Francesca's Creations

Journal - Art in the 5th project week 3

2015-02-17T21:05:00.000-05:00

The prompt for week three was "Color Wheel". I used Dyan Reavley water color sprays for the background. The feathers are from a Tim Holtz die cut and then they were painted with Sparkling H2O water colors, the same technique was used for the letters. The original plan for this page was to use the stencil you see in the background as the focal point, however it just faded in with the background. After lots of thought I saw a feather on my work table from another project and I instantly saw a color wheel made out of feathers, the rest is history. This week I am going to work on the current week's project. And working on catching up with the other weeks in between pages.

Journal - Art in the 5th Project week two

2015-02-10T00:29:00.000-05:00

Well as promised here is my journal page 2 from the "Documented Life journal project" The prompt for week two was "The beginning is always today" - Mary Shelley. The girl on the right was inspired from a Traci Bautista drawing class I took. The flowers in her hair were actually drawn on a piece of deli paper and scrap bookpages that I used to protect the other pages when I was painting, which I cut out and glued onto the page. I also used some sheet rock tape to add some texture to both pages, and sprayed ink over several stencils. The stamps and acrylic paints that I used are from Dina Wakley. My goal is to get caught up this week.

Journal - Art in the 5th Project week one

2015-02-08T23:03:00.001-05:00

This year I decided to participate in the Art to the Fifth's "Documented Life journal project." Each week a new prompt for the next page is posted. I started a little late so I am a bit behind. The image above is my page one. This page is a combination of paints, spray inks, stencils and stamps. January's theme is "The Blank Page and how to Face It" The first week's prompt was be your own goal keeper and the art challenge was book paper. I used some old music sheets, and the wrap from the Dyan Reaveley Journal as the page base. Tomorrow I will post page 2 of the project.

Picking up where I left off

2014-09-26T22:11:00.000-04:00

Well I can't believe that it has been over three years since I last wrote or did anything on this blog. I am happy to say that I have been fortunate enough to start a new phase in my life "Retirement". It has been 3 1/2 weeks and I have to tell you I absolutely love it. Having the freedom to do what you want when you want is spectacular. There are so many projects that I want to do it is hard to settle on which one I am going work on. One of my goals when I retired was to finish some of the projects that have been started and never finished. Happy to say that I have completed a couple so far. The only problem is for every thing I finish I start 5 more. The first thing that I finished was Sophia's trinket box (above). The techniques that I used in this collage were based on what I learned in the Anna Dabrowska"Finnabar" class. I used a picture of my daughter (Sophia's mother) as my focal point.

Zentangle

2011-06-12T20:04:00.001-04:00

Well I finally got around to posting this page from my art journal which is a zentangle using the negative of a Tim Holtz die. Still putting away stuff from the Springfield show. Can't wait to use some of the techniques that I learned at the show. Hope you enjoy.

Nurse Cindy

2011-04-16T16:18:00.002-04:00

Today my blog is dedicated to Cyndi. For the past 2 plus years Cyndi has worked very hard to to prepare herself to get into the Nursing Program. Well all the hours of hard work and studying paid off. I am so proud of her and know she is going to make a wonderful nurse.

Getting ready for ATC night

2011-03-23T21:54:00.002-04:00

ATC

What a busy couple of weeks. Started the week off with Paul and I celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary, taking a copic marker class, going to see Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks in concert on Sunday, and last but not least starting next week I will be a whole year older which means I will have exactly 1095 days left before retirement.

I have added a gadget at the top of my page to a pretty cool Zentangle blog that has a weekly challenge. Pretty cool site.

My graphic for this post is the digitally designed back for my ATCs for the March trade.

Alice in Wonderland Queen of Hearts

2011-03-01T21:47:00.000-05:00

Well I finally finished this project. I wanted to use it as a backing for my July ATC swap. The theme was Alice in Wonderland. Needless to say the backing never made it to the ATCs but I really wanted to finish it. I learned a lot of new techniques and it was so much fun to do; so it was well worth it. Hope you enjoy it.

2010 Heirloom paper arts expo

2010-06-15T22:04:00.004-04:00

Another great show. Well the 2010 Heirloom productions expo was a little over a week ago. It was great and had so much fun. Met my sister in law and Terrie in Springfield, Ma.

