Lisa Mita Artist Blog

Sneak Peak of a Sin City Upcoming Design Team Blog...

On 6/1 I have a Design Team Blog Post on the Sin City Stamps  Blog.

Here's a sneak photo...

 

Used all of my favorites stamps and stencils from Sin City Stamps.

I also wanted to share a canvas I've been working on - it's not completed.

Challenge #8 Show us Some Metal or Glass Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge a Sin City Stamp Design Team Post

So this Sin City Challenge partners up with Craft Hoarders Anonymous again this challenge is to use some Metal/glass - do you hoard gears, pins, brads, eyelets, frame and other metal do-dads?   Well I do... so this one was pretty easy.  In fact I pulled out 4 plastic containers (Only 4)... and the supplies i used only on this canvas...  (Scary how much I have)

I hope you can spend some time with us today to check out all of the awesome projects brought to you by both teams.  You can click on the designer names beneath their project pictures to be taken directly to their blogs for more information.  In addition, there will be prizes awarded, and all the information can be obtained on the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog.  Sin City Stamps is also giving away a fabulous $20 gift card, and the CHAC blog has this beautiful selection of Really Reasonable Ribbon to be awarded to the challenge winner.

 

Took a Canvas and added my Favorite Sin City Stamps to the background.  The photo don't show the stamps showing through on the areas in the background - but you can see the leaves and the chevron.

Here's how it started

Then added the leaves - This one I actually sprayed Lindy's Stamp Gang Sunburst Sprays on the stamp let it set and then put it on the canvas.

I just loved how it came out above...

Then I started to add the metal supplies.

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Then once it was all set pulled out the Gesso.  I used a thicker one from Jerry's Art Store

I only covered the items so the stamp images came through.

Then I pulled out my favorite colors from Lindy Stamp Gang sprays... and started having fun..

Keep spraying until you get the look.

I pulled out some acrylic liquid ink in spots as well.

Then it got too dark - so I pulled out the gesso again in the center

Then pulled out the sprays again.

LOVE the COLOR....   But the letters blended to much for me so I pulled out the acrylic paints and just lightened it up.

Some close ups

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Supplies Used:

Canvas

Sin City Stamps

Classic Spark

Terri Sproul's Leaves

Lots of the metal pieces were supplies to me from Sin City Stamps for past projects

Lindy Stamp Gang Sprays

Viva DecorMetallic Rub

Brads

Metal Pieces

Flying Unicorn Flower Adornments

Belt buckels

A few metal flowers and rounds that I got off Etsy.

Make sure you visit the Design Team and check out what they have to share!

 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Designers

 

Amber Milone - http://pinkchicpaperdesign.blogspot.com/

Christy Butters - http://creatingwiththegirls.blogspot.com/

Debbie Seyer - http://crreatingwiththegirls.blogspot.com/

Donna Idlet - http://muyblogidlet.blogspot.com/

Glenda Brooks - http://glendabrooks.blogspot.com/

Ginny Nemchak - http://pollyspaper.wordpress.com

Jan Marie Ennenga - http://re-creations4him.blogspot.com/

Karen Zueger - http://lostcoastscrapper.blogspot.com

Pam Bray - http://www.pammejoscrapbookflair.com/

Kathy Clement - http://www.kathybydesign.com/kathy-by-design-news/

Tammi Bennett - http://www.tjsmemoriesblog.blogspot.com/

 

Sin City Stamps Designers

 

Sin City Stamps Blog - http://sincity-stamps.blogspot.com/

Barbara Rankin - http://blackholeartstudio.blogspot.com/

Karen Lackey - http://starshinesalon.typepad.com/

Peggy Oliver - http://mystampingobsession.blogspot.ca/

Robin Redd - http://robinredd.typepad.com/

 

 

Challenge #7 Ribbon, Lace, and Twine, Oh My!

This post is dedicated to the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog.   Click Here!

Working as a Sin City Design Team Member....

So just alittle background was stuck in bed on "bed rest" with a very bad case of Walking Pnemoniadoctor gave me a choice Hospital (Remember: single mom of 3) or Bed Rest.  Of course I picked the 2nd option.   

So now I have to do a post and all my stuff is downstairs in my craft studio and i'm stuck in bed.  So I send me oldest son downstairs and just give me an idea of what I want to make for this blog post and some ideas what to grab - up came a bag with a bunch of stuff.  At first I was like - what am I going to do with all this...   But what came out - I think i'm going to let him pick from now on...

Would love for you to follow my blog - and love any comments.

Supplies used listed below.

I've had this Donna Downey Stamp  but wasn't sure what to do with it.  Of course I buy everything of hers but fear always gets me that I'll never do it as good as she does...   

So I stamped up the image with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot onto Gloss paper.

