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This week’s water marbling fun. Have a fabulous week!

Comparing POD watch bands
My comparison of watch bands from two POD platforms. I uploaded my art to two sites & built the designs from scratch on each one which explains the slight differences in the patterns between the two watch bands. But the most noticeable differences between the two are the print qualities. I suspect it’s because the bands are made of different materials. One (Printify) is a polyester faux leather and the other (Zazzle) is a microfiber faux leather.

Happy Monday! This week’s water marbling practice is a fun one. Thanks for the suggestion, Jennifer W.!

This week’s marbling practice is a fun one, in more ways that one. Painting on water with paints that don’t play nice is always a challenge. You get surprises at every turn. But, I had fun! Enjoy!

A glimpse into my surface designing process with taking the print from the water marbling tray to the computer for clean up and editing. It’s fun to see the finished design on a product.
Happy Monday! Here’s a fun glimpse into my surface pattern designing process. After making my water marbled design, I print it to paper in the marbling tray. After the print is dried, I take a picture of it and move that to the computer for cleanup and editing. It’s fun to see the finished design on products. https://www.zazzle.com/stars_stripes_american_flag_apple_watch_band-256024842959619985

Gorgeous weather makes me want to spend more time outdoors! Moved my paints to the deck. Made for a challenging day. When the breeze blows against the water, my designs shift. Whoops! Lesson learned. It was a a fun day water marbling outside though.
Water marbling outside! Presents challenges though. Better to keep it indoors.

Happy Monday! This week’s marbling practice focus is on roses and leaves. This is a fun and meditative practice for me. I will pick my favorite pieces to put into my next surface pattern motif. Enjoy and have a fabulous week!

Today’s fun flower practice.

Practicing flowers is most fun and relaxing for me. Here’s my attempt at putting together a video to show the process. I don’t have the ideal camera equipment and setup so please keep that under consideration when my arm gets in the way in the end. Whoops! Haha! Enjoy!

Stepping out of my comfort zone to say hi and show you my scarf.

Water Marbling Books
Hi, everyone! How was your day? I had fun today experimenting with water marbling book edges. There’s need for improvement, but it was a fun craft project.

Exploring fore-edge painting
Hello! How is everyone? I’ve been enjoying my clean home and this downtime from water marbling scarves. During this break, I discovered another fun craft called fore-edge painting and decided to give it a try! This was a fun art project. I freehand painted the fore-edge. Next time, I might try sketching the characters first. The book I used is the one from my previous post. It has two stories in it. The first story was my favorite of the two and so I used my interpretation of characters and scenery for the mural art. I had more fun with simply painting this on the fly instead of sketching it out. If you are interested in trying your hand at fore-edge painting, my novice instructions are below. If you love it enough, you may want to explore more deeply into learning how the pros do it. 1) Make a book press. I used scrap wood from one of my local hardware stores. These were already conveniently cut to size. Drill holes into the boards to insert long carriage bolts. Sandwich a book between the boards and tighten down with washers and wing nuts. 2) Paint using watercolor paints 3) When dried, crack open the pages by gently fanning them out with your fingers- like you would fan a deck of playing cards. Stuck together pages can also be gently separated by carefully sliding a bone folder or similar style tool in between the pages. Have fun!

Winter Whimsy today! 9am-3pm! Come join us!
Winter Whimsy Marketplace!

We are set up & ready to add the inventory in the morning! Our booth is located in the gym-closest entry to us are entrance doors # 9 on the far west end of the school. We hope to see you at the former Hartland High School 9-3pm! Have a great night!
Winter Whimsy Marketplace Saturday Dec 9th from 9am-3pm at the former Hartland High School.

Plymouth Canton High School’s Fall Arts & Crafts Show! We are in Pod A, Booth 26 on Saturday 11/18 from 9am-4pm!

Happy Saturday From The Saline Craft Show!

Gymnasium Doors A, Booth #87 at the Saline Craft Show!
We are all set for adding inventory tomorrow morning! Feeling excited for the Saline Craft Show -tomorrow at Saline Middle School from 8am-3:30pm.

New Batch Coming Soon!
Hello and happy Monday! I hope the weekend treated everyone well. This week’s scarf presentation is of the newest batch. These will be added to www.goimagine.com/kaleidoscopefmc by Thursday. Please keep in mind that the Saline Craft Show is this weekend. We will be booth # 87 in the gymnasium, near door A. The goimagine shop will be placed on vacation on Friday for the show and will re open a few days following. Have a great week!