After carving the chevron for class, I turned the block over and did something a bit more random.

I liked the design, but need to re-ink my ink pad.

Woohoo! You may have seen some posts I’ve shared about this in my stories already - I’m so excited to share with you that I will be part of @balzerdesigns The Artful Holiday class, starting August 1st.

I can’t even explain how excited, nervous and grateful I was that Julie reached out to me to participate in this class. I’ve done in-attendance workshops, a couple online class/tutorials here and there, but this is my first time ever doing a class in video… showing my face 😬😂

There are 19 different amazing artists/teachers with 31 classes you can take at your own pace. I’m so honored to be among this group! I will be back throughout the month, here, in my newsletter, and on my blog, to share more, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, I have an affiliate link in my profile with more information about the class. My link will also offer you a 15% discount with the code EARLYARTFUL now through August 1st. If you sign up, let me know, it would be so fun to go through the classes together!

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I had the opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade today and here's the outcome. I had lunch plans with a dear friend on this bonus day and she cancelled early this morning. (sad face). So I got out my paints and played.

After using the Julie Balzer stencil on my watercolor paper, I flipped it over onto my mixed media paper and made a print with the leftover ink. I love how splotchy and colorful it looks. I only wish more blue was present.

I had the opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade today and here's the outcome. I had lunch plans with a dear friend on this bonus day and she cancelled early this morning. (sad face). So I got out my paints and played.

And this shows the original stencil on top, the first print, lower right, and the subsequent print in my sketchbook lower left.

I had the opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade today and here's the outcome. I had lunch plans with a dear friend on this bonus day and she cancelled early this morning. (sad face). So I got out my paints and played.

This is the original design made with my Julie Balzer stencil. I am going to write inside of the larger white circles with a fine-tipped pen.

Julie Balzer inspired tape dispenser

This page is just painted with a stencil - I'll most likely write over or around that text once I get to this page. iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com/2012/01/art-journal-ev...

Ended up being my least favorite of all which is sad with all that flat space on top.