After cutting it out and pulling a green blank card that I got from Michaels

and pulled another stamp by Prima - Julie Netting Mixed Media Stamp I stamped it with Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Walnut Stain on front and back

My Son pulled out different ribbons I had and twine - after all that was the challenge to use what we hoard.

I used double stick tape to stick the ribbon around the edges.  And then used Beacon 3 in 1 Glue to put the stamped image on the card.

I then started to glue on the twine for the hair - used a few pieces of Green Ribbon.  This totally amazed me on how this really started to come together... even down to the braid.

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Then pulled out my water colors to fill in the face.

More photos.  Added Tim Holtz Idea-ology Foliage on the hair.

I then added the stamped image from the Rubber Stamp set onto a Tag I was playing with the other day with my homemade Jelli Plate and put that on the inside of the card to cover where the brad came out.

Some close up photos of the card now that it's completed.

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For the inside of the card - I pulled out my fun Sin City Stamps.  I used the Flower #2 Stencils & A leave stamp with my Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays

I know the photo doesn't cover the shimmer that's on the page - but LOVE LOVE...

Here's another photo of the cover.

Supplies Used:

Blank Card - Michaels Mega Box

Ranger - Tim Holtz

Distress Ink - Walnut Stain & Black Soot

Idea-Ology - Foliage

Watercolor Paints

Double Sticky Tape

Prima Julie Nutting Mixed Media Stamp

Ribbon & Twine

Donna Downey Stamp - Fearless

Sin City Stamps:

Flower Stencil #2

Terri Sproul's Leaves (cut 1 out)

Lindy' Stamp Gang

Shabby Turbin Teal

Frostbitten Fuschia

Wild Honeysuckle Coral

Website: Lisa Mita Studios

Funny how Time just get's away from you….

What have I done in the last few weeks...

Well here is a few of them.

Spent alot of time this weekend getting new products up in the Etsy Store.

Check them out more to come.

Click here.

 

Spending alot of my time with my dogs.  As they still are getting use to each other.

 

 

Other than that have been playing with some art journaling and some canvas work.

This was planning with some acrylic paints - and the Brand New Dina Wakley Stencils and Stamps.  hello.... LOVE THEM. 

Crew #1 - Falling In Reverse NYC Concert.

We got our hair done before the concert.

Check them out - The Zion Hair Salon  Say Lisa or Nicole Mita sent us and they will hook you up.

Here's my color change and cut.

So Other fun things we have been up too.  Playing in my Art Journal

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And here's a sneak peek on the next products - very far from done.

 

Not done yet - but here's another canvas in process.

 

 

Me and my daughter did a mini trip to Atlantic City - we stayed at Revel - we got a great rate on Groupon.

Now while they have some issues on a very long line for check in - and then again if you have a questions to stand in the line again.  And things are very pricy...  we spent most of our time in other hotels.  We did the Spa day at Golden Nugget (Highly recommend).

 

View of our Room

We are ready for our Dinner Out.  Tomorrow is our Spa & Shopping Day.

Room Service is always alot of fun.

We Hit the We The Kings Concert on the way home.

Got to see our favorite The New Royalty as well as the opening acts.

 

Finally we celebrated early a dinner with her friends for my daughters 15th birthday Party.

 

I have many pieces working right now and I'll load up some photos as soon as they are further along.

 

I have an exciting announcement - I have been picked to be an artist that is part of the Mountain Lake Harvest Wine Tasting & Art Show - Save the Date:  9/6th Saturday.  Great cause benefiting the Parkinson's Desease Foundation.  More details to follow.

 

I will also be annoucing some upcoming Private & Public Classes I'll be teaching.

My Documented Life Challenge… Just found it already love it here's my cover

So I was looking through a bunch of blogs which inspire me... and 1 of my favorite person is Lori Vliegen she is just so talented..   She had a post about starting Documented Life Challenge.  Well it was just love at first site... It just pulled all those individual things I love into one place...  So Off I went and picked u a new moleskin...  Here's the process I did creating the cover.    Hope you enjoy the video...   That was yesterday.

Here's the website that her blog took me to...  Art to the 5th - The Documented Life Project Details.

 

 

Today I pull together the pages... added the calendar pages from my other moleskin... Started this up coming week.   And did some stamping... painting... and used a ton of my washi tape...

Some more up close photos.

 

 

Here's a photo of the back of the book.

 

Here's some photo of the pages inside.

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Here's a close up of the calendar tabs.    I have some extra tab in it that have clips on it for extra paper bills etc...

List of supplies

Moleskin

Calendar

Washi Tape

Water color Paper

Stamps

Ink Pads

Montana Paint Markers

Misc. CardStock

 

 

New Blog Design Team Member - Sin City Stamp - Sneak Peek

Tomorrow. will be my next Design Team Post for Sin City Stamps

 

 

Here's a sneak peek..

You can find the blog here..

 

Once it's posted I'll come back and add the link to the actual post.

