tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76773195415479174062024-03-13T12:42:28.751-04:00A Moment with MimiKin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-72808569806888307522018-02-14T02:52:00.000-05:002018-02-14T12:03:06.146-05:00"Kelly Creates"; word stamps for brush lettering from American crafts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
This is just a short post to let you have a look at the Kelly Creates stamps carried by Michaels. I just wanted to share these, because I love the scripty font and the price is so reasonable! They stamp sets are only $5 each. That is in Canada, so they may be even cheaper in the US. And of course cheaper still if you use a coupon! It is a large set of stamps and there are about 18 to 20 words in each one. Tp give you an idea, the package size is 6" x 10", and as you can see, there isn't a lot of wasted space. There are some word duplicates, quite a few actually, mostly the smaller words, but at this price I can live with that! They are not in the regular stamp section. They are in a new section for journaling and brush lettering. There are eight different versions. I got 6 of them the other two are the months of the year and days of the week. I don't think I have much of a used for that, but I may end up getting them anyways as the price is so good. If I use my coupon, I am looking at about $3 a set! These are part of a collection of brush lettering items. I think the purpose of the stamps is to help learn brush lettering. There are also workbooks, brush pens and workbook covers etc. All related to brush lettering. The other items are somewhat pricey, so I was surprised that the stamps were so reasonable! I have to admit, I did get sucked into purchasing some of the other items, LOL. Luckily it was a 55% off coupon weekend. </div>
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The brush lettering is so pretty, I wanted to give it a try. A little bit challenging for someone that is legally blind! But I haven't let that stop me from being creative yet! I would have to say that the metallic brush pens are very soft and it is hard to adjust the pressure to make thick and thin lines. So I was disappointed in them. I had to search for them at a few different Michaels, too. Although I have to add, I couldn't find any other metallic brush pens. But they were not cheap, $40 regular price in Canada. I also found that the black brush pens seem to run out of ink quickly. They were $12 regular price for 3 various sized black brush pens.Just a few observations I thought I would pass it along. So in summary, I wasn't as impressed with the metallic markers, they were okay but expensive. for the quality. Now, I need to let you know that I AM NOT an experienced brush letterist! So that could be part of the problem! I had the best luck with the small black brush pen. The set of 3 black pens were a little easier to work with than the metallic, but seemed to start to dry out quickly. But as for the stamps, I love them! And I love a lot of the words in the sets which would be great for card-making, and art journaling and mixed media art. There is also an alphabet set that you can use to create your own words. I believe these are carried exclusively at Michaels. And Kelly, of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/kellycreates">Kelly creates</a> has several videos on brush lettering, so if you are interested in that you should definitely check her out. Cursive lettering is going to become a lost art. I don't believe they are teaching it in schools any more, which I just don't understand, so this is a good way to keep it alive.</div>
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-85344719329747885012018-02-13T19:33:00.000-05:002018-02-13T19:33:06.575-05:00" pink houses" tag for the music prompt at#onelittletag" <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
We are actually done with the music prompt at the one little take craft challenge, and on to a new week. But I had already started a few more tags for the music prompt, which I had tons of ideas for! So I am still going to finish off those tags, just because it's fun! This tag is based on John Mellencamp's song Pink Houses. First I created my background using distress ink.</div>
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I used a My Favorite Things die to cut out the little houses and accessories from some pink cardstock. A lot of little pieces!. I cut some out of white cardstock as well. I use distress ink to color the trees, and I watered down some distress ink and dragged the houses through it to just add a little bit of texture. I also use the Prima stamp to stamp the houses once they were dry just to add a little more interest. </div>
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I used a We R memory Keeper's die to die cut out the Sun from some yellow cardstock. I did some edging with some distress ink and a little bit of doodling with my white gel pen. I splattered some water on the background, because I love that water reactive quality of the distress inks. I use a glue stick to adhere everything down.<br />
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I used my label maker to create my words and I used an edge punch from my stash, I believe it is a Fiskars punch, to create the grass in the foreground.<br />
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I use distress ink to color and edge the grass, spritz with water and when dry I added my words which I also colored with some distressing. Once I glued that down to the tag, I punched out some flowers from some scraps and adhered those to the tag as well. Once everything was assembled, I glued the tag to a black net to finish it off. I once again enjoyed the whimsical quality of this tag. It took a while to put together with all the little pieces, but it was fun to do.</div>
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I hope you enjoyed my pink houses tag, thank you so much for stopping by to have a look! I will be back soon with more tags. I may have a couple more inspired buy some song titles, just because I like doing them, and I will be also creating some tags for the new prompt of the week which is wings!</div>
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Have an awesome day and I hope to see you back here soon!</div>
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-49391466992622442072018-02-13T19:11:00.002-05:002018-02-13T19:11:43.638-05:00" Castle on the hill" tag for music prom a t#onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
As you can probably tell, I have been having a lot of fun with the music prompt at<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">The One Little Tag Craft Challenge</a> Facebook group. I created this tag based on Ed Sheeran's song "Castle on the Hill".</div>
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I created a back ground for my tag bye blending on some distress ink in blues and greens, creating my hill. <br />
