christytomlinson

Fundraiser! Help me, help THEM! :)

Okay sweet friends! It's time! Remember last week when I mentioned I would LOVE LOVE LOVE your help with a special project?? Well now is the time!

So as you know last week, I mentioned a snippet about a wonderful group of kids that I have come to know and LOVE personally. They are the 3rd Ward Young Men & Young Womens Youth group! Over the last 2 years I have had the opportunity to get to know these kids and I honestly just am so proud of each of them, who they are and what they are striving to become. They have awesome values, good manners and just really loving kids!

Every year these kids have an opportunity to go summer camps, where they learn life skills that help them grow physcically, mentally and spiritually.

They have awesome bonding experiences with other youth, as well as youth leaders that TRULY shape them into wonderful adults. I know because when I was their age, I had the opportunity to attend a few of these camps, and they did WONDERS for who I am today. I have also had the opprotuniy in the last 10 years, to go as a volunteer to these camps as a leader and wow. Can I just say, the spirit and feeling that is there for these youth. I am always blown away.

So where do you come in?

Well each year these camps cost money, and unfortunatley most of these kids aren't old enough to have jobs. Those that are, often times have a hard time finding a job because we live in such a small town. We also live in a small rural farming community and it's tough to put that cost on the shoulders of their parents (specially when most parents have multiple kids wanting to attend the camps).
So each year they hold different community fundraisers in hopes of helping to pay some of their way to the camps.

Well this year I just thought to myself,.. you know what? I Know of an AWESOME community who has a HUGE heart and would TOTALLy help out with something like this! I have had the pleasure of knowing most of YOU in my class, from facebook and as I have traveled and you are just TRULY amazing awesome people!  I thought it would be awesome if I could expand our "little' community for this year to my "internet" family.. to help in our efforts!

So here is how it works!

I have put together two awesome kits for purchase.
One kit is  fun just grab bag kit full of awesome mixed media goodies that you can use in mixed media, art journaling or papercrafting projects! They are all different and have fun stuff you can use! They will have a mix of stamps, rubons, papers, stickers, embellishments.. etc!

These will be offered for $19.95 with a value of over $30.00 each!  If you buy multiple kits we will be sure to try and include different kits.

The second kit I am offering is a Favorites kits!

As many of you know I LOVE using rubons, stamps, and stencils in my projects. Well I have put together a fun little kit of some of my new and old favorite products!

 

This kit includes a set of rubons ( I LOVE using these rubons for details in my girls hairs, on houses, etc.) It also includes an all over heart die-cut sheet that I use as a fun stencil, and a pack of die-cut card sheets that I also love to use as stencils! Plus it includes Mr. Huey SHine Spray, which is a clear gloss shine that when used with stencils on darker surfaces, make this awesome embossed effect! AND of course.. my favorite of favorites.. The Clearsnap Roller stamps! These are two of my VERY favorite stamps! The Roller Dot and the WordWords! I use them ALL the time in my project, and if you are taking any of my classes you know what I mean! We haven't had these in our store for over a year, so I was able to get them in just for this kit! These kits are SUPER limited.. so don't wait on these. They retail for $30.00 and we are selling them for $24.95

ALL of the profits from these two kits will go to the youth! They will also be helping me kit, pack and ship these to you as well! So they will be FULL of love when they arrive! :)

ALSO i have had people faceobook and email me since I announced this last week, about just donating cash. the answer is AWESOME! Yes!!! So you will also be able to just donate cash increments of $10.00 as well, if you want and 100% of the money will go to the youth!

 

AND NOTE: many of you have discount codes for our store because you are taking online classes from me. PLEASE PLEASE condider NOT using those discount codes, as if you do, then the youth don't get the full profit amount. As it takes it off that amount. SO please don't use them  at check out :)

So that's it! SO  can you help me? Spread the word?? I know you guys can and will help do amazing things!

you can purchase the kits Or donate cash on my Scarlet Lime Mixed MEdia store site!
Here is the DIRECT link!

Summer Camp Fundraising Kits!

or just look in the category " fundraising Kits" or "new" section!

Thanks again for your awesome support! TRULY! thank you!!
xoxo

Christy

where to start...

hey sweet friends! I have missed you all! I didn't realize until the other day, when someone emailed me asking me if I was okay because I hadn't blogged in a while, that is has been over 3 weeks! Yikes! how does time do that?

Well I will tell you how.. lol. My last post I had decided that my next post would be about my Fibromylagia and a list of the products I use to help with the pain. Well I didn't get it done in time before I left for California, and then when I got back.. Things just set into motion as far as catching up on over 2000 emails (holy cow are you serious?? lol), filming for Behind the Art, helping Ben with new/old house stuff and just catching up around my house! (my bedroom was a mess, stuff piled up that needed to be done). Just life you know? I still wanted to do a blog post, but everytime i thought about it, I thought, well I need to get all the products, and I want to take pictures of each one, and show them how I mix my oils, and etc etc etc.. and it just seemed so daunting lol. and so I put it off. And put it off, and put it off. And pretty soon it's been almost a month since I blogged last!

SO i decided today, I am just going to post. because I think i had i my mind that my next post HAD to be the one about my fibro stuff and while I haven't had time to take pics of that, I can't keep putting on blogging either. So this is me starting somewhere :)

First off teaching at Studio Creschendoh was AMAZING! Truly was amazing.

She made setting up a BREEZE (and with the help of my dear friend Chrissy, who came to support and help me during the class)

And THANK You to DecoArt and Faber Castell For Donating Paints, Decoapauge and Big Brush PENS for everyone in the class! AMAZING!

I have this "uhg" feeling when I travel to teach because with my fibro and with teaching all day and standing all day, I just get so overwhelmed by the thought of it.. but I have to tell you that when a someone who is hosting you, creates a peaceful, easy going, creative environment for you to teach in.. it makes it SO easy to put all those fears behind. JEnny has just this amazing way of making everyone in the room, teacher and students alike, feel comfortable and welcome.

It was a beautiful space to teach in, and I just truly loved it and it was great place for me to get my creative juices flowing as well! 

 

The students were by FAR my favorite part! I loved being able to each lunch and dinner with them between and after class time and get to know them! I wish we had one extra day to just hang out and paint, all of us together.

