Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Information on drawing Zentangles and creating your own background paper to coordinate with crafting projects will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain).
Deborah Pace is an artist and designer, and she’s going to explain what a Zentangle is, how it got started and what supplies are needed. She’ll also talk about what surfaces you can use to create this art form. Pace’s company is AarTvark Cre8tions and she lives in San Marcos, California.
Teresa Cifali, mixed media artist and owner of The Altered Canvas, will show how to create your own background paper to coordinate with cards, scrapbooking and other paper crafts. She will demonstrate two different techniques for doing this. Cifali lives in Valhalla, New York.
Information on motility disorders, making fun initial pillows and converting a nightstand into a media storage piece will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” noon Tuesday and 2 p.m. Saturday.
Pat Baird, author and registered dietitian, says people who suffer from digestive complications like heartburn or indigestion do not have to go through life eating bland, boring foods. She’ll talk about motility disorders. Baird represents Tropicana Low Acid Orange Juice and lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Lise Horvath, owner of Accent Your Interior, shows how to make easy and fun initial pillows, which make great gifts for all ages. The pillows measure 18” in height and are made from a soft and “cuddly” fabric. Horvath is from Arizona.
Bruce Johnson, spokesperson for Minwax in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, will show how to convert a nightstand into a media storage piece in style by adding dividers for DVD and CD storage. Johnson shows how to use custom water-based decorators’ colors to match a décor or to match your personality.
Creating Your Own Background Paper
Have you ever driven yourself nearly mad just trying to find the absolute right piece of patterned paper to go with your scrapbook layouts or handmade cards? Try these tips:
Materials: White or a fairly light colored piece of card stock or scrapbook paper
StazOn permanent ink by Tsukineko
Tim Holtz’s Distress Inks
Stipple brushes
Assortment of rubber stamps
The first thing you will want to do is take your largest images and begin to stamp those randomly onto your solid colored piece of paper. To make it interesting, stamp some of the images off the page. **Important note….when using this technique, you want to use PERMANENT ink. If you use dye inks to stamp your background, they will smudge when you go to colorize it later. Next, stamp your medium and then smaller stamps to fill in some of the white space. Again, use a random pattern and stamp some of the images so they are “hanging” off the page. Also, overlap your stamps. Use a filler stamp, like a checkered pattern, to fill in some of the wider areas of white space. Over-lapping images looks really cool, so don’t be afraid of it. You’ll be surprised at how many designs you can make to enhance your main image in scrapbooking or card making.
“Creative Living” is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is produced at KENW-TV in Portales and carried by more than 118 PBS stations. Contact her at: [email protected]