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I die cut my castle from a spellbinders die set.</div>
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I positioned my castle on the hill without adhering it to determine where I wanted my pathway to be. <br />
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Then I created a mask ask for the pathway. I use low tack shelving paper to cut my masks from. It is inexpensive, I get it from the dollar store, and it works well. I did tap it on to my clothing before adhering it to make it even less tacky. I'm positioned my pathway with the mask and then blended some darker green at the edges of the path and splattered on some red and white dots. I use distress ink, which I smooshed on to the craft met and added water to for the red dots and I used my opaque Copic White, which I also watered down to splatter on the white. I also splattered on some clear water droplets because I love that effect with the water reactive distress inks. Then I removed the mask for the pathway and use the negative sections to create a mask for the hill leaving the pathway open. Then I blend it on various brown distress inks and added some water droplets and a little bit of water on a brush to create some horizontal lines, which ended up getting blended out for the most part. I also splattered some gray ink and white dots on my castle, and did some edging with some distress ink as well. I used the distress ink and a pen for the castle door. And when I had everything out, I also splattered some distress ink and Copic white on some gray card stock that I cut down to use as a mat for my tag. I wanted it to look a little bit like stone, too match the castle.</div>
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I adhered my castle, and I used a little punch to punch out some flowers from some scrap cardstock I had. I used my label maker to print out the words. I edged those with some distress ink. I also used a little punch to create the butterfly from some scrap paper I had. I adhered the little flowers and butterfly, as well as the words, which I printed with my label-maker, to my tag.<br />
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I used a couple of my faber-castell Pitt pens to add some shadowing as well as my white Posca paint pen for some highlighting details. Once everything was assembled, I glued my tag to the gray mat that I had created, and then to the final black matte to finish it off. I really like how Whimsical this tag turned out to be, which was actually my intention!</div>
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Well I hope you enjoyed my castle on the hill tag. I really enjoyed creating it. Thank you so much for stopping by and having a look and I hope to see you soon with my next tag. Have an awesome and creative day everyone!</div>
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-23388618396707183752018-02-12T09:58:00.000-05:002018-02-12T09:58:01.218-05:00""Wild Horses" for the music prompt at #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
I am back again with another tag for the music prompt at the one little tag craft challenge. This tag is inspired by The Rolling Stones song "Wild Horses". I had my sister in mind when I created this tag. I was also thinking about my niece who lives in Northern Alberta. So far north that you have to use the ice roads to get there at this time of year. There are many wild horses where she lives, they have to put up fences to keep the horses out of the yard. As a matter of fact, she was recently late for work because two horses were having a scuffle in the middle of the road!</div>
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To create this tag, I used my homemade stamp positioner to stamp the horses first in brown archival ink. The stamps are from an Inka Dinka Doo set. Then I'm masked off the single horse using a mask I created from a piece of paper previously. I did not mask off the running horses. I use some makeup brushes that I got from the dollar store as ink brushes sometimes. They work quite well. (little tip!) I used various distress inks to create the background. A little bit of blue in the sky and various browns and green for the ground. I kind of swirled things around to look like dust and use my Copic opaque white ( ilovetostuff!) To create the dust clouds. Then I smooshed a few different distress inks on to my craft mat, spritz them with some water, and use my fan brush to add some splatters. I did the same thing with my copic white. Then I unmasked my single horse, and put my tag back into my stamp positioner. This time I used black ink to stand for horse, but I placed the ink strategically knowing that part of it would be Andy dust cloud so I didn't want it really dark.</div>
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I hope you enjoyed today's take, and I hope my sister likes it!<br />
Thank you so much for stopping by and allowing me to share some of my art with you.</div>
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-63281532666231547572018-02-11T16:20:00.000-05:002018-02-11T16:24:28.401-05:00"Tiny Dancer" tag for music prompt on #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello again, my friends!<br />
Here is another tag for the music prompt at<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/"> The One Little Tag Craft Challenge</a>. I am loving this prompt. This tag was inspired by Elton John's "Tiny Dancer".<br />
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I used distress ink and gold ColorShine spray too create the background. You may have already read this in my previous posts, but in case you are new here, I smoosh the ink onto my craft mat, spritz with water and drag and pounce the tag through the ink. I do a few layers, drying in between, until I am happy. I love the gold marbling effect created when I added the gold ColorShine.<br />
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I used a Cheery-Lynn Design die to cut out several ballerinas from a light pink card. Then I edged them with purple and gold ink. I arranged them on the tag finishing off with a gold dancer. I used my label-maker to create the title. <br />
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Once the main panel of the tag was assembled, I used a gold mat and a final black mat to finish off the tag.<br />
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I hope you have enjoyed the process of creating this "Tiny Dancer" tag. Thanks for, once again. letting me share my creations with you!<br />
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-79858908302333199472018-02-11T15:18:00.000-05:002018-02-11T15:18:57.118-05:00"Dreams" tag for music prompt on #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
This weeks prompt at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">The One Little Tag Craft Challenge</a> is music. This can be interpreted any way we like, I have been using songs as inspiration. I knew I would be fired up by this prompt, I have a hundred tags in my head that I would like to make! This tag was inspired by Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams".<br />
