Paper Fun Projects II

More Paper Fun projects from blogging friends.

This is my freebie paper, Maze. 

Foto and box made by Evelyn.  She covered a little tin

box with the Maze paper from above. 

Foto by Evelyn.  She even covered the inside ...isn´t this

a great little box!

Paper freebie, Splash.

Foto and tag by Evelyn.  She punched flowers out of the 

above Splash paper.  How pretty! 

Foto and card by Evelyn.  She was on a roll here.
Another project using her flowers.

Foto and covered box by Evelyn.  Another little box.
I think she really has outdone herself don´t you?
She makes everything look so pretty too.

 

These two papers are for your Christmas in July projects.

Foto and tag by Evelyn. 

Foto and tags by Evelyn. 

I made this tag using the snow paper above.

I also made this tag too.

Get a head start on your Xmas projects.  Use the snow

paper and I will post it here on my blog.

If anything, it will cool you down from the summer heat if you 

work on snow projects....Santa told me so.

Need more freebie papers for weekend paper fun....get them here.

Thanks to all of you who have used the papers so far...Godelieve,

Anneke and Femmy from yesterday and Evelyn today.

Have a cooooool weekend!

Paper Fun Projects

Time to show some of the projects made by my blogging friends using

my Paper Fun  freebie papers. 

 Foto and card made by Godelieve.

Fotos and card made by Anneke. 

Another one of my freebie papers. 

 Foto and card by Femmy.

Foto and card by Anneke.

If you missed printing out the papers for yourself...go get them now.

Make something and I will feature it here on my blog.
Stay tuned for more projects tomorrow too.
Thanks so much Godelieve, Anneke and Femmy for your stunning work!

I am sharing this with Paint Party Friday.

Even More Paper Fun

Today we have the Green Series 

Click on Splash 

Print them out,,,stamp on them, draw on them,

add your own twist to fit any theme.

Click on Anneke´s Geometrics

Tear them up, mix and match them with the 

papers from yesterday or use them alone as background paper. 

Too bright you say,,,tone them down with a thin coat of gesso.

Click on Whispy

I would gladly feature your project using these papers.

Don´t miss it,,,coming soon.....some projects created from

past paper freebies.

You might also like these papers for your stash.

For your reading enjoyment today....go on over to Sara Naumann´s Blog.

She interviewed me.

I am sharing this post with Paint Party Friday.

More Paper Fun

I was having some more paper fun painting these patterned papers. 

 Today it is the Red Series.

Bright and cheerful colors for fun summer art making.

Click on the Butterflies.

Feel free to print the patterns and use them in your  projects

if you so desire.

 The resolution has been left large so  

 it should be a decent print.  Let me know

if you have any problems and I will send you an email with the foto instead.

The butterflies were inspired from a simple dinner Serviette.

Click on the Stripes.  

Stripes are always useful when

it comes to mixing

and matching patterns. 

Click on the Maze.

All the patterns were painted with watercolor and gouache.

Print them out,,,

stamp them with your favorite stamps, add more paint, mix and match them.

Go make something with them.  If you do,,,please let me know and I 

will feature your project here on my blog.

Want more free papers then check these out.

Come back tomorrow for the Green Series of  free papers. 

Later this week

I will share a few examples

 of  how other arty bloggers have used some of the previous

papers in their projects.

Start your week off on the creative side!

I am sharing this with Paint Party Friday.

Textures

These textures are made available for use in personal as well

as commercial projects and are absolutely free.

There are 103 pages which include watercolor or rust.

Plants too.

There is metal.

Patina and splashes of paint.

This was just a small sample of what is available.

They might come in handy for some of your art.

You can find them at Lost and Taken.

Season´s Greetings

Season´s Greetings

I made this tag using one of yesterday´s Freebie papers.

Scroll down to yesterday´s post to see both of the hand painted papers.

Snowflake Delight

This is the sheet that I used.

Wednesday Stamper is featuring the Snowflake this week.

Handpainted Paper Sunday Freebie 4

Snowflake Delight

Here it is the weekend before Christmas.

