Pan Pastels - Online Class

Hey everyone!  Hope you are having a great day.  Things here are good....busy.....school and all.

Anyway, as part of Ainsley's school we do Art...and my friend Jamie Dougherty has some great online art classes available on her site.  I have taken, am taking, most of these...and Ainsley has participated in a few.   We decided to do the PanPastel class together....so much fun...and since we have quite the stash of PanPastels the perfect way to learn some new techniques.

 This first one...in blues...mine.

and this...is Ainsley's.

This class was so super fun.  If you are interested in learning about pan pastels, you should definitely check it out.

Hugs.

We Love Brunch

Hi everyone!  I hope all of you in the US had a great holiday weekend.   Me?  I spent all three days at a swim meet with Mackenzie.  Not so bad as the meet was held at Brighton's university so I got to spend some time with him (amazing what offering to feed him will do.  lol)

Anyway, today I want to share with you a project I made using sketch 112 from Sketch Savvy

I used some Pan Pastels on the background a some older Basic Grey chipboard alphas that I painted with some Twinkling H2Os as well as bits of stitching.  The children are just so cute together.  Wish we had more time as a family.  Love my babies.  

Thanks for stopping by today.

Hugs.

Genuine and a Giveaway

Hi everyone!  Hope you are having a great day.  Me?  not so sure as I am actually typing this up the night before it goes live.  Tomorrow I am getting canned lights put into the ceiling in my scrap/office/guest room. So, since I may not have a computer I thought I would jump ahead....just in case.  hee hee

Well, other than sharing that bit of information, I wanted to share with you a project I made at the Prima NSD crop.  Did I mention that we had access to tons of flowers and trims...well, and paper?  I am saving some of those for another day.

But for today....here is Brighton.  I have had the Genuine collection from Authentique sitting in my stash for quite a while and was really excited to get a chance to play with it.

I did quite a bit of distressing with my Prima distress tool and the Prima chalk inks.  I really like the chalks, but I think I may still be a Distress Ink girl.  And I am so digging the chevron pattern.

I found lots of gorgeous flowers in the bins available to us at Prima...and the lace trims...to dye for.  This time I used pan pastels.  Maybe I do need to invest in a set?  hmmmmm

Love the Prima bling I found, and the metal flowers.  Just yummy.

Well, time for bed.  I am going to be dreaming of what color to paint my room when it is done.  I have some toile pattern in the room and a denim futon.  I am thinking a bright, sunny yellow, but then I saw a beautiful Tiffany blue.  What do you think?  Maybe pink?  hmmmmm Leave me a comment on what color you think I should paint and become a follower.  I will pick a winner to receive this older, but brand new book.  (US and Canada please).

Hugs.

Nancy