BIRD Journal

I took a class with LK Ludwig this year and this is what we worked on. Mounted it on chipboard, handcolored the bird and added the checks, word and all the rest. Pretty fun and pretty too!

This is the back cover.

Goddess Journal

Nest - Journal

Another journal. 1st pic is the cover. Inside 90 lb watercolor paper. Back cover.

Pause Journal - back cover

Pause

I put together this new journal - 4"x9" and this is the cover. Not too happy with the writing although I like everything else. May paint over and redo. The background is textured and I think that may have been part of the problem. What do you think?

Mini Banner swap

Here's my 7 mini banners (3"x5") for inthishouseandgarden.

Two of the three were coated with texture crackle

and the other distress crackle. These two are coated with rock candy stickles.
and these two are crumbled tissue paper.

The snowmen and the banner are made from watercolor paper.

This was a fun swap!

Anachronism Mail Art Envelope Swap

From wikipedia: An anachronism—from the Greek ανά (ana: against, anti-) and χρόνος (chronos: time)—is an error in chronology, especially a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other. The item is often an object, but may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a custom, or anything else so closely associated with a particular period in time that it would be incorrect to place it outside its proper domain.

Newest Spread

Candy

This is the spread I have been working on with Nancy Baumiller. I added the saying "she no longer misses u like candy", the red ribbon, the lovely girl with the fabulous outfit and pink hair, and the bird in the circle from the original post. How do you think I did?

Newest Swaps on Their Way!

New Journal Spread

This is the flap from previous spread.

This is the flap for current spread.

Left side of spread.

Right side of spread.

New spread in Journal

Unfortunately, the spread is so big I couldn't get it in one shot in my scanner. The first is with flap, 2nd is without flap and the bottom is the right side. I still have to add the center - something... stay tuned.

Back cover for my journal

Teesha Moore wannabe

Saw a link for Teesha Moore's website to make a journal, and I had to go look. She takes a sheet of watercolor paper 22x30 and turns it into a fabulous little journal. Michael sells a very nice paper - I think it was $3.50 - so here is my result. This is the cover. She also has videos on how to do her style of journal, painting, borders, etc. I used a sharpie (which I don't normally do) and I'm not crazy about the thickness. Will go back to my gel pen. Live and learn - right?

Tears fall like Petals

The worst day ever

Rest in Peace My Boy Jake

4/22/99-10/30/09

Altered Tags - the Crowabout Way

I made these for a swap on Swap-bot. I really like the way these turned out. Hopefully my partners will!

Next Stop

This is a picture of my dad, aunt and their friends about 88 years ago. My dad is the one with the wild hair on the left and my aunt is the one in the front with the flower on her hat.

seaside dream

Bird Brain

Nest

Dream

Crowabout continued

This was another background that Nancy showed us. I used watercolor crayons and a wet paper towel to spread the color.

I then added the borders and used scraps from previous backgrounds.

Playing with Nancy (Crowabout)

I am so enthralled with Nancy at Crowabout. She now has a group and she is going through step-by-step to put together a collage. First we started with building a background. I made 4, but this one is the one I went forward with.

Then I added the border. Can't wait to see what we do next!

Corozon Swap

Here's my take on the corozon swap I signed up for. My partner mentioned she likes vintage, metals, etc. So I used some old copper, rusty screen and wire, metal heart and a tape transfer all on hand painted watercolor paper. Hopefully she'll like it.

sunset - wow!

What a show I got to see the other night! I love taking shots of the skies and this one was just too awesome! Enjoy!

Circles

Helga (Artchix) has an art challenge on her blog and there will be 9 challenges total. Here's mine for the first one - circles and dots. What I used from left to right starting top left - bottom of stickles bottle, foam dabber, small dabber, prescription medicine bottle top, button, sharpie marker, zig marker top, handmade foam dots, end of a brush dots, stickle dots, sequin waste, prescription medicine bottle bottom.

Have a Heart collage

This is a little collage I put together.

Mushroom Handmade Postcard

Here are the 2 postcards going out - 1 to Canada and the other to Finland. I signed up for this swap because I had just made my two mushroom stamps from foam so I figured why not? The first one I painted with interference green and the other with intereference blue. Also used micaceous iron oxide for the shadowing and souffle gel pens. All that made it very psychedelic looking so I named them that.

The Owls and the Pussycats

This is for a handmade bookmark swap. At my local stamp club monthly meeting we played with shaving cream and ink to make marble designs on paper. We used these sticks to clean the shaving cream off the paper... well I loved the look so much I saved it for this project. I also used a stamp, packing tape transfer and markers. I hope my swap partner likes!

Magazine Cover Swap

One thing I need to learn to do is take a photo of what I start with... This was the cover for W magazine. It was Uma Thurman. The dress is covered by 3 different stickles (2 distressed). My partner is also the swap hostess!

Domino Magnet Swap

These three magnets will be off to my swap-bot partner.

Think Pink

This swap is for homemade pink postcards. So since I have been playing with making my own stamps out of foam, I thought I would immortalize my boy Jake. I hope they like!