WINNER! ArtGlimpse Bonus Giveaway

Congratulations go out to Joyce Fisher, the winner of the latest BONUS giveaway offered exclusively to members of my ArtGlimpse club!

"Mottled Stalks"

As my winner she has her choice of one of two prints on a 5x7 wood canvas - both were created using prints from my original paintings.

"Growing Through the Cracks"

Would you like to be eligible for future BONUS giveaways, in addition to some other really cool benefits? JOIN ArtGlimpse (CLICK HERE). Membership is limited 50 people, so join NOW!

As a participant of the ArtGlimpse program you receive these member benefits:

• special discounts and sales, exclusive to members
• be the first to hear of new artwork becoming available before it's announced to the public
• bonus giveaways, exclusive to members
• the ability to pre-order new offerings and reserve limited editions
• avail yourself of the layaway plans  
• Invitation to join my Facebook group, SGTurner Art Sales

AND that's not all,

• each and every mailing will include a glimpse of my current work - a small piece of art suitable for framing.

There is no cost or obligation to you. 

If all this sounds good to you just CLICK HERE to join up.Submit the completed form and you're in, it's that simple.  As soon as I receive your membership information I will send out your first ArtGlimpse mailing.

Announcing the winner of the BLOSSOMS Throw Pillow Giveaway!

To celebrate the unveiling of my new website, SGTurnerArt.com, I decided to hold a giveaway of a beautiful 16"x16" throw pillow made from a print of my original painting, "Blossoms".   

The pillows are created by FineArtAmerica.com, where I have a online gallery. There you are able to purchase prints, canvases, phone cases, throw pillows and a few other nice home decor items.  Their throw pillows are made from 100% cotton fabric, have a concealed zipper with a removable insert, for easy cleaning.

Okay, are you wondering who our winner is? Well it's Roxy Furlong!


I also had a bonus drawing for a set of note cards, made with prints of this same painting. The winner of the bonus drawing was... Kelli Nelson.

CONGRATULATIONS Ladies!

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Be sure to ask me about my layaway plan available on purchases of $150 or more (excluding S&H and tax).

Yes, TWO Giveaways!!

Yes, I have TWO giveaways going right now!

The first is a brand new one I am announcing today -

Enter through 8/15/2015 11:59PM

To celebrate the unveiling of my new website, SGTurnerArt.com, I will be selecting ONE winner to receive this 16"x16" throw pillow made from a print of my original painting, "Blossoms".  

To enter, CLICK HERE.

Enter through 8/5/15 11:59PM

The second one is for a spot in the upcoming FESTIVAL SOUL FOOD mixed media classes (ONLINE) at Community Thrive.

UPDATE: The WINNER is
Jean Peter! Congratulations!!

See the list of all my giveaway winners HERE. Read more about Community Thrive in my previous post.

What else can I say?! Oh yeah - GOOD LUCK!!

NEWS! Community Thrive and a Giveaway!

**ALERT** Scroll DOWN to end for giveaway news!  

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I am honored to be the featured artist this month on Community Thrive! 

Community Thrive is a ning site started by the very inspiring artist, Mystele Kirkeeng. Mystele, along with her very talented sidekick, Heather Santos run one of the coolest online communities for mixed media artists.

Besides the many offerings of online classes/workshops, members can also share their work and partake in their monthly challenges and swaps. Community Thrive is just a fountain of inspiration! I am so happy I found my way there. 

If you love color and mixed media art, this is the place for you. Please come join us over at Community Thrive -

www.communitythrive.com

**ALERT**
I'm HAD a giveaway for a spot in the upcoming FESTIVE SOUL FOOD classes over at Community Thrive. These classes are ONLINE.   
(Ended 08/05/2015)

CONGRATULATIONS TO JEAN PETER!!

See the list of all my giveaway winners HERE.

#100 Day Project: Day 13 (with video)

See GIVEAWAY details at the end of this post!

Taking part in the 100 Day Project with Elle Luna over at The Great Discontent.  We had to come up with our own hashtag to use to describe our 100 days of making - mine is #100daysofochre.


Here's a look at my Day 13:    Mixed Media Postcard

Materials Used: Gesso, modeling paste, handmade stencil,  acrylic paints, acrylic glaze liquid, india ink, string, matte Mod Podge, handcarved stamp on paper towel.

 here's a Video too!

http://youtu.be/msmn5xF_1Is

GIVEAWAY!!!

Leave a comment below for a chance to have this postcard sent to you (plus a mystery surprise!) Winner will be announced on Friday, April 24th. Check back then to see if you are my winner!


