Art Bundle for Good is Here!

Hello!

I’m super excited to be contributing to Art Bundle for Good #3 and it is available NOW, but it won’t be around for long.

There are $4000 worth of courses, workbooks, ebooks and other resources on topics like painting, watercolor, brush lettering, drawing, mixed media arts, digital illustration, creativity, marketing your art, and more all bundled together for one low price. This is an amazing opportunity to get 100 art resources at a ridiculously low price. Art is such a great investment in your creativity, personal development, and happiness. The Art Bundle for Good is the perfect investment in yourself.

25% of the Art Bundle profits are going to support Courageous Kitchen, a Bangkok based charity helping refugees. Get some top art learning resources from many of the biggest names in the industry and do some good at the same time.

Your mental and spiritual health deserve an investment in art. With this great selection of 100 online classes, ebooks and products from some of the top art and creativity instructors, you’ll enjoy the benefits of the Art Bundle for Good long into the future. Art Bundle is backed by a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee.

A partial list of Instructors and Classes:

1. Mixed Tape Volume I (Effy Wild - effywild.com) Value $80
2. 7 Course Track: Beginner Breakthroughs (Pencil Kings - pencilkings.com) Value $105
3. Color Theory for Artists: A Complete Beginner's Guide (Patricia Caldeira - doncorgi.com) Value $100
4. Journey with the Light (Tamara Laporte - willowing.org) Value $23
5. Using Critical Analysis to Improve Your Drawing Skills (Michelle Tabares - michelletabares.com) Value $25
6. Rock Your Online Art or Craft Shop Class (Jennibellie - journalworkshops.ning.com) Value $103
7. Fawn and Forest(Micki Wilde - secrethermit.typepad.com) Value $48
8. Animal Antics (Tracy Verdugo - tracyverdugo.com) Value $65
9. Digital Illustration: Develop Your Own Style (Sydney Height - othellophi.com) Value $59
10. Mini Gut Art 2015 (Mystele Kirkeeng - mystele.com) Value $50
11. "Into the Myst" Workshop (Katrina Koltes - katrinakoltes.com) Value $57
12. Back 2 Back Collage (Dina Wakley - dinawakley.com) Value $75
13. Creative Explorer Lessons (Andrea Gomoll - andrea-gomoll.de) Value $91
14. Abstract Watercolour Flowers (Iris Fritschi-Cussens - iris-impressions.com) Value $45
15. 5 Landscape Pack (Colin Bradley - colinbradleyart.com) Value $26
16. Watercolor with Me: Fun & Fabulous Flamingo (Jessica Sanders - colormecreativeart.com) Value $25
17. Angels Escape (Renata Loree - renataloree.com) Value $45
18. Selling Notebooks & Low Content Paperback Books On Amazon $199 (Rob Cubbon - robcubbon.com) Value $199
19. Mandala and Leaf Painting Workshop Bundle (Faith Evans-Sills - faithevanssills.com) Value $70
20. Create Fun Patterns Easily For Sketching, Doodling and Lettering (Shelley Hitz - yourcreativeadventure.com) Value $39
21. Intuitive Mandala Mediations (Shelley Klammer - expressiveartworkshops.com) Value $39
22. The Tangled Sanctuary - Zentangle-inspired Art Journaling (Sadelle Wiltshire - sadellewiltshire.com) Value $39
23. How to Draw Eyes Accurately - Part I - Sketch (Emmy Kalia - emmykalia.com)  Value $5
24. The Creative Inspiration Bundle for Artists (Bonnie Glendinning - theartistsmentor.com) Value $90
25. Painting Watercolor Textures (Andy Walker - artclasspro.com) Value $30
26. Monochrome Love (Olga Furman - olgafurmanart.com) Value $36
27. Colorful Portrait, Limited Palette (Lucy Chen - lucychenfineart.com) Value $29
28. Bloom True Bootcamp: Thirty Days of Prompts to Ignite Your Creative Fire (Flora Bowley - florabowley.com) Value $39
29. Character Design Crash Course: Dynamic Design in Four Steps! (Melissa Lee - melissaleedesign.com) Value $45
30. Flying Free Art Journaling Class (Jennibellie - journalworkshops.ning.com) Value $52
31. The Gift of the Present (Mary Beth Shaw - stencilgirlstudio.com) Value $29
32. Meditation Girl (Tamara Laporte - willowing.org) Value $23
33. Masterful Art Journaling (Dina Wakley - dinawakley.com) Value $65

GO TO ART BUNDLE FOR GOOD

Enter to win art courses valued at $4000!