I was SO impressed by what they created. They took in a HUGe challenge of creating two girls on BIG canvases in 2 days. really that is a HUGE challenge, specially when you are learning new techniques for half of the class time. But they did it and MOST if not ALL walked away with two finished girls! I was so proud of them and in awe of their work!

I told Jenny I would LOVE to come back. In a heartbeat. Truly was a great time.

Then my friend, Chrissy and I stayed a few extra days, for downtime, to just chill, relax, re-coup.

We spent time just sitting on the beach talking,

went shopping in little shops along the beach-side. We found our way to many thrift stores, some cute little second hand shops, And we just really hung out. Talked, laughed, slept and slept some more. It was much needed.

From there we both headed home, but I made a pitt stop in Salt Lake City where I met Ben.

(he sent me this picture a few days before I saw him.. painted it right over the brick in our dining room. We were going to rock over the brick, but I think now I might just put a really cool old wood mantel on the existing brick and keep it as is :))

We had ordered some old door for the new/old house on-line and they said they would ship them for free if they could send them on their truck, which stopped in Salt Lake City (3 hours from my home). We had to meet them there to pick them up. So ben drove down, picked me up from the airport and the next day we picked up the doors. (by the way, I was SOOOOO missing Ben by the point, I am pretty sure I cried when I saw him waiting for me at the curb. I held on so tight and didn't let go for like 10 mins or more. Dang I miss that boy when I am not with him. we've been married almost 19 years.. you think I would be over that by now lol. I am just a silly girl in love with a crazy awesome man ).

We also spent the next  day hitting some of the antique and salvage shops in Salt Lake city finding some more old architectural pieces and doors for the house.

THAT was so much fun! We found one we fell in LOVE with. TONS of doors.. like hundreds of old doors ranging from $25-$75 each. It's called George's Salvage. It's on 900 E I believe in Downtown Salt Lake City. AWESOME place. We spent hours there. He has some pretty cool stuff with REALLY great prices!

Then we headed home and I just spent then next day snuggling with all my kiddos. MAN i missed those babies too. I am for SURE a home body. I used to love to travel all the time, and Now I just want to be home. I DO love traveling with my family. But without them, it doesn't seem as fun.

So that was a short recapp of California! It really was a great experience and reminded me that sometimes stepping outside of my comfort zone and teaching at these wonderful studio's is really a great experience. I met some REALLY wonderful women there. TRULY wonderful. Friends for life for SURE!

Since I have been back. like I said.. we have just been crazy busy getting the house done, ive been filming in my studio, catching up on life, emails, kit club stuff, store stuff. Being gone for a week, is kinda hard.. you come home to a LOT of catch up!

but things are starting to calm down a bit now. We are shooting for a goal of being in our new/old house in about a month! I can't wait! It's just such a long process right now. All of the finishing work is being done by Ben. That means all the painting, trim, molding, installing wood floors, cabinets, lighting, plumbing fixtures, light switches, all of the rock and brick and features walls, etc. ALL of that stuff. It's the FUN stuff in my eyes, but when it's only one man (and my sweet brother is helping out too). It takes a while. Specially when you are doing in a house with so many rooms and spaces. BUT our goal all along was to do this mostly by ourselves to save money AND to make it ours. So its worth it in the end.

Over the next couple of weeks I want to share with you our progress! I do post things quite a bit on my instagram account AND my facebook page. (instagram I am just christytomlinson). So if you follow me on either of those, you probably have seen all of the fun updates. But I will do a blog post here about it too.

AND of course one about the fibro stuff.. AND a few weeks ago, I went and bought some supplies to make a video for you guys.. a FUN tutorial on how to make your own roller stamps!  So that will be in the works too. Gonna get back into the groove :).

Oh but before i forget.. ONE THING! I need your guys help with!!! I need you guys to spread the word to all of your online buddies about a HUGE fundraiser I will be doing next week on my blog and scarlet lime site! I am excited to have the opportunity to help a very HUMBLE and wonderful group  of teenagers in my community earn their way to camps this summer that will teach them VERY valuable life skills and confidence skills as well. Next week I will be having a HUGE sale on two different kits made just for this event. and ALL of the profit. 100% off the profit will be going to this group of about 25 kids. So I NEED Your help big time! We will have about 350 kits to sell. THey will be helping me pack and kit them. so it will be all done with total love! AND you guys are going to LOVE whats in the kits! ONe will be a SUPER awesome grab bag kit, the other is a "favorites" kit, which will include 2 rollers stamps (my two favorite ones I use in just about EVERY class I do, It's a Dot roller stamp and a word roller stamp). We haven't carried them in over a year.. so this will be a change to GET them! Plus other fun stuff in that kit including stencils, rubons and a unique spray. We will only have 150 of those kits and like i said.. 100% of the profits go to these awesome kids for their summer camps. SO I NEED YOUR HELP! So watch for that next week! Watch your in-boxes!

Well I first want to say THANK You for many of you that have emailed, with concerns about how I am doing, but also say I MISSED YOU!!!! glad to be back. Sorry for the long, update post.. but I needed to start somewhere right?

Happy Thursday!
xoxo

 

Semi Annual Workshop Sale! wahoo!

Sorry Sale is no longer avaiable :)

 

Hey sweet friends!
so as promised last week.. today starts our Semi Annaul workshop sale on all my past works

(older than 6 months :))

OH but before I give you all the Deets!  I have a winner to announce from the Giveaway last week!
Here she is

 Dixie Cravens | April 11, 2013 at 11:47 AM

You have won a spot into Juliette Crane's "how to paint and owl No.2" workshop! Email me at christy@scarletlime.com so I can send her your info!

Now is a GREAT time to either renew a workshop that you are currently in (even if your time isn't up on your workshop, this will extend your workshop an additional YEAR from the time it will end). OR purchase a workshop you've been waiting to take.. OR even gift it to a friend, a family member.. PERFECT For Mother's day! Someone who you know need creativity in their life!

Now! just a few things to remember,

ONE: If you want to gift this this to a friend, you cannot leave those comments in your paypal notes. THEY WILL NOT reach us. You must contact Jen at customerservice@scarletlime.com  and let her know the name of the workshop you purchased, YOUR full name, and your paypal email. AND the name and email of the person you are purchasing it for.

