Lizzy Wurmann: My way of living

Mixed Media Paper Quilt Tutorial

I wanted to create a quilt with my own patterned paper, so I stenciled over previous painted papers and cut 1.5 and 2 inch squares to start making the design. 

To make it easier for me, I traced a diagonal on the card stock and then I glued one square on each side of that line and from then, I started gluing one on each side of those until I completed the page. 

I invite you to watch the process on a VIDEO I created.

My plan was to make a card with the small panel and leave the big one for other projects cutting it into stripes, circles or squares or leave it as it is to use it as a base for a journal page or a collage.

Stencils used:

Dots and Dashes Stencil

Squares and Circles Stencil

Hearts, Flowers, and More Stencil

Hebrew Calligraphy Stencil

Apple Pomegranate Stencil

 

Until next time!

Collage Papers with Citrasolv and Stencils

There are many tutorials on the web about National Geographic magazines and Citrasolv where I learned this technique but,  I've never seen how it works with stencils so I had to try. I hope you get inspired to do it, you can get beautiful and unexpected results.

Citrasolv is a cleaner and degreaser, which will remove the ink creating wonderful backgrounds that you can use for your collages.

For this technique I used various stencils by Jessica Sporn.

 

- Medallions 

- Hearts, Flowers, and More 

- Squares and Circles 

 

VIDEO

 

 

 

 

 

A few "Before and After" examples

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catalog Mini Journal Tutorial

Hi everyone! I'm here with another project for Jessica Sporn Designs.

Today I will show you on a video how I did a "mini journal" out of a catalog and watercolor paper. For the cover I also used a catalog scoring 1/2" on it's spine to insert the journal. I like the dimensions, each page it's like a large tag.

For the cover I used Jessica's Medallions Stencil  over a gelli print. 

 

 

Now I will create on the first two pages. Collage Sheets by Mary Jane Chadbourne and Nancy Baumiller

On this page I used Layered Peonies Stencil

 

On this side Squares and Circles Stencil was used

 

 

 

Until next time!

 

Blog Hop for Jessica Sporn Designs

Welcome to the October Blog Hop for the  Jessica Sporn Designs Creative Team.

Today I'm thrilled to be hopping along with great artists to share some "Fall" creations using Jessica's stamps and stencils. We have a great giveaway - one lucky commenter will win Jessica's Cascading Leaves stencil and Tree of Life stamp. All comments on all the blog hop participants count, so make sure to visit everyone and leave some kind words!

 

Marit Barentsen

Sherry Canino

Kristin Van Valkenburgh

Denise Alloca

Jessica Sporn

 

 

For this Blog Hop, I did a small canvas (5" X 5"), with Jessica's Hamsa Blessing stamp as a main image and I chose Fall colors.

 

 

 

I started by applying black gesso to the canvas.

 

  Then I gelli printed a few papers with the beautiful and delicate Apple Pomegranate Stencil

After that, I stamped the Hamsa with Versamark ink and embossed it with gold over black cardstock. I applied 3 coats of Utee over it

  I "had" to use gold leaf on this process so using the same Hamsa stamp, I cut it a little bigger and then applied the variegated gold leaf

 This is what I had for my composition. I added black cardstock as a finishing touch

  

Thanks for visiting me on this blog hop!!

Gold Leafing, My New Passion

I guess I have posted thousands of times "My new Passion", but it's totally real. I get passionate with new art discoveries and I feel like a child when I play with them. I don't post everything I do and believe me, I do tons of stuff!!!!

Today I'm sharing two projects and a video tutorial on how to gold leaf, hope you find some inspiration!

 

 

Flag Album Tutorial

I'm posting the two parts together in only one blog post, I hope you like it!

VIDEOS

 

 

The perfect Corner Video Tutorial

There are many tutorials out there on how to make a hard cover book but it took me a long time to make "the perfect corner" so I did this one focusing on this particular topic. With this technique you can make albums, books, journals and much more. For the cover you can use several materials such as fabric, leather, paper, etc.

Hope this helps!!

 

 

 

 

Origami Pinwheel Video

As long as origami seems to be very tricky for me, I decided to make a video on how I did the pinwheel where I hid my 2016 resolutions and used it as a focal point on a layout.

 

 

Fabric transfer

Today I'm showing you an experiment I did with transfer on fabric. My plan is to use this as a journal cover after I paint it.

This is an old napkin

I covered it with gesso

Here I transfered the image with soft gel

 I wanted to blend the image with the background so I used a stencil with molding paste

 

Mini Book Video Tutorial

I have a new VIDEO showing how I did these cute little books. I used gelli printed papers for them because you'll need a thin paper in order to be able to fold them and make them fit into each other.