UPDATE:  WINNER is Lori F!  Since I only had three entries I will be creating a postcard for each of you ladies - thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate  your kind words. 

04/29/15 - MAILED out to the three ladies.

For more fun, join the facebook group, FABRIC OF MY LIFE!

August Giveaway Winner!

My giveaway has ended...and the winner is -

Sherri Hartman Stokey!

Is anyone else getting dizzy?!!!

Her Prize is a set of notecards: 

Set of Six, with envelopes and matching seals. 

Her choice of design.

July 2014 Blog Giveaway Winner!!

My July giveaway has ended...and the winner is -

Yup, that's right, 

it's LORI JEAN POPPE!!

Lori won a $25 Gift Certificate to Amazon.com

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

If you have 4 minutes to spare, check out this QUIK CLIP TIP: "Heat Embossing for Your Hand Drawings, Photos or Writing" -

Thanks for tuning in!

July in review, my plans for August AND a GIVEAWAY!!

Back in June I told you about my plan - because I consider this year a turning point in my life, I wanted to challenge myself,  ALL. YEAR. LONG. 

For the month of July I challenged myself to create an ICAD (Index Card a Day) for every day of the month. I had a hard time in the beginning but once I made the decision to share my ICADs, or heART cards as I call them, the ideas just flowed. I admit the daily video was a lot of work, editing takes loads of time. It isn't easy taking 30-60 minutes and getting it down to around 5 minutes! But I learned so much I don't regret it,  PLUS,  I have met quite a few new friends from all around the globe. I love that!

Okay so that's checked off my list!







Now for the month of August... I came across this pin on Pinterest. It was a blog entry by Melissa Speelman of FrecklePhoto where she explains a collaborative project she did with her art students. Together they created a giant color wheel using cutouts from magazines. I loved the whole idea and especially loved the end result. 

See, besides texture, I LOVE color! I of course have a Pinterest board for color, I call it "Color-licious".   I also love a good group effort so I decided to invite my friends to take part by asking them to trade  bright colored paper with me. Small scraps are all I need. They can be painted papers, gelli prints, wrappers, junk mail, patterned paper from their stashes, even a small found object - whatever! As long as it's colorful.  

I am planning to get a large piece of mdf and cut it in a circle, then I will just go to town creating. HOPEFULLY this will all be complete by the end of the month. I will then have another challenge completed PLUS a beautiful piece of art for my studio.  Of course the best part will be that all my friends took part in it! 

Do you want in too? Here are the guidelines:

• Send up to 5 small pieces of paper (painted paper, gelli print, wrappers and/or patterned papers) OR a small found object.
• Suggested size is 3.5" x 2.5" (ATC size)
• Take your favorite piece and write your name and contact info on it.
• Mail to me at PO Box 583, Rome NY 13442
• I will in turn send you 5 of my papers which I have made. 

(Please,  no extra goodies. In order for this to go smoothly for me I need to prepack  my papers to be ready to mail out when yours arrive. If you send me goodies I will feel badly that I haven't included anything extra...5 small scraps is all I ask. I KNOW how generous my friends can be, but this one time please hold yourself back. LOL! Remember the purple bead avalanche?!)

NOW for my July giveaway...here's the scoop:
                 
                        Prize :  $25 gift card for Amazon.com
                          Contest ends Thursday, August 7, 2014 at midnight 
    MY APOLOGIES I set the deadline for 12:01 AM but 8/8 sooo it's ended. :(


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Here are the July ICADs for your to choose from:

 For a better view of the cards here is a video review:

Check back on August 9th to see if you are the winner.  And as always I thank you for stopping by,  for all your kind words and feedback. ~ Shelley  

Blues and Paisleys JUST for Jennifer!

BONUS POST! 
Earlier this month I had a giveaway for a set of custom designed notecards. The winner was my buddy, Jennifer Reno. Jennifer told me she loved blues and was into paisleys.

I love blue too so that was excellent, always LOVE to create with it. BUT paisleys? Hmmm, sounded very zentangley (zentanglee?!)...and I found out some time ago that I am not great with zentangles and doodling. I guess I just don't have the imagination or the patience for it. But I wanted Jennifer to love her notecards so I went about searching out paisleys.

I checked Google images, Flickr and Pinterest. These are my go-to's for free images. I also looked at the Silhouette online store cutfiles but didn't like any of those. Finally found two sets I liked on Google. I tried a couple ideas, first I tried to sketch them out. As I mentioned I have no patience with intricate line work so I scraped that idea - real quick! I decided to just marinate on it, something would come to me.