TWO: the welcome and log-in emails GO to the email associated with your paypal address, so keep in mind if you pay with a business account, and old paypal account or a husband paypal account, it will go to that email. IF you would like it changed to go to a new email, again.. just simply email Jen at customerservice@scarletlime.com let her know THE FULL name or business you paid with, The name of the workshop or workshops,and the email that was ON the paypal account. Then give her the full name, and email of the NEW email you want it to go to. She has to go in into the workshop data base and find your payment, edit your account and switch the names, and users, and emails, and then reset the password.  So if she doesn't have the original name of who was on the account, etc. She can't do that.

THREE:  Jen does all of my workshop logins for me. She works Monday, Wednesdays and Friday mornings. So it can take up to 48-72 business hours to receive your log-in. If she has already done it for the day, then you won't receive it until the next day she works.  Also keep in mind any email or questions you have about the workshop log-ins, etc. Email her!

FOUR:  If you are wondering how much longer you have on your workshop, the easiest way for you to find out is to go to your paypal account and do a search for when you signed up and paid for the workshop. OR find your original welcome email and look at the date. Workshops are good for one full year.

So.. are you ready!!
Thank you again.. TRULY thank you again for your wonderful support!! You guys simply rock. I am always blown away by your support!

To sign up or renew a workshop on sale, simply click on the link below! Or copy and paste it into your browser

2013 Spring Workshop Sale

or

http://www.scarletlime.com/workshopsSale4_13.html

 

happy Monday!

xoxox

hello Thursday

Hey friends! wow.. I really need to be better at this don't I?

well today I have a couple of just fun things to share that some of my dear friends are involved in and a giveaway too! How's that for a thursday?

first off ..

I wanted you all to know that NEXT Monday is our semi annual "workshop" sale!

what does that mean? All of my workshops (with the exclusion of these 3 spring workshops).. will be on sale! Most of them HALF OFF!  so.. if you have been thinking of signing up for one of my older courses..

WAIT until monday!! When the sale is on!

ALSO many of you have been emailing me about when we would be restocked from our major sale and FINALLY we are! We have restocked In our Scarlet Lime Online Store, 

Gelli Plates, Faber Castel Pen (the famous white pen and more colors too),  Ranger Sprays, and all of Claudene Hellmuth's paint, and Lots of Crafters workshop stencils, PLUS my products too are back in stock as well as TONS of other items (Like liquid glaze, modeling paste, Matte mediums, charcoal pencils, etc.!

So just wanted to let you know for those of you that have been wondering!

Second, I wanted to let you know about this fun little art retreat I am going to in June. Last year when I heard about it, I signed up before it even went live to the public! lol. I mean I seriously emailed the girl begging her to let me sign up early because it was THREE of my most FAVORITE artists all in ONE place!

Artology Retreats will be hosting a Summer Retreat called Sugar & Spice!

The three teachers are Juliette Crane, Danielle Daniels, & Mindy Lacefield! seriously?? is that like a dream team or WHAT?? you want to know the OTHER best part? Ben and I are going together! We were looking for something unique to do for our 19th anniversary.. and GRANTED these are three girls (totally different than taking a class from Jesse Reno), but I think still he will enjoy their styles and make it his own! He and I can learn SO much from these brilliantly talented girls!  It's June 5th-9th and I think she only has a few spots left! It's in the Cute little city of Port townsend right out of Seattle (actually SUPER close to where the retreat was I went to last month). So I am really excited to go back and show ben the beautiful ocean and island. I can't wait!  Anyhow.. really the reason I am telling you is that I THINK you should come too AND bring your husbands  So my benny isn't the only guy! haha. No but seriously.. how fun would that be! I would love it! If you want to find out more about it, You can visit the Artology website, Here.. She also has a facebook page!

Sugar & Spice Retreat

One more thing before the giveaway.. As you know my Behind the Art Class started this week (don't worry you can still join!!).. BUT another class started this week too.. my dear friends, Jeanne Olivers new class, and it is FREAKING awesome!

The Journey of Letting Go

(creating beauty from the ashes)

MAN oh man she has jammed packed this class with goodness. ARTSY wonderful goodness!

  I can't WAIT to get into this workshop! She is so utterly talented. I was blown away when I took the class from her in March at the retreat in Washington. OH my gosh.. in LOVE with this girl even more now! So if you are looking for another online class to do, to keep you busy through the summer, THIS one is great!  Check it out of you have time! Not to mention.. she has this AWeSOME new Ning site community. Oh my gosh in love with it. Basically this wonderful creative space she has created for women to come and chat and share and bond! Her Creative Network, offers free tutorials and classes in the community. It's truly fun. I spend time on there and fall in love with all that she offers for FREE on it! So check that out too!

 

So onto our giveaway.. this is about another AWESOME class that just started.. by one of my "favorites" that I stalk lol. Ms Juliette Crane's new class, How to Paint an Owl 2!

Juliette's sweet owls were the very first thing I fell in LOVE with about Juliette! I took How to Paint an Owl last year and LOVED the course! So fun!

She is giving away a spot on my blog today.. all you have to do is comment on the post and you are entered!

I will pick a winner next week! Simple as that! so fun! So make sure you go check out Juliette's website too for more info!
But here is a fun little video she did about the class!

How to Paint an Owl 2 with Juliette Crane from Juliette Crane on Vimeo.

 

 

So thanks for letting me share, thanks for putting up with me being so flighty latley with the blog. Just Overwhelmed and understaffed (I can't seem to clone myself, so there are two of me? when is that going to happen? lol it's 2013? I thought for sure we would have cloning down by now :)) jk.

well you all have a FABULOUS weekend!

i am working on a project I saw on pinterest, that I am doing JUST for you gals! It's a fun idea on how to make your own roller stamps! I saw it and thought, dang this would be so fun and DANG the girls (and guys) who read my blog would LOVE to do this too. So Ben and I went and bought the supplies for it last week and I am going to try and get that filmed sometime in the next week or two. I leave for California NEXT week to go teach, so might not get done before then, but it's SO fun I can't wait!

anyhow.. Hope you are all well. I am also going to be doing a blog post next week on my fibromyalgia and the oils and things I have been using for it that have been AMAZING. I get emails daily about it and so thought it would be good information to share on the blog, so that everyone has access to it! I post things here and there on facebook about it.. but it would be great to have it all in one place!

anyhow.. have a FABULOUS weekend!