I know you want a chance to win 100 art courses and resources by dozens of top art instructors!

Three lucky winners will have a chance to win the entire Art Bundle for Good including $4000 of art related courses, ebooks, and other great resources. 

It cost you nothing to enter, so don’t miss out. 

The Art Bundle Giveaway only lasts 5 days ~ until November 7, 2018!

GO TO THE ART BUNDLE GIVEAWAY

I am thrilled to be one of the instructors and think this kit is a fantastic deal that will definitely take your art and creativity to a new level.

If you don't win, Art Bundle #3 is Coming November 8th and it is filled with $4000 worth of courses, ebooks and other resources on topics such as:

• mixed media arts, 
• painting, 
• stenciling, 
• drawing, 
• watercolors, 
• digital illustration, 
• creativity, and
• marketing your art!

Twenty-five percent of the profits are going to support Courageous Kitchen, a Bangkok based charity helping refugees. The Art Bundle for Good is a great opportunity to get 100 top art learning resources from many of the biggest names in the industry and do some good.

Visit the website to enter the Giveaway. Three lucky people will win the entire bundle of art resources!

GO TO THE ART BUNDLE GIVEAWAY

Good luck!

Learn fun facts about me and my art process!

Learn a little more about me in my spotlight interview, hosted by the incredible Creative Director of 21 SECRETS, Tonia Jenny.

Catch the interview on the Dirty Footprints Studio Blog, host of 21 Secrets ~ Paper, Glue Scissors.

Q: Just what is 21 SECRETS ~ Paper, Glue Scissors?

A: A wonderful ebook tutorial with workshops by myself and 20 other artists!

You get an actual 150+ page e-book that is easy to navigate with links to class videos and handouts. The e-book is downloadable so you can keep it forever. 

You can pick and choose which workshops you do and in what order — 21 SECRETS is completely self-paced and it comes out Monday, October 29, 2018.  

Click here to view more details.

Paper Glue Scissors

You know how sometimes you get 'pinch me' moments?

Well, I had one when Connie Solera invited me to be a teacher for the upcoming edition of 21 Secrets, which is Paper Glue Scissors.

You see, I have bought previous editions of 21 Secret several times. Good stuff! Extremely well organized and produced; you get an actual e-book that is easy to navigate with links to class videos and handouts. The e-book is downloadable so you can keep it forever. 

What a value! 

Starting today through 9/28 you can get $10 off. You better just click on over now so you don't forget. 

I am pretty excited about the project I did for Paper Glue Scissors. I am also pretty excited to see what the other artists have done cause, yeah! I am going to take the class too. 

The coupon code is: EARLYBIRD

Click here to sign up now

Autumn inspiration can happen when you JUMP on this sale!

Autumn inspiration is here and ready for you to partake at 20% off, but only for 4 days!

September 14th 12:01 am EST - September 17th 11:59 pm EST 

Creative Jump Start (CJS2018) is 20% off -  The sale price of $40 will be reflected on the website.

Your creativity can begin at any time, day or night. So what if you missed the January start. September is a very good month!

I am one of 31 artists giving you perfectly sized bites of non-caloric artistic goodness. Yum!

Although you cannot play along in real-time as Jumpers did in January, you can binge-watch.  I am one of 31 artists giving you perfectly sized bites of non-caloric artistic goodness. Yum!

You will still be able to access:

• all the information and galleries in the classroom!
• more than 6 hours of content! 
• download all 31 instructional mixed media videos until the program shuts down on November 15th, 2018.

JUMP into creativity!

Art Walk Alchemy - open now!

I am teaching in a new year-long endeavor next year. My friend Anne Marie Fowler is the brains behind this and I am quite excited!
Truly, I know this will be magical.
I mean, just look at the line up of teachers!!
You may sign up now!

StencilGirl®Products & Emerald Creek are at it again!!

I have become quite a fan of embossing powder of late, especially the fun colors and mixes made by Emerald Creek. Seems like they are a match made in heaven with our stencils. This time, I used the powders in an acrylic painting on stretched canvas. 