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I started off this tag with some embossing. I thought these bubble-like images would give the background a dreamy quality. I used a kaleidoscope embossing powder that was glittery with various sparkles of colour. This would act as a resist to the ink that I add.<br />
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I did several backgrounds at the same time. I smooshed distress ink onto my craft mat and spritzed with water. I also added some Heidi Swapp ColorShine gold spray into the mix. I dragged and pounced my tags through the inky goodness, drying in between layers. I repeated the process until I was happy with the result.<br />
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I used a Spellbinders die to cut out the dream catcher from some blue foil board. I love to use gold and silver foil board, but there is also red, blue and green in the package that I don't use as often, so I was happy to find a use for the blue. I really liked the look. I don't know why, but I think of blue when I think of dreaming. I have heard that we don't actually dream in colour. I don't know if that is true or not, my dreams seem to be colourful!<br />
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This is a "Kelly Creates" stamp set that I got from Michaels. I love these sets and they are only $5 each! Even less if you have a coupon. I usually find Michaels a little pricey, but was really happy with this purchase. They all have about 18 - 20 words. I thought this was a great deal. Maybe I will do another post to showcase these stamps. Anyways, Dreams was one of the words on this set. I heat-embossed it with Rangers gold embossing powder on vellum. I wrapped the vellum around the tag. I did this so that it would mute the background enough for the word to stand out, but still visible behind the vellum.<br />
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Then I added a blue foil mat and my usual black mat to finish off the tag.<br />
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I hope you have enjoyed my process for making this tag. Thanks so much for letting me share it with you. Have an awesome day everyone!<br />
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Kim xo</div>
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Hello my friends!<br />
I had some fun the other evening creating some backgrounds for some more tags. I love playing around with different techniques which is why I always seem to be creating backgrounds for future art projects. It's just fun! This time I pulled out my original distress inks. I squished them down on my craft mat, spritzed them with water and pressed and swiped my tags through the inky goodness. I dried each layer and then dunked it again, adding more ink or water as necessary. I like a little shimmer and thought I'd pull out some Heidi Swapp Color Shine gold spray to mix in with my distress inks and I love the marbling effect it created.<br />
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This one actually has no distress ink in it, it is Gold and turquoise Color Shine spray, but done the same way. I sprayed it onto the mat and added water and smooshed the tag into it!<br />
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I heat embossed a couple of tags to create a resist before inking them up for a different effect.<br />
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I just love how the gold marbled through the distress ink!<br />
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I will be using these backgrounds to create some more tags for The One Little Tag Craft Challenge. It's all about the process and having fun! This isn't a new technique for me, although it is the first time I thought to add the color shine. But every time you do it, you get totally unique results. So every project that you use them for will be unique, even if you finish them all off the same way. I hope you have enjoyed having a look at my ink play, and I encourage you to give it a try, if you haven't before, and try it again, if you have! You will be seeing some of these backgrounds very shortly on some new tags.<br />
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Thanks so much for stopping by!<br />
Kim xo</div>
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Hello my friends!<br />
Well, Wednesday is usually an Art Club day (Ajax Creative Arts), but the weather did not cooperate, and we had a snow day instead. That doesn't mean that I couldn't have a crafty day, though. I will confess, I did not leave the house and wore comfy p.j.s all day! <br />
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For those of you that are new to my blog, at the very beginning of the year, I created several background sheets using spray inks and stencils. I call them my "spray play" sheets and I created them to cut dowm into tags, or collage or use as backgrounds for an art journal page (which I am determined to do this year!)<br />
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I have cut out several tags from these pretty sheets already. (if you scroll through my blog you will see many of those tags) and I have been saving some of the scraps to use later to create a different background<br />
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Some of the offcuts just looked so pretty to me that I didn't want to throw them away. I had little bits from other papers I had used as well and I decided I would save them and create a tag with them. I glued them down to some card and them trimmed all around. I edged all around with gold ink.<br />
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I also did some die cutting today. I find die cutting therapeutic for some reason. I think I get a certain satisfaction when I run a paper through my die cutting machine and it comes out as a beautiful and intricate embellishment. Sometimes I will die cut for hours and never actually create anything. True story, a Mimi fact, lol. A snow day is a perfect day to bring out the Cuttlebug!<br />
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So this tag has a lot of die cut elements. I created the flower using some lovely vellum. Now, here is the day coincidence. The new prompt for OLTC had not been posted yet this week and it turned out to be "music", to be interpreted any way we like. So this tag, with its music notes, qualifies although I had no idea when I was making it! I think I will have some fun with this weeks prompt. Stay tuned!<br />
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Thank you so much for stopping by to see what I have been up to. For those of you that are crafty, I hope I have inspired you to use up some of those scraps instead of throwing them away, and create something!<br />
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-65018086345685380402018-02-08T00:39:00.000-05:002018-02-08T00:39:55.372-05:00"Walking in the Rain" tag for #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
