Exploring Line 2

 My second exploration of Line.

Watercolor background. 

 Black ink.

Blue and white gouache.

These will be used as bookcovers for some handbound books.

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.

Life is Good

 Life is Good

A tag bookmark

 The reverse side

Hope you are having a good start to your weekend.

Make it a good one!

Fresh Greens

I spent last week painting cover papers with leftover

acrylics.

I bind the books and cover them with these papers.

I am spending the weekend in an acrylics workshop.

What are you painting this weekend?

I am sharing this with Paint Party Friday and Artists in

Blogland.

Tomorrow

Light Tomorrow with Today

This sounds like good advice to me.

A simple bookmark for sharing at Less is More.

The quote is from Quiet Fire Design.

This is the reverse side.

Want more green inspiration,,,then go to

Decor Green.

Peridot

Peridot

I have been painting a lot of green papers this week

for bookbinding projects. I used some of one of the

papers to make a quick card with one of my favorite quotes.

This is my entry to Created By Hand, Crazy Amigos and

Paint Party Friday.

Connections II

Connections II

Today I have two bookmarks/tags as the second in

the Connections Series. The green ribbon is woven

through screw punched holes on the watercolored paper

and looped out on the upper left corner.

I then edged the piece with tissue tape.

Here I painted wet-in-wet shapes of green and yellow

watercolor and then punched holes for the yellow yarn.

As a final touch I added striped washi tape on the edges.

Before washi tape was all the rage I would mask off my

edges and draw stripes with various gel pens...washi tape

saves so much time.

The quote is from Quiet Fire Design in Canada.

This is my entry to Summer of Color.

This Little Piggy

This Little Piggy

This little piggy went to market and bought himself

some cookies, pies, cakes, ice cream, chocolate,

pizza with extra cheese, pancakes, cheeseburgers

and a DIET COKE!

He has to watch his figure doesn´t he?

Or should he get diet Pepsi instead,,,what do

you think?

This is my entry for the Three Muses and

Summer of Color.

One Layer Tag

This is a one layer tag that I use as a

bookmark.

Wednesday Stamper´s theme is Tag

and Gingersnaps is One Layer.