Happy Thursday!
xoxo

 

 

It's April?! Happy April 1st!

Hey sweet friends! Its been like two weeks since I posted last.  NOT because I haven't wanted to, but man oh man we have been crazy busy! With the sale that we did, with getting ready for my new workshop that starts in ONE WEEK!! and just getting house stuff done so maybe possibly we can move in before summer (please oh please.. we bought this house almost a year ago! lol.. I SOO want to move in before summer..)

It's just been crazy busy.  BUt isn't life?  So today is April 1st.. My kids always love this day because they think it's the day they can pull any prank they wish on us and not get into trouble. lol. I guess that is true right? My husband is like a little kid as well, always coming up with some funny joke to play on me.  I am still trying to think of something I can pull on my kids.. it's so hard because a few years ago we got them SOO good. I mean like crazy good. We sat them down and told them that we had been called on a mission by our Church (We are LDS), To serve as mission president over a area in China and we would be moving to china in 3 months for 2 years. It's not uncoomon for our Church to ask a husband to serve as  mission president over a mission area, with that, the entire family goes with him. It's at his own expense as well, and ben I would have always dreamed about the possiblities of us doing it. Anyhow, so We were video recording it and oh my heck.. you should have seen the response! I thought I was going to to pee my pants from trying to hold in the laughter. Some of them were like.. oh cool! that's awesome (the younger ones). But the three older one, freaked out! Told us how they didn't want to go, leave their friends, leave their small town life, Braden leave, and not get to play football for the last 2 years of high school.. Allie having to leave all of her friends and we were so mean. We  kept a straight face the entire time and kept saying how cool it was going to be and how in 2 week ben and I were going over to China to find us a place to live. We told them lots of made up stuff.. lol. But still the more we talked about it, the more the older ones resisted and then allie started crying and ran off to her room,  Braden sat with his arms folded and head in his lap refusing to speak to us, Parker was freaking out.. and So we finally let them in on the joke. We told them we were just kidding and we weren't really going to china.. and it was April Fools. THEN the funniest thing is that Preston stood up, started crying and ran off.. and said "that's so mean! I thought we were really going and now we aren't!" and then Ethan got upset we weren't either and ran off. The whole time we were recording it and oh my gosh we watch it back now and we all just laugh until our stomach hurts from the drama.. the crying the slamming doors.  SO funny. So yeah pretty much since then, it's been hard to pull one over on them.

Anyhow. totally random story. :) Welcome to my life! lol

So speaking of what I have been doing these past couple of weeks, like I mentioned I have been filming and getting ready for my biggest Solo workshop yet! Behind the Art!  I have to say, this is turning out to be a REALLY fun workshop for me to film. Its actually fun for ME to break fown my process, step by step, product by product. It really has been! I am So enjoying it and actually getting a lot out of it myself!   if you haven't signed up for it.. I thought I would come and re-post about it.. you still have one week before it starts.. so plenty of time to still join..

So here's a sneak peek of what's in store!

 

 

 

Behind the Art is an ecourse workshop . This workshop is a 5 week workshop!!

This class start April 9th! 

I am TRULY TRULY passionate, excited, and giddy about this workshop because I have to say it will be my most comprehensive workshop yet as far my creating process, what products I use, WHY i used the products, HOW i use them, and more!

I will also have a few "guests" in this workshop that will give some insight into THEIR creating process as well! My Guest will be Danielle Daniel, Nolwenn PetitBois,  and Junelle Jacobson! 

 will be all about WHAT products I use. I will go through very detailed videos on each individual of 12 product categories. Surfaces, Covering,  Glues, Paints, Mediums, Inks, Sprays, Marking Tools, Shading Tools, Stamps, Stencils, Detail Pens & Pencils, And Extras

 I will share with you what they are, what their properties are AND WHY I use them. What instance I would use them in. For example.. why I would use transparent paint vs. opaque.. for a certain look, or in what instances I would choose opaque! I talk about permanent vs. no permanent and the values and GOOD qualities of both.

 

I talk about the primary colors both in Mineral Colors and Modern colors, what the difference is, why one is sometimes better than the other. I will talk about the values, Hues and densities of Paint. Why some paints mix better together than others.

 Why sometimes a of one kind of paint.. goes much further than a LOT of another. I really go in depth of the art products I use in my creating AND WHY I use them. There will be some videos on creating as well, as i show you what I mean by why I use sometimes one product over another.

 It will be a GREAT resource guide for you FOR ANY of my other workshops I teach. Or any other workshops period! 

 

 will be about HOW I used the products I talk about in Week one. I show you tons and tons of techniques, and how to get Similar looks using different products.

 I show you all the possibilities there are when it comes to using the products.. and hopefully some fun OUT OF THE BOX Ideas you haven't seen before!

This week is really in depth about how to use the products for creating. Lots artsy messy videos.

 

 is about digging IN.. 

This is where the creative process gets REALLY fun. I will show you in depth, how I create, what I call the "backgrounds" of my pieces.

I will show many different background process. from start to finish. I will walk you through EACH move and tell you WHY i am adding this color, what I just used that size of stamp where i used it.. Why I am covering up something I just put down,

Why I change the color of something as the process develops. It will truly by a IN DEPTH look at my creative process!

 

 we will take those same backgrounds and then we will finish them by adding objects and all the fun little DETAILS that make it Yours.

 (I will be painting anything from a girl, to a bunny, a butterfly, a dress, a house etc).. but remember it's not so much WHAT i am painting, but the process of it .. how what and why!

Again.. where I place the object and why. Also once the objects is on the canvas, WHY i then add things to the object, or the backgrounds. Why I choose to cover some things up. I will talk about Contrast, depth and color hues.Different techniques i like to use to make certain things stand out.. why sometimes I want others to fade into the background.

Why some products work better than others for different techniques and several different methods I use to get the end result!  Just like week three I will walk you step by step my process, why I did something and why it worked (or didn't) 

 

 

is going to be the challenge week. This is the week when I will give you a series of challenges using all the information you have learned over the last 5 weeks.

