Some more of my house pages to share - the above one was the theme "Count the Birds" and below was the very first page I created for the House Swap and the theme was "Magical Trees". Only one more page to go in this fun swap.... next theme is 'open' so will enjoy seeing where my muse will take me.
Some more pages I created for a small House Book Swap I am part of. The theme here was "correspondence" and I had fun trying to use just about every mail art stamp I own. Felt really good to use my stamps again as sometimes I think I depend on Collage Images way too much. The top photo shows the piece with all the tags out of the little pocket, and the one below you can see I have put all the tags away in the pocket.
This is another page I created for the House Book swap. This one from an earlier month and the theme was "seaside".
I have finally started sorting out some older photos and looking for some art to share. Today I thought I would upload a few ATC's. Have not worked on ATC's for awhile and must admit I had forgotten how much I love them.
I created this artwork for Marlene for her 50th Birthday.... I have been doing online classes with Julie and this is very heavily influenced by her style which I love. The classes are fantastic and would strongly recommend them to anyone who love to play with paint!
This is the tag I made for Paper Princess Margaret for her birthday. Her wish for Art this year was for us to decorate a tag and a metal bird in colours of soft pink and green. Don't you just love the natural green of the twig i used? It looks like i painted it to match, but that is it - straight from the garden!!
Here is a photo as promised of the artwork on my wall. I cannot tell you the pleasure it brings me to walk past this several times a day (when i am home of course). A huge thank you to the Paper Princesses (there is a picture of us on Celeste's Blog if you would like a peek).
Well as you can see I am still slightly 'bird' obsessed... yet another piece of artwork featuring a birdie! This piece is actually for my very own wall - i have a gorgeous collection of nature themed canvasses on my wall (created for me by the Paper Princesses) and I decided to add to it with some of my own art. I must take a photo of the complete collection to share with you.
I just finished this piece yesterday as part of a swap - I have tried out new skills learnt in class with DJ Pettitt. I think I might have missed something as it sure didn't flow as easily as it did in class, or maybe it was more the fact that I had DJ right there to lend a helping hand. This bird image I have used is one drawn by DJ that she so kindly let us trace in class.
Here are the little houses - all 50 of them - that I created to swap at the recent Creative Soul Retreat. What a great swap, although I must admit getting towards the end I was a bit over working on such a small canvas!
Here I am with the lady who deserves to share the crown with DJ for BEST teacher. Stephanie Lee was an amazing teacher as well, very patient with us all as we tried to master those butane torches. I was lucky enough to take two classes with Stephanie and both were equally brilliant. So many new skills I am now attempting to master.... I wish I could have taken Stephanie's third class as well.
I had a fantastic time making this ATC Block.... I first saw this done on one of my favourite blogs - Small Creations - by Audrey Hernandez. What a brilliant idea! So much fun being able to hammer things on rather than use glue. Big thank you to Judy's brilliant husband Kurt who kindly cut the blocks, i can't wait to play more with this idea.
Probably for the last few years I have struggled to make Christmas Art... not sure why.... but anyway here are the few pieces that i did make. This first one I made for the lovely Linda as a little thank you for a special Art Day she organised.
This card was made for Kasha - our little group the "Paper Princesses" always just draw one name from a hat and this year I got to make some art for Kasha.
This card was made for another swap.... bit blurry so still need to work on the photography! Maybe that should be my new year's resolution rather than blog posting!!
I thought today that i should maybe give you all a break from the birdie art and share something i made a little while back. This art was created last year as part of a book that our little group made for the wonderful Celeste. I can't even remember now what the guidelines were... i think shades of blue with maybe butterflies?? Or maybe i just made that up as that is obviously what i did!! LOL...
This is the first page of a two page spread I did for the wonderful Judy Timmins for her birthday. This year our little group decided to do a book for Judy with all of us creating a few pages. Those of you who know Judy know that she loves a good laugh, so we tried to make our pages for her a little bit funny....
This is the finished piece of artwork that Marilena unwrapped for her Birthday... it was a very special birthday - her 50th - and it is safe to say that Marilena completely loved the artwork we created for her. If you would like a closer look at the pieces that Kasha created you can see them here.... and for Celeste's piece you can find them here and here... :o)
This is my third and final piece for Marilena. I have managed to pretty much stick with the theme and colours with this piece. I am sure i have a photo somewhere of the finished artwork and will upload that for you all to see. It was truly amazing to see it all come together at the end.
