Altered Pages Post with Valentine collages!

Hello and welcome to February- a month filled with LOVE & SNOW~ at least in my neck of the world! teehee

Today I am sharing with you some of Valentines I have made- some to be hung in the windows and others for sharing- hope you find some inspiration in my post! 

    I started out with some paper heart doilies and cardboard hearts I had. After stringing the red hearts and then gluing them to the lace doily- the fun began!

  I printed out Altered Pages Valentine collages and fancy cut the pieces I would use.
 
 

 The Distress Markers were used to outline the Love quote to give depth to it.

Stickles galore!

     Lots of Stickles glitter glue here- yes, I am a fan of Stickles!


And now close ups of each Valentine- using the collage pieces 

 

Distress Stickles & DecoArt Liquid Glass

Liquid Pearls

Stickles,DecoArt Liquid Glass&Embossing Powder

Embossing Glitter,Stickles &DecoArt Liquid Glass

                 

This one was created with AlteredPages Gold Leaf- I love this stuff- it gives every piece elegance!

Altered Pages Products used:
To Thine own Self be True  Collage
Always in Love Collage
Heart-ily Agree Collage
Stickles
GoldLeaf - Try It
Nori Paste
  Other products used:
Doily Hearts
Red Ribbon
DecoArt Liquid Glass
Cardboard Heats
Stickles
Distress Markers
Liquid Pearls
Embossing Glitter

 For my organization tip, I am sharing my marker and pen storage that I upcycled. 
My hub had bought at auction about 12 of those metal and plastic drawer organizers-used for nuts,bolts,etc.
Seeing that he had so many...I snagged a few for my own use! teeheehee

  This one I painted up in some of my fav colors and added some favorite papers on the side and back. I filled the drawers that pens and markers would fit into and removed others for my longer ones. 
I had an issue with my pens/markers going dry- so after a bit of research, I found that many artists suggest laying them vertically-


So, you are getting a two for one today as I never hit publish last week and this post had been sitting as a draft! oops!- Enjoy ")

 

 Hello everyone and welcome to the next to the last day of January- already! 
We here at Altered Pages are still partnering with DecoArt for these last two days- so a little bit more painting fun for you!

So I created a journal page on one of my favorite indulgences! 
                                     Coffee of course! 

 

  I used the whole  "Take your coffee black" collage sheet from Altered Pages as well as a few of my favorite DecoArt Colors-both Americana and from the Media Acrylic line. 
I also used the StencilGirl stencil~ Layered Salad by Terri Stegmiller

 

 This journal spread is my interpretation of the theme~
Words with Friends~  over at The Documented Life Project

 

Products used:
Altered Pages Collage Sheet~ Take Your Coffee Black

DecoArt Americana-  Snow (Titanium) White
DecoArt Americana~Poppy
DecoArt Americana~Desert Turquoise
DecoArt Americana~ Spa Blue
DecoArt Americana~Indian Turquoise
DecoArt Media Acrylic ~ Cobalt Teal Hue
DecoArt Media Acrylic Cobalt Turquoise Hue


Thanks so much for stopping in- Jackie ")

Friday art to share

Hello friends, old and new! 
  Just a quick post today to let you know, I am still here, just real busy creating artful pieces for my design teams! Alteredpages-Artsociates and DecoArt.com

  I have photos of finished projects,but no tuts to share~as these were started some time ago and I just recently picked them up again and let my muse go all creative on them!
  Sometimes she does that! teeheehee

"In the Garden of the Muses"

 I had to share the close-ups of this piece because they are so darn yummy!!

  Next is a plate and frame I found at a yard sale, I printed out a piece of my art and cut and collaged it onto the plate-

              a few journal pages - just for fun...

this one is dedicated to my sisters

  and my first set of pages for the DLP-
 only because Zsuzsa Karoly-Smith asked!

I don't share journal pages with my notes or thoughts- those are for me to reflect on ")

and finally- look what I scored! I won a giveaway over at Alpha Stamps-fun stuff-Paris related! Oui!

Some have been asking about the "girls"~ so stay tuned- I'll be sharing a post with them soon!!

As always, thank you so very much for visiting and sharing your thoughts!
Creative wishes coming your way~
Jackie ")

Guest design post for Country View Crafts Challenges

 WOW! was I ever thrilled to be asked to be a guest designer for Country View Challenges!!
On any given day, the inspiration that is shown on CVC is to say the least, Incredible- so when I was notified by Chris, I was over the moon excited! 
Our challenge for this month is to Try Something New-to you.
Next came the mind racking- what shall I create? Well if you follow along I'll show and tell and hopefully will have inspired you to go try something new!!

Chris also asked, that I share a bit about me,then onto my project!
​Hello, Jackie P Neal here!

To begin, I am a mainly self-taught, mixed media artist,loving all sorts and types of mediums and products- texture and color exciting my muse!

I live in a rural town in upstate New York,called Wolcott,on a small "farmette" of 13 acres,as we like to call it.Unfortunately for me, but good for the pocketbook,we live about 50 miles from any art supply stores! Ugh!- thank you Internet shopping!! heehee Everyday life for me is spending time with my husband and Golden Retriever; either gardening, walking the woods, putting up vegetables,organizing in the pole barn or in my studio playing and making art.

My life is truly blessed and I'm really so glad to be able to share some of  it with others-

My project this month was a  piece created by using or doing something new to me. I had to think hard on this because I like to try everything once,sometimes twice-teehee so I wasn't sure of what I would do.
Recently I was watching a tutorial from a friend's blog,Susanne Rose where she was using Gelatos on ATC's. Light-bulb moment here- I remembered in the beginning of the year,2014-that is, I won a set of Gelatos from Retro Cafe' Art and had not yet used them!!  This is what I created, a mini piece of wall art, featuring  my using Gelatos for the first time.

For my substrate I used a piece of cardstock that had nice edging on both sides. I used the blue Gelato around the outside edges,smoothed in with my fingers and just inside of the blue on the top I used gold which was feathered-in to the blue.

 My next step was to use a piece of scrap paper and apply with gel medium some vintage text. On this I used the same technique, applying Gelatos blue and gold, with my favorite art tool,my fingers! 

This time I used more of the gold, filling up the center of the text. 
( I forgot to add to the original post, that i added a layer of DecoArt Triple Thick Gloss Glaze to which I added some flake glitter for sparkle)

 Next was to add a few sprays of Lindy's starbursts,which is seen better in close-up. 

After that I added some DecoArt Crackle Glaze,to give that vintage look to the center piece.

This part was then adhered to the substrate and scrap art graphics by itKuPiLLi were added.  was added.  The tiny gold stars at the top are pieces of gold gilt/leafing-applied with gel medium.And then I added just a hint of liquid glitter to the edges.

On the bottom I added a smaller piece made the same way and attached this with a series of 3 jump rings. 
And to this hanging piece, I added my quote. 

Thank you so much for joining me and many thanks and big hugs to Chris and the others at CVC for asking me along! 
  Jackie P Neal ")