This is a tag I created a few days ago for the watercolour challenge at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">The One Little Tag Craft Challenge</a>. For those of you who don't know what this is, it is a Facebook group created by Jenny Barnett Rohs of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/crafttestdummies">Craft Test Dummies</a>. The focus of the group is to encourage everyone to try and be creative every day, or as often as you can. The theory being that by taking just a few minutes and doing a small tag, nothing elaborate, every day could keep the creative juices flowing. I enjoy making the tags, so I tend to spend a little more time on them. I don't get to them every day, but I would say I do something creative most days. I usually go to our art club twice a week and if I'm not being creative, I am often thinking about what I will do the next time I am! So whether you spend 10 minutes or 2 hours on a tag, you are staying inspired! It is also a good opportunity to do some experimenting without making a big commitment. So if there are any of you that are looking for some inspiration or encouragement and would like to share some of your art, or just see what other are up to and to gain some inspiration, I would encourage you to check it out. It is no longer just tags, anything you create can be posted, cards, art journals, drawings etc. there is a weekly prompt, that is completely optional. There are also random draws for giveaways. A lot of fun and a good group of people. Anyways, back to my tag, lol<br />
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Watercolour is not my medium. I like to paint, but I paint in acrylics and I just don't have the knack of watercolour. I suppose some lessons would help. I do like to play around and drop paint onto a wet paper and let it blend organically, and play around. I did a landscape, or attempted one, that I have to admit I scrapped. But I was determined to do at least one scene. So this is quite simple, but I don't mind how it turned out. I used Winsor Newton watercolours, and Crayola brush pens on the stamp of the girl with the umbrella. I struggled with watercolours this week. But I also had a lot of fun with my <a href="https://momentwithmimi.blogspot.ca/2018/02/a-new-purple-girl-watercolor-tag-for.html">"Purple Girl"</a>. I stepped out of my comfort zone, which was the most important thing, more important than the result. I hope everyone does that once in a while, it helps us discover new things. I wonder how many things I would have missed had I never strayed from my comfort zone.<br />
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Well, lots of words tonight, I usually try and keep things short and sweet. Thanks so much for taking the time to read and for letting me, once again, share my little pieces of art with you.<br />
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Kim xo</div>
Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-15385764673858197292018-02-05T00:43:00.000-05:002018-02-05T00:43:24.953-05:00A new "Purple Girl" watercolor tag for #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
Well, this has been another busy week (some of it involving plumbers!) and I haven't had a change to finish a tag until today! The challenge this week at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">The One Little Tag Craft Challenge</a> is water colour. I had a bit of a head-start with this tag as I created this purple-haired beauty for last weeks purple challenge, but didn't get a chance to use her. Well, I just happened to use water colours to create her, so guess what...! She was created using a Penny Black stamp. I used some Jane Davenport water colours and pencil crayons.. I created a couple of water colour background sheets for her dress and the tag background. I had fin with those! I dropped in all kinds of different water colours, including some metallic and just let them basically do as they pleased. And now I have a few extra tag backgrounds left over as well!<br />
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I hope you enjoyed todays tag, I enjoyed creating it. Thanks so much for stopping by! </div>
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-69155804803793495552018-02-05T00:07:00.000-05:002018-02-05T00:07:16.779-05:00An Elegant Purple and Gold Card #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
I am a little behind in posting, but this is a card I made for the purple challenge last week on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">The One Little Tag Craft Challenge. </a> I just love the combination of purple and gold. If you are following along, you may have noticed that. Most of my purple themed cards or tags are using that combination.<br />
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For this card I used a Spellbinders die and cut out some gold foil board. FYI, I get my gold foil board at the dollar store. Both Dollaramma and the Dollar Tree have the same foil board. It comes in a package of 6 sheets 0 gold, silver, red, green and blue. It's very handy at Christmas time! I just wanted to mention this because I really like the foil card that I get there and it die cuts beautifully. Sometimes a cheaper price doesn't necessarily mean an inferior product. Anyways, I die cut my foil card and adhered it to some purple glitter paper, which I then adhered to a black card base. It is sometimes difficult to stick to the glitter paper, so I ran it through my Cuttlebug just sandwiched between the plates to squish everything together in an attempt to make it adhere better, which it did. . It almost made this look like a die cut inlay. I really like the effect that created. I added a few sparkly embellishments and left it as it is. I will keep this in my stash and when an occasion comes up that this card will be suitable for, I will add a sentiment. I think this is quite elegant with the gold foil details.<br />
I hope you have enjoyed my latest card. Thanks so much for stopping by to have a look!<br />
Havve a great day everyone!<br />
Kim xo</div>
Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-30045478012299955382018-01-28T15:42:00.001-05:002018-01-28T15:42:38.689-05:00"Hugs" tag for "purple " challenge at #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello again , my friends<br />
Here is another tag I made for the "purple" theme this week at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">The One Little Tag Craft Challenge</a>. I used the negative space created whenn I punched out the "heart-shaped moon" for a tag I did last week. I'm glad I didn't throw the scrap away! I backed the heart area with some purple glitter paper. The background was made from some of the "spray play" papers I created previously. I used a small punch to cut the little hearts out of gold foil card and a Recollections die for the word "hugs", I cut it again from black card that I used as a drop-shadow.. I mounted to a gold mat and a black mat to finish it off. I am having fun with purple!<br />
