My Way Of Living

I did these journal pages after watching an online class by Mary Beth Shaw. #stamp #gelliprints #design #stamping #blog #paint #DIY #paper #tutorial #mixedmedia #color #ink #collage #handmade

Hi friends, This is an old post but due to the popularity, I wanted to repost it here. The video is about how to emboss metal sticky foil and paint it with alcohol inks, hope you enjoy it! For those of you don't know how to use embossing folders, I have a photo tutorial at the bottom of this post. In this case, I finished the piece by covering it with black paint and wipping out almost all to just let some darker spots. Other examples using the same technique with another emb

I love to buy old advertisements but never use them (sounds familiar?), now I used one on this collage as an experiment. I also used a Hebrew page from an Israeli newspaper my son brought to me. #ink #stamping #blog #design #gelliprints #DIY #paint #diecut #color #paper #mixedmedia #handmade #stamp #craft #collage

As usual, for this collage I used Gelli prints on deli paper with a touch of stitching and StencilGirl stencils, but this time I did something less colorful. #sew #diecut #handmade #stamp #craft #collage #paper #mixedmedia #color #paint #gelliprints #design #blog #stamping

As I said in my home page, I'm so very happy for this renewal and I decided to launch it on my birthday as my own gift. I have to thank my son Felipe for encouraging and helping me in this task. I did this collage on a corrugated cardboard covering it completely with newspaper. After that I painted the surface pouncing it with gray and beige gesso adding a few colors of acrylic paints to give it more interest. The papers as usual are bits and pieces of gelli prints, painted m

As you already may know I love collages and after three weeks out of town, I was eager to make one. I used tons of leftovers of die cuts, failed stamped images, gelli prints, paper I use to clean my brayer when painting or spraying and a few pieces of Thai paper. After I glued everything in place I started to sew randomly and in a very messy way. #handmade #collage #gelliprints #paint #design #mixedmedia #color #DIY #craft #sew #diecut #paper #stamp #stamping

As long as origami seems to be very tricky for me, I decided to make a VIDEO on how I did the pinwheel where I hid my 2016 resolutions and used it as a focal point on a layout. #color #mixedmedia #design #paint #collage #handmade #craft #DIY

So very happy to share with you that I've been published again. This time is in the Sew Somerset Winter 2016 issue with some fabric collages I did a while ago. #simple #collage #fabric #textile #blog #sew #DIY #mixedmedia #design

I'm loving ATB's so I did another one. If you want to see the process, I have a VIDEO of my recently published on Somerset Studio that you can watch it HERE. Top detail Faces details #DIY #craft #handmade #collage #gelliprints #paint #design #mixedmedia #color

I love to paint all sort of papers to make collages, envelopes or wrapping gifts with them. In this case, I started with a 12" x 12" deli paper and a brayer. As I liked the colors, I painted one more, well....three more. The next morning I received a package with stencils I ordered to make medallions (still out of the box), so I glued these four papers together and painted in the center. After that I felt I needed to do some more so I stitched around the circles and also add