Unfolding

As the year starts to develop so is my work at the  studio

and I am starting to unfold to a new me,

I am learning about the abstract world and just loving it!

I`ve started a new series called "Abstractions of the soul"

This studies and paintings are a keeper for me!  In this photo I 

love how the plate palette and the rag could be part of this series too!

As some of you may know, I am part of the wonderful experience

Life book 2013, this new dolly is made with the same steps I`ve

shared in my bonus class there,  I am just delighted with so many 

beautiful artwork the girls have posted, it so inspiring and I feel 

really good and happy about all this, I am grateful to be part of it!

This is the beginning of the new collection I was talking about,

I am taking Alisa`s  Burk class about abstractions and I am learning a lot, she`s

 one of my favorite artists and for my birthday I was given her course as a

 gift from my sweet sister and I am loving it!!

Of course I have been carving too! This is addictive and I want to keep on it,

here is a sample of the newest, some sweet hearts, all this is posted for sale on my 

store, if you are interested, please visit here or look up in the tabs section!

This are hard to let go but I am sure they will make someone happy! 

How is your year coming along so far? Are you following your intentions?

I hope one of them is to be HAPPY! :D as much as you can! I know sometimes

life gets on the way but remember to go back there and stay strong!!

New Life Book Open for registration

OK! The time is now!  Are you ready for a great

year full of inspiration, creativity, new artsy friends

and tons of classes to get inspired in 2013? 

I don`t know about you but I just can`t wait!

Please visit click on any of the

photos to subscribe now and 

make sure you will be in this event!

Life Book is an awesome online course were

you will have different classes each month, there

are different teachers from around the world

gathered to share with you and I am one of them!

If you enjoy to learn new artsy things 

and meet new artistic friends, 

this is for you!

I hope to see you in class!

Altered Books and Journals Onine Workshop is Open!

It`s finally here! 

The altered Books & Journals 

Online Workshop 

is now open!  

Come and join the fun and learn to make 

wonderful books, journals with new and 

recycled materials, then, learn to alter books

make beautiful art journal pages and more!

This workshop is filled with tricks, 

tips and techniques to make

beautiful artwork, you will be able 

to use the techniques in canvases

or other surfaces you prefer,

 altered books are fun  and they 

are interactive, anyone who takes a 

peek in to one ends fascinated!

NOW YOU ARE ABLE TO HAVE A 

PAYMENT PLAN! 

CHECK THIS OUT!

You can`t say no to this awesome workshop, 

now, there are no excuses to have fun

learn, grow your art skills, share, experiment,

 this will be a great experience!

Make beautiful books the size you dream off!  

You will learn to make

them with a hard cover like this tiny cute one!

And make as many as you want

All this and a lot more is awaiting for 

your creative hands!  

Join us and let your

inspiration find it`s way out!

See you in class! ;D

I'm the Spotlight Artist for The Artful Gathering Blog Hop!

Artful Gathering Event Registration is Open!

I'm the Spotlight Artist for The Artful Gathering Blog Hop! Follow along with me for fun, creativity, and a chance to win a $200.00 e-gift card from Jerry's Artarama!

I will be teaching my fabulous premiere video workshops at

The Artful Gathering Online Art Retreat 2012 Whimsical Characters Session One June 5 - July 17

Whimsical characters give you the freedom to express your artistry with a childlike sense of wonder. I will show you how to enjoy what you create, while allowing you room to explore your imagination. I love to make my classes fun and inspiring, while also instructing you in how to manipulate the art media with the confidence that you will succeed.

To begin you will learn how to draw your sun and moon with details on face aspects, eyes, nose, and mouth. You will also learn shading techniques and use of different tools and pencils. As you develop your Sun and Moon, you will then see how to paint it with expression and colors that burst with energy!

Then you will see how to go forward with a painting. There is also a bonus journal page to keep you inspired to keep on going. Each project will be shown from start to finish, including the pencil drawing steps for each character! Join me on this cute and very inspiring "Celestial journey" and learn to paint a front and a profile whimsical face. Come join me, we will have lots of fun!

Come Hop With US!