I will be doing the challenges as well, and also some of our guests will be doing them too! So lots of fun videos with artsy messy play! It's now time for YOU to have fun, for you to create, to explore, to mess up, to have "oh i love this" moments! It's TIME TO STRETCH THOSE WINGS!!!!

I have to say THIS WORKSHOP is soo soo close to my heart. I have never done a workshop where I actually share my entire process of creating. It's kinda of a scary thing, to open up your heart the wide and let people in. So this workshop is a HUGE leap for me.. an exciting, giddy.. nervous leap! lo. and because this workshop is SOO Large and full of so much information...

This workshop will be open for 2 FULL years! That way, when you are taking other courses.. mine or even other artist.. you can always come back to this one for reference when creating!

This workshop will be FILLED with videos and printable PDF"s so you can take the information you learn and use it while you get messy.

SO ARE YOU READY?? 

hope you join me in the exciting, heart filled class. I hope you that by taking this class, it will open up an ENTIRE new world for you of possibilities. Both in creating AND in your finding your own unique voice! This class will Catapult you as an artist.. taking everything you've ever learned to an entirely NEW level. If you are really wanting to move forward in your creative endeavors.. this class is PERFECT place to start! It's time to Open your Heart!

This class again is a 5 week course and is $64.95.If you sign up before APril 9th  when the class begins, you can get the early bird discount of

$59.95 and again you will have access to this class for 2 FULL years! 

To sign up for this workshop.. click on the link below!

(as a reminder your password for this class is mailed out the DAY CLASS BEINGS. You will receive an email from paypal confirming your payment. That will be your only email confirmation from me until class begins on the 9th. 

Behind the Art Workshop (only)

happy Monday!

xoxox

 

 

 

 

Behind the Art! A new Mixed Media Tutorial!

wow! it's been a while since i have done a video tutorial! Since January I think!! Crazy!

First off, BEFORE I start in on that.. I TRULY HAVE TO SAY THANK YOU!!!! for the HUGE HUGE HUGE response and support of my products we debuted last week in the Scarlet LIme Store! HOLY COW!! It was INSANE CRAZY! I mean CRAZY.. we sold out of products 4 different times during the weekend and I had to call pink Paislee and make SURE we could get more! I kept ordering a ton thinking it would be FOR SURE enough to not only get me through the sale but for months. and then 6 hours later I would get an email from one of you.. that stuff was out of stock again! I was like.. what? are you sure? I just entered more! I felt bad. sorry it was so crazy for you guys!! Hope you all got what you wanted by the end of the weekend! 

here is a picture that ben took of the orders he printed Friday morning.. not even 24 hours after the sale started.. 

 

  I don't think he quite knew I was doing such a big sale in the store. (keep in mind he is the one who runs the store, prints order, pulls them, ships them. )..

I kinda  sorta maybe.. mentioned to him earlier in the week I was going to maybe do a sale.. I think I did. I was pretty sure I said maybe something about it. :) :) :) But I am guessing maybe he didn't hear it. lol.

so he sent me that picture friday before he left work and said something like " um.. would you mind explaining this please?"

I was like... what? I'm pretty sure I told you I was going to do a big sale? Lol. oh I just love him. He's been working night and day since then to just even print, sort and combine the rest of the orders that came in the rest of the weekend! Yesterday we shipped kit club stuff and today we are shipping all the free kits that went to people who signed up for all three classes!  So they will start filling those orders tomorrow. PLEASE be super patient. This is going to take us at LEAST 10-14 days working non stop night & day to get them all out. So please just know it's coming. :)

Seriously Crazy. You guys. YOU ROCK! I owe you so much!! I hope you know how grateful I am to all of you! Just so blessed for the support you give my family and ME! Someday I hope I get to hug each and everyone one of you!! (getting tear-eyed as we speak).

OKAY! onto The tutorial!! xox

So last week I spent an afternoon at the studio, creating projects with the February Mixed Media kit we offer in my online website www.scarletlime.com . Its part of the monthly kit club (and when we have some left we list them in our store). 

SOME months, when I have time and energy, I like to have fun and play with the kits too and when I do i try and do a video with them, so you can see what I do with the products in the kits.

THIS particular month (february's kit) I KNEW right away I wanted to do a video because I had a certain vision on mind for those products lol.  Most of the products we include are just fun mixed media products you can include in ANY of your mixed media stuff you create. Whether its on canvas, or art journaling, or whatever. Those products are designed for you to use in what you are creating. But For this kit, I wanted to really show you what I used them for and why I included them. :)

SO here is the kit!



As you can see its FULL of alphabets and words. Kinda different huh? I mean totally use-able on canvasses and art journals.. all the time. You always need words and titles on them, so these work great. BUT i wanted to show you some fun and different ways you use them. you might not think about!

So I came up with these (and more!)

Im not going to write step by step what I did, hence the video lol (it explains it all)

but here are come upclose shots of the projects I made using contents from this kit!
(note the videos are at the end)

 

So thats it! Actually there are a couple of more projects I didn't take pictures of.. just too much!

AND guess what else? I try to keep my videos under 30 mins.. so they aren't too boring to watch lol But I did SO many different projects with this kit, it ended up being an hour! even with me on super fast mode (you can tell I am rushing through each one to give you AS MANY Ideas as possible! LOL).

So make sure you watch BOTH Part one and PART TWO!! 

again hope you enjoy!!

xoxo

 

PART ONE

 

Part Two

 

xoxox

THEY HAVE ARRIVED!! wahoo! and of course a big sale :)

wahoo!! the day has arrived! Finally! all of my new products from Pink Paislee have ARRIVED into our Scarlet Lime store! AND Guess what?? We are offering a HUGE sale!! Up to 35% off! ALL of my SHe ARt Products! Scroll down below to find out the details!
But first.. Can I show you what just came in? wahoo!

 As yo know I LOVE using Rubons for textures on my canvases!! here are just a few examples!

AND of course my new Coffee Filters! (if you are taking ANY of my classes, you KNOW I love using coffee Filters on my backgrounds and girls, etc! Works just like Tissue Paper!! Love it!)

I actually decided to do them in plain White.. so that you can color them any color you want (they take paint and sprays WONDERFULLY).. so using a transparent paint like Claudine Hellmuth's paint, or Golden Fluid Acrylics.. works amazing!

