All Wrapped Up

All wrapped up....a present for a friend.

The card is backed with some of my handpainted paper.

This time with oil pastel. 

I love pink and orange together...so I went a bit overboard didn´t I.

Hope you are well and enjoying your summer!

I am sharing this with Mandarin Orange Monday.

Paper Fun 9

I am at it again with Paper Fun....splashing and throwing the

paint around painting bookcover papers.

You can see some of my previous Paper Fun here.

I am sharing this with Paint Party Friday.

How is your weekend going so far?  What have you been painting lately?

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.

Hi

HI

how are you doing this Wednesday morning?

Using my newfound lettering skills...isn´t the word

HI just the perfect word to use when practicing.

I have around 20 different versions of this fabulous

little word.

I combined it here with some flower cut outs using my

Slice machine,,,my newest studio toy,,,and a great

way to use up that paper stash.

I am sharing this with Simply Less is Moore.

Flower Garden V

Series Finale

This is the finale of my pink and brown Flower Garden series.

I enjoy working in a series.

When I have all the paper and paint out in front

of me I try out different possibilites and designs.

Working in a series is always fun.

The first three cards from this series can be seen here.

This is my entry to Summer of Color which is featuring

pink this week.

This is also my entry to Wednesday Stamper which is

closing their doors this week. These flowers are for you

guys,,,,,Belinda, Hermine, Linda and Patty. Thanks for

all the inspiration and hard work all these years.

It sure was fun while it lasted wasn´t it!!

Flower Garden IV

Pink and Brown

Here is card number four in my watercolor

Flower Garden series.

Under the button cluster is a spray of

white vellum leaves and I used up some of

my patterned papers for the stripes.

You can click on the foto to enlarge it.

Three small punched circles were then

added along the bottom edge

and the large flower center is accented with

heavy body white acrylic paint. You can also

click on the foto for more detail.

You can see the first three cards in the series

by clicking here.

It just happens to be a Pink and Brown week

over at Theme Thursday...so this fits right in.

Wishing you all a sunny weekend.

Flower Garden II

Joy II

Another in the set of Flower Garden cards.

The button was sewn onto the card by knotting

the metallic thread in front of the button which

gives it a fluffy, flowering look made out of

the thin thread. If you missed the first in this

garden series you can see it here.

You may also remember the flower I made out

of gold thread on this tag.

We have finally gotten some decent rain so

my flower garden is thriving. Maybe you are

out working in your garden on this beautiful

Saturday.

This is my entry for Theme Thursday.

Sheep Tag

Happy Ewe Year

I have been grappling over this color combination of green, yellow and brown since Tuesday. I finally had to resort to plundering my paper stash and luckily I found just the right color combination.

Then the next hurdle was to use this combination in a holiday theme. For the life of me, I just could not manage to produce a Santa or a Christmas motif using these colors. Today I decided to stop thinking about Christmas and went with the holiday of New Years.

I sure hope that Tag Tuesday likes this tag...as well as Theme Thursday and The Stampman.