Hop Rules:

If you would like to hop with us and meet all the super awesome Artful Gathering 2012 Art Instructors, and have a chance to win a random drawing prize in our random drawing, then hop with us! Each week, I will announce the blog for you to visit, and off you go to meet them, and to pick up the newest secret word. Your chance to win prizes....

1. For your chance to win, you must collect all the secret code words and submit them upon the final destination blog in May. A random drawing will be conducted from those contestants who have submitted the complete collection of secret words!
2. Three winners will be randomly drawn. One for the $200.00 e-card to Jerry's, and two runner's up for the 25.00 e-card to Jerrys!
3. This weeks word is .....IN Next week, I'll announce the next person to hop to. Good luck!!!

Cozy Cozy Canz-s...

My kitties and I love tuna and so I buy a lot

of this cans, I used to throw them away

until I started to change my mind...

There is no trash, only possibilities!

Cans are resistant and I love rounded shapes

so I have been thinking about what to do with 

them while I was saving them and I realize my kitties

eat a lot! Lol!  

Tuna cans can be smelly so I leave them on a bucket
with soap overnight and then I leave them air dry, this helps 
to remove the smell!

I used felt for "dressing" them, this fabric 

is great for it stays the same way after cutting it so

it`s perfect for this project!

The patterns fo cutting the fabrics come from the 

inside and bottom circle meassurments and from  

 the sides, inside and out, saving patterns is useful for 

making more in the future!

After making some small cans I went for larger ones

with the same steps shown on the video below

and made some for the holidays, they

can be filled with gifts, cookies or anything you can

think of and they can be hanged on the tree if you

attach a wire like I did with these!

This are made with beautiful natural fabrics

some are dyed with soft colors that combine!

One of my favorites is the cheese cloth wich 

looks fantastic after dyed!

The details are important to make this even more 

interesting and beautiful!  

This is a great project for showing someone you 

Love them and you will be giving the message of 

recycling as well!

This is only one idea of many things we can do with

our used cans!

Here is the video to learn how to make them!

Watch video!

It`s up to each one of us to:

 make our minds creative, 

make our world better,

make some one else happy with our

doings in this world...

are you up to re-porpusing what`s around you?

Make Happy! :D

Tea Christmas Party!

You are invited to a tea party!

I am a big fan of tea and changing their flavors, discover new

ones and collect favorites!  One day I was drinking one 

and thought that the paper used to make them is super strong!

 It stands very well the heat and keeps it`s shape while in the hot water!

Most papers disolve in the water and specially when hot

so I decided to give it a try and work with these tea bags!

It is so much fun to discover that everyday things can 

be  transformed into creative endeavors!  

Here is what I did:

After use, I left them to dry alone, this will give them some beautiful

aged color, then I removed the tea by cutting one edge, carefully 

removed the thread and now they are ready to work with them!

Tip: Use the removed tea for your plants and garden!

I`ve stamped on them with permanent ink adding

two or three layers of different stamps, I think black 

looks wonderful for it gives a nice contrast but why not

 trying other colors?

I just love them!  Simply like this, they can be used to make

 beautiful seasonal cards!

Then I thought:

Why not make some cute tiny pillows with them?

So I filled them with a little stuffing! 

I also though I could add a drop of a nice scent and 

place them in a bowl to add a nice touch in a corner.

Then I`ve tried sewing them, this has to be carefully done

but they hold!  In some cases they started to fall appart

but I added a coat of medium on those parts and voila!

 Write beautiful sentiments on them!

To end, I added a cute iron on embellishments on gold and used my pen to add

some accents and voila!

You could make tea bag ornaments with them!

I hope you are inspired to make your life even more beautiful

and change your ideas of trash being a waste!

R e c y c l e 

M a k e A r t 

Make Happy!

"Moonlight" new acrylic painting and giveaway winner!

Hello magical beings, I hope you are well but most important

 that you are  H A P P Y ! :D

Happiness should be the priority in life, finding true

Love and Happiness inside yor heart!

Sounds poetic and dreammy but it takes deep wisdom to reach for it

and hard work on removing personal issues wich can take hours of

self discovery and lots of errors but those errors are part of the

wisdom acquired, don`t you think?

I want to share the news about Hands and Heart studio, I`ve painted a new

witch, this time I saw this girl sitting on the moon watching how the moonlight

is reaching the corners of the land, sometimes we don`t have to do anything

but stay quiet and observe.

