Living the Art Life™
OK, so you know I’m terrible about blogging and for some reason I don’t ever put my paintings on my blog. Don’t even have a good excuse. But, I’m going to TRY to start showing more of my paintings and more of my encaustic works over time. I think the hard thing for me is taking the time to photograph the process. Nevertheless, here is the View in My Studio
Congratulations and Best Witches to Bella Crafts Quarterly who is turning ONE this month! I was invited to play along the Bella Crafts Quarterly birthday blog hop and you are all invited to celebrate with Bella Crafts Quarterly. Bella Crafts Quarterly™ would like to thank our sponsors: iLoveToCreate® Spellbinders™ Rowlux® Westcott® I used this great stash of supplies to create a spooky Halloween shadow box to help decorate my home
Prima Bead has a great line of jewelry and accessories that give me a wide variety of options for creating beautiful jewelry as intricate or as easy as I want. This is another easy option for the upcoming holidays. For even more easy holiday jewelry and home décor ideas, make sure you go back and read ‘Tis the Season’ for Big Beads and Quick & Easy Prima Bead Hostess Gift.
I have had so much fun playing with all the pieces from Prima Bead’s ‘Tis the Season’ collection. After using these to create the Quick n Easy Hostess Set, I continued to keep them out and make some jewelry. And while I usually love projects that challenge me, I have to say it was so much fun to create a variety of quick n easy holiday projects using the
The holidays are a busy time of the year for all of us. While we try to create a few projects, don’t you love those that are quick n easy with huge impact? This Quick N Easy Hostess Gift using Prima Bead projects fits that bill! This would make a great hostess gift for a party you are attending or even create great display for your own holiday party. The
I am so pleased with how this came out. I have been playing more with my encaustic supplies and happy to have finally bought a simple griddle for my craft table. I’m using the griddle to melt the wax in small tins – or directly on griddle – so I can paint with it! For this piece, I started with a small 6×6 Ampersand encausticbord. I applied PanPastels directly to
