Borders

Thank You

I painted three stripes of watercolor,

doodled and stamped. Added some ribbon

and a button and called it done.

Thanks for coming by and leaving your

comment. I appreciate your input.

Wouldn´t this bookmark look nice in your

latest summer novel you are reading?

Theme Thursday....borders.

Exotic Color

Want to brighten up your day with vibrant color?

Nature presents us with beautiful color

everyday....just look around.

One of my favorite displays of color is

the exotic bird.

This card is made using feathers from

two beauties like these pictured below.

Polly want a cracker?

Color doesn´t get any better than this does it?

I found these two on a foto search here.

Want a color overload,,,just google and type

in parrot fotos.

Three Muses and Theme Thursday will appreciate

this post.

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.

Only in My Dreams

Only in My Dreams

I eat apples like some people eat potato chips.
Only in my dreams do apples grow in the
shape of hearts....probably because I love to
hear that crunching noise as I bite down on a
good old Granny Smith, Delicious or a Pink Lady.

I will attach this to my niece´s Valentine´s Day
gift. It also happens to fit right in with a few
themes this week on various blogs. I will link them
and you can have some fun looking at all the other
entries.

Tag Tuesday....Valentine´s Day
Take a Word.......Botanical
Crazy Amigo......Tag
Theme Thursday.......Love

Springtime in January

SPRING

I feel like I am definitely jumping the gun on the seasons here.

I know a lot of our snow melted last weekend but

that doesn´t mean it´s spring.

These two tags came about because a bunch of my painting

friends and I are taking one of our friends out for a

surprise birthday dinner to a restaurant called

The Maganolia. I was in charge of making the card.

The photos came from a friend. I cut out the magnolias

and collaged them onto a handpainted background.

Added a strip of fabric along the top edge and finished

it off with a few stamps, papers and ribbons.

Gabi´s Tag

This is the tag we will give Gabi.

Here I added the knife, spoon and fork because on the back

it says,,,,one free dinner at The Magnolia.

Gabi loves to knit so I added and over abundance of fibers.

She can later use this as a bookmark and have a little

keepsake from all of us for her birthday in 2011.

This dinner came at the right time as these tags

fit right in over at Tag Tuesday with a bit of fabric.

Also at Wednesday Stamper where the theme is music.

Even at Take a Word where everything is beautiful.

And last but not least,,,Theme Thursday featuring spring.

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.

Drawing without an Eraser

"Life is Drawing without an Eraser"

This tag/bookmark is made with some of my wet-in-wet watercolor paper.

A closer view of the mingling of Scarlet, Cobalt and Violet onto an already wet watercolor paper.

Allowing the colors to happily move and mesh together on their own free will creates nice soft edges.

Louise over at Tag Tuesday is interested in seeing various background techniques...go have a look at some more as well as over at Theme Thursday where the theme is Faces.

By the Sea

By the sea...by the beautiful sea........

Many of us take our vacations by the sea. The sea air does everyone good.
The atmosphere by the sea is always relaxed and carefree.
I have so many sun-filled memories of living by the sea...be it the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific
Ocean or the North Sea.
These tags/bookmarks were done with watercolor crayons and water in sea-like shades
of pinks and corals.

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Theme Thursday has chosen
Pink as their theme and I thought I would join in for the cause.