This year I got to take a couple of classes, both of which I truly enjoyed. One was with Kate from invoke arts (one of my favorite vendors) and the other was from Stamp Zia. Both classes were wonderful. I also found some great stamps at Rubber Neck Stamp Company. I am posting a card that I made from one of their Sophisticated Lady stamps using copic markers.

Snow, Snow and More Snow

2010-01-03T20:42:00.003-05:00

Well vacation is over and back to work tomorrow. It has been snowing on and off for the past couple of days; it sure is pretty when you don't have to drive in it. It is really hard to believe that it is 2010. I can remember being a little girl and thinking how far away the year 2000 was. In 2010 I will be celebrating my 39th wedding anniversary, 12 years at Liberty, 22 years in our current home, Max will be 13 years old, the kids are all grown and have families of their own.

Christmas 2009

2009-12-27T23:10:00.003-05:00

Well it has been a while since I have posted anything. Life has been a little crazy, but seems to be settling down. I have had a really bad cold for the last couple of weeks which hasn't helped much, but it seems to finally be getting better. Christmas was great. We had Christmas Eve at my house and Christmas day at Cyndi's house. Boy it was so much fun watching the kids play with all of their new toys. I did miss not seeing my oldest grandson though. Hopefully, I will be getting some pictures soon.

Nov. 8, 2009

2009-11-08T20:51:00.002-05:00

Well a lot has happened since I last updated my blog, which was only a couple of weeks ago. My daughter gave birth to a lovely little girl, Vivienne. She is such a doll baby. I am working on a digital design of her first day in the world and hope to have it done by next weekend. I was in Boston most of last week and I can't even believe how much it has changed. I stayed at a hotel on the waterfront. I thought getting around the city would have been really easy given that I went to school and worked in the city. Was I in for a surprise. I did get to eat one of my favorite restaurant's Pier 4 and was so excited when the waitress came to the table with a hot popover. It brought back the memories of going there as a child with my parents.
I have uploaded a digital scrapbook page that I did of Slater and Sophia, enjoy.

Family Recipes

2009-10-25T20:42:00.002-04:00

Wow can't believe that Oct. is almost over and Halloween is just around the corner. I was hoping that I would have been able to meet my new grandchild this weekend but she just isn't ready to join us yet. I hope that everyone has a "Happy Halloween".

Halloween greetings

2009-10-18T21:41:00.006-04:00

With Halloween just around the corner I have been diligently working on my greeting cards. I was hoping I would have been done this weekend, but that didn't happen. I must say though that I sure had fun working on them and going through all of the trinkets and ephemera that I have collect throughout the year. I also have been working on a Halloween themed altered book and as soon as it is done I will post some pictures of it. You would never know that I was never really into Halloween, but for the last couple of years I have really enjoyed working on Halloween related projects. I even decided to dedicate a page in my Italian alphabet journal to Halloween.

Can't believe it's October!

2009-10-03T23:33:00.002-04:00

Can you believe that we are in October already......I really don't know where the summer went. Tomorrow I am taking a class instructed by the world renowned Laura McCabe. I'm really excited. I haven't seen Laura for over 2 years, you would never know that we live within 10 miles of each other. The time seems to just fly by. I just finished a sterling silver necklace which I will post to the web site later in the week. I started working on a Halloween altered book and can't wait to see what it is going to look like when it's done; I just hope it gets done this year. Well time to call it a day. I am posting a digital design of little Miss. Sophia in her witches costume from last Halloween.

My Special Spider man

2009-09-26T21:30:00.005-04:00

Well another week has gone by and we are almost in Oct. can you believe it. I spent Friday night with Slater and Sophia, and we had a great time. We made pizza, and hung out. Today Paul and I spent the entire day looking for a shower curtain and some new bathroom rugs. I will be so glad when this bathroom remodeling is done. I don't think I can bare going into another hardware store!! When I got home I found this picture of Slater wearing his Halloween costume so I decided that I would see what I could do with it. Well it's time for me to go to bed. Goodnight.

digital atcs and new jewelry uploads

2009-09-16T22:08:00.005-04:00

Tonight I am going to upload the ATC cards I have been alluding to all week. I made half of my cards in the traditional manner by using various types of media and elements. However the cards that I am going to post today are digital designs. It were was a whole new experience and a lot of fun and the possibilities are endless. I also loaded some pictures jewelry pieces I have created.

