NEW iStencil PTP Designs - Coupon Code & LIVE Ustream Today 8 Feb

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That's the code!!! Use INKY20 on iStencils to receive 20% OFF on the ENTIRE site, not just my designs! Offer valid thru Tuesday 10 Feb. PLUS get a free 8x10 Exclusive design FREE with $25 purchase - as long as that includes at least one of my designs. PLUS get FREE shipping to anywhere in the US! Don't miss out on this great sale. 

I'll be streaming LIVE at 2PM EST today, Sunday 8 Feb playing with deli paper on the gelli plate. 

Here's a few of the prints I made with my new designs:

Happy Arting!!! 

Patti 

PTP & iStencils BIG SALE & LAUNCH Details

It's almost here! It's this Friday, February 6th!!!

If you are a stencil lover, you don't want to miss out on this sale. Once again, my friend Cheri at iStencils has outdone herself and continues her generous deals to spread the word about some of my new stencil designs!

Here's the deal:

New PTP iStencils designs launching this Friday, 6 Feb via LIVE Ustream @ 7PM EST to announce the Coupon Code that will entitle you to the following sale:

- Sale Valid Friday 2/6/15 to Monday 2/9/15
- 20% off the ENTIRE iStencils site, not just PTP designs
- FREE PTP exclusive 8x10 stencil design with purchase over $25.00 (must include a PTP stencil)
- FREE shipping in USA on orders over $50.00
- Not valid on previous orders

Click on the Ustream link below to join me Friday night and to sign up to follow all my LIVE streams and be notified any time I go live...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/inkyobsessions-mixed-media-art-fun

Here's an image of the FREE 8x10 Exclusive PTP design for this launch:

Looking forward to 'seeing' you on the stream, but not to worry, if you can't join us LIVE, I'll be posting the coupon code on my Facebook art page, Twitter, and I'll be uploading this ustream recording to YouTube as soon as we wrap up at 10PM EST Friday. I'll make sure if you want to take advantage of this sale, you'll have access to the code!

Thanks again to Cheri for this opportunity. BTW - best customer service on the web!

Happy Arting!!!

Patti

NEW PTP Stencil Designs & iStencils Sale Coming 6 Feb 2015

Hey everyone,

I'm so excited. We're having another iStencils sale coinciding with the launch of more new PTP designs!!! There will be another NEW exclusive FREE with purchase design, AND, all the previous exclusive designs are being added to my full line in both sizes. So everyone that wanted that yummy poppy pod design will now be able to purchase it.

More details of the sale to follow. I'll be streaming LIVE at 7PM EST on Feb 6th. Click here to sign up on my Ustream channel so you don't miss alerts whenever I go live or schedule an upcoming event.

Stay tuned for more juicy details!!!

Happy Arting,

Patti

Patina Gelli Prints & NEW PTP Elements Rubber Stamps Coming Soon!

Hello Everyone! 

Quick blog post today to share my YouTube video tutorial on making what I call my Patina Gelli Prints. They really look like old weathered metals that have that lovely patina that's hard to replicate otherwise. This is pretty close for a faux patina look: 

You know I'm usually drawn to bright colors, but these have been catching my eye lately and I've received a lot of questions over on my Facebook art page Inky Obsessions, so I thought it was time for a YouTube demo. This is also a good page for you to 'like' if you want to keep up with what I'm doing. I usually post to this FB page first. 

I'll be packing up over the weekend for my jaunt to Somerset, NJ for this year's Create Art Retreat! I can't wait to see some old friends and make some new ones. What a great time we have there. Lots of really fun classes with Interweave's top name instructors. Its fun to stay at the event hotel and get to have meals with everyone and the instructors too. We usually spend the evenings hanging out at the hotel bar to mix and mingle. 

iStencils.com is sponsoring a table for me to sell my Patti Tolley Parrish Stencils at the Create Vendor Night on Friday 11 July. I will also be selling my PTP Elements Rubber Stamp Sheets and will be introducing my 3rd set at Create! Once I return, these will be for sale in my Etsy Shop -- Inky Obsessions. This set features a couple of my hand drawn designs -- the poppies and the pictographs. Here's a peek: 

Matching iStencils will be coming out sometime in the late summer, so stay tuned for that big release and sale! 

For now, 

Happy Arting! 



Patti 

Playing with PTP Stencils & PTP Elements Stamps

Hey all! 

I've been prepping for my upcoming project in Cloth Paper Scissors later this year and making gelli prints to beat the band. I think I actually witnessed sparks flying off my brayer! LOL  I thought I'd share some of the prints I've recently made using my Patti Tolley Parrish Stencils along with my PTP Elements Red Rubber Stamps.  I really do like the layering effect you get when you use the stamps over a gelli print using the same design elements. You can see examples scattered thru the following piles of prints. These are all double sided by the way. They will become pages in my Gelli JumpStart Journals for CPS. 

  

The next three pics are a technique I'm calling Patina prints. They remind me of the natural patina that develops on metals exposed to the elements over time. Close up, these really do look like that. 

The next two prints I'm including just because I like them! The first is an example of the Gelli Arts wipe out technique, and the last one is just showing why I love Pebeo Studio Acrylics. This print has Pebeo Green Yellow mixed in with other green acrylics . 

  

Happy Arting!

Patti

My Latest Favorite Things...

So much for that promise to blog more often! There just are not enough hours in a day for me to do everything that I want to do and everything I have to do. So I'm just dropping in for a quick post of what I've been up to lately and what has become some new favorite things to do...

Collaged Washi Tape!!! Yes, you heard that right - collaged washi tape! Now I'm sure I didn't invent this technique, but I honestly never saw anyone making washi tape this way either. I did a UStream video and posted the recording to my YouTube Channel if you'd like to see the process in action. First, I start with another of my favorite things lately -- scrape painted deli paper (techniques also included in same video)! So easy and fun to make and useful in so many projects. Its really nice to have a stash of this stuff laying around so that you can grab a piece whenever you need it. Now that I have it, I need it more than I thought I did! Here are some pics: 

I also jumped in late (Mid-March!) to the Documented Life Project (DLP) with the Art to the 5th Group. Its a really fun project where you alter a planner of your choice, mine is the recommended Moleskine. You can learn more about the project and watch some videos at the Art5 website. Here are a few of my weekly layouts. As you can imagine I'm way behind on the weekly challenges, but I'll get there. 

 Notice the collaged washi tape in play here!!!

There's collaged washi tape all over this layout! LOVE! 

My friend Kacie is getting married the end of June. Her wedding colors are yellow and grey, so I decided to make this as a little gift for her. We had a dinner at our place for 15 girls from work to come over and celebrate with a 'bridal dinner'. She's already had a couple showers, but we just wanted to get the work group together and I had this on the table for her as the centerpiece when she walked in. This is made on a canvas board using some of Finnebair's techniques and products, along with some of my Patti Tolley Parrish stencils, some hot glue, lots and lots of Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays (and a few bad words when at the last minute I dropped a paint brush on the groom's face and gave him a goutee!). That has since been fixed with a new pic added over my little boo-boo! I recorded the process on Ustream and uploaded it to YouTube, however, there were issues with Ustream that night and only the first and last 30 segments actually recorded. ;o(

I hope you enjoyed all the pics. Please subscribe to my YouTube and Ustream channels to keep up on my projects. I try to do a recording of any new process or project that I play with so everyone can watch it at their own pace. Another great place to keep up with everything Inky Obsessions is my FaceBook art page. I post everything I'm doing that's art related on my art FB page first.  

Happy Arting, 

Patti