My Color is Beautiful - Winner + Registration is OPEN!

**Please note art does not reflect what will be taught in the workshop. These are instructors' previous works.**

Thank you all so much for stopping by and leaving such uplifting comments during the blog hop! If you dropped by to see who the winner from my blog is, Rafflecopter picked the enthusiastic Saskia for my free space! For everyone else interested, the ENTIRE, ten week workshop including all the bonuses Tiare has planned is only $49!!!!! Yes, five exclamation points! It's that serious, y'all!

CLICK HERE for more information and to register!

A Class and a GIVEAWAY!!!

Have you ever been insanely excited about something but so tired that you can't accurately show that excitement?? That's me right now. I think I can...I think I can... I'm beyond thrilled and honored to have been invited to teach a class - my first class - in a mixed media workshop! If you stopped by the other day, you know that I have been blessed to be in the company of some amazingly talented women in the My Color is Beautiful Art 2015 workshop.

This is an early face; I have more tips and tricks now!

If you are a regular here, you know when it comes to mixed media I'm a huge fan of a big face! You also know that I'm a bit of a supply hoarder... In my defense, most of you are too! :D  If, like me, you started your mixed media journey with multiple trips online and in person to your favorite crafty stores to pick up all of the awesome things that you saw your favorites using, my lesson will allow you to dust off and use some of those must-have supplies to make your own big faces full of depth and color.

If you're interested in trying to win a spot in the workshop, please enter the Rafflecopter giveaway below. I promise I'm not asking you to do anything crazy! You can also get an additional shot at winning a spot by visiting the blog hop on Tiare's blog.


a Rafflecopter giveaway

The winner will be announced November 11, the same day that registration for the workshop begins. Good luck!! Make sure you check out the other artists on the blog hop for more information about their classes and extra opportunities to win a spot in the My Color is Beautiful Art 2015 workshop!

• Nov 1 – Tiare Smith Designs - http://www.tiaresmith.com 
• Nov 2 – Amanda Trought - http://realityarts-creativity.blogspot.com/
• Nov 3 – Martice Smith II  - http://www.uneekart.blogspot.com
• Nov 4 – Mystele - http://www.mystele.com/
• Nov 5 – Aysha Livingston - http://aydaycreatives.com/
• Nov 6 – Trina Willis -http://trinamadethis.blogspot.com/
• Nov 7 – Kiala Givehand - http://www.kialagivehand.com/blog
• Nov 8 – Carol Porter -  http://cporter8.blogspot.com/
• Nov 9 – Tiare Smith – http://www.tiaresmith.com

My Color is Beautiful - Blog Hop Day 1

The blog hop for the My Color is Beautiful Art workshop is on! Today, you can learn more about the workshop and check out a PDF with the instructors' info. For the next few days, the hop will introduce another instructor for the class. You should check it out daily as some folks, including me, are giving away a spot in the workshop! My day is November 6, so make sure you check me out then! Registration begins as soon as the hop is finished!!

Guess Who's Teaching a Class??

EXCITEMENT!! I am so happy that I can finally tell you that I will be teaching in a mixed media workshop along with 7 other wonderful instructors! We are going to bring you an amazingly creative experience in the My COLOR is Beautiful Art 2015 Workshop. Join us for a blog hop starting tomorrow, November 1, to meet all of the instructors and learn a little something about what each of us will be teaching. Make sure you come back on November 6 to learn about my class for the workshop and to get an opportunity to win a FREE spot! Gotta know now? Click here for more information.

Missed One!

So, as soon as I hit publish on the last post, I remembered that there was another journal page before that one. Wanna know a secret? It has an afro too! I was feeling a serious urge to paint one night and was thinking about my mom, so I made myself a page.  You'd think I would have learned from this page about letting paint dry. Clearly I'll need to work on that as I go forward...

Hey...you wanna know another secret? The art journal page I finished today has an afro too!!

There's Another Afro Coming!

Something about Aunt Hope actually leaving a comment on my blog rather than sending me a text made me feel like I probably should post something! :D  Is it strange that I've been happy since this afternoon because they finally released an Android update for the S3 and I was able to get awesomely cool emoji on the Google Keyboard?? (Don't judge me for being nerdy...)  My godmother was texting me after my mom died, and I was severely disturbed that she had all these great emoji and I had NONE! Just smiley faces. I did all sorts of reading and ended up with a couple more, but not enough to make me use the Google Keyboard instead of Swype. I think I might just type with Swype then switch to Google to add cute pictures when I'm actually in the mood to do so...