More ATC's

2009-09-15T21:29:00.006-04:00

Well I am loading a layout to illustrate another ATC that I did for this weeks trade. I really wish that I could spend some more time on this but between working all day in addition to being in the middle of having our bathroom completely remodeled it's been a little crazy around here. All of the walls have been knocked down and the only thing left standing is the tub and shower, which comes down tomorrow. I have been wanting to do this for such a long time and even though it is a mess I am really excited. The greatest part of the day was when I came home and Paul had a really nice surprise for me. He made me this wonderful steak dinner with potatoes, salad and fresh bread. What a treat!

2009-09-14T21:38:00.007-04:00

Well it is almost ATC club night and I just finished my ATCs. I am posting a few of the 9 cards. This month I tried something different and can't wait to share my new technique/process for making my ATCs with the group.

Update

2009-08-16T20:06:00.002-04:00

I really have not fallen off the face of the earth, just been crazy busy at work. Vacation is coming soon and I can't wait. I have lots of plans for projects. I want to work on my alphabet book and get some pages done, work on my ATC's and start my hallowen cards. If I get half of this stuff done, that would be great. Went to New Hampshire last weekend to my nephews wedding. It was really a lot of fun. The weekend before was Slater's 5th birthday party. Today I spent the day putting away all my stamps from the show in July. I also had a big order come in from stampin up that had to be catalogued and put away. Paul bought me this fancy espresso machine, I bet you never thought that there was an art to making espresso. Well trust me there is!! but I believe I have it under control after a week of practice and tons of research on the internet (I don't know how we got anything done before the internet).

Alphabet Art Journal F Page

2009-07-03T21:46:00.002-04:00

I really fell behind in working on my alphabet journal pages. The page that I am posting today is for the letter F. I dedcided on two words Femina and Fresco. I used Tim Holtz crackle paint for the background. I hope to post another page in the next day or so.

Spring is Here

2009-04-18T20:24:00.006-04:00

I can't believe that spring is finally here. It seemed like winter would never end. I had lunch with my good friend Terrie a ouple of weeks ago and she mentioned that she has been checking my blog, and commented that it has been a really long time since I posted an entry. So here I am..............Terrie runs the Yahoo group "Lost Art Creations" which recently finished up a charm swap. Making these charms was certainly an evolutionary process. I started down one path and kept adding to it, but at the end of the day I was really happy with the final product.

Winter 2008

2009-01-11T20:59:00.005-05:00

Just wanted to share with all of you the new winter book I just finished today. It is a clear acrylic book. The Snow on the cover is a recipe that I got on Tim Holtz's web site. It was part of the instructions for one of the 2008 12 days of Christmas. Hope everyone had a great holiday.

Art weekend

2008-07-20T20:12:00.004-04:00

Last weekend was a true art weekend. My sister in law Martha came up for the weekend and all we did was create or buy stuff to create with. We went to the scrap and stamp show in Hartford, CT. It was smaller that I had expected but that was O.K. I met some really nice people and I sure found plenty of stuff to buy. On the way home from the show we stopped at a couple of stamp stores. Then the real fun began. We both worked on the same project but they came out so different. I am almost done with mine and hope to post it next weekend. I had to stop working on the project because ATCs were due on Thursday. This weekend I spent most of it trimming and cataloging all the unmounted stamps that I bought from the last 2 shows. Well goodbye for now.
Francesca

The weekend is here !

2008-06-27T20:31:00.008-04:00

Well the weekend is here finally. I hope to spend the weekend creating some neat stuff . Like everyone I have several projects started and would like to get them finished before I start another one. My focus this weekend is to finish up my ATCs and the nature book I have been working on which was another great class taught by Terri L. at Beautiful Impressions in Westbrook. The one thing I wanted to share with everyone is the paper doll garden that I made. It was a class taught by Terri Lightfoot at Beautiful Impressions Stamp store. It was a great class. I made it for my grand daughter.