Be Merry!

Be Merry!

I hope you all had a wonderful day!    

I hope Santa was good to you. 

Birthday Greetings

A birthday greeting for all of you who have a birthday today.

Here is to another happy year on earth!

Is it Snowing Yet?

Where is all the snow?

It seems strange that I have not yet had to

shovel my driveway and it is December.

December and almost Christmas...and no

snow in sight. I had to add some snowflakes

to these cards in glimmery, glitzy metallic inks.

I wonder if we will have a white Christmas this year.

How much snow have you had so far?

I am sharing my snowflakes with The Three Muses, Stampotique

and Less is Moore.

Flower Power

Flower Power

A series of doodled flower cards for a friend.

The flower heads are painted with watercolor.

The leaves, stems and frames were doodled.

This is my entry to Stampotique Designers and

One Layer Wednesday.

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Frohe Weihnachten, Joyeux Noel, Merry Christmas........

This background of Red and White was done with oil pastels and stamping.

Red and White week comes to a close today...time to move on to other colors.

Jingle all the way...........

Inkurable Stampers is featuring other One Layer Cards...go have a look.

More Red and White

Today`s Red and White is a mini book with a Japanese style binding.

This landscape format makes it easy to paint small motifs and fill up the pages with color.

The spine is covered with gray bookcloth. A few beads were added with the knot.

I stamped the cover paper with white acrylics which acts as a resist when dry.
I then did a light glaze of very pale red which was mixed with a touch of iridescent medium.
While that was still wet I wrote some script into the wet paint. When dry, I stamped the
brocade motif in red and added some copper designs.

These little beauties make great stocking stuffers.
Maybe you know someone on your gift list who would appreciate a mini book full of color.

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Noel

This is going to be a Red and White week.

This card was made using the assembly line process.

Lay your cards on your work table. Get your watercolors ready. Grab that two inch wide brush

and W-H-OOOOOO-S-H it across each consecutive card.

Remove your cat from the worktable....important step!

Of course,,,laughing all the way and making spirits bright,,,don´t forget a splash of water here and a spritz of paint there. I told you to remove the cat didn´t I. Add a few fibers and presto....you have yourself a one layer card ready for the post.

Over at Keep It Simple they are displaying lots of Christmas cards,,,go have a look.

Red and White

Red and White Christmas

Red is one of my favorite colors....so when Christmas rolls around I never tire of making

cards using the color Red.

Wednesday Stamper has lots of red and white creations this week....

go have a look.

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Noel

This Christmas card was masked and sprayed with red ink then stamped with various stamps. I attached a strip of music and a little square of watercolor paper edged in gold with a star and a small piece of red ribbon. On top of that I stapled a gold fabric star with the words Noel.

I finished it off by inking the edges with brown walnut ink.

Are you busy making your own Christmas cards this year?

If you need more ideas ....go check out Inkurable Stampers Shabby Chic Christmas.

Noel

Joyeux Noel

Christmas will be here before you know it. I have been busy making lots of Christmas cards.

More stars of all kinds can be seen over on Wednesday Stamper....go have a look.

Shoes are Important

Shoes are important......just ask Cinderella.
This is one of my Christmas cards. A watercolor shoe with gold threads.
Christmas script is used on the background.

The theme for September is Shoes over at Inkurable..... go have
a look at more festive shoes.

Sketchbook

My newest handbound sketchbook. Handpainted acrylic with white gouache Kanji script.

Black ink markings, white flower and moth stamping.

A close-up of the cover paper.

"Das Leben ist Zeichnen ohne Radiergummi"
"Life is drawing without an Eraser"