(my favorite!)

Here is picture of what they look like used

(make  fun flowers..)  Also AmAZING for backgrounds!

 

( i used the filters up in the pink feather, and also next to the girl.. )..

here is another view without the girl on it.. it just creates SO much texture and depth because you can see through the layers of the filters to whats underneath!

Here is another canvas in early stages..

Then here it is after paint, rubons and stencils added

 So fun to see how you can keep layering it and coloring with it!

PLUS look at all the fun rubons I used too! AND the stencils! I have modeling paste and paint using the stencils scattered all over the canvas!

Here's a couple of other fun canvases I used them on...

The one below I also used my new vintage lace doily stencil.. you can see it in the middle lower.. in red!

AND of course finally.. MY NEW Masks and Stencils!! wahoo!

remember this old favorite? that has been out of stock since last SPRING?? well it's back! Plus 3 new designs!

 

(again below.. MY FAVORITE ONE!! I think I use it over and over and over!!  )

and of course a NEW doily stencil.. vintage Lace!

here's some fun ways I used those!

 (and of course lots of of the filters underneath lol.. yea I think those are my new addiction)

WE ALSO have back in stock our paper pads!

Which I used on the canvas I have shown here alot! below!

SOO..  I am SOO excited to have them in stock that we are doing a 4 day sale! 20% off ALL my Christy Tomlinson products! That includes ANY She art Products we carry! Stamps, Paper Pads, Stencil, Coffee Filters, and Rubons! AND the other awesome part!

The discount is ALREADY figured in on the store.. so you don't have to use a coupon code.  So when you add them to your cart YOU WILL SEE THE DISCOUNT.

AND GUESS WHAT ELSE??  Since you don't have to enter a coupon code.. if you are already taking my online classes and HAVE a coupon code for 15% off all your purchases.. you can use THAT on top of the 20% off!

So you get 35% off!!!

NOW.. do you remember what happened LAST year? When I came out with new rubons and stencils? They sold out in little over a MONTH.. and pink paislee Sold out too and so they were just gone? LOl.. GONE GONE! so stock up! because we have no idea if we can get more once what we have is gone! So I say stock up NOW while you get this HUGE discount! xoxo

 

awesome huh??  See! aren't you glad you waited to buy at my Scarlet Lime Store? Lol 

BESt way to find ALL of the products that are 20% off, is to just go to The mixed media store of Scarlet Lime, then click on Christy Tomlinson Designs (it's the first category at the top) .. OR Click Here!

Christy Tomlinson Designs 20% off Sale 

Just had to share! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!! happy thursday!

xoxo

 

 

something to share..

so as promised I wanted to share with you some of the things I made this past week at the

Nurture your Creative Seed Retreat!
Our First class was with the very talented Ms. Jeanne Oliver and I immediately fell in love with her collage lessons! First thing we did was collaged 6 watercolor pages, with vintage wallpaper, vintage ephemera, paints, and more! We were painting them to make them into a handbound journal at the end of the retreat.. this was SO much fun!

So we spent the morning creating those.. then in the afternoon Jeanne shared her techniques for painting her beautiful girls!

This was the one Jeanne painted for us! I took this picture during the process so she wasn't quite finished.. but I still love it!

So then I went to town.. finding my courage to create too! and this is what I finally ended up with..

I actually had put the patterned paper down on her hair and had planned on painting over it.. so I just had the pattern under the paint.. but once I got it down, i actually fell in love with the look and decided to leave it just as it was! I love those happy unexpected things that happen with art as you are just going with the flow!

So then we had the evening to just work on our journal pages some more.. but I had had so much fun doing girls.. and since girls is kinda of my thing, I decided to use my journal pages as 'backgrounds" for painting some more girls instead!

So I spent the rest of the night and ended up with these fun girls.

I don't know why but my girls all ending up on the right side of the journal page? lol

But I had so much fun just exploring and painting All night! I would have stayed up and painted the last three.. but I knew I would be tired and hurting the next day and didn't want to miss out on Mindy's class! Can I just say Jeanne was SUCH a fun teacher! oh my gosh.. that girl is SOO funny! I have been friends with her for years and I know she is that way for me all the time.. but during class she just has this awesome way of making you feel RIGHT at home and really making you feel comfortable! She is a great teacher too! helping you feel confident in what you are doing! LOVED taking a class from a dear close friend! What a fun thing to do. I mean I have painted with her many times.. but to actually take a class from her, was beyond my expectations! LOVED IT!!

WHich by the way.. I LOVED how different both classes were! Jeanne's is obviously VERY vintage and classic.. and Mindy's style is just whimsical and fun!

So the next morning we started out with the very sweet, adorable and tall (why I always thought mindy ws short. i don't know? lol) Mindy!  OH be still my heart! LOVE THIS GIRL!!

She had us start  the day be creating two our own handmade paper.. and then  backgrounds on canvas..

with Mindy giving us some really fun prompts to do! Fun things like "draw your favorite word but with your non dominant hand.. or scribble with your eyese closed with a watersoluable crayon. It was REALLY fun actually! She is an awesome teacher for getting your playful, let your hair down.. side out! We finished the morning by painting a cute little whimsical bunny! I couldn't get my page to feel right, so instead of trying to make my background mesh and fit.. I just created a second animal friend from the background.. and it seemed to work! lol

Mindy was TRULY an awesome teacher! It was SO so relaxing..

then after lunch we worked on the second canvas, and moved onto to creating a girl! (she started us with the bunny so we weren't so apprehensive about doing faces.. which was a VERY smart thing! lol.. it kinda helped ease us into it!)

So here is the girl..

she isn't quite finished. I didn't spend any time creating later that night because it was our last night and I wanted to talk and hang out with the other women there as much as possible! So she still needs some words, and some background issues and texture fixed.. but again.. Mindy just was so much fun!

so that's my fun weekend! Jeanne and Mindy were both amazing teachers. and like i said earlier this week was JUST so wonderful! I really want to go back! Like next week! lol (Serena can't you just plan another one for this spring? Lol)

anyhow.. just had a great time! Thanks again for letting me share!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
xoxo

 

Christy

 

Nurture your Creative Seed...

