Brave Girl Art School

I've been busy these past two weeks ~ working, babysitting the grands, quilting, playing music at a summer's end party, barbecuing with friends, AND catching up on my Brave Girl Art School projects (though I'm still a little behind). This has been such a fun class, and the other women taking the class have been so encouraging and supportive of each other. This is the last week to sign up for the class, and it's one I highly recommend (click on the link above to check it out).

Here's my Funky Flowers collage project. I started with an 11 X 14 inch wall canvas. I wanted to experiment with several materials to make the flowers, so I Mod Podged fabric petals, wallpaper and silk flowers onto the canvas. I also used modeling paste and stencils to make several flowers, painting those with acrylic paints. I also used Melody Ross's bead technique for the big orange flower, and used yellow split peas to add texture as well. If I'd been thinking, I would have painted the background before adding the flowers. Live and learn!

Here are my Truth Cards. These are about 4 X 4 inches and are made from chipboard coasters, onto which I collaged fancy papers and fabric flowers. The phrases are part of the course curriculum. 

Funky Flowers

I was so surprised and pleased to have won Brave Girl Art School tuition a couple weeks ago. I'm a little behind on my assignments because I needed to gather a few crucial supplies, but have been catching up.

I just finished my Week 2 assignment: Truth Cards:

I Mod Podged some fancy papers to plain chipboard coasters I bought last year. Then I cut some flower medallions from quilting fabric I had on hand and Mod Podged them to the covered chipboard. I painted and embellished, and added the phrases from the course materials.

I love Mod Podge.

"Soul Restoration" homework

It's been fun working on something different. I've been taking a 6-week online class called "Soul Restoration" by Brave Girls Club. I've been a little bit behind the whole way because my times a bit limited and I tend to over-think everything. But this is a project that can continue on independently. Below are my "Soul House" pages, one of the first assignments.

Today I finished some "Truth Cards," an ongoing assignment. I got started a little late on those, because I'm a ruminator... had to decide how big I wanted them and what kind of a base or template I wanted to work with, yada yada. I really didn't want to use up my expensive Timtex, so found some white chipboard 4X4 inch square coasters on eBay ($7.50 + shipping) for 100 of them. A perfect base for this project.