How I spent my Christmas vacation

8 Day heARTfest Valentine Tutorial Blog Hop with my friends:
1/25/2012 Jane LaFazio Sketchbookpage to Valentine Card (& envelope too)

1/26/2012 Traci Bunkers Heart filled journal page

1/27/2012 Diana Trout Woven heart valentines card

1/28/2012 Lyric Kinard Lovin' my Thermofax Screens

1/29/2012 Judy Coates Perez Chocolate Peppermint Cream Heart Cakes

1/30/2012 Kelli Nina Perkins  Heart-shaped felted soap

1/31/2012 Melanie Testa 

2/1/2012 Tracie Lynn Huskamp  Valentine Message Pillows 

Published!

Quilting Arts February/March 2012



This page from my sketchbook, last July, has inspired so many different projects!

  


8 Day heARTfest Valentine Tutorial Blog Hop with my friends:
1/25/2012 Jane LaFazio Sketchbookpage to Valentine Card (& envelope too)

1/26/2012 Traci Bunkers Heart filled journal page

1/27/2012 Diana Trout Woven heart valentines card

1/28/2012 Lyric Kinard Lovin' my Thermofax Screens

1/29/2012 Judy Coates Perez Chocolate Peppermint Cream Heart Cakes

1/30/2012 Kelli Nina Perkins  Heart-shaped felted soap

1/31/2012 Melanie Testa 

2/1/2012 Tracie Lynn Huskamp  Valentine Message Pillows 

Dia de los Muertos

I finished this Recycled Circles piece in honor of Dia de los Muertos. It make me excited for the art retreat my friends and I are teaching in San Miguel de Allende during Dia de los Muertos!



8 Day heARTfest Valentine Tutorial Blog Hop with my friends:
1/25/2012 Jane LaFazio Sketchbookpage to Valentine Card (& envelope too)

1/26/2012 Traci Bunkers Heart filled journal page

1/27/2012 Diana Trout Woven heart valentines card

1/28/2012 Lyric Kinard Lovin' my Thermofax Screens

1/29/2012 Judy Coates Perez Chocolate Peppermint Cream Heart Cakes

1/30/2012 Kelli Nina Perkins  Heart-shaped felted soap

1/31/2012 Melanie Testa 

2/1/2012 Tracie Lynn Huskamp  Valentine Message Pillows 

Judy Coates Perez heart cakes

Kelli Nina Perkins felted soap

Tiny Tutorial ~ Valentine Cards

Make a Valentine  and matching envelope using a page from your sketchbook. Above is a  cropped photo of my layered valentine page. You'll see how I produced and printed cards and envelopes using a photo of this page.
 
 
As you'll see in this post, the layered journal page is made from a doodle on  one page in my sketchbook and then covered with a sheet of vellum, with more ink drawings, filled with color pencil.
Envelopes: I photographed the ink doodle page, then, using Photoshop (filter: stamp)  to simplify  the drawings. Then I printed it out in black and white on regular printer paper, and then cut envelopes using the envelope template I found online.
Cards: To make the cards, I printed out the image in color on card stock. I made both postcards and folded cards, both to fit the envelopes.

the vellum overlay. ink and color pencil

 
Here' are the other pages of mine from my Strathmore Visual Journal (9x12). The doodles, painted with watercolor on one page, and the overlay of vellum, with more ink drawings (and colored with color pencil)


 

I used Strathmore Translucent Vellum and it took ink beautifully. ( I see they have inkjet and laser vellum too , but I haven't used it.) To fasten the vellum to the sketchbook page, I used a tiny hole punch and tiny brads. You could just staple it too.

Happy Valentines Day!

From my Sketchbook

This month's Sketchbook Challenge theme of doodles has really triggered something in me.



I got the idea to layer a piece of  Strathmore Translucent Vellum, that I already had, from one of the ideas in Jill K. Berry's book, Personal Geographies.





I'll be doing a Valentine tutorial on this blog on January 25, and I'll show you how I created a journal page like this and then, use the image to create a valentine card and envelope.