Watch and see what happens:

GIVEAWAY
One lucky winner will receive $50 in Gift Certificates to Emerald Creek
and StencilGirl® Products!
Enter to win by leaving a comment below.
Then be sure to visit the other blogs in the hop and comment to win.
The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
One winner will be chosen at random from all blog comments!
(One comment per blog please.)

You have until Tuesday, August 21st at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.
Winner will be announced on
StencilGirl® Product's Facebook page and Emerald Creek’s Facebook page on Wednesday, August 22.

Blog Hop Order:

August 15
Mary Beth Shaw

Seth Apter
Gwen Lafleur
Kim Evans

Eileen Hull
August 16
Mary C. Nasser
Tina Walker

Josefine Fourage

Jenny Marples

August 17Debi Adams
Janet Joehlin

Emma Ivemey

Katelyn Grosart

Vicki Garrett

Big stencil savings! All my regular stencils are on sale now!

It is time for my Birthday Sale!  

Receive 14% OFF all StencilGirl stencil designs HERE!

Use code:  MBS14

$100+ orders** CHOOSE 1 FREE Large STENCIL***

***You MUST put the L### in the comment box at checkout. Sorry, no exceptions.

**6 of the same size 10% discount is applied first! $100+ orders post-discounts.

*Sale does not apply to wholesale accounts 

or StencilClub membership.

The stencil sale begins July 6th and ends July 8th at 11:59 p.m. CST 

The Stencilfied Journal

Closeup of my Prayer Packet

I am participating in a collaboration organized by the genius Tina Walker. We are responding to weekly prompts in a small journal, the one caveat being the use of StencilGirl® stencils. Naturally, I wanted to be involved!

If you know me very well, you will realize this is not my forte. I have never been able to get on board with that 100-day project; don't get me wrong, I have great respect for those that do, I am just not one to manage that sort of discipline. I am trying to keep this commitment! 

Watch for my posts on FB and Instagram.

 When working on this week's prompt, I had just returned home from a week with my aging parents. To say the week was emotional is an understatement.  Top on my mind were numerous issues regarding family, health, mortality. Consequently, I turned my piece into a Prayer Packet of sorts and hung it on my studio door handle. 

Journal page, gessoed & then embossed with Seth Apter Patina Oxide

I also stenciled on the back side of the Journal page and wrote a prayer that I enclosed in the packet.

Final Piece, hanging from my door handle.

So far, so good. I know I'm only in week 2, but I am trying to keep up and exercise some artistic discipline, ha!!

This is the stencil I used, in case you were wondering.

StencilGirl® Products & Lindy's Blog Hop

You know, it occurs to me that I have a pretty darn fun job. I get to try out lots of new products and how fun is that? This time, when I got the Lindy's supplies, I decided to record my process so you could come along for the experimentation. 

Hope you enjoy!!

GIVEAWAY
One lucky winner will receive both a $25 Gift Certificate to Lindy’s Gang
AND a $25 Gift Certificate to StencilGirl Products!
Enter to win by leaving a comment below.
Then be sure to visit the other blogs in the hop and comment to win.
The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
One winner will be chosen at random from all blog comments!
(One comment per blog please.)

You have until Tuesday, April 24th at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.
Winner will be announced on
StencilGirl's Facebook page and Lindy’s Gang’s Facebook page on Wednesday, April 25.

Blog Hop Order:

April 18
Mary Beth Shaw
Gwen Lafleur
Mary C. Nasser
Debi Adams
Tina Walker
Kate Palmer
Cindy Wille
Natalie May
Pascale Bernard
Anat Weksler
Bertheas Peggy
Elena Martynova

April 19
Belen Sotelo
Cindy Gilstrap
Kiala Givehand
Torrie Gass
Janet Joehlin
Valerie Ouellet
Aga Baraniak
Sivan Amedi
Aleksandra Mihelič
Joanna Marquet
Phoebe Tonosaki
Caroline Parent

April 20
Carol Baxter
Sandee Setliff
Karen Gaunt
Louise Nelson
Sherry Canino
Kerry Fellowes
Yulianna Efremova
Kasia Bogatko-Skoczypiec
Olga Bielska
Olga Ravenskaya

Eight ways to use Embossing Powder & Stencils

Last year, my friend Seth Apter told me he was going to bring back embossing powder. Of course, I laughed because I am kind of snarky like that. But yes, I believe he has done it! His new line of Baked Texture by Emerald Creek is so darn cool that I find myself using them on all sorts of substrates. Take a look at some of the interesting options in this little video:

See what I mean! Nicely done, Seth!
To order, click on over to Seth's website here. Or his Blog here

StencilGirl Products & etchall®

I will confess that I am one of those people who just skim directions before I decide to 'wing it' by leaping into a project with zero forethought. Consequently, if something can go wrong, it will. I generally have to try a couple times before I get the desired result and I learn things in the process.  Or I end up with unexpected results aka mistakes. 

