Fun at Donna Downey's Studio

OK, so Betty, Caroline, and I signed up for a Doodling class with Joanne Sharpe last Friday night at Donna Downey's Studio.  Turns out the storms were so bad that she missed her connecting flight in Detroit so Donna improvised at the last minute and offered to let us take her Poppy class if we still wanted to drive down.  Well, duh!

Let me tell you, if you ever have a chance to take a class with this fabulous woman DO IT!  She is beyond talented and yet so down to earth.  She's full of energy and inspiration and you will leave feeling like you're an artist!

So above is a pic of Donna that totally sums her up!  Below she's helping me with a question.

Here's Caroline and I having a blast.

And had to share this one, LOL, Donna is covering up the Tim Holtz logo on Caroline's apron!

Here's a pic of what my canvas turned into.

This is my oldest daughter Taylor and her boyfriend Cole from Prom this year.

Here's a closeup of all the fun texture on the piece:

We played with lots of layers using tags, paints, gesso, molding paste, book text, and lots more.  Had a blast and I'm so glad we went!

Stampendous and Project Life Blog Hop

Its another day of scrapping with Stampendous and Project Life!  Today is our Blog Hop so be sure to head to the Stampendous blog to see who all is hopping along!

I've really enjoyed working in this format and now I need to get more of the protectors!  I may try to do the weekly recap pages that lots of gals do :)

This time I decided to do a page about my recent class at Donna Downey's studio.  For "mats" for my some of my photos I used some Ranger #10 tags and added some Distress paint around the edges and added some streaks before I adhered my photos.

For the Make Art tag I simply covered the tag with Distress paint and then stamped the brand new "Art Elements" stamp in Archival black ink.  (this stamp will be available soon at your local stamp stores)  I cut the tag in half to slip into the divided pockets :)

On the tag with the pic of Donna I stamped her name with the new Vintage Upper case and Vintage Lower case alphabets and added some tissue tape.

Thanks for popping in today!  I'm up in Massachusetts for a weekend of classes so I'll be scarce for a few days :)  -Cyndi