Goddess of the Seasons - Art Nouveau Domino Magnets

It's been a crafty week around here. I just finished making a bouquet of paper flowers and I'll be posting tutorial pictures soon. For now, here's a set of four seasons Goddess domino magnets. (I made these using the chalk palette coloring method, the tutorial I posted about last.
Full tutorial

I don't know what it is, but I've gotten a lot done (creatively speaking) this past month. I wonder if it has anything to do with my birthday coming up in a couple weeks? I think sometimes a reminder of time ticking by helps to motivate me... I'll be 27!!!

Which is just unbelievably great considering for a long while I wasn't sure I'd make it this far. While I've still got some left over aches, pains and sporadic failing of certain nerve and thyroid functions, all in all it's been a decent and happy recovery since my chemo / radiation treatments a few years back. Especially considering the not-so-polite (and very incorrect) speech a doctor gave me about my stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma case being terminal back then.

My last Petscan (a cancer detecting test a little like a catscan tube but they inject you with radioactive sugar instead of that iodine/barium) was in November (all clear!) and my blood counts were good as of April. It's time to go back for my check ups again in the next month or so. My previous oncologist retired, so I have to go through the trouble of finding a new (and hopefully GOOD)replacement for him. I'll let you know how that works out!

Thanks to everyone for the great feedback on the stamps and molds via email lately. I don't have a ton of time to write everyone back, but I do read everything and I'm happy you're having fun. I'll keep pumping out the tutorials in my hope of spreading the joyful creativity.

:)

Kimberly

How To Make Rubber Stamped Domino Pendants with Chalk Coloring

I've added even more pictures and information to my domino tutorial page today. This includes instructions for one of the easiest coloring methods, the chalk palette. I've also experimented with six different sealers and wrote about the pros & cons of each product. Hope this is helpful!

Enjoy :)

Kimberly
http://www.theenchantedgallery.com/dominoes.html

Bee Fairy Handmade Bookmark

It's been so hot and sunny here in the Portland area OR the past couple months. Two days this week it was 100 degrees out :( Happily, last night a thunderstorm rolled in and made things a lot nicer. This is the first good rain we've had since the end of May. I felt like getting crafty today in the nice cooled-off weather, so here's a bookmark!

Bee fairy rubber stamped bookmark ingredients: The Enchanted Gallery rubber stamp sheet #Fant-118, ColorBox inks, color pencil, stickles glitter, yarn and long rectangle nestabilities cardstock shapes.

New Rubber Stamp Designs - Fairy & Domino Art

Two new rubber stamp sheets designed this month. Both available on my website as of today, will be working on example art projects over the next few days. More on that soon!

<3

Quick Mold Update

I didn't quite have time to add all the molds I planned, but here is what got updated to my site today. All can be found on the Faces & Buttons section page at: http://www.theenchantedgallery.com/artdolls.html

New rubber stamped card (molds update coming next week)

I finished another card with my newest stamp set (#Roma-119.) I used the same flower punch as the last heart shape card (EK success' retro flower,) but trimmed a dip in the edges to better shape the flower to the art.

I also have eight new mold designs to share as soon as I make the example art for them this week. Mostly new faces and floral buttons, I'll try to get an update done within a week!

Once that's done I'll be drawing up some new rubber stamp designs. So far I plan to do some more fairies in a variety of sizes along with a separate sheet of mini stamps that would work for jewelry/memory glass/inchies/stampbord pendants etc. I've also got a few tutorial pages in progress, including additions to the paper doll page. Busy Busy! More about that soon :)

xoxo