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!!

The Big Cheese

The Big Cheese

This House Mouse in watercolor makes the perfect

birthday card for an eight year old in

yellow, orange and aqua.

This is my entry for:

One Layer Wednesday and Wednesday Stamper.

Outside My Window

Outside My Window

Outside my window I see many different

flowers....all in beautiful bloom.

I stamped a flower and doodled a frame

with my trusty pilot pen.

This is my entry to Wednesday Stamper,

Created By Hand and Less Is Moore.

Life

Life

I painted some watercolor swatches of various

blue shades, stamped some numbers and a

quote onto a white card.

I think the washi tape adds just the right touch,

don´t you.

Go have a look at Wednesday Stamper and

Simply Less is Moore.

Let Them Eat Cake

Let Them Eat Cake

Who can resist a strawberry cake?

A friend of mine gave me some fotos of cakes and

told me to whip her up some birthday cards.

I cut the cakes out and glued them onto

painted, stamped and collaged backgrounds.

More paint was added as well as fibers.

I think these cakes deserve to be placed on their

swirl, punched out pedestals,,,,don´t you?

Now if I could only get a taste.

Wednesday Stamper is showing a sumptuous array of cakes.

The good news is... you won´t gain a pound.

Spilled Ink

No Use Crying over Spilled Ink

A tag/bookmark for a calligraphy friend of mine.
She spilled a whole bottle of precious sepia ink.

This is also my entry over at Wednesday Stamper.

Spring

Spring has sprung again.

The sun is shining so brightly this morning.

I am busy getting ready for the Easter Art Markets.

Just a few of my cards using dried flowers and

watercolor painted paper.

I will also post this over at Wednesday Stamper.

Blue Suede Shoes

Blue Suede Shoes

After using gouache, graphite, watercolor pencils,

watercolors, inks, stamps and some really messy

hands...

Elvis was ready for his debut.

Today it´s Love over at Stampsmith,

Inks at Wednesday Stamper and

Fashion at the Three Muses.

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.

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.

Dream

Dare to Dream

I made three cards using up some leftover

papers from a bookbinding project.

I used a piece of handmade natural fiber paper
as a base and placed embossed wildflower
motifs on top.

The theme this week at Wednesday Stampers
is Dream Big and Gingersnap Creations had a
good idea to use up leftover paper...go have
a look.

Season´s Greetings

Season´s Greetings

I made this tag using one of yesterday´s Freebie papers.

Scroll down to yesterday´s post to see both of the hand painted papers.

Snowflake Delight

This is the sheet that I used.

Wednesday Stamper is featuring the Snowflake this week.

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.

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.

Geisha ATC

Geishas ATC

This ATC has a double photo transfer of two different Geisha fotos. I used gel medium on each foto and after both transfers were finished I used gel medium to glue them together. I guess you could say this is the "old fashioned" way of producing layers. The double transfer was then glued onto some of my background paper.

Asia is the theme at Wednesday Stamper this week....go have a look.

Not Just Another Pretty Face

"Beauty is not in the face....beauty is a light in the heart."

K. Gibran

A tag bookmark with one of the pretty faces from the stamp world. She is stamped onto

some of my watercolor paper which I also stamped with leaves, swirls and circles.

My wavy edge cut out again,,,,this is a scrap from one of my book binding projects.

Over at Wednesday Stamper the theme is "faces".....go have a look.

Chase Life

"Chase Life"

A sprig of clover colored with watercolor crayons and sprayed with water.

For the background I used a piece of easy foam which I first pressed into a brick wall

and transferred onto watercolor paper with orchid ink. A few diamond holes were punched and a purple string threaded through two of them. Some copper paint was splattered and then backed onto black card stock and edged with copper and black ink.

Since everyone at Wednesday Stamper is in love with purple this week ,,,,I thought I would

add this to their collection.

Wednesday`s Handbound Book

I never leave home without my sketchbook.

This time it´s a blue one.

The edges of the book block were stippled with light blue ink.

Three ribbons were attached as bookmarks.

The cover paper was stamped with gesso for a resist effect that you see with the large white stars. After that was dry.... I painted the paper with acrylics and stamped some smaller stars. Once the book boards were covered.... I added the small quote made of the same painted paper.

A closer look at the cover paper and my favorite wave cut spine cloth.

"Art is just another way of keeping a diary."


Wednesday Stamper is featuring everything to do with Books this week.....go have a look.