Get your TEXT on.... : ) ajae

Hey ya'll!!
I had fun with this one...all of us use text in so many ways, so it wasn't a stretch to come up with some stuff, and that's what I've needed latley...easy. Next week will throw me for a loop as I have never used alchohol inks, but I think it's time to step back out of my comfort zone.....

Anyway, here's some of my shots from last week.  If any of ya'll are wondering... I am smitten with my iphone camera apps and use the ever lovin' heck out them. My fav's are camera+ and hipstamatic : )

This is goofing around in our Cheap Thoughts Journal.....

I'm so fond of this little journal page for some reason......

Anyway.... Ya'll have a great weekend and we'll see ya on YOU SUCK : ))))!!!

xo ajae

Midweek update - Goog

Hey, suckers. I made my own alcohol inks and here they are!! 

It was super, mega, ridiculously easy. I got my Sharpies and spray bottles from Wal-Mart. Oh, alcohol, too. I've never had rubbing alcohol at my house - what do you rub it on? Anyway, I made them and you can, too! My markers did NOT pull apart easily like the woman in the video's, but I just used my enormous pliers to snap them where the colored part meets the gray part.

Here is where I was spraying (it's really a terrible book):

That's red, and I really like how bright it is, especially compares to the sprays we made with the Rit dyes. I love those colors, too, but they're mostly dark shades, and these all turned out pretty bright!

Wait - but, Goog, why would you make more sprays when you already HAVE sprays? Alcohol inks are permanent on all surfaces, while the rit dyes are only permanent on porous surfaces. That means metal, plastic, glass - we can color those things with our alcohol inks! Try making them, I promise it's the easiest art project you've ever done!

8/22/11 - Goog

You Suck Monday this week was about text. I like it as background. Very rarely is text my focus but it's a really great way to add a layer, to add texture, with very little effort. Examples:

This is a canvas journal I just made. She was looking EXTREMELY boring and slightly awkward until I added a little text stamping. My stamp doesn't have anything on it you could actually read, it's just scripty gibberish, but it makes a difference!

This is the girl who started You Suck Monday. I journaled on her before adding paint, and in her hair after adding it! It looks really shiny on camera, but in real life you can barely see any of the writing.

Here's one where there was a huge blank space and it needed "something". I love the quote and how much the writing adds to the piece!

That's "the Ugly Me" and he's drawn on book text, but there's also journaling underneath him.

I was feeling crappy today, so I didn't make anything specifically for YSM like I usually do and I was surprised to see how much stuff I already HAD with text as a part of it and how often I use text. Start with a text stamp. Or a book you hate.

Link to Video...Making your own alcohol inks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6z5JgUOw3U

Ajae's collage for Suzi : ) and DooDleS!!

Hellooooo gang!!
I hope everyone is well and happy... this will be a quickie, cuz I've been a slacker! I was having some issues with blogger, but I think I figured it out. But it's been bugging me that I haven't posted here. So here it goes and then I need to get figure out what to do for Text for today!!

Here's my collage project for Suzi's birthday : )

 I'm gonna fool with it a little more.. but this was fun. The flowers are from my yard : )

Here's some doodles.............

So there you have it! Sorry about not posting lately... See ya'll tonight on YouSuck!!!

xo ajae

SUCKERS!!!

Hello fellow suckers. (Mini me is always walking around and saying to random people "Hello, fellow citizen" so I was just trying it out. Feels very formal.) We have been HORRIBLE about posting here to tell you what we're up to! We kind of assumed everyone has facebook but I know that isn't true! So today we're going to suck at text. We'll be using text in the background of things - stamps, books text, whatever we want. You can use text however you want!

Come join us for live chat, you know you wanna!!
http://www.linqto.com/rooms/suziblu/
9pm Eastern time (if you don't know how that translates to your time zone, JFGI - Just Fucking Google It. This is the slang of our youth, people. For reals.)

8/15/11 - Goog

I'm not a good doodler. Never have been. I don't doodle while I'm on the phone, I never doodled in class (I took copious notes in class), I'm just not good at it! Then what happens is I'll doodle one little thing and it comes out pretty good and I'll think "I can TOTALLY doodle!!" but then I try again and find out I was wrong. So, here's my YSM doodles, and it's OK if you think they're ugly because I know they are!!

This one's just a flower on book text, glued into my Cheap Thoughts Journal (CTJ)

This was me trying to give my self a contained area to doodle in (I like circles!)

More circles (kinda). I like things to go off the page (I have no idea why).

Then with these two pictures, I wanted to show you guys how much of a difference something as simple as WHAT you're doodling on can make. Here's my CTJ page with little roses:

And here's little roses on book text:

I think the book text makes a big difference, especially if you're not a great doodler. It just adds a little something that makes me happy!

8/8/11 - Goog

Collage is one of the many things I am horrible at. I'm not good with composition, or "matching" colors - I kinda like things to clash. Example: one of my socks is purple with orange and green circles, the other is pink and white stripes. That's just the kind of chick I am! Anyway, collage was the game of the day and here is what I made:

It came out pretty good, I think.I sort of chickened out and did a collage mosaic.I cut the bottom and top of the cupcake out, then carefully tore them into pieces, keeping them in the exact order I needed them to be so it would look like a cupcake when I was done! It's still collage, so it still counts. AND it's for my best friend Suzi's birthday and she liked it so that's all that matters!