I hope you enjoyed my tag and that it will inspire you to make use of some of the scraps that you might normally throw away.<br />
Have an awesome day, overtone!<br />
Kim xo</div>
Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-51376016125146661872018-01-28T15:19:00.001-05:002018-01-28T15:29:05.127-05:00New "Dream" tag for "purple" t challenge at #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello friends,<br />
This weeks theme at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">The One Little Tag Craft Challenge </a> was purple inspired by the new pantone colour of the year. We are doing any purple for the challenge, though. I had a bit of a crazy week, so I didn't actually finish any tags until Friday night, but I did work on them, in bits and pieces, throughout the week. Purple is okay. It is not my favourite, nor my least favourite colour. I didn't find it overly inspiring, or so I thought! I thought I would look around for some patterned paper (of which I have reams and reams, lol) but not much in the way of purple. It's just not a "go-to" colour for me. Then I thought I would look through my "spray play" backgrounds that I created previously. I was completely surprised to see how much I actually used purple. That was the jumping off point, suddenly I was totally inspired. I created several tags this week, and may still make a few more!<br />
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I created this tag using a background I made using a variety of spray inks and stencils, this one on shimmer card from Recollections. I thought the background looked kind of "dreamy" so I used a Recollections die to cut out the word. One combination I really like is purple and gold, so since I am using purple, there is going to be a lot of gold in the cards and tags that I make! It's hard to tell in the photo, but there is a lot of shimmer and veins of gold running through this background. I liked how this tag turned out.<br />
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I hope you enjoyed today's tag, and thanks so much for stopping by. If you did, I have made several tags for the purple themed week, so please come back and check them out!<br />
Have a great day everyone!<br />
Kim xo</div>
Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-38573045604589667852018-01-23T01:50:00.000-05:002018-01-23T01:50:54.059-05:00Live Love Laugh tag for #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
I am back with another tag for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">The One Little Tag Craft Challenge</a> I have to tell you, Ii have been taking pictures with my Samsung tablet and I am not very happy with the quality. I apologize and I am going to be looking at alternative devices. I hope you can bear with me in the meantime!<br />
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For this tag I used one of the backgrounds I created at the beginning of January using sprays and stencils. I used a few different card stocks to work on, this was a shimmer card. I couldn't capture that with the photo. TBH, it's a pretty subtle effect , but I like it..<br />
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I used a Recollections die to cut the words out of some scrap copper metallic card and some black card as a drop shadow. I used a butterfly embellishment that I rediscovered as I was going through my stash. I'm not sure where I got it from, possibly a dollar store. Then I mounted to a glitter paper and black card, all 1/4" larger than each other, to give my tag a double mat.<br />
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Thanks so much for stopping by. Ii hope you enjoyed this tag and will be back to see the next one. Have an awesome, art-filled day!<br />
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Kim xo</div>
Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-5911108101228201942018-01-22T01:47:00.000-05:002018-01-22T01:47:09.519-05:00A new Love tag for #onelittletag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is today's tag. Still based on the "Love" challenge on t<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">the One Little Tag Craft Challenge FB group</a>. This tag was inspired by the Tim Holtz "Clippings Sticker". I used a Recollections heart punch to punch a mask. I use low-tac shelving vinyl as masking. I positioned it on my tag, used some washi tape to create a horizon line and used a few different distress inks to create my background, blending in from the sides to leave a lighter area in the centre as the reflection of the moon. I punched the moon out of some papers I had sprayed the first week in January to create some backgrounds. I used my Spectrum Noir to add some shimmer. I added some shimmer to the water as well and to add a halo around the moon. That didn't work out exactly as I would have liked, but I continued on.<br />
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I used some Penny Black stamps to create the foliage silhouette. Using some black glitter paper, I used a punch from my stash for the dragonflies and a memory box die for the fairy (I love fairies!). I added the Tim Holtz sticker and then mounted the tag to a black glitter paper backing.<br />
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Thanks for taking the time to have a look, I hope you enjoyed todays tag. I have a few more ides, so there may be another tag today, so pop back if you are interested.<br />
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Kim xo<br />
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-17293997902837267932018-01-20T16:03:00.000-05:002018-01-20T16:03:22.990-05:00"Love Tag for #onelittletag <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
I was gone for so long, and now here I am, back again so quickly after my last post! Feast or famine! The theme for the One this week was "Love" I was really pleased with the outcome of this tag. I would love to be able to take credit for the design, but I can't, it was totally inspired by a couple of different cards that I saw on Pinterest. I thought the design was simple but so effective. I really liked it and wanted to give it a try. I'm not 100% sure how those were created, but I did what I thought would recreate a similar look. I used distress inks in worn lipstick and Barn Door as watercolours. I "smooshed" them (very technical term!) on my craft mat and used an aqua brush to paint with them. I didn't use watercolour paper, I used Strathmore Bristol, and it held up well. I wet the card fist and added the colour.. Then I used a brush pen to write a long script "love". Then I die cut a heart from a Spellbinders die in my stash to create a stencil. I used the Barn Door ink to stencil the heart. I flicked a little water around, as distress inks are water reactive. Then I "Smooshed" some more ink on my craft ma, spritzed it with a little water and used my brush to splatter it on my tag (I just love splatter!) Then I scribbled some black ink from my brush pen on the mat and did the same thing.. I mounted it to some heavy black card and called it a day. Although I am considering mounting it to some red card as well to give it another slim border all around. Hmmm...<br />