So I am back from the art retreat I attended last weekend. I blogged about going about a month or two ago. It was a small retreat that I was DYING to attend. Mindy Lacefield and Jeanne Griffin Oliver where teaching and the retreat itself was hosted by the beautiful  Serena Berry. It was called Nurture your Creative Seed

 

 

It was held on a small island outside of Seattle, Washington.. near on the water.

 If some of you are on my facebook page.. then you KNOW I almost didn't go. Last week was HORRIBLE as far as pain. I hadn't had one pain free day in like 4 days.. and it was coming time for me to leave and i was SO worried I wouldn't be able to handle the flight and drive to the island (we flew into Seattle then rented a car and took the Ferry over and drove another 40 mins to the beach house. It was only actually 15 miles away, but its a beautiful drive through small towns and gorgeous scenery). I was worried though! I thought, what if I wake up thursday morning, and am in complete pain, and my meds won't work and I get on the flight and I am dying and want to just lay and the floor and cry. So i had decided not to go, and then I got an email from one of the girl attending.. telling me that she actually was coming because I had said I was and she had been so excited to meet me and that is the reason why she was coming. Then margie kinda gave me a pep talk too and so did my friend Chrissy. I also knew if I didn't go, i would miss out on meeting Junelle for the first ime and I had been SO looking forward to it! And SO after thinking about it.. I was decided to put my faith in my Heavenly Father and take the leap and go! I KNEW once I got there even if I was in pain, I would be okay.. because I could just hang out.. it was only the traveling that was holding me back.  So I had posted that on my facebook page and SO many of you.. I think over a hundred comments and 200 hundred liked it.. and said you would PRAY foR me and all would be well and you were proud of me for doing it anyway..  and guess what? Miracles do happen and our Father in Heaven DOES love us. He wants us to trust and take the leaps sometimes so he can bless us. I woke up thursday, with SO much energy! I had gone to bed at 12:00 and got up at 4:00 am, and I still felt insanely GREat!

(this is a picture from the BainBridge Ferry heading over to the island from Seattles Port)

 

 

ALl day long, I felt wonderful. Granted I was still taking my pain meds, but they were actually WORKING and I felt normal! (recently I have been taking my pain meds and they haven't even TOUCHED the pain I have been in). And it was like that the ENTIRE week! I even took my oils and only used them ONCE! AND the even craizer thing is the weather wasn't warm.. it was actually in the hight 40's and rainy and I STILL felt wonderful!  I woke up everyday just feeling SO amazing, and normal and wonderful and I felt SOO blessed I had taken the opportunity to go and to be blessed by the amazing experience and women I met there! 

 So I wanted to share some pictures of it with you. I have to say TRULY, it was exactly what how I want my own personal retreats to feel. The schedule wasn't crazy busy. it wasn't jammed packed full of "stuff".. it didn't need to be. It was nurturing and warm and there was  sense of calm. We all pretty much just wore our pj's the entire time. and no make up. etc. I did the ENTIRE time. So you will see lots of pictures of me with hair up and makeup free.. but it's okay :). We woke up every morning and had a wonderful healthy breakfast prepared by Serena.. and were able to spend some quiet time before the day started!

this is a vew from my balcony of my room in the house.. I spent quiet a few moments here, sitting and reflecting and just listening to the ocean..)

(a vew of the kitchen from the living room.. our "gathering space most of the time)

then when every had had a chance to get "ready".. We made our way to the smaller cottage out back and created art with each of the teachers! Serena and the teachers, had added some wonderful personal touches to the space.. not over the top.. but just enough to feel cozy and inviting!

Jeanne wrote us all little messages on the tables! so cute!

of course getting messy was one of my favorite parts too!

We spent a day with each teacher and I loved it! it felt so relaxing! We had a wonderful cozy lunch in between, again SO healthy but it was just delicious. ( I had lentils for the first time  and I LOVE them!) and usually would take a leisurely walk on the beach or in the woods.

(junelle and Jeanne documenting the beautiful scene)

Me getting my "feet wet. don't you just love my sweats and boots lol. Totoally my outfit the whole weekend.

Found this "sand heart" on the beach.. and HAD to take a picture! always see God's hand in everything we do..

Junelle just bringing her JOY to the entire week.. LOVE HER!!

Then when everyone was well rested from lunch, we would head back into the studio to learn some more!

(this is Jeanne Oliver and Junelle .. LOVE the excitement and happy on Junelles face. SHE IS SUCH a happy person! always smiling and always laughing! LOVE HER!!)

Dinner was amazing and then after dinner we just sat around in the cozy house and talked, laughed, ate delicious HEALTHY snacks (there was absolutely NO candy present.. and I usually am a candy addict.. and i didn't miss it at all! Serena made us incredibly healthy snacks that fed our bodies and it was just what I needed!).

the "late nighters" as I call us  (we had earlier risers and late nighters. But us late nighters would stay up late each night painting and playing in the studio, and then every morning around 6:00 the early risers would get up and you could hear gathering downstairs, talking, sipping morning hot drinks, some even went for walks, etc.. before breakfast.. but it just felt SO cozy and at home. (I  was one of the late risers, and would get up, take nice hot bath, sit out on the cozy deck outside of my room, and then would saunter into the kitchen right before breakfast time was over and eat a wonderful healthy meal. Serena had breakfast for us, open between 8-9.. anytime you wanted to come so it accommodated both early risers and late risers (those who had stayed late painting :)). I truly found it SOO thoughtful that she would schedule it that way! it felt so relaxing and not pressured to hurry up and be somewhere at a certain time.

Serena also left us little notes all around the house and studio.. reminding us to love  ourselves and this time we had together!

