Jessibel Designs

Here are a few of the ATCs that I created this weekend. I’m still working on a couple of them but I wanted to go ahead and post these.
This is the fresco background with some stamped images and ink shading. I transferred the word.
This is an image transfer onto fabric that I colored with liquid […]

I spent the weekend developing ATCs and techniques for these classes I’m going to teach. I’m calling this my fresco background and I think this is my all time favorite technique using gesso. It is so fun and easy to create stunning backgrounds.
These are some of the fresco backgrounds that I created using white gesso […]

After I completed the Grace ATCs (shown below,) I showed them to the owner of a local rubber stamp store. She loved them and now she has asked me to teach some classes on advanced ATC techniques. I am so excited about this!
It’s a little strange to me that I have absolutely no desire to […]

I recently participated in an online ATC swap with the artisttradingcard yahoo group. The theme for the swap was “Tuesday’s Child is Full of Grace.” Well, when i read this, i instantly thought of my Grandmother who was named Grace. I got a bunch of old photos of my grandmother and created a set of […]

My parents also have several Bluebird houses. We found babies in this one! We think there are three in the nest (the fluff toward the front of the nest is number three?) but it was hard to tell. I had to hold the camera over my head to take this shot.

This is a beautiful little tree frog that I photographed at my parents house with my wonderful… fabulous… exceptional Canon Digital Camera. Can you tell that i love my camera? Oh, and i’m bloging this from my mom’s painful dial-up connection. uggh - should i time how long it takes to upload the […]