A new class

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Michelle

We started a new class this past weekend called the Art Chronicle. A year long art Journaling class that can be customized to everyones own needs.

An Art Journal Class with a purpose. Each month we will be making a number of background pages using different substrates, products and/or techniques. There will also be a list of exercises which will you help you to continue to make art throughout the month.

You can use this as a:

Planner
Scrapbook
Technique book
Book of quotes
Collage book
Book of Lists
an A to Z of you
Make cards with pages

You are only limited by your imagination

So each month is a new substrate and a new technique. Although January has not started yet. . . . . here is a peek at one of my August pages.

January’s class is about Beeswax and Faux Encaustic. February we will be working with Alcohol Inks.

You can always find out about it on the Classes page of Everything Scrapbook & Stamps

Cruise to Alaska Anyone?

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Michelle

I last taught on a Cruise to Alaska in 2015 and am excited to be teaching again this August. Alaska is such a beautiful place and of course so very different from Florida, lol

I will be teaching Art Journaling, Mixed Media and a Scrapbook Class. I only teach the classes while we are at sea so that we don’t miss any of the Alaska beauty

Here are all the details:

Day	Date	Port	Arrival	Departure
FRI	8/23/19	Seattle, Washington – Embarkation		4:00 PM
SAT	8/24/19	Crafting Day at Sea
SUN	8/25/19	Alaska Inside Passage (Morning) / Juneau, Alaska	12:00 PM	9:00 PM
MON	8/26/19	Skagway, Alaska	7:00 AM	8:30 PM
TUE	8/27/19	Endicott Arm & Dawes Glacier	7:00 AM	12:00 PM
WED	8/28/19	Crafting Day at Sea
THUR	8/29/19	Victoria, British Columbia	9:00 AM	6:00 PM
FRI	8/30/19	Seattle, Washington – Disembarkation	6:00 AM

and if you want information about prices or to sign up you can click here:

Cruise to Alaska

Hope you can join us

Week 3 – Gelli Plate

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Michelle

I love using my Gelli Plate to make anything and everything. I ave made pencil cases, bags, wall art, books and this weeks project was a shaped book.

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Week 3 of the challenge with @creative_textile_mastery and #wherepaperandfabriccollide yes I did say week three, I am late!! But better late than never. Gelli printing was our topic and this is one of my favorite things to do. #everythingscrapbook #craftist #lakeworth #westpalmbeach #shoplocal #gelliprint #mixedmedia #artjournal #artistherapy

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A New Year and a challenge

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Michelle

Happy 2018 to everyone.

It’s a New Year and time for me to make and share art. The easiest way for me to be consistent is to be accountable to someone other than myself!!

Introducing #wherepaperandfabriccollide a year long challenge between myself and Christine Escanes of Creative Textile Mastery.

Canvas Panel

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Michelle

This was the piece that I taught as a class in Alaska, I just stumbled across the image. The cool thing about this piece is there are three hidden compartments, you can see one of them open with a red crown marble inside.

The canvas was made from recycled items

Storage solution for cut collage pieces

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Michelle

I have so many collage papers and images and when I have some free time I cut images out. I altered a small accordian file from the office suppy store to file my bits and pieces in.

I used my Gelli Plate along with stencils and Acrylic Paint on copy paper to make the backgrounds. I glued the background papers to the accordian file usng gel medium and then added a couple of layers of gel medium on top to protect it.

I glued on an image and some letter stickers and this makes a great file to keep small bits!

Here is a photo of the file opened. There are 13 tabs inside labeled.

Labels such as body parts, ocean life, heads, household, hats, etc make finding images a breeze

Here you can see some of my cut out images waiting to be filed

Before I get called out by those that know me, lol – I have hundreds of collage papers and bits and pieces. These are stored in plastic totes of which there are many!! This small file just holds all the cut out pieces.

Chipboard Tag

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Michelle

Used some Tim Holtz stamps and dies to make this vintage chipboard tag.

Jewelry from a die

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Michelle

I took a Seth Apter Spellbinders die and cut few layers from cardstock which I glued together to make it nice and sturdy. Covered the whole thing in layers of embossing enamel. I glue on some old findings and added a leather string. Now I have a funky new pendant to wear.

a quick project

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Michelle

This is a quick and easy project to do but, oh so cute

First I diecut a strip of tickets from cardstock and then I stamped all over them with mini stamps and words using Jet Black Archival Ink

I added some color using distress inks and an ink blending tool

I inked th eedges of the ticket strips with JJet Black Archival and the tore a strip of muslin just slightly bigger than my ticket strip. I glued the tickets down to the muslin strip

Next I dyed a mini wooden spool with Vintage Photo Distress Stain and added a stamped bobbin image to the top. I glued the first part of the strip to the bobbin and then rolled everything up. I secured it with a decorative pin.