Alice Hendon, Artangleology

  A recent project in swap group Creative Crafty Friends , I am calling these tiered tags. The project called for making strips similar to Tim Holtz' Collage Strips - nostalgic and vintage. And I did make some of those to trade but you know I am not a sepia and grey kind of person. Hahahaha! I did make myself a couple 'sort of' Tim Holtz collage strips but I added some color. Then I wondered how I could use these in my art. How do they translate to what I do? They make great tags. A little long but that's easily fixed. And I needed color. Stacked up little strips of leftover color. Yes! They can be tags on my daily journal pages or in my art journal. Tiered tags! I like it!  The Tim Holtz strips aren't too costly but why spend money if you don't need to? I keep all my scraps and leftover bits from other projects. Actually I have 3 drawers of leftovers and bits and bobs for collage work. Hahaha! Start by pulling out a handful of scraps that are at least two inch...

In my last post I showed you a brand new product from Hahnemühle . So brand new that it is just now hitting stores in the United States. The Watercolor Bookmark Pad is already available in Europe . In this photo you can see the very first piece of art I created with one of these bookmarks.  Made of 100% cotton cold pressed watercolor paper, the glued pad has fifteen bookmarks waiting for you to add your art to. I tried several different projects with a load of different products. I wanted to see what these bookmarks could handle, and they handled everything I threw at them very well.  The bookmarks are approximately 2" x 8", cold pressed surface on one side and a little smoother on the reverse. For this first piece I went with the straight up cold pressed side. Ranger's Distress Oxide and Distress Inks are some of my favorite tools lately. I used that little blending tool and started swirling color onto my paper.  And I added color till the whole side was covered. I di...

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  Hahnemühle just released a super fun product you are going to need! So much fun to be had!  Made with their Expression watercolor paper, the new Bookmark Pad holds fifteen 2" x 8" bookmarks ready for you to add your artistic touches. Today I want to give you an overview of the ways I used the bookmarks to create art and tell you how the paper held up to my experimentation.  Glued at the top, the 140 lb. 100% cotton paper is ready for you to create with, using either the landscape or portrait orientation. When I started to pull the first sheet out to use - the entire pad broke loose from the packaging. But that's ok. It fits right back in to stay safe. The pages are very snug in the glued binding and will not fall loose piece by piece. The cold pressed surface holds watercolor well and also take acrylic as you will see in my examples. These bookmarks are presented as watercolor ready. I am not one to play by the rules, so I tried a bit of everything. Let me show you....