Pantone Color of the Year for 2014

 What a beautiful color isn't it....very radiant indeed.  

all fotos Pantone Pinterest

I did not know that orchid was the color for 2014 when I made these

Xmas cards.   

 These trees were cut out of kleenex boxes.  At first I thought I would cut out EACH individual

mosaic stone,,,,well, after I cut out a few I quickly changed my mind and just cut out the 

shapes of a trees.

  The scraps after all that cutting.....or a big mess......

but after much painting, splashing and tearing it made me a nice stash of Xmas cards.

I am sharing this with Macro Monday 2, Sweet Shot Tuesday, Paint Party Friday and Tuesday
Around the World.
Here is a link for Pantone too.

The color of the year for 2013 was emerald green and for 2012 was tangerine tango.

So tell me,,,,what do you think of this year's color of Radiant Orchid?

Easter Nest

Handmade Easter nest for this year´s decorations.

I had my niece over last week and we made these nests.

We had a fun and sticky afternoon gluing these nests together with paper

we ran through the shredder.

We also started on some vases and small candle holders while we were at it.

See a short tutorial from Claudine Hellmuth here.

I am sharing this with Clever Chicks.

Hope you are all having a relaxing Sunday.

Farmer´s Market

Farmer´s Market

A sunny autumn day at the local market.

Saving my whites in watercolor.

Adding more colors and defining my objects.

I shared this piece with Daily Paintworks this week.

I am also sharing it with Paint Party Friday and

Artists in Blogland.

What have you been up to this week....besides eating

a lot of leftover Halloween candy?

After this was posted to Blogger I see the horrific glare from

my scanner.....yikes! I hope you had your sunglasses on when

viewing...but saving whites in watercolor will blind you sometimes.

Look at This

One of my favorite book artists, Ruth Bleakley

has a tutorial on her blog today for a mini

accordian book.

Wouldn´t it be great to take one of her workshops!!

Go visit her blog to see more of her beautiful books and

the written tutorial for this mini accordian.

Ruth´s mini book tutorial here.

More Books

A little parade of some of my handbound booklets.

The book boards were coated with gesso
and then painted with acrylics.

I then cut the book boards in half and made soft

spines out of heavy watercolor paper covered

with book cloth.

The book block is a single signature of around 80 pages which

I bound using a basic pamphlet stitch.

Punch three holes in the spine and the signature.

Starting from the outside,,,thread the ribbon through

the top and bottom holes. From the inside,,,take both

ribbons out through the center hole,,,one on either side of

the ribbon. Tie a knot around that piece of ribbon and

then wrap the rest of the ribbon around the book.

Tie a bow and you are done.

The theme this week over at The Three Muses is the Book.