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This is the other tag I created this week. I used some patterned paper from my stash that had the word "love" all over it. I used some Spellbinders Celebrations Hearst die to cut some hearts out of some of the other patterned papers in the same pad. I also cut the heaty out of the background and inlayed all the hearts. I used a Tim Holtz stencil with some Barn Door distress ink over the entire background. I tried to use white ink first with the stencil, but it really didn't show up very well. Then added some white splatters with some watered down white copic ink. I die cut the "Love" using a Recollections die out of Recollections card. I used the same red card as a backer to my tag.<br />
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I hope you liked my tags. I have some more ideas for the "love" theme, so I will be back soon with some more tags!<br />
Thanks so much for stopping by<br />
Kim xo</div>
Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-83187699522418064042018-01-20T13:22:00.000-05:002018-01-20T13:22:54.365-05:00New #timesup tag for #onelittletag craft challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends!<br />
It has been quite some time since I have posted. There have been a lot of things going on in our life and it has taken a bit of a toll on my creativity and the time that I can dedicate to doing my blog. But, I have to admit, I have missed this. For any of you that have followed my blog in the past, you may know that I started this a couple of years ago when I joined a FB group called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OLTCraftChallenge/">"The One Little Tag Craft Challenge"</a>. The idea behind this group was to try and make a tag a day, even if you just wrote a word on a shipping tag. The objective was to stay creative every day. I didn't create any tags last year, although I did till manage to do a few new paintings (I will add photos to the Paintings page). Well, the FB group, created by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwEnJsQA0BqCKYeIOcfbApg">Jenny Barnett Rohrs of Craft Test Dummies</a>, is still going and I am back to creating some more tags. I don't know that I will be able to make a tag a day, but I am inspired to at least try and do a couple a week. This year, should any of you be interested in participating, you can post whatever you have created, it doesn't have to be tags. There are weekly challenges to help inspire you (but are totally optional) and giveaways!<br />
I am going to start with the second weeks challenge, because I won the giveaway! The challenge was "black out" inspired by Oprah's wonderful speech at the Golden Globes and the "Me too" Time's Up campaign. Here is my tag that was chosen at random to win the giveaway.<br />
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The first weeks challenge was "doodling", so I did some very primitive watercolouring (I am not a watercolourist, by any stretch!), and then added some doodling to create my poppies.<br />
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The stamp I used was from a new set I just got from Michaels. It is a "Kelly Creates" set with beautiful brush lettered words. It is a large set and it only cost $4.99 (that is in Canada, so may be even cheaper in the US stores) I wanted to mention this because I thought it was an awesome deal, which surprised me because I usually find things expensive at Michaels without the coupon. There are 8 different sets, and they were created to help to learn brush lettering (which is now a new thing I have decided to try my hand at!). There are several stamps in each set with some great words. These are not in the usual stamp section. There is a new journaling section, in the various local Michaels, anyways, that carries these stamps, brush pens, some new "letter it" Ranger products, journal mad worksheet. So if you would like some of these stamps, you may have to look around for them. The staff weren't really familiar with them when I was looking for them. I just thought I'd mention this because I love to share a good deal!<br />
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Well, thanks for taking the time to join me and please come back again soon. Now that I am back to making some tags and feeling inspired to post again, I hope to have lots to share!<br />
Cheers!<br />
Kim xo<br />
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-90211267877227369752017-04-14T18:45:00.000-04:002017-04-14T19:24:11.929-04:00Working Candy Machine Birthday Card<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends! I thought I would share the fun birthday card that I made for my daughter. It was a little late because I didn't have the supplies to make it in time, but i think she thought it was worth the wait. Besides, she was away at University, so that bought me a little time! It didn't takre long before the candy was gone and the message was revealed. I used skittles in this card, but to be honest, they were a little bit big and got caught a few times. I think I need to find some slightly smaler candies for the next one.<br />
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I did a second version while I was at it, just because it was fun! I may keep this one for myself. It is actually a work in progress because I need to add the candy before I can finish it.<br />
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Sue Wilson designed this Working Candy Machine Card and the components (and it does require a few) are from Creative Expressions. I bought mine from <a href="http://www.scrappingreatdeals.com/home.php">Scrappin Great Deals</a>. Some of you may recognize the name from some of my previous posts. By the way, they recently moved and there was a glitch in their international shipping, but I caught up with them at Scrapfest and asked about that, because a couple of you had asked me, and I am happy to say they will soon be shipping internationally again, if they aren't already! And for those of you here in Canada, shipping is certainly no problem, and free with orders over $100. (SGD does not know that I am plugging them, lol, but I am just letting you know where I get a lot of my supplies. They have a lot of things I can't get at the local Michaels. I think I have developed a good report with them and I am comfortable ordering online with them. It was great to finally meet them at Scrapfest! I also order some things from Amazon.ca, but it usually takes a while for them to get new items)<br />
There is a die set...<br />
