A card for all Occasions

Supplies:
Oil Pastel
Robin Nest Cardstock
Robin Nest Little Friends
Ribbon,
Nori Paste


I make cards, but I don't like to make theme cards, so I try and have a collection of Cards that are ready for me to use with an occasion


1.  color White Cardstock with Metallic Oil Pastel from Yastomo - use as many color as you choice here, I like to make my section small.  This way you will see more color then you scratch off.



2.  cover all color with BLACK oil pastel


3.  Cover with Stencil of choice (or you can hand draw).  I used this heart stencil from Creative Imaginations. take a wood stick with a point on it and start remove the black oil pastel use the stencil as your guide.

I did the same idea for the inside of my card, BUT i did not remove the black oil paste yet, I am waiting until I need this card, then I will add my quote.  

Hope you are inspired by my project this time around and you stop by the Yasutomo website and get yourself some Oil Pastels.  

Thanks again for stopping by

Terri Sproul 

Got my eye on you

I had a blast making this project, I was challenged to make a project that will inspire you to use Splash Inks. I felt that this project would be artful and simple at the same time.

EYE ON SPLASH INKS

Supply List:

Watercolor Brushes

Watercolor Paper

Perma Writer's 

Splash Inks

Pencil

Water bottle

1. I started by drawing out my eye with a pencil, when I had the basic done I started to darken each line with my Perma Writer's.

2.   I used my Watercolor Brushes and Splash Inks to color in my image.  I used a lot of water in some areas so that the Splash Ink color would run and create interest.  When I finished with my Splash Inks I outlined some of the area with my Perma Writer to add depth to the Art.
3.  Frame

Thanks for stopping by today
Terri Sproul

Art Journal - No Fussy Cutting your stamps

Dear Santa

Supplies:
Golden Gel Medium - Matte
Acrylic Paint
book Text
SinCity Stamps
Oil Pastels
Golden Titan Buff
Letter Stencils
Glittler glue
Faber-Castell - Big Pen
India Ink
StazOn

Here is the Tuesday NIGHT show:





Thanks again for stopping by

Terri Sproul

Christmas Flower

I just love Christmas time, these Poinsettia plants are so pretty.  

Supply List:

Oil Pastels

Authentic Chinese Watercolors

Watercolor Brushes

Canvas

1.  Started with a Canvas about 8 x 10

2.  Hand Drew my Poinsettia using Oil Pastels

3.  Fill in the Poinsettia with Red Watercolors, and the back ground with a Blue color

I am so excited to announce I get to give you a change to win some of these wonderful

OIL PASTELS

To be enter you must

1.  Like the Yasutomo Facebook Page - Tell them I sent YOU

2.  Leave me a comment

3.  I will announce the winner of the contest on my Tuesday Night show 

Thanks for stopping 

good luck!

Terri Sproul 

A little birdie told me so

I have been playing with Stencils and Layers!  Oh, this is just too much fun

supply List
Stencils:  Most from The Crafter's Workshop 
Paint:
Distress Inks
Letter Stickers
Oil Pastel from Yastutomo 

Here is a video that will show you this technique:  

Thanks for stopping by, hope you join me LIVE on Tuesdays

Art Journal - layering with Stencils

I love STENCILS..  Oh, how I do...

and Art Journals allows me to play

Most of you Know I do a Live show on Tuesday Nights 

Tuesday the 26th I did a Show about Stencils

Coffee

It's Thanksgiving Time and I want to talk about something we are Thankful for

but not the normal stuff, like family, health, etc...  

I am THANKFUL for Coffee every day!  LOL

Supplies:

Dylussions - Ranger Ink

Distressed Ink - Ranger Ink 

Stencils from The Crafter's Workshop

Memories Spray by Stewart Superior

Stamps:  

Stazon

Paint:  

Oil Pastel by Yasutomo
Watercolor - Yasutomo 

Here is last night show - Please give me a thumb up and subscribe to my Youtube.com/terrisproul channel 

Thanks again for stopping by.
Terri Sproul

Fall mirror

I just love all the colors of Fall..  the reds, yellows, oranges, they just make me happy.  But sad to say these color are only here for a few days.  How can i keep them always?  Art, is always the right answer - off to my studio


sorry about the photo, I did not think when I made it how hard it would be to photograph it.  but I think you get the idea.

