This week’s prompt was “Do you believe in fairies?”



I wanted something really shimmery so I took a purple butterfly and put
pearl ink on it and then some white felt and then some white glitter
just to be sure it would shine. I used UTEE on the hearts in the
background (which was an afterthought, hence the not perfect pattern)
and some alcohol inks with the pearl mixative on the blue in the
background.



here’s another look:

Emily’s question from last week is: “what do i wish for this year to
bring?” and as I’ve already spoken about many many times, mine is for peace.



The technique I used for this week is the Mini Misters and I took my
inspiration from this
tag by Tim Holtz. I’ve been playing more and more with his products
and loving every moment of it.

I know I should stop adding new projects to what promises to be an
already very full year but after this one I only have one more in mind
so I think I’m close to the end.

For this project, I decided to combine my own version of Julie’s Project
52 with Emily’s 52Q.
I wanted to spend more time trying new techniques, exploring and seeing
what I like so I made a list of all the techniques I could think of
(almost all of which doesn’t require me to buy any new supplies of any
kind.) I ordered manilla tags so that I can do a tag a week using
Emily’s questions as my prompts and a tehcnique from my list. I used
Excel to randomize my list (I am a computer geek afterall) and I’m only
allowed to go up or down 4 in the list each week for my technique just
so I don’t spend too much time picking one.



Since the tags are still on order, this might take another week to start
or I might just make my own tag for this week, we’ll see. But here’s the
list of all my techniques.

1. Misters (tim’s mini misters)
2. 3-dimensional embellishments
3. water soluble crayons
4. brayer/paint
5. Vinyl
6. paper pleating
7. paper piecing
8. Wire
9. make my own flowers
10. something with a lot of ink/watercolor like debee
11. play with transparencies (made at home)
12. UTEE
13. create a lot of layers/depth
14. Metal embellishments
15. resist ink/castaway ink…
16. Fabric
17. Sanding
18. Polymer Clay (SculpeyIII)
19. beeswax
20. bubble wrap
21. Diamond Glaze
22. gum arabic/pearlex
23. alcohol inks
24. Chalking
25. flocking
26. Acrylic paint (dabber or golden)
27. use only rubons
28. Grungeboard
29. masking
30. spray paint
31. microbeads
32. Masking Tape
33. bleach
34. doodling
35. Machine Stitching
36. printing on canvas (using canvas in general)
37. Something with stamping
38. Fragment charms
39. something with complicated stitching
40. Alcohol ink mixatives
41. crackle paint/glaze
42. do one of tim’s tags
43. Stickles/distress or otherwise
44. Vintage
45. embossing
46. Glossy accents
47. Glimmer Mist
48. Felt
49. paper poking
50. Distress Ink
51. hand stitching/emboridery
52. something with metal

I picked tags cause they are small and make this project more manageable
for me. This will be my version of an art journal this year.