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 

Wing for YOU

Wings to Fly

Do you love it when you start off making one project and it end up making something completely different?

That's what happen here, I start off make a background to stamps some Fall Leaves on for a completely different project and make this.  

Supplies:

Oil Pastel

Stamps:  Quote Stamp and a Dragonfly

Gel Xtreme Metallic Rollers

3 white sheet of Card stock

baby oil and a cotton ball

Nori Paste

India Inks - Black 

1)  I used reds, oranges, and yellow Oil Pastel for my background paper.  After add these color to my white piece of card stock I blend them together with a cotton ball and baby oil.  Set this aside

2)  Using shade of Green, I did the same thing on a new white card stock, set that aside

3)  One more time, this time with mostly Yellow, but a touch of orange to a new sheet of white card stock. 4)  Now I had my parts, I start by ripping the Green sheet to make my rolling hills, I did go back over the areas where the rip edge was white again.  

5)  Rip  a SUN shape from the Yellow Sheet of paper

6)  Now to make my scene, I adhere my shapes down to the background using my Nori Paste

7)  Stamps both the Dragonfly and quote onto the page using Black India Ink, Color in the Dragonfly image with my Gel Xtreme Metallic Rollers.  Now it's really to frame.  

I hope you enjoy my little project, and hope you might try and play with Oil Pastels too.  

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 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

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 

Art Journal #15

I hope you are having as much fun as me on Tuesday night, I look forward to it all week long..
Last night we continue working on Texture, I show a fun technique that works really well also on a canvas, consider adding a photo too...

Moment in Time

Supplies:

Gesso

Art Journal

QUOTE: The Ultimate Guide to the perfect word

Chip board Die Cut

Want2Scrap

Tim Holtz - Gear Die

Golden Molding Paste - or UsArtQuest 101, 

Water Brushes from Yasutomo - BEST WATER BRUSHES

Pearlescent Watercolor from Yasutomo

Extra:

SinCity Stamps

Create N Craft for Journal and Dylusions Sprays

Please join me on Tuesday night and play along, You can win prizes on the show if you play along, by post your pages on my group page on Facebook called " All Thing Terri Sproul" 

OFF Camera:  I added more Molding Paste around my letter so they become part of the background and added more blue watercolor.  

Here is the show:  Next time to join us LIVE

Thanks so much for all the fun, you guys make me laugh.

see ya next week:
Terri Sproul