1.  Start off with a white cardstock and color with my NiJi Olil Pastels using the red, yellows and oranges to make a wonderful background - blend each color into the other.

2.  I found this mirror at the local art store (on sale) and painted it with Orange paint.  Can you see that this mirror was a flower shape?

3.  I stamp onto the Color cardstock that I created with my personal line of stamps from SinCity Stamps.  I love this Leave plate of stamps, I created.  Lots of great things plan for them.

4.  I cut each leaf out by hand and paste each of them on the wood mirror frame with Nori paste from Niji .  I love the way this whole project worked out.  Sorry again about not get that perfect photo.  

How easy was that project?  Only four steps, so next time you see a mirror or frame, you know what to created with it.  

thanks again for stopping by

Terri Sproul 

Art journal watercolor resist

Each Tuesday Night, I do a FREE Live show and teach you a fun technique.  This week, we played with a resist technique.  Here how we did it.

Graphic 45 Kits still available: CLICK HERE 

Supplies:
SinCity Stamps - Natural Beauty
White Embossing Powder
Tim Hotlz Distressed Paints
Sincity Stamps - Music Notes
Stencil - Hand made or Purchased
Water
PPA - Perfect Paper Adhesive - UsArtQuest 

Here is the Video for Tuesday Show, Join me NEXT Tuesday at

6PM PST

7PM MST

8PM CST

9PM EST (New York Time)

Thanks again
Terri Sproul

Art Journal - Water color for Beginner's

Cycle of Life

Steampunk Spell and Graphic 45 Kits:  CreateNCraft.com

Gel Bead Gel:  Gelato's - just a tip from last show
Gel Medium - I love Golden's
India Ink
SinCity Stamps and Masks
Dylusions stamps - this old House
Dylusions Sprays and water
Liqueitex Ink
Watercolors:  Niji
Yasutomo Authentic Chinese Watercolors:
Yasutomo Oil Pastel
Stazon
Joy of Stamping Stamp Cleaner and hand Cleaner
Art Paper on-Line.com - hand made papers

Tonight lesson is about Oil and water do not mix.  so you can use oil Pastel as a resist with watercolors.  I used Dylusion Sprays as my watercolor.

You can see the resist of the Oil Pastel here.  It's the little house cute

Love the detail in the Leaf stamps

Here is the video from Tuesday Show - please join me Live on Tuesday starting at

6PM PST

7PM MST

8PM CST

9PM EST (New York Time)

You go to my Youtube.com/terrisproul channel and look for the live show or I post the link on my Facebook page on Tuesday Nights, just before the show starts

Thanks again for join me on Tuesday and stopping by my blog.  smiles
Terri Sproul

The Moon

As most of your know, I live on Top of Palomar Mountain, in California.  Our Mountain is known for it's Observatory - one of the largest in the world.  I am telling you this because I was sitting on my porch the other night and the moon was so large and bright in the sky, it took my breath away.  Then a cloud passed in front of the moon, this site was amazing...

The next morning, I could not stop think about how pretty that moon was the night before, So I headed into my studio and started to play.

Supplies:
Canvas
Black Gesso
Oil Pastel
Pale Gold Sumi-e watercolor 
Waterbrush 

DIRECTIONS
1)  Started off with a Canvas, painted it was Black Gesso.
2)  The Oil Pastel are so easy to use, it's just like use a crayon,  I drew in my moon with a the White and Light Yellow Oil Pastel.  Bending them together with my finger
3)  With Blue, Grey and White, I started adding those clouds I seen the night before.  Blend the three colors with your finger to get the effect.
4)  Stars - I had to add stars - Since we have no outside lights up here, the star are very bright.  I got my  mini waterbrush (love these brushes) and started adding star with my Pale Gold Sumi-e watercolor.

Stop by the Yasutomo website and check out all the fun art supplies they have!

Terri Sproul

Zebra

Terri Sproul here and I just love to play with different medium and Yasutomo is the perfect company for me to be apart of the Design Team.  Look at all the fun stuff I get to play with.  I just do love do Transfers, in this post I did just that.