Was that enough nerdspeak for you??? :D Cool... I just decided that I should just post projects as they occurred, so you'll probably see some Father's Day cards next week or so. I'm jumping back to the beginning of June for this project. ***GRRR... my internet died for, like, the seventh time today. I'll just keep typing and hope that the connection comes back so that Google can save this post. Now I don't feel like typing anymore. SOOOOO... here's another, yes another, big haired lovely from my art journal. **Are you frustrated enough to lose your common sense? Umm...how can Trina upload a picture to Blogger with no internet?? Shame...

Yes, her cheeks are mighty pink, but it's an art journal page! :D

Here's a collage to show how the page went from a little sketch in my sketchbook to this colorful page:

I have to get some patience so I can let my paint layers dry. I kept pulling up the paint...

Be well out there!!

Halloween at Little Miss Muffet!

I'm at work and a bit late with this post. So... Have you seen today's new release at Little Miss Muffet?! Barbara & Paula from Pollycraft have some super Trick or Treaters! Plus, there's an amazing new banner die at LMMS!

I was dying last night trying to convince myself to get up and make something. I guess that's why you're supposed to do these ahead of time, huh? Unfortunately, I can't seem to shake this ridiculous tired that comes on after work. I take my vitamins, but I haven't been sleeping well lately. Last night, I must have woken up 20 times between midnight and 4am; I finally woke up 3 minutes before the alarm was set to go off! I hate that! Anyway, before finally giving in to sleep, I caught my second wind and would up using the adorable Celeste Amberglow Fairy Special digi to make a tag. (Me? Tag?? I know, right!) Had I not been rushing so that I could get into the bed, I probably would have thrown some more stuff at this tag. I do like how it turned out, though.

Well, the clock says I'm off, so I'm going to wrap this up. You should make sure you get over to LMMS to check out the awesome creations my teammates made. PLUS, if you haven't already, you should put the LMMS News Badge on your blog. Mary F. wound up getting three of the new digis just for having the badge! Also, Bandit Boy Tom and some Pollycraft images are being retired from digi form. You may want to rush over to ensure you have them!

**Challenges: Color Me Creative - Bright Colors, Crafts and Me - Anything Goes,  Scrapalicious - Make a Tag, Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything But a Card, Divas by Design - Anything Goes

New Releases at Little Miss Muffet!

This week at Little Miss Muffet Stamps we have seven new digis from Simply Sophia! This set is called Hills of Mooradale and is perfect for you fantasy lovers. There are unicorns, dragons, and a pegasus!

Any photo gurus out there? Things that are this purple will not photo red enough with my camera. I can't get the right colors even when I change the camera's settings or edit the photo afterward...

I chose to make a mini mixed media canvas using Firefoot. I swear as simple as that canvas looks, you might not even believe that there are a ton of products on there...  Don't forget to check out what my teammates made this week and get a peek at the other stamps in the set!


**Challenges: Oozak - Sparkle, Paperminutes - No Design Paper, Papertake Weekly - Things that Make You Go Aww, Stamp and Create - Anything Goes, There's Magic in the Air - Anything Goes, Art With No Boundaries - Anything Goes

A Little Something Different...

Do you ever type words then think that they look misspelled? I just typed "different" as the title of this post and was just waiting for the squiggly red lines to pop up! DOES is another word like that for me. I can't tell you how many times I've written that word and been seriously confused after... :D

Anyway, I've been working for most of the week to clear out my room in preparation for new carpet. Despite the clutter of drawers in my living room and the baskets of clothes that I've moved, the room still looks a hot mess! The man is supposed to start tomorrow, though, so I guess I'll have to move into a higher gear to get that room under control! I do have issues at times with large projects; I need something else to keep me going so I don't end up overwhelmed. So, on my moving breaks, I worked to create a little encouraging piece of art.

The colors are all a bit wonky. I could not manage to get the purple to photo right on my digital camera inside, outside, natural light, direct light, OttLite - anywhere! My phone photos with a red dot in the middle, but the shots looked way better than my camera's.

Thanks to my dear friend Dana, I transformed a Kashi bar box into a piece of shelf art to inspire me. I used a digi from Guylou's Inimitability (that I drew) then went crazy on the box. I have to say that I'm a bit amazed at how many supplies I have around the house. Granted, I used to sponsor an art club at my mother's school and was given some supplies by a very supportive, arty ex-bf quite a few years ago.  But yeah, I like her and hope you do too!

**Challenges: Come & Get It Challenges - Anything but a Card, One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi, Sentimental Sundays - Paints/Inks, Color Me Creative Classroom - AG with a Girly Twist