Tea bag Paper for Mixed Media Art

Do you like using Tea Bags for your art? After enjoying a nice cup of tea, recycle the baggy and use it for fun mixed media art stuff.

You can use it for journaling, for painting, for delicate and tiny book making. And... for Gelli printing!

have you tried it? Let me know! ♥

What day is it?

Well, can you believe that it's 2025, in middle of March? How have you been? Will you even get this blogpost??

I have been in a turmoil of not necessarily wanted stuff happening in my life, and some other things that frankly no one wants.

I don't even remember what was the last thing I posted here, but let me just say, I took a tumble.

One of the things I love doing is gardening, and after we moved across country, I thought I was going to have more space to do so, but there are deer around here, and although they look so cute, they have been chewing on everything I plant.  Very disappointing to say the least.

After a long day tending the the plants and cleaning the yard, I tripped on something, fell on the concrete in an area that slopes, so I ended up going full speed on my knees and wrists.

I broke my left wrist. 

Took forever to recuperate, was in a lot of pain, the specialist didn't do a good job, I waited a long time to finally find a good therapy.... and in the process, I didn't  pay attention to more things happening in my body.

To make the story short, I ended up having an abdominal surgery, that also took many months to recuperate from. It was scary, but things turned out ok.

After that was taken care of, my attention went to my knee, literally about a year later, along with my back. More PT, more paint, more stuff no body needs.

It was quite a fall, I'm telling you - plus the abdominal surgery that had nothing to do with the other and yet, contributed to a whole year of drama.

My mom's health deteriorated to the sad point of not being able to even speak on the phone anymore.

I was lucky to be able to go in person to hug her and get a beautiful smile from her.

That was the last time I saw her. She went to heaven March 1st.

Plus, on the way back, we all here in our house managed to catch a nasty flu. I am still going through it  the past 2 weeks.  UGH

The only thing that has kept me going is painting. I pushed myself all through the past months, to create a paint or do something art inclined, at least once a month. Art Heals.

This is not the blog post I wanted to make, but  there you go.

How have you been? I hope your year has been more pleasant and healthy than mine.

I'd love to hear from  you.

My mom loved butterflies

EASY #GelliPrinting BACKGROUNDS for Beginners - Monochromatic Colors 👈

It is a good challenge to print monochromatic!  I seriously love my gel plate. This time I am using all blue and I made several really cool backgrounds. Check it out! 

Click the image to watch the video, or click HERE.
The results are beautiful and you have now unique collage paper, that's a win/win to me ♥

Let me know if you have tried this style!

Creating faces for the 29 faces challenge

This month is the 24th time I run the 29 Faces challenge! To be honest, I don't finish all on time, every time.
I know many in the blogs have participated in the past.

This year I had the best of intentions but... I got called to Jury Duty and it was a very intense thing. I did not feel art inclined in the least.

After that was all done, I decided to sit and draw, for mental health, and because I love drawing.

I want to invite YOU to take some minutes for your "me time" and for your art.

Yes, life gets busy but art is like vitamins, we feel much better when we do it!

Here are some of the faces I created

Have a wonderful day!

Gel Printing Fun

Are you into gelli printing? If you are, you know how addictive it can be!

I love spending time printing, and later on after I have a bunch of prints, I like to come up with ideas on what to do with the gel prints!

Some of them are art pieces on their own right, but most of them are ideal for collage paper.

What's your favorite solution?

If you like to watch me print, I have a video for you! 🐘

Click on the image to watch video, or HERE

What to do With Gelli Printed Papers!

Now that you printed a TON of amazing Gel Prints, you had fun, but now, what are you going to do with all those prints??

Here's one suggestion, which is as fun as printing, plus you can keep adding more paint!

Win/Win! 
I had so much fun creating this mini book! 

Click the image or HERE to watch the video

Do you own a gelli plate? 

Updates and art

Hey artsy people!

About a year ago we move states, besides selling a house, renting another, decluttering/downsizing in between, and keeping an eye where we were going to live next.... it's been crazy to say the least.

After all that planning and organizing, we arrived to have the horrid Siberian express cold... and no furniture 😂😅😓

I can laugh about it now, but seriously it was awful. 

When the nice weather finally arrived, I tripped on the concrete patio, while gardening- and broke my wrist. That took many months to be in pain, heal, rehabilitate my arm, all that while cussing and being a very bad patient lol

The only thing that kept me going literally, was my loving family and painting.

I was going to say family and "Art", but then you were going to ask... who is Art? lol

So, now that I can open the paint bottles by myself again, I want to revive this blog, and my art channel and invite you to do the same, in case you were uninspired.

Spring is around the corner and I can hear the mojo calling my name.

Thank you for reading this, for visiting, and for keeping me company! 💓

I'll link some of the art videos here, let me know how you are doing and what you've been up to!

Click on the image or HERE to watch the video.

Mermaid Art - Acrylics on Canvas

Here's the silhouette drawing for the mermaid video! This is a full mixed media art piece with Acrylics on Canvas

Watch Part 1 HERE

Watch Part 2 HERE

Easy BumbleBee in Acrylics and Gelli Plate (and a gel printing hack!)

I Eco-printed a paper HERE and HERE then I drew a bumble bee and printed a background with my gel plate.

If you want to follow along here's the Bee drawing for your personal use ♥

Watch the whole project HERE 

Keep cool, this summer has been kind of crazy!

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Painting and drawing

As you know if you have been in my blog before, I love painting children.  The main reason being that we all need more innocence in our life, and so, anytime I can help a child, I consider it my duty. 

Our duty, as human beings.

I will continue to paint children, to keep trying to find the sweetness of innocence and the joy of our inner child. Thanks for visiting. May you have a beautiful day. ♥