Bookmarks From Everyday Things......

I made these book marks from tags from clothes that I have recently purchased.
The first is from Johnny Cupcakes!!! I waited 5 and 1/2 hours for a T-shirt.....There was no way I was throwing anything out!

The second is from a Super Cute monster T-shirt my friend Jenn found at Target. The tag was a fantastic sticker so I laminated it and added some cute paper to the back.

I love making bookmarks because they are like little tiny pieces of art!

Birthday Fun...

I made this card for my niece.
It goes along with the ladybug theme birthday party she will be having!
I used a vintage Bingo card for the base, a page from a vintage book and some yummy buttons.
The book page is really fantastic. I came across 4 books in the Library's "free" section. They happened to be books from my childhood, they even smelled the same. I considered hoarding them but had a change of heart:)!
The doodle letters, were made with the help of a stencil. After all the work on the paper, I did not want to chance messing up the letters!

Toast and Jelly

I love toast. I don't eat it near as often as I would like to, darn carbs.
The grape jelly toast is a card I made for a friend. The other two, will be cards later:)
The background for the grape card is from a pack of coasters I found in the $ 1 bin at Target. I made the jelly shiny by squeezing "crystal effects" on it. You could probably use any sort of glaze but I like the super shiny quality of the crystal one.

Collage Fun...

I loved these pictures of the kids close up. They really look like each other so close up. Henry said if you could not see Keely's hair, they would look the same.
I used a ton of things in this art, the more mess the better in my opinion!
I made the pinwheel in the corner..it looks better in person. It was fun to make!
I got the inspiration of the doodle, "Dearest" from this blog.
Her stuff is super fantastic..I would love to do stuff that cool... Someday!

A Tiny Card...

I made this little card for a friend of mine at church.
It is not a traditional Birthday type card but I loved the sentiment so I had to use it!
The little dough-nut was made with sculpty clay and topped off with glass glitter.

Happy Easter

Here is another Easter card I made. The glitter is glass...I love the way it looks like sugar.
Keely found these little chicks with the hats on and just had to have them. I must say they do make great subjects:)!
Happy Easter!

Happy Spring Y'all!

Here is a card I made...I was having fun taking pictures of some little chicks I bought. I am a sucker for cute little things. Keely is too. We named the chick in this photo Bernard. What a sweet little guy, he posed for his pictures without complaining.

Birthday Card...

This is a Birthday card for my Grandma.
The cupcake in the picture was a 7up cupcake from Henry's market...YUMMY!!!
The felt flower I bought on ETSY and added the button. The scallops at the bottom are done with a punch and a glitter note card!

Backgrounds...

I painted a bunch of backgrounds for some cards and plain ol' art that I plan on doing really soon.
I have taken some fun pictures so I used colors with those photos in mind.
I love the way these turned out, I almost hate to add anything to them...almost.



Materials used:
Acrylic paint, Pearl Ex, Lumiere, stamp pads, watercolor and chipboard.

Thanks....

I made this little card for my neighbor...I used the Prima Paintable Paper again. This time I water colored first and then added pearl-ex to the flowers to give them a bit of a shimmer. The letters are baked clay..another favorite! The sentiment is from a magazine. Fun stuff!!
I am taking the same approach to cards, as I am to my art...this is just one-sided like a normal layout, not a card you can open.

Cupcakes Cure Anything!!

I made this the other day when I was feeling sorry for myself. I hate being sick.
I wanted to sand the picture to give it texture, but I could not get it to look right. I settled for "faux sanding" and used a vanilla paint to scruff up the entire page. I have no idea if that is a real technique..:)




Materials:
Paint, magazine clippings, rubber stamp.

A Little Love...

I actually made this on Valentine's day but it has taken me a little while to put it up here. Keely and I were making hearts with our hands. I thought her little hands made the sweetest little shape.
I wanted to play around with some junk I got with my "