I knew that whatever I ended up doing I definitely would need some blue papers. I like to create my own papers to use as my backgrounds. My favorite method is gelli printing. Those of you who aren't familiar with monoprinting may not know what that is. Well, its a method where you use a GELLI plate, in my case I purchased mine, but you can make your own (loads of recipes and how-to's on Youtube, here's just one -  How to make a gelatin plate )

You can use all types of mediums and papers to print with a gelli plate. I mainly use cardstock, deli paper and regular copy paper. For color I tend to use acrylics (the least expensive work best) but I sometimes also add ink sprays, oil paints and watercolors. The real fun begins when you add textures, anything from stencils to items you find around your home (like maybe the bottom of a flipflop!)

Here's a short time lapsed video of me gelli printing some backgrounds for Jen's notecards:

In the end I decided to do some adjusting to the images I found of the paisleys. I traced and cut them out using my Silhouette Portrait. I adhered these cutouts to my background papers and then added just a few touches and, VIOLA! Fini!

Unfortunately the photos can't capture the textures, so much cooler in person.

I hope that Jennfer likes them.


PS Used some of the leftovers to make my daughter a journal.

MORE INFO:

A list of Youtube videos on adding texture to gelli prints - CLICK HERE 

June 2014 Swaps & Challenges

Here's a quick visual recap of the Swaps and Challenges I created for the month. 

Swap-Bot Craft Quote Binder Trading Card:

Cutout on my Silhouette Portrait, gelli plate,
seam binding

Swap-Bot Easy Notecard Swap:

Lots of texture with heat embossing powders
and machine stitching

(see video at http://youtu.be/J2bN1uA9ftk)

Made mainly with my own gelli prints

Swap-Bot: Altered Shipping Envie:

Front: Acrylics, stamps, gel sticks,
Dylusion sprays  and pens

Back of envelope: Stamps, acrylics and pens

Closeup of front

Swap-Bot VC: 12 Months of Altered Tags #5:

(see video at http://youtu.be/B9YVbTSIBzQ)

Swap-Bot Friendship Quote Binder Trading Card:

MMSA: Artstamps:

Your Paper Pantry: Christmas Cards All Year Long:

*** MONTHLY GIVEAWAY ***

This month's giveaway is your CHOICE of one of the following:
1. Three rolls of Scrappy Tape
 (1/8", 1/4" and 1/2")

-OR-

2. A set of handmade notecards 
(choice of color)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

A winner and a QUIK CLIP TIP!

The other day I had a little giveaway...and the winner is -

Yup, that's right, 

it's JENNIFER RENO!!

(Jennifer - I will be contacting you soon to find out what is your all-time FAVORITE color palette. I will be creating a set of CUSTOM notecards, JUST FOR YOU!)


And if you have 2 minutes to spare, check out this QUIK CLIP TIP: "Creating Texture with Machine Stitching" -

Thanks for tuning in!

May 2014 Swaps & Challenges

Here's a quick visual recap of the Swaps and Challenges I created for the month. 

Swap-Bot Handmade Bookmark:

My partner loves Kittens

Used my gelli prints for the kitten cutouts.

Swap-Bot MMA: Anything Goes Postcards:

My first partner loves French Bulldogs and sarcasm!
The base of these cards is made from baby wipes 
which were used to clean my paint brushes.

My second partner loves Disney princesses and 
the color purple.

Swap-Bot VC: 12 Months of Altered Tags #4:

Swap-Bot Quick ATC Swap #144:

Partner loved ravens. 

Swap-Bot Mixed Media Art- Artist Tile Challenge:

Collage: Modeling paste, acrylics, diecuts, 
seam binding, microbeads, Pitt pens.

Your Paper Pantry: ATC Clocks:

Used acrylics, ink sprays, modeling paste, 
embossing, stamps, dictionary,
 Pitt pens, and gel pens.

Your Paper Pantry: Christmas Cards All Year Long:

Used acrylics, ink sprays, gel pens, cutouts

Your Paper Pantry: Mona Leonard's Art Journal Challenges:

Used acrylics, ink sprays, gelli prints,
 Pitt pens, magazine

Used patterned paper, acrylics, newspaper, magazine and music sheet, Pitt pens.

Used acrylics, Dylusion sprays, Pitt pens, paper napkins, gesso and pens.

*** MONTHLY GIVEAWAY ***

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Coming soon: Stationary and other gift items   in my Etsy shop