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You will require all those elements to make one of these working cards. There are 4 inserts in a package and 2 are required per unit. I bought some fomecore to try and create some of my own inserts, but I wasn't very good at cutting out the apertures, so I think I will get some more inserts. There are 6 cups in a package and 12 handles in a package.<br />
I used some other dies from my stash and some sequins to embellish the card.<br />
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I think that the next time I make one, I will die cut the the attachment that releases the candy out of matching card instead of white card.<br />
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I could also use this die to make a flat "non-working" card. It is a really pretty image. So I feel that I will get a lot of use out of the set.<br />
Here is a link to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2EH7wE_qjM&t=36s">Sue Wilson's video tutorial</a><br />
Earlier in my post I mentioned Scrapfest, This is an event that happens twice a year near Toronto. T In the spring it happens in Kitchener (this seems to be the giggest event) and in the fall it is in Richmond Hill, which is a little closer to me. I always look forward to it. So, I will be posting my Scrapfest Haul, soon. So if you like haul posts, be sure to stop back here soon. Here is a link to a <a href="http://momentwithmimi.blogspot.ca/2016/09/scrapfest-craft-haul.html">previous Scrapfest haul</a><br />
And here are a couple of <a href="http://momentwithmimi.blogspot.ca/2017/02/craft-supply-haul-video.html">SGD hauls</a> <a href="http://momentwithmimi.blogspot.ca/2016/11/a-craft-haul-from-sgd-and-few-more.html">SGD Haul</a><br />
Well, I hope you enjoyed my latest post. Thank you so much for stopping by! Have an awesome day and a great weekend! xo</div>
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Hello my friends! Well, I thought I would share some of the things that I have been up to lately. Thursday evening was the opening Gala to the 50th Oshawa Art Association Juried Art Show, on display at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. We submitted our paintings the previous Thursday. There were around 300 paintings submitted and room for 150 paintings in the show. This is my first time entering this juried show. It's just in the last year that I have decided that my skin is thick enough to attempt some juried shows. It was crazy busy when we brought in our paintings, and I cannot tell how beautiful the artwork coming through the door. On the way over, I was semi-confident, and thought I might get one or two in the show. When we arrived, and I was surrounded by all those gorgeous pieces, I thought I might be out of my league! We had to wait until Saturday evening to find out if we were in. You could submit from 1 - 3 paintings. I figured if I submitted three, I'd increase my odds of getting one in, lol. How it works is that you get a phone call to let you know that you have a painting accepted into the show. If your painting is declined, you do not get a call, and must pick it back up the next day. I was on pins and needles waiting until Saturday evening. <br />
Well, the call actually came Saturday afternoon and I was stunned (and I am not just saying that out of false modesty) to discover that all three of my submissions had been accepted!<br />
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"Identity: mixed media on canvas<br />
Some of you may already be familiar with this one!<br />
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Three completely different works, in three different categories.<br />
I am thrilled to report that "Tracks in Time" has found a loving new home to go to at the end of the show. That is another story that I will share if it is okay with my paintings new owner. But I can say this, sometimes things happen for a reason and I think this painting was meant to find it's way to this person.<br />
I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by and have a look at my latest paintings. I hope you have enjoyed this latest post and I will be back soon to share some of the other things I've been up to lately.<br />
Have an awesome day! xo</div>
Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-91828112463568378202017-03-22T19:29:00.000-04:002017-03-22T19:29:31.633-04:00Birthday card for my Dad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends! I know it's been a little while since I've posted. Life just seems to have a way of keeping you busy, doesn't it? lol. Well, another thing I haven't done for a while is make a card. Today is my Dad's 78th birthday! So I made a card for him and thought I would share it with you. I don't know about the rest of you, but I find it a bit of a challenge making masculine cards. I don't really know why it's a challenge. Maybe it's because there isn't as many masculine themed stamps and dies as there are feminine. Or maybe it's just the way my creative mind works, I don't know. So when I see a stamp set that I can use to make some "man" themed cards or tags, I like to pick them up. I picked up both of these sets a while back with my Dad in mind. He loves vintage cars, so these were perfect. One set is by Chapel Road Stamps and the other is from Impression Obsession. I used some of my patterned paper from my stash and black Recollections card and a pre-made card I popped up the sentiment with foam tape to give the card a little dimension. All in all, this was a fairly simple card., I deliberately didn't make it too "fussy" in keeping with the masculine theme.<br />
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Well, Dad liked his card and I hope you do, too!<br />
Thanks so much for popping in, have an awesome day! xo</div>
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Hello my friends! I am back with another craft haul video, the one from Amazon that I mentioned in my previous post. This is another collective haul from a few orders I had placed before and after Christmas. Lots of goodies that I am anxious to use. I have been busy painting , so I haven't had a chance to use any of my new crafty treasures yet this year. I am going to do some art journalling this year and I also have the urge to try some ATCs. So you can look forward to seeing some of these treasures in action soon!</div>
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So please have a look at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4igw3t7yXM&t=2s">my craft haul from Amazon</a> video. Let me know what items you would like to see me use. My intention is to make tutorial videos, tips and techniques videos and to share some of my artwork as well as some of the art shows I participate in. If you have been enjoying my blog, then please subscribe to my YouTube channel and hopefully you will enjoy that as well. I am looking forward to feeling even more connected to all of you!<br />
AND, for any of you that are interested (and I realize it has taken me a while to get on board), I am now on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mimi.johnson358/<br />