That has never happened with an etchall®  product. 

Seriously. The etchall® products work without fail every single time. You gotta love it, right?

At any rate, for this Blog Hop, my friend Karyl Howard suggested perhaps I could etch the glass of a picture frame and then put artwork behind it. Hmmm, cool idea, eh? And I just happened to have a frame on hand. 
I chose a stencil by Pam Carriker, Door to Heart 9, a beautiful 9x12 stencil. First I sprayed the back of the stencil with the stencil spray. I have found this spray to be very helpful when I am doing something precise (such as etching glass). The spray allows you to place the stencil into the exact position you want and it will stick. Which is really nice especially around the edges and the fine detail parts. The spray also allows you to reposition the stencil if necessary and you need to adjust the placement. Conveniently, I was using a dirty stencil, so it is easy to see on top of the glass. 

Once I had the stencil in place, I simply spread the etching creme over top. And then I set the timer according to the package. That is ALL YOU DO! Seriously, it is that easy.

When the timer goes off, you scrape up the etching creme and put it back into the container so you can use it again. 

I placed the glass on a piece of painted paper and was done. Could it be any easier? I think not. But, 

I got to thinking, it would be fun to paint on the backside of the glass, wouldn't it? Especially right behind the little heart.......or you could develop an entire painting behind the glass....or you could etch on both sides. Or maybe drop alcohol ink into the etched parts. Or collage on the back side. Or.....

Well, you see how my mind works, somebody just slap me already.

GIVEAWAY
One lucky winner will receive an etchall® Glass Etching Bee-ginner Kit,
reposition/reuse stencil spray
AND a $25 Gift Certificate to StencilGirl Products!
Enter to win by leaving a comment below.
Then be sure to visit the other blogs in the hop and comment to win.
The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
One winner will be chosen at random from all blog comments!
(One comment per blog please.)

You have until Tuesday, March 20th at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.
Winner will be announced on
StencilGirl's Facebook page and etchall’s Facebook page on Wednesday, March 21.

Blog Hop Order:

March 14
Mary Beth Shaw (you are here)
Gwen Lafleur
Mary C. Nasser
Debi Adams
Tina Walker
Cindi McGee
Nadine Carlier
Joe Rotella

March 15
Belen Sotelo
Cindy Gilstrap
Kiala Givehand
Janet Joehlin
Anita Scroggins
Erin Reed
Candy Rosenberg
Susie Bentz

March 16
Carol Baxter
Sandee Setliff
Louise Nelson
Terry Ricioli
Christie Troxell
Steph Ackerman
Julie McGuffee

Mixed Media Inspiration Deck™ Empowerment Edition Blog Hop

I bet I've never mentioned how much I enjoy decks of cards. I don't ever talk about it, but I have an enormous collection, ranging from Tarot decks (I own tons!) to Yoga decks, to a deck by my friend Orly Avineri to these decks by Kiala Givehand. Decks bring great pleasure to me. The cards feel good in my hand, and I truly enjoy the inspiration I gain from each and every deck I own. 

Watch along as I play with Kiala's inspiring cards and get to explore some topics out of my comfort zone.

the completed journal spread

Blog Hop Order

 

January 10
Mary Beth Shaw

Kiala Givehand

Tina Walker

Belen Sotelo

January 11Mary C. Nasser

Sherry Canino

Louise Nelson

Torrie Gass

 

January 12

Debi Adams

Cindy Gilstrap

Sandee Setliff
Karen Gaunt

GIVEAWAY

One lucky winner will receive both a $25 Gift Certificate to StencilGirl Products
AND a Mixed Media Inspiration Deck™ Empowerment Edition !

Visit these amazing artists’ blogs and comment there for your chance to win!

The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
(One comment per blog please.)

You have until Sunday, January 14th at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.

Winner will be announced on
StencilGirl's Facebook page on Monday, January 15th.