I feel so lucky that my new kitty found me, she`s amazing and so much love is born in my
heart because of her, she`s magical, everything around us is magical, we just have to
stop the everyday world and watch, remove the clouds to breath the purity of the sky
that is there everyday, those are the things that we should be absorbing!

You see the world with your heart, you breath what you have become

and all this can be better each day by letting go of the old self, becoming

new each time you can remeber that everything changes, sometimes painfully,

some others easily... growing to become a great YOU!

I am also working on my new online workshop and I am trully amazed by the
possibilities, I am having a great time and I can`t wait to share all this, it opens this
next December 1st and you can read more about it here... or in the previous post!

I am really happy with all this new tools and feel really blessed with all this
 I feel I have to share it too, this is for those who want it!

This are all made with my own design stamps and I am also trying things
to make my own inks and paints but this won`t be part of this workshop
for that still needs more study but I will share design techniques
and how to use the stamps in different ways  to make your own
 fabrics, papers and lots of personalized projects!

Join us in the fun of making your own home made stamps!


Finally as promised, the halloween hand made cards give away
 goes to my sweet friend Beth Pollock!

I couldn`t belive her luck today but I am so happy with it! She`s a fantastic
woman, so full of beauty and love, please also check her new blog wich is
beautifully embellished and check her first post with beautiful photos
that show a magical place that appears to be from a fairy tale!

I hope you stay in touch and that you have a fantastic creative day!

  

The fun process of whimsical painting

Painting with acrylics can be challenging, I think is a matter of

observing how the media works but one thing is true, every time is different!

I learn something new everytime I paint, and so experience is what matters,

I think I`ve come to a point were I feel super comfortable with this media, it has 

now become a relaxing activity, it wasn`t like that when I first started, I used to feel so 

stressed out even though I enjoyed it, I think life is the same way, one comes to

the world not knowing anything about it and yet somehow we manage to keep

going and enjoy it, when older, we get wiser thinking how much we would love

to know those things we know now when we were younger... so if you dream of 

painting better, know that you will get there if you keep going!

 I had fun this week creating some stamps and I got so 

carried away that I made lots of them, Lol!

So I have now listed a few just to see how it goes, I love to make them!

This one is my favorite now!

I love to paint after stamps so I used this one to make a painting

 of a new cute witch!  Brujita in Spanish and here is what I did...

I am now painting over medium density fiberboard, they are amazing! Have

you tried them yet? They are so cheap, easy to store, handle and well, I just

LOOOOVE them!

Well I`ve added some collage printed over it with paint...

Then painted the background and make it fun! 

I`ve stmaped the face with black acrylic and added some more paint over those

spots I couldn`t reach well when stampping, I`ve also added a simple whimsical 

body, a simple triangle shape and ho yes, the cute hat! :D

Then I started adding dark skin tones on the face, cheekcs and hair,

I let the black paint show, this will create interesting layers!

Then new lighter skin tones, I love pink! Of course, this is were you make your

palette unique by choosing your own colors!

I love how this looks, it`s strange but sometimes this looks better to me when 

I see the photos than the finished piece!  Something I have to work on is 

letting go of trying to perfect the works... Do you know what I mean?

 The lights on the hat to give dimenson are important! 

Then I`ve added details, this is were it comes to life! 

Adding high lights and shades!

To finish, I`ve added lots of sparkling stuff like some glitter, stars and mica! 

Then I`ve added a touch of pen to add details and write some words that say:

Feliz Noche De Brujas!

Happy witches day as we also call the day of the dead over here in Mexico!

Listed now over my Etsy!

Now I present you with a new caracter Spooky tehuanas!  They are so much fun 

and looking at them makes me smile each time! I`ve made them to create stuff

for my so abandoned Etsy shop, I hope to focus more on this now!

You can find this set here!

Aren`t they fantastic?

I love bright mexican colors and those envelopes have beens saved for a special

occasion and I thought they would go great with the cards!

You can find this make it your self set  here, I thought it would be fun!

I am announcing the giveaway winner over my next post so hurry if you want to enter and win

some hand made spooky cards!

I hope you are well and happy! ;D