Life is Sweet (and an acrylic album too)

Spring has sprung.  One good rain, and I’m ready to call Winter OVER!  So a few fun things come to mind when the weather warms.  And all of them have to do with PINK.

  • the shearing of the sheep (or Bichon, in our case).  It’s time to lighten the fluffy load.  Blitzen looked more like a sheep than a puppy.  So..

Before (watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua with Neil and Brianna).  Comfortable much, pup?


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After:  (his little belly is pink…)


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Looking a bit more like the Beverly Hills Chihuahua than a Bichon.  And yep, the groomer was going for a single piece from the ‘sheep’.  He is holding up the clipped off fur – NOT the dog.


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Now you know why we call him, “the rug”.  I never took it this literally – but the groomer did!


Next on the agenda:

  • Updating the class curriculum for brighter colors and more flowers!  YAY!!

*of course it is completely unfair that I don’t have a tracking number yet for my big ol box from Prima.


But I was asked to teach a class for PIA next week, after the Copic Certification Class in Mystic, CT – and they wanted to feature Clearscraps acrylic and Creative Imaginations.  So I went to my craft area – and this is the result.  Let there be pink!!


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A portion of the acrylic album pages are airbrushed with Copic Markers.  So I thought what better way to preview the concept than with a video tutorial?  So I took out my floral die cut pape, a pink and blue marker – and went to town.  One of the things I really like about airbrushing with Copic Markers is the translucency of the inks.  I can lay down one color, and when another color is placed underneath it – I get the stained glass effect of a third color.  Best way to show you, is to show you — so here is a video:





And of course the wardrobe has to change up a bit, right?  I raided TJ Maxx (I know, big spender!).  But rather than modeling those finds — here is Courtney, in this sweet little pink Sari outfit that her classmate, Abir’s mother brought home from India on their last trip.  How cute is this?


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She said, “I wished I was a princess, and it came true!”.  Nuff said.


So my Spring has gotten off to a good start.  I’ll be teaching workshops at the SDV in Camp Hill, PA this weekend, followed by a Copic Certification Class.


(and then hopefully my big box of Prima will have arrived by Monday??)  Stay tuned…


SL

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