 

Finishing my 1st month of Design Team posts for Sin City Stamps

Below are the links to my blog posts on Sin City Stamps...   First month and a whole box of goodies are all gone...

 

Here's the 1st post for my design team blog.  

 

 

Here's my next Extra Blog POst...   I just love everything about this canvas.. it's my total favorite!!  Love the Sin City Chip board.. Stamps..  Flowers etc...  Click Here to see it. 

 

 

And finally here's the final post for February... alittle handmade tag for a friend going away..  Click here. 

 

 

Click here for the blog

So excited to be part of the Sin City Stamp Design Team

So if your have been following my blog then you know that I just got on my 1st Design team and I'm just so excited.  The products are amazing - please check them out here

So for the delay on posting my blog... I actually haven't been making art... Had to move the studio downstairs and then we had our own bit of drama... An issue with my little Ella all of 8 pounds biting our neighbor  - All is cleared up now thankfully.

Then #2 we had a fire in my daughters room in 1 one of her outlets - very scary  but again thankfully no one was hurt.  Just a bit of damage.

Then...  #3 we had water coming in due to all the snow from the roof and causing some more damage.

And finally #4 today walked in to a very large bird that had gotten into the venting and was caught down by the furnace...   I'm going to share the video we made just because I figured it was going to be a funny thing me and the kids working together.   So you can see it here.  Don't laugh to hard at me screaming like a little girl (with my daughter)... then all of us stressed out and yelling at each other.

 

 

And we also get a peek at new products coming out.  These are brand new Scrapbook Layouts.  Makes me want to go on vacation just to use the layouts.

The blog is totally cool and the other Designers are just so inspiring to me.  Here's my blog post from 2/12  I have another one coming up on 2/22 so be sure to check it out.

Above is what my project looked like with sin City Stamp supplies and Frog Dog Studio

Below are some photos of brand new products you can find at the store.  These are totally cool 12x12 Scrapbooking layouts - just add your photos.

These are just a few of them make sure to check out the store to see them all they are being posted today.

Here's just alittle sneak peak of my blog post on the Sin City Stamp blog on the 22nd...  

Mixed Media - Canvas - Sin City Stamps Design Team Project

So this is my first time attempting to apply for a Design Team for Sin City Stamps.  

Below is my process for this new piece.  I am a big fan of Terri Sproul so when she put out the Design Team call I jumped at the chance...  After of course thinking I wasn't good enough - but being that it's a new year and I believe I'm an artist truely I overcame my fear and ive applied.

Video:  

So here's the process.   did a video as well.

The first thing that I did was take the water color paper spray with water and then used the Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays and let it dry.   The next day I used the punches and punched all the butterflys out.  I then outlined them with black did a few different typs Black Marker, Black Paint and Stickles Black

After I put the Gesso surface I started with using the Sprays - I don't wait until the Gesso drys I like the way the sprays mix with it.

Let it drip when it mixed with the gesso and just somehow gets cooler well that's how I feel about it.  I also sprayed some handmade spray paint that I learned how to make from Donna Downey.

I liked it but wasn't in love with it - and again this project is for a design team and I'm suppose to really impress Terri.  So I added the Tim Holtz Tissue Paper.  The Sprays bleed through the tissue paper.

The color didn't jump out so I added the Gelalos then just used water and a paint brush to get the color mixed up.  I dragged it down to the sides.

I loved how it came out - and then POP...  Tree came into my mind.  So I pulled out the Rigid Wrap out and started playing with it...   Let this dry completely.  I do this in layers to just control how the tree looks better you can you tube this process as well - but don't be afraid it's totally easy and attaches to the canvas perfectly.

 

Below is  close up after I painted the branches. 

 

 

Below is my cut out leaves.  I used the same paper as above and sprays for the butterflys.

After they are cut out spray them with water and crumple them up.

Then I broke out my flowers and started hot glueing them to the canvas.

 

Some close up photos.

I also stamped some images of Butterflys and flowers around the open area.

 

Adding the different sizes butterflys.

I used Allene's Glue to set the moss

A whole picture below with the moss tacked down.  I really loved how this was coming out.  Everything jumps off the page

 

Some close up photo's of the moss.

 

Below is another good photo... What's weird here is this is when it took the turn away from what I was thinking in my mind.   I stepped away at this point..  Need to figure out what i'm doing next.

So I add my word for 2014...  Release..  Because that's the plan for 2014 I am going to release the old and move onto the new.

 

Ive never had to keep a list of supplies - and I tend to buy and then rip out of packaging and put away so i'll do my best to list everything.

List of supplies:

Artist's Loft Gallery Wrapped Heavy Duty Canvas 10x20 - Michaels 

Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays (LOVE LOVE). 

Starburst colors:  Rusty Lanteen Lime, Hag's Wart Orange, Marigold Yellow Orange, Sea Mist Green.

