She Has 3 Hearts

Hi everyone,

I have been watching the vid's this week for the Christy Tomlinson class that started Monday, She Has 3 Hearts.
Just for week one there are 28 video's. It's cool because a lot of it is just going into products and how you can use them. Different techniques etc.

I am almost done with the cover I am doing for the one journal and have started on a page. I have to go out to my daughter State ring award's ceremony for track at her school tonight then I'm hoping to finish so I can post some pictures.

Im excited about this class. If there was anything at all that I could buy in addition to what I already have, I would buy the Pan Pastels. Good things come to those who wait though and there are more important things going on in my life than pan pastels.

Hopefully I can post some pictures tomorrow.
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Madzie

Sunny Saturday

A beautiful day here today in NW Arkansas. Got outside for a little while to the farmer's market and the Sam Walton visitors center re opened today and it was so awesome.
I have been applying left and right for as many jobs as possible at Walmart Corp offices hoping hoping for a break soon.
I am blessed to be so loved and supported by my husband and family and friends.

Ok so Monday, the Christy Tomlinson 3 hearts workshop starts. Lucky for me I had signed up for this before the big shock of my life layoff and I am going to get to take the class. Here is the link if you are interested in checking it out. http://www.christytomlinson.typepad.com/christytomlinson/workshops.html

I have been altering the cover of an old day planner from 2010 to use for my 3 hearts journal. I have to get some more Mod Podge and maybe a couple of bottles of paint. My awesome hubby fixed the printer last night so now I can print out some great stuff for collage in my journal...so excited. I will post pics as things get going.

Also, through my friend Lisa's blog, (her scrappin deals and steals blinkie is on my side bar) I found another awesome mixed media artist and I love her journaling style and can't wait to try my hand at it. I promise I will post a link to her blog soon, I am not on my laptop so I don't have access to my bookmarks.

Anyhow hope your Saturday was fabulous and your Sunday is even better.

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Madzie

Another Tag

Got one more in before the night was over...Thinking I will get some magnets at Hobby Lobby next time I go and slap some of these on the fridge...

Thanks for checking things out
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Madzie

Finished canvas'

Two canvas' I have been working on. I love working on the canvas' but I just don't know what to do with all of them. I think I am going to pick up an art journal next time I'm at Walmart and just have them all in a journal.
Especially since the Christy Tomlinson 3 Hearts workshop is about to start. Anyhow The one is just an inspirational canvas I did. The other I made for my husband for our 6 year anniversary.
He is so sweet, he told me he wished he had his own desk at work because he would take it and put it on his desk. He makes me smile.

I need to go to hobby lobby and get some wired ribbon and make a bow and glue to the top of the anniversary canvas. Then I can hang it up.
Thanks for taking a look.
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Madzie

Happy Birthday Tag

I made this tag for my daughter to send to her great gran in California. She turned 93 this year.

With my surgery behind me now and some good news in the mail today I think tomorrow will be a day for art.
I love working with the tags but I am also working on a canvas. Have to see what the day brings.

Thanks for taking a look
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Madzie

STRESS

So many unexpected things this past week. The loss of my job...a surgery date frantically moved up...I don't even know where things are starting and ending right now...

I have to see this as a very unexpected but new opportunity for me. I just hope and pray with all that I am that I can find something soon.

Life has given me some huge lemons this past week...guess I better make some lemonade baby.

I am thankful for my awesome husband, my beautiful and positive daughter, my son who always finds a way to make me smile, and my loving and wonderfully supportive friends. Few as they may be, they are the best I could ever dream of having.

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Madzie

Art

Needed to find some time to get some art in...we got put on mandatory overtime at work this week and even though it's only Monday, I decided I need to find my way to relaxation so I am going to try to make a new tag each night.
I love that they don't take very long but I can still be just as creative.
This is a picture of the one I made tonight.

I drew the swallow onto a dictionary page that I painted and stamped yesterday. I made about 8 different pages so I would have them ready to use. I made the birds nest out of a paper towel cardboard and just cut a few little blue eggs. I mod podged everything. Used some ink to add shading and high lights. I really love how it came out.
I think tomorrow I will use my orange and pink paper.
Thanks for taking a look
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Madzie

For my Best Friend

I have been in a slump with my art last couple of weeks. I have just been really tired and I got stuck on a certain part of a canvas and just walked away for awhile.
The picture below is a canvas I made today for my best friend in California. She just had cancer removed from her breast and got good news that they got it all. She has been so stressed out and also so very brave through all of this.
Being a cancer survivor myself, I wanted her to know how brave and beautiful I think she is.
I had already prepared the canvas for something else but decided to use it today. I got inspiration from Marah Johnson's lates video on the wood paper butterfly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7iLMLT2y3g&feature=feedu
I made the paper that I used for the back and front of the butterfly out of coffee filters and diluted acrylic paints...I then stamped it with black staz on and one of my favorite stamps. The top butterfly is only glued in the center so the wings move, and on the paper under the butterfly is a transparent glitter so if there is a breeze the wings will flutter and glitter underneath...
I doodled all over the canvas and wrote little messages for her in the flourishes...
I know she will love it.

2nd She girl from the 2nd week of the She Art class

I did a lot of painting on this one. The only paper is the actual girl...everything else was painted and rub ons and doodling. Fun stuff. I love the technique for the skirt, its very messy but very cool.

Thanks for checkin things out.
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Madzie

Soul Resoration I Give a way via a Gilded Life

Head on over to A Gilded Life's FB page http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Gilded-Life/127004257311739 and enter for a chance to win a spot in Melody Ross' (awesome) online class Soul Restoration I.
I have friend's taking this class and they love it so much. GOOD LUCK!!!! Don't forget to click on the LIKE button when you head over there.
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Madzie

More She Art

My first She girl from the 2nd week video's. I have another one to do and I have only watched 1 video from the 3rd week. Gotta try to catch up this week or maybe this weekend...
Here is my canvas from week 2.

Thanks for looking.
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Madzie

my She Art

Ok so I managed to get 2 She girls done this week. Tomorrow a whole new set of video's comes out and I'm excited. Here are the 2 I got done this week.

Thanks for taking a look
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Madzie

SHE ART

SOOOOO EXCITED!!!!! Tomorrow is Monday and I couldn't be more excited. The She Art workshop starts...I received my emails with my password and tonight I am cleaning off my dining room table and setting up shop baby.
Stopping by JoAnns on my way home from work tomorrow to pick up some gesso and a couple of canvases and rushing home to pull up the first tutorials.
I will be posting my art as I journey through this awesome class.
Next...Soul Restoration (hopefully)...I NEED to take this class...I want to take this class...and I WILL find a way to take this class.
Ok...watching the Oscars with my little woman.
Have a fabulous evening.
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Madzie

Sunday

So yesterday hubby and I and my daughter Melissa went to the grand opening of the used Harley Davidson dealership here and we ended up getting our first bike. It's not hubby's first bike but it's a first for US. Looking forward to lots of weekend rides and meeting some awesome new people. Here's our bike.

Cupcakes yummy

We have been making cupcakes...we being my daughter and I...tonight I made these espresso cream filled dark chocolate cupcakes to take to work tomorrow for Valentines Day...
They are very yummy...

Last week my daughter made these beauties...she did the fondant...her first time working with fondant...BRAVO I say...B R A V O!!!

Thanks for taking a look.
Hope you have a fantastic Valentine's Day and that everyday is filled with love for you.
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Madzie