sam in trouble & you can find it here.

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"Art Happens"

...make a mess with Crayons, beads, inky-ness
and cut & paste:

Next, I scribbled allover the walls with my crayons. I love crayons! Do You?



Then...coloured Sam. (I used Copic markers on a blender pen to get pastel shades, because I'm too cheap to buy the pastel markers!)

Tinting embossing with Copic markers makes me giddy!

I wanted to have more tinting fun,
by making custom coloured beads in a nice apple green:

It worked really well with a mix of:
Copic reinker, blending solution, and alcohol ink
(these used to be clear white beads)

A) Inks up beads (in a baggie)
B) Smoosh the ink around
C) Dry in a container in an airy place

It did take a little while to dry, but no problem until I noticed that.....because I didn't tidy up before I went crazy with ink, I had made this big mucky booboo on my image (by splashing ink on it!)...Then, it grew enormous when I tried to fix it--(like a big pukey crayon monster behind Sam's head!):


BARF!!! (the look on his face was exactly the look on mine when
I created that crayon barf monster!)

SOoooh, I cut it out with an exacto knife...
and pasted in a little banner in the background:

(it says-Art Happens!--You bet it does!)

the beads did make it onto the frame & they were happy:

make mini crayon-resist blackboard drawings

These are like little chipboard blackboard art. They were silly fun to make! :-D

Step 1) Draw some pictures in crayon

Step 2) Smoosh black ink all over them & wipe off the excess



Step 3) punch them out with a circle punch (this is a 1 and 1/4" circle)

Step 4) print circular frames (scaled down to fit & printed on matte paper to emboss them)



Step 5) Make frame rings & adhere everything:

A) Punch around the inside of the frames with a small circle punch (1 and 1/4" circle)
B) Then Punch around the outside of the frames with a larger circle punch (1 and 3/4" circle)
C) Make plain white rings the exact same way (to layer underneath the frames for dimension)
D) Colour the white around the black frames with a crayon
E) Tint the embossing on the frames (same as with the big one)
F) Mount the punched art behind the layered rings on a white 1 and 3/4" circle)
G) Glue your mini blackboard art onto a piece of cardstock (the black scallop)



Step 6) Add wee "nails" and picture wire.



The picture wire is silver thread, and the nail heads are the tips of snaps poked through holes made with a paper piercer. The snaps are glued on (so the art doesn't fall of the wall.) ;o)

Put it all together on a sketch book:

Hope there was an idea or two for you in

all this silliness,