New Amazon store for Mixed Media artists and book reviews

I just opened an Amazon store. I have added all of my favorite books. Most all of them I have and I really love them. I am going to start doing reviews of mixed media books so I wanted a place where it would be easy for you to find a book I do a review on. I will always post the link to the book at the end of my book review blog post.

I will show you some pages from the book I'm reviewing and discuss the good and bad about each book.
If you want to check out my Amazon store to see which books I will be reviewing you can go to the link below
http://astore.amazon.com/vazqorigart-20


I will write the first review on Paint Mojo by Tracy Verdugo.

Click HERE to buy now!

See you all in the morning for the first reveiw!

Painted collage papers

I just thought I would share some collage papers with you all. These are just a few. I have more available in my Etsy shop.


These are acrylic paint using my handmade stamps from the tutorial and stencils.

These are some I altered using Picasa 3 

I love Picasa. lol. see ya soon!

Tutorial Time foam stamps diy

Hi all it's time for a tutorial. I have been playing with different stamp making techniques and I decided foam stamps are my favorite and they last the longest. I have tried using a styrofoam plate, cardboard pieces, and foam.
                                              These are some I have made 

Today let's make foam stamps!

You need ;

a craft knife

scissors

cardboard scraps

craft foam

glue

pen

Start by cutting some cardboard into sqaures the size you want your stamps to be. I like my stamps about the size of the palm of my hand.

Draw your shapes you want onto the craft foam with your pen, and cut out each shape. I don't worry to much about it being perfect. I like the look of uneven stamps when I create background papers.

Next glue down your foam onto the pieces of cardboard. I use tacky glue because it lasts a long time 

Let you need to let the glue dry completely before you use your new stamps. Here is a picture of all the ones I made. All together it took about 45 minutes to cut and glue everything.

See super simple and now I have a lot of new stamps to play with. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial, see you soon!

First snow in Knoxville Tennessee !

   So I am soooo late with this blog post. We got our first snowfall here in Knoxville and as beautiful as it was I hated it! I was stuck inside for 2 days because my car won't get up the hill where I live so I worked on some jewelry for one of my Etsy shops, and a Crochet blanket for my other Etsy shop.

   I LOVE The Wanderlust 2016 Workshop I'm taking There is still time to join if you want Just click Here to find out more!

Art journal pages and Wanderlust 2016

Hi all! I wanted to let everyone see my newest pages. I'm now working in 2 art journals. One is a blank journal, the other is a out of print book I saved from the landfill. I am also participating in Wanderlust 2016 workshop, So far I am having so much fun with the techniques I'm learning. There is still time to sign up if your interested, It's only the second week and already I know it will be worth the money I invested. I'll post the link to the website below.

Wanderlust 2016 Workshop click here!


Art Journal Inspiration

I love how she turned out!

 This last one is my favorite so far.

This is the recycled book I am working in

So I am going to be posting every Saturday now that I have enough views so check back on Saturday nights to see whats new. See you all next week my artsy friends!