Zentangle for a Zaturday

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It's Zaturday, and that of course means a new zentangle!!! I would first like to give praise to my writing partners:I am super happy with my Staedtler Triplus Pens! They are by far the nicest ones I've worked with so far and I'm amazed how many miles I've gotten out of them, and continue to. (watch --- one will dry out on me tomorrow - :))  Stay away Evil Eye!! :)

STAEDTLER TRIPLUS Pens

     

Love them!!!!

...et voila, ma pièce de résistance du jour ----

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I hope you are having a great Zaturday!!!

Until we meet again,

Robi@Nite Show Summary - What Did I Miss Feb. 17th?? LOTS!!!

Playback Link for the Feb 17th show

SHOW FEATURES: 

2. Art Postcards, featuring the work of artist Sue Miller.

3. Vintage Shadow Box demo Robi Cohen

We also had Sue Miller join us in the audience.  It was already on my schedule to talk about her art and use of beautiful post cards as items for purchase, as well as excellent marketing tools. Please check out Sue's website.

Sue Miller

Art Postcards

According to Sue Miller, "Postcards for me have always been a delightful way to send my dear family & friends a short note of cheer plus fantastic way to celebrate the Holidays. They would enjoy seeing my latest works. There were no computers around (BC) before computers.. :-) when I first moved away from home so many years ago, so creating postcards of my art work seemed like a natural way for me to communicate with everyone. Through the years I have created a very vast post card line featuring a huge collection of my fantasy art and my many series of art projects. They also created a unique way to communicate with people in my business. (A picture is worth a thousand words.) 

Most people never throw postcards away...they tend to hang on to them & use them for a book mark or maybe hang them on the refrigerator, or just hang on to them- some how knowing these little sized pretties are kind of special for some mysterious reason & who knows why?.. Postcards are like sending a little prayer to someone.. You don't have to invest in a lot of time writing because there actually is little space for many words. But the person receiving it, gleefully glances at the heart warming art or image and feels a sense of love.Some times words are not needed....because the image speaks for itself.
Postcards are also much cheaper to mail then a regular letter so it is practical yet a creative way to send cheer and hope,& save money , which is always a smart thing to do these days & days past.
Many people through the ages have collected postcards.Today there are still very many active postcard collectors. Often many a folk will frame the image and proudly display it in their home or office space in an interesting frame..creating a cozy visual . Postcard collecting has been around for years & the vintage ones are worth a pretty penny today. It is not uncommon for folks to wander tirelessly through flea markets or local yard sales & estate sales to hopefully spot an oldie by some famous artist of the past. I myself keep my eyes open for any of Harrison Fisher old post cards. He happens to be one of my favorite artists from the early 1900's. He painted many of the covers of popular magazines back then like the Ladies Home Journal and many more. His work was in high demand then & even today.
Maybe 100 years from now there will be someone walking the streets in search for one of my many old postcards.
Life is interesting"
Please check out www.suemillerart.com
Post cards & more

Finally, I demonstrated how I made this shadow box:

I used a cookie tin that had a cellophane window.

Isn't she pretty?

For a little bit more of a vintage look, I added a vintage fur piece to drape around the box.

There will be several free downloadable vintage images made available shortly in a separate blog post. :)

Thank you for stopping by

 Until we meet again,

Zentangle Thurzzzzzzday

I'm still loving drawing my hearts. The marriage of art and photography is a blissful one:)

I hope you enjoy

In The Zone - February 14th - What did you MIss?

Here is the link for the Playback room if you would like to watch the show.:

 click HERE for Show playback

We had a Sweet Tooth!!! Our show revolved around all that is sweet and good and yummy -- but in a crafty way.

Cyn showed how she created this wonderful cupcake  It looked good enough to eat and made me want to run out and get a vanilla, chocolate-dipped cone from Dairy Queen!.

I showed the card I made for my hubby: Amazing what colourful cupcake liners, Cuttlebug embossing, and Mod Podge can do!!

 I demonstrated how to make a bubblegum/candy card.  It was a lot of fun.  The key elements for this card were: blister packaging,silver banner paper, Cuttlebug, Candy Hearts embossing folder, alcohol inks,thick card stock.  I also offered several alternatives for the gumballs.

I think by the end of the show everyone was craving something ooey,gooey or a nice chocolate-dipped vanilla ice cream cone.

Until we meet again,

Free Template/SVG file Box with Heart Enclosure

As featured on the Creative EdVentures Network show "In The Budget with Cyn Gagen'  on Friday, February 11th.  -- 

Here is the link for the playback if you would like to see what you missed and how this box goes together: CLICK HERE

R. Birnbaum Cohen c.2011

For this template you have 3 options:

1)Right Click on the photo, Save AS "name your file", and then you can print it out.

2)Go to http://www.box.net/shared/a1yv25lelz  for a JPEG file

3)Go to http://www.box.net/shared/fnclacphrd  for the PNG file which you can use with SCAL, Make The Cut,  and other die-cutting software.

 

Enjoy!

Robi@Nite Show Summary - What Did I Miss Feb. 10th

Here is the link to the Playback room to watch the most recent episode:

Click Here to Watch robi@nite Feb.10 episode

What a great night! Thank you to everyone who came out to watch robi@nite February 10th!  Inspired by some of my vintage jewelery, I featured how to make enamel-look cloisonne.  I am so pleased with the results.

Using silver metal duct tape and various paints, the lovely look of cloisonne can be replicated.

For the live show, I demonstrated how I made the heart.

Supplies used were: Styrofoam heart, metal tape, Cuttlebug embosser,  Love Is In The Air Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Inks, Marvy DecoColor Opaque Paint Markers, Staedtler Triplus fineliners, Pilot Super Color Permanent Ink - Gold, Ranger Glossy Accents.

This is the Embossing Folder I used from the Love Is In The Air set (there were 6 folders in all)

After the show I worked on my demo piece and also found that Bic Sharpies work beautifully as well.

I also shared pieces of my vintage jewelery collection; some pieces dating back to the turn of the 20th century.

Our lucky winner for the night was Zamaluzza - who won a beautiful charm bracelet. Congratulations Zama!!

The theme for next week (February 17) is : Fun In The Sun!

Thank you for stopping by and until we meet again,