Flat Fabio - Aloha Avocado and Summer Lovin' Sun

Handmade Spray Paints (Yellow and Green)

Tim Holtz - Tissue Wrap Melange

Black Pitt Pen

Black Acrylic Paint

Black Stickles

Butterfly punched out of - Watercolor Paper Fluid 8x20 140 lb.

I sprayed with the same colors above. - Then used EK Paper Shapers Decorative Punch Butterfly - and Martha Stewarts Crafts 3 in 1 butterfly

For the tree - Used Rigid Wrap Plaster Cloth.  ** Let this sit overnight ***

Gelatos - Used all the blues and greens.

Paints colors to paint the tree trunk:

Folk Art Metallic - 664 Copper

Americana - Fawn

Apple Barrel Colors - Burnt Umber #20512

Flowers Used:  ** Do my best here to list what I used many I had out of packaging and they were either Prima Flowers or Recollections that I get from Michaels.

#1 Prima Flowers - #571467 Charlotte

#2 Prima Flowers - #571610 Audrey

#3 Prima Flowers - #562519 Bosque - Zephyr (2 packages)

#4 Prima Flowers  - #562281 Perles - Romance Novel

#5 Recollections Floral Embellishments #190326

#6 Recollections #190331

#7 Recollections #279954

#8 Prima Flowers - (Bird Nest) #552879 - Cradle Robin

The Green Moss at the bottom of the canvas is Reindeer MOss Spring Green

Sprays used for the paper that I cut the leaves out of:

Dylusions Ink Spray Dirty Martini

Dylusions Ink Spray Sq. Orange

Dylusions Ink Spray Postbox Red

Dylusions Ink Crushed Grape

Shimmerz Paints - Chick-a-dee

 

 

Mixed Media - Canvas - Sin City Stamps Design Team Project Second Entry

So I was on such a roll I decided to do another canvas..  this is a very old photo that I just love of me and my kids..  Wanted to get it put on a canvas anyway - so this is the best way anyway... I get to be creative.  Below is the process and list of supplies.

This is another one I'm submitting for the Sin City Design Team contest.

 

 

So I took a 12x12 canvas.  I added gesso.  And then I pulled out my Lindy Stamp Gang Magicals - Vavavavoom Violet

I put a few section with the powder and then sprayed water.

 

When it mixes with the gesso the sparkle factor gets totally cool.  I tilt the canvas all over so the drips go down the canvas.

I then added Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals California Poppy Yellow powder in sections as well.

Then iI dry it with a heat gun.  I then added some washi tape - and be sure to go over it with Golden Gel Medium or the tape will lift up.

I added in some Silver Frost by Creative Inspirations from my stash I have no idea where I got this ...   And I added some Cheese Cloth - it hadds some great dimension to the piece I also paint over it.

I pulled patterned scrapbook paper that is wood Not sure the name but it's from Kaiser Craft  and tour up the sides.  Used my prima tool to tear it up and distress it.  I then pulled out my purple gelato and edged it all up and took a wet paintbrush and and let it drip around.  This photo below is prior to the dripping.

I pulled out (3) different stencils and used modeling paste - and then my Black Pitt Pen to outlet parts of the stencil and used my finger to smuge it around.

 

I then added the background paper and tour up a few others ones from DCWV Old World Stack and edged them with stamp.  I then stamped a flower image around the area.  And then put Green Acrylic Paint filling it.  I also added black splatters.

I then made sure pieces of the background paper tear up and roll up.

I then added what I hope looks like grass (ha ha).  it was pieces of green burlap that I pulled out.and then hot glued down.  I also added a few of the Prima Resins.  I never know if I should paint them or not.  I just love them white.  I added in some flowers.

Added in more flowers.  And "family" with the scrabble tiles...

 

Here's some close up photos.

And another close up.

 

List of supplies:

12x12 Canvas 

Kaiser Craft Base Coat Collection Wood (not sure of number)

8x8 DCWV Old World Stack

Flower Stamp (not sure of brand)

Stencils - Donna Downing 12x12 Hexagon Grunge

Crafter's Workshop 6x6 mini tiny circles stencil template

Crafter's Workshop 12x12 Doodling Templates - Cubist

Lindy Stamp Gang

Magicals - California Poppy Yellow & Vavavavoom Violet

Creative Imations Silver Frost

Cheese Cloth

Prima Flowers - #558352 Primmers Bleeached White

Shabby Chic Prima Treasures  #890889

Tin Holtz (Ranger) Distress Ink Antique Linen

Rub Ons - Not sure brand

Green Burlap (Pulled apart)

Twine.

I hope you enjoyed this process - and like the video...  And I really hope I get into the design team - but either way it was alot of fun making them - and it feels really good that I got over my fear and put myself out on the "artist line"

Flowers by Recollections