Art Journal Collage with Sherry Canino for Jessica Sporn Designs Creative Team

Hello again creative friends and welcome back to another Team Thursday Post for the Jessica Sporn Designs Creative Team.  Sherry Canino here with a video tutorial for you today using some of the beautiful stencils by Jessica Sporn designs.  We will be creating a mixed media art journal page with some collage using my absolute favorite stencil by Jessica Sporn Designs the 3 Owls and a Branch as our focal image of this page.  So grab your coffee or drink of choice and let’s get creating.

Follow along step-by-step on my YouTube Video.

Thanks so much friends for taking the time to watch wishing everyone lots of love and happiness everyday !!

XO Sherry

Sherry Canino, a former accountant, is a self taught mixed media artist and owner of Canino’s Artistic Café. She also works as an art therapist for a local organization.  Her style is whimsical, colorful and inspirational and has been featured in Syracuse Women’s Magazine.  She offers local as well as private art classes in her Liverpool Studio, and art journal or art therapy classes on location for businesses and schools.  Find Sherry on Facebook , Instagram, Etsy and on her blog.

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Mixed Media Process with Kristin Van Valkenburgh

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

— Henry Ford

Happy Thursday! I hope this finds you well!  I can hardly believe it, but today marks my last post for this year’s Jessica Sporn Designs Creative Team. I made 15 videos over the course of the year, happily playing with Jessica’s beautiful collection of stencils from Stencil Girl and stamps from RubberMoon. Her work is unique, elegant, thought-provoking and above all else, filled with love. It was an honor to represent her and her products, this year and always.

I also want to thank DecoArt Media for supplying us with gorgeous, color drenched supplies and beautiful grounds to work with. I’d been a fan before, but now, after using their buttery gesso and thick, rich ink sprays, I can easily say I’m a lifer. . . .

Now, on to this week’s process video entitled, “Come to My Party.” I used the backing of a 9 x 12 pad of paper for this one, as well as a combination of stamping, stenciling, collaging, drawing and fingerprinting for a truly mixed media piece.



I hope you have fun watching, and please do let me know if you try anything similar, I’d LOVE to see what you come up with.  

If you’d like to keep up with my arty adventures, check out my personal YouTube channel over HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC10sBwGToZKc3nnfT69PzFg.

Stamps used:
Bubbles Girl Stencil by Stencil Girl: http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/l180.htm
Build-A-Villa Stamps by RubberMoon: https://rubbermoon.com/collections/jessica-sporn/products/build-a-villa-whimsy-turret-js5365g-rubber-art-stamp

With Love, Light & Inky Fingers,
Kristin xo



A childhood obsession with Hollywood starlets led to an early life in the theater, where Kristin Van Valkenburgh spent many happy days on set and behind the scenes as both an actress and makeup artist for the stage. Kristin has a passion for all things mixed media and loves to create whimsical pieces with lots of layers, bright, poppy colors, big eyes and positive affirmations. Her work has been featured in numerous Stampington publications including Somerset Studio, Somerset Studio Gallery, Somerset Life, Somerset Apprentice, Artists’ Cafe and Art Journaling.  

You can find Kristin on her blog, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

THANK YOU KRISTIN!
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Create Vibrant Artwork with Gelli Plate

I love going through some of my older posts; they always inspire me... This post was originally posted on August 5 of 2015.  I hope you'll enjoy a look back at these beautiful, vibrant paintings!


I've been teaching an amazing group of women this summer.  One of them, Lesley, took one of my classes at The Ink Pad.  She contacted me in May, asking if I would come to Long Branch once a week and teach a group in her home.  I'm so glad I said yes!  It's been a great adventure, and I learned so much as I planned a new lesson for each of the six weeks.

Our last lesson was on Tuesday, and it seemed fitting to have a Gelli Plate Party!  None of these women had ever used the gelli plate before, and their excitement and joy was thrilling.  The paint and prints were flying!  All my Stencil Girl stencils were in the mix, plus a big favorite -- Terri Stegmiller's recent design for Stencil Club.

Peacock stamp from Rubbermoon!

 We used our gelli prints to make illustrations inspired by African Masks, following the steps I used in this post to create a Ganesh Superhero.

Here is the preliminary work:

and three of the finished pieces.  Aren't they awesome!!!

Here's a picture of all the women at the conclusion of one of our earlier classes.  I have truly enjoyed working with them.

Here's my finished demo piece - inspired by Cecil the Lion and this editorial. 

 Maria McGuire's Greek Border stencil provided the perfect finishing touches.

Check out "Strength" on Society6! 

How do you use your gel prints?

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How to: Love is for Everyone and Giveaway Winner!

Stencil Girl recently released seven new designs of mine! In recent posts, I've been showing you how I used them. 

Today, I'm sharing a tutorial with the Love is for Everyone Script.

I designed this, and the See the Divine, stencil so that you could mix and match the words to make different phrases, besides the obvious, such as:

Love is Divine

Love is meant to lift us up

lift up out of the darkness

see Love in the darkness

I am in Love 

Love is everything

lift up the Divine in everything

Love everyone and everything

lift everyone up in Love
everything is Divine

I am Divine

I see the Divine

You get the idea! I am sure there are many more!

Of course, you can also use each stencil on its own, like this:

In addition to the Love is Everything stencil, I used my Build a Cosmos stamps from Rubbermoon.  You can see them all here.  

AND only one week late... here is the winner of the summer blog hop!!! It is 

cjsrq, who commented on all of our blogs, and said: Thanks for all you are doing to make America kind (and rational) again.   I am reaching out to you for your snail mail address to send you your Women Heal the World stencil!

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