Supplies:

Yasutomo  Pearlescent Watercolor

WaterBrushes

Nori Paste 

Image to Transfer:  I got my image in my MailBox Muse kit

HandMade paper from:  Arnold Grummer's 

Black Matte

Golden Paints:  Gel Medium

Water Bottle

Direction:

1)  Start by making your image transfer:  

       a)  brush on Gel Medium to both the image and the paper you are adding the image too.  NOT too heavy, nice light even coat on the image and the paper

       b)  place image side down to paper you want the image to placed

       c)  Let dry

       d)  Spray water on image paper too get wet, take finger and rub off all the paper.  You image will remain on the paper you adhere too.  

2)  after i was done transferring my image, It's now time to play.  I got my Niji Pearlscent Watercolor out and starting playing..  I spray my watercolor first and using my Niji Waterbrush (love them) to add color to my background.

3)  adhere my work of art to my black background paper using my Yasutomo Nori Perfect Paste.  

thanks for stopping by

Terri Sproul 

One Last Moment with Summer

Yes, I know it Fall now, but I had to get one more moment in with Summer.  I am a Mixed Media Artist and I just love to make Art Journals and Yasutomo allow me to play with lots of different mediums.


Art journal - today I am sharing my Art Journal page. Sometimes I go all out with lots of layers with paints, inks, stamps, but there are those moment when you just want to make life simple.

 I used the Niji 36 Oil Pastel and drew a tree, starting with a dark brown Oil Pastel and coloring in with a lighter brown color.  Used two shades of Green to make my tree top and grass, as you blend the two you will get more colors.   

 Here is the best part, as you might know Oil and Water don't mix, so with this in mind.   I got my Niji Pearlescent Watercolor set  and Watercolor Brushes  and start coloring in the sky.  Since water and oil don't mix, the water color did not mix into my tree or grass.  HOW cool is that.  love it..

 I stamped this Bird image and Girl in the Grass, colored them in using my Gel Xtreme Rolls.  Love the way this looks 

Just one more touch, I got my old Calligraphy Pen out and the Yasutomo Traditional Chinese Ink Ultra Black ink and wrote the quote "It's a summer thing" .  

Thanks for stop by the blog today, stop by again.  

Terri Sproul

http://www.youtube.com/terrisproul  

Art Journal Background and Gelli Plate

I am so addicted to my Gelli Art Printing Plate, So I had so much fun to show you how many different way to play with your Gelli Art Printing Plate.


Supplies:
Graphic 45 Mini book Kit - Steampunk Spells
Gelli Art Printing Plate
Escstasy Crafts:  Paper Rose
Brayer
Paints:  Plaid FoldArt:
Stencils:  The Crafter Warehouse
Gel Xreme - Pastel Rollers


Stamp Magic Block:  

 
These are still a work in Progress

Here is the fun show on how I did all this fun stuff:





You can join me every Tuesday Night for a fun show and a change to win a prize,  To win a prize you must post an Art Journal page in my group "all thing Terri Sproul" on Facebook and you are enter to win a prize

Tuesday show starts at
6PM PST
7PM MST
8PM CST
9PM EST

You can find the show on Google Plus - follow me there - or on Youtube.com/terrisproul - look for the live show.

Terri Sproul

Butterfly in the Rain

Butterfly in the Rain

Supplies:

Niji Splash Inks - magenta, yellow and blue

Stencil - I used a Butterfly image

Golden Paints:  Molding Paste

Pallet Knife

White Gesso

Canvas - or this can be done on paper

Spray Bottle filled with Water

Direction:

1)  Paint your canvas or paper with White Gesso, set aside to dry.

2)  lay Stencil on canvas and with your Pallet Knife spread a thin coat of Molding Paste over the stencil.  (Like you are adding icing to a cake).  I did two butterfly on my canvas.  Set aside to dry

3)  Wet your canvas with a water using a Spray bottle.  Start adding your Niji Splash Inks - Since these colors will not muddy, you can just have fun.  Remember to let them drip too.    Fill your canvas with color until you are happy.  

Super Easy, Now go have fun 

thanks for stopping by today, remember to join me on Tuesday for a Live Stream event make Art Journals at http://www.youtube.com/terrisproul 

Terri Sproul