She created a TRULY nurturing space for every ones needs. THE Only wish we all had was that we wished we had just ONE MORE day.. one day to just take in and soak in all that we had learned from the two days before, relax in the wonderful setting, take walks, explore, etc. We did a lot of that during the other days too between classes, but I would have loved one more day to do that as well. I was also very nervous going into it, to meet new people. I had originally planned to go with one of my closest friends.. Chrissy and she wasn't able to go at the last minute. BUT luckily Junelle Jacobson decided to go, and though we had NEVER met, I was SO excited and yet nervous to meet her! We text all the time and talk on the phone all the time, but what if in person we just didn't "mesh"? silly me.. really silly me lol. It was like seeing an old friend that I had known for a lifetime!

it was the same way with all of the women there! The first night, after dinner, we all gather around the fire in the cozy living room and shared what had brought us to the retreat, and a little bit about our creative path.. and I was BLOWN away by the strong, beautiful stories I heard. They all had such wisdom and positive outlooks on life and even though each one had been through trials that led them to art and healing from it, they knew that they were blessed and could see the good even from the trials they had. LOVED meeting and spending time with these women!

it was a really positive, loving, and nurturing group of women. I loved it. I fell instantly in love and stayed up late each night talking to them individually.. as much as i Could. I wanted to get to know EACH of them and know their stories! It filled my SOUL. The entire experience was something I have realized I need in my life. I NEED to take that time for myself. I came back so peaceful and rested and ready to take on everyday life again. ready to face my fibro (which by the way.. came back instantly the day I got home.. darn little bugger lol).

(This is junelle and the morning we were leaving.. don't we look so restful and peaceful!! TRULY! )

 It also gave  me some wonderful ideas for my own retreats. I guess I had always assumed that in order for a retreat to be successful it needed to be jammed packed with constant planned activities and it really doesn't. It just needs to be a quality experience, with a nurturing, creative place. Where you learn and are also given time to have quiet as well. It was the perfect mix. I LOVED It. I also LOVED meeting Mindy too. wow that girl has a sweet soul about her. She is one amazing creative person and I am so blessed to have her as a life long friend!

 

I also got to hang out with Jeanne Oliver who was already a very close friend and it was SO great to re-connect with her and just sit and talk and laugh. She is SOo funny. She kept us all just creaking up. OH man I love that girl!!

I already told Serena to put me on the list for next year. I want to come back. AND as I have said before, I don't want to travel very much to teach but that is ONE retreat I would totally teach at. She even made it VERY relaxing for the teachers as well. It just is the perfect environment for me. Can't wait to go back! I can't wait!  I encourage all of you.. to take the time and money.. which I know is so hard for all of right now, to justify spending stuff on ourselves.. but TRULY i would suggest saving your money and taking time from family, work etc.. to attend retreats like this. And everyone is different.. I prefer the relaxed, calm, quiet ones.. but there are ones that are bigger, jammed packed and full of activities all day long. But whatever suits your fancy go! I think the best way to find out about them is to just go to your favorite artists blogs and see where they are teaching at! that is what I did! I wanted to take a class from Mindy and found about this on her blog! It turned out to be just what I needed! I for SURe will post here when Serena holds her next one.. and also if she will let me come and be a teacher for one of them, (me and junelle thought it would be SO fun to come teach together).. I would in a heart beat too! I know I have my own personal retreats I am doing this year, but sometimes letting someone else plan and prepare for it, also helps the teacher have a nurturing experience as well.

So.. thanks for letting me share my experience!  I am going to share with you all the Art I created too.. but wanted to share with you first the nurturing and healing experience I had. I will share that on thursday! I was SOO blessed to go! It was a scary thing at first to think about going, not really knowing ANYONE, and having to drive a little ways to get there once I flew into Seattle.. but it so funny how you make things in your mind SO much more crazy and big then they really are lol. Catching the Ferry and driving to the retreat was a piece of cake and actually one of my favorite experiences as well! it kinda all fit together. can't wait to go back!! eek!! lol. Make me super excited for my own retreats this year! Excited of those of you that are joining me here in Idaho and also in mexico! can't WAIT!

well hope today is  wonderful.. NEXT week Junelles CLASS begins! the Art of SPRIng! So I will be posting probably next monday.. the sneak peeks of her class! (it starts tuesday) for those of you still on the fence about signing up! You are going to love what she has done with the class! We are also wrapping up the She Art Workshop no.3 but like with ALl of my classes, they are always still open.. and I SOO encourage you to join us in that one! I will be posting pictures in a next couple of weeks of things students have been creating and you will be blown away by it! TRULY amazing!

Have a happy tuesday! thanks for being apart of my life. xoxox

Simple Pencil Sketches.. Angel Series

Hey friends! just a simple post for today.. (going in a few minutes for a out patient procedure).. so keeping it simple for today..

I LOVE sketching.. and sometimes I love to go REALLY extravagant and have fun with details and hair, etc.

But some of my FAVORITE sketches are the simple ones, done with a mechanical pencil and my charcoal pencil. Infact I LOVE just using charcoal. It's one of my favorite things. It can give SUCH deep lines and shadows and dimension without even hardly trying..

so I wanted to share with you a few sketches.. simple ones, I did recently.. hopefully to inspire you to sketch! We are doing a lot of fun sketching in the She ARt no. 3 Workshop (started tuesday and holy COW LOVING what is coming from these women taking the course!) 

So here are a few of mine..just simple. VERy simple.. but the way I use the charcoal helps give it more depth.I call this my "angel" line.

(She was an angel then)

 

(she knew she was made to love)

 

(her wings grew with time)

 

(she was a simple soul)

 

SO Simple.. but with a few great placements of the charcoal.. SUCH depth and meaning. By the way.. some of you have asked.. my favorite charcoal pencil is a #2b Soft. MY FAVORITE.. The brand I am using right now is Generals. WE actually carry them in our online store Scarlet Lime . (they come more in a pack with 3 different types, pencil sharpener and charcoal sticks. We also carry white charcoal pencils.)

Anyhow.. just love sketching. I have a little pocket book (3"x5" in size) and carry it around with me everywhere I  go. Just never know when I will have moments of inspiration or need something relaxing to do. Right? 

Speaking of the store.. ben just listed like 100 new products last night! Holy cow the man is awesome! We got some new paints & Sprays into the store!
Tim holtz new line, new Studio Calicos, and Dylusions.

Plus we also have new stencils from Crafters Workshop, Donna Downey, SC and Prima!

AND I don't have a picture.. but TONS Of new texture stamps (and only 2.99!!) From KasierCraft! As well well as a ton of new 6"x6" paper pads! I think it's time to raid the warehouse :). Who wants to join me? lol

okay.. enough talk. I better get going.. gotta leave shortly for a very annoying procedure.. but one that has to be done! See you back here Monday! Hoping to have that February mixed media kit video for you! It's SUPER fun! Just need to get it edited!

Happy Thursday!
xoxo