Thanks so much for joining me today and thank you so much for all the support over my first year of blogging. I have really been enjoying it and I hope you have enjoyed my efforts. So this will be a new year for some more new things (new for me, anyways!). I am planning on doing some art journalling and some ATCs along with the other things that I love to do. I am hoping to share this with some videos.<br />
Have an awesome and creative day! xo</div>
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-44060207115819072642017-02-23T19:28:00.000-05:002017-03-10T10:53:22.565-05:00Craft supply haul (video) from SGD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends! I am back with another haul. This is a collective haul from SGD. There are a few different orders here from over the last few months. Some pre-Christmas sales and some post. SGD always has some sort of big sale every Wednesday.<br />
Good news! I'm so excited! I have finally made my first haul video! So I am anxious to share it with you. I hope you like it. This is actually the first "personal" video I have made where i actually speak. My intention is to make some card-making / art tutorials. So you can look forward to seeing some of the products you see in this haul actually in use. Maybe you can even leave a comment and let me know what you would like to see me use. <br />
Without further adieu, here is the link to my video! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu98YNCDGs8&t=9s">Craft supply haul from SGD</a><br />
Here is a kink to <a href="http://www.scrappingreatdeals.com/home.php">Scrappin' Great Deals (SGD)</a><br />
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I have also placed a few orders with Amazon over the last few months and I will be sharing that haul video soon as well.<br />
Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to everyone who has a look at my new video. Please give me a thumbs up and subscribe if you would like to see more!<br />
Have an awesome and creative day! xo</div>
Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-10658308634712313192017-02-19T01:20:00.002-05:002017-02-19T01:20:41.897-05:00"Identity" A closer video look at my mixed media painting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello mu friends! I have been making a few videos lately. As you may know, if you have watched any, the are amateur as I am a newbie and just getting my feet wet. Here is another very short video. A closer look at my mixed media painting, "Identity" I know some of you have seen this painting already, but for those of you that haven't, please have a look. For those of you that have, maybe you want to have a second look?<br />
I have to say that I always feel a connection to my creations. That doesn't mean I can't let go of my work as I know some artists have a hard time doing. As a matter of fact, it really gives me a sense of joy and fulfillment to see one of my paintings, or cards, or tags or Gelli prints go into the hands of someone who loves them enough to take them home. I know they will be cherished, which makes me feel wonderful. The truth is though, that I do feel more of a connection to certain pieces. For some reason, this is one painting that I feel particularly attached to. While I will certainly be ecstatic to see it find a loving new home, it will be bittersweet, as I will also feel sad to see "Identity" go. Perhaps that is why I have posted it a couple of times and created this short video.<br />
For anyone that likes this painting and is interested in seeing how I made it, please have a look at <a href="http://momentwithmimi.blogspot.ca/2016/10/identity-evolution-of-mixed-media.html">this post</a> to see my process.<br />
As for the videos, that is my goal for this year, to create videos and work on my YouTube channel. There will be videos of my art, our shows, some haul videos and, hopefully my focus, art and craft tutorials.<br />
If you like my few short videos and what I have been sharing here on my blog, please subscribe to my YouTube channel and give me some thumbs up!<br />
And I know this is long overdue, but I am finally on Instagram for anyone who is interested. Find me mimi.johnson358<br />
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have and awesome and artful day!</div>
Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-6520730069196742972017-02-11T04:55:00.002-05:002017-02-11T04:55:55.004-05:00"Paint What You Love" juried Art Show<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends! There has been a lot going on lately. Here is something else I have been up to. Ajax Creative Arts, , is currently showing a juried art show in the Kent Farndale Gallery in Port Perry, On. So I have another video tour for you! As I mentioned in my last post, I am no expert when it comes to videos, a total newbie! But, I did a little editing with this one and added some captions. Baby steps. Well, I hope you enjoy it. This is just a quick look at our show and certainly doesn't do it justice. There is a lot of wonderful art and we are quite proud of our exhibit.<br />
Kim Robertson won "Best in Show" and there were four awards of excellence that were won by Bonnie Lusty, Margaret Brackley, Wayne Prisque and Dale Cameron. We were pleasantly surprised to be joined by Kent Farndale, herself, at our reception and honoured to have her present Kim with the "Best in Show" award.<br />
Our reception was buzzing with people and a great success. Here are a few photos as well. I hope you enjoy our video tour<br />
Many thanks go out to the members that made this show happen. Spearheaded by Margaret Brackley along with Rola and Chas Burke. Many months of hard work. And thanks to our juroist, Mirek Bialy, hoping he is feeling better!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my video, as amateur as it is, lol.</span><br />
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I am hoping to try some tutorial videos, so stay tuned!<br />
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Have an awesome and creative day!<br />
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Kin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097926900757398346noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677319541547917406.post-85546724095024809682017-02-10T00:25:00.000-05:002017-02-10T00:25:12.565-05:00My Art Exhibit at Ajax Town Hall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello my friends! Sorry for the long absence, I have been busy painting. I have just hung some of my artwork today at the Ajax Town Hall. It will be on display until March 8th. I thought I would create a short video so that I could share my exhibit with you! Please note that I am not a professional when it comes to videos, so please be kind, lol! I am actually quite proud of myself that I have managed to post one.. I hope you enjoy it.<br />
Thanks so much for stopping by! I should be able to post a little more frequently now with new projects, and if I am brave, maybe some new videos!<br />
Have an awesome and creative day! xo</div>
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