Considering the fact that we all might have last minute cards or things to wrap, here is one of my Christmas presents to you. A hand painted snowflake paper using gesso, acrylics, salt, watercolors and a snowflake stamp.

Bavarian Snow

This piece has been sprinkled with authentic Bavarian snow.

I dropped some watercolors and a touch of silver metallic onto watercolor paper and took a handful of snow and gently sprinkled it onto the surface and let it dry.

If you find a use for these papers in your projects, please show me your creation. I would like to feature it in a future Before and After post. You can also see previous Freebie Papers here.

Handpainted Paper Sunday Freebie 3

Another handpainted paper Sunday Freebie.

This is the third Sunday

that I am posting some of my painted papers as a freebie for you

to use in your art projects, if you so desire. If you create anything using this

paper, I would love to see it.

The large fern was stamped with gesso and let to dry. This creates a resist effect when painted over with acrylics. A darker shade acrylic paint was used to stamp the smaller fern and little square element.

I will most likely use this paper as cover paper for one of my handbound books that I am in the process of binding right now.

The first two freebie papers can be found by clicking on the label...."Freebies" on the sidebar.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Books are not just for Reading Anymore

This is a beautiful book that I won from Anneke. She took part in Dymphie´s "Let Loose" campaign. I was the lucky person to receive it!

Anneke also enclosed this wonderful card that she created.

I will now "Let Loose" of some artwork. Stay tuned for a future post all about this.

Thank you so much Anneke. The book is so beautifully made and along with the card,,, are on my display shelf for all to admire.

Wishing you all ,,,and especially you Anneke,,,,a rainbow filled day of sunshine and peace in a "freebie" that you might wish to use in your artwork.

Have a great weekend!

My Color Adventure

What do pigs, cotton candy, a panther and a singer have in common?

Yes, you guessed it.....the color PINK!

A more apt title for this post would be "Patty´s Playground of Perfect Pinkness" .... of Magpie´s Nest.....let me explain why.

This tag is for you Patty,,, thanks for turning me on to a color I never really took notice to until you posted these beauties below.

It all happened one cold day last February. Patty posted this beautiful foto of these pink tulips on her blog, Magpie´s Nest. That same day I had been talking to a painting buddy about colors we never seem to use
and then I even read a blogger that was saying "pink stinks".......

When I saw the second foto of Patty´s I thought to myself....well, heck,,,this pink does not look the least bit "stinky" at all. I was actually being drawn to the color pink!

Patty´s fotos so inspired me that I even went out and bought some pink tulips and ended up painting them in watercolor.


One of several versions of my pink tulips in ink and watercolor.


I painted yet another small grouping of pink tulips in watercolor. I was beginning to like a color I always seemed to ignore.

All thanks to Patty´s wonderful fotos.

Patty and I then began to email each other about the color Pink and eventually we decided we would send each other PINK things as a color swap ......

Before we knew it we were collecting every pink thing we saw.
I could not believe how much pink I saw in advertising, magazine covers,,,,even all over the inside of my local phone book. Pink was found everywhere and before I could turn around I had a box brimming over with pure, perfect
PINKNESS.It began to get so full I thought I might have to hire Bekins to ship it to the USA!


Here is what Patty sent to me as part of our exchange.
Some of her art collage cards. I love her work!


A closer look..............



She even made me one of her birds nest charms out of pearls and copper wire. Isn´t it gorgeous.
It looks great hanging from a chain. Thanks Patty, I love this!

Patty sent me all sorts of paper for my collage stash. Different textures and weights and some vintage pages. Many have already been put to good use.

A lovely pink lantern and fan to cool myself off during these hot summer months.

Some pink energy tea,,,,cut outs, buttons and lovely small embellishments.

Another look.............

A wonderful pink illustration and still more paper.

More cut outs and interesting papers.

Don´t you just love all this pinkness!

A pink advertisement for a market in her area.

Here is a "pink freebie" for you Patty and all who come here to see our fun swap. Thanks again for making me stand up and take notice to the color Pink ,,,in all it´s beauty.

Wishing you all,,,,, and especially you Patty,,,,a perfectly fun,,,pink kind of day................

If you want to see what I sent to Patty ,,,go over to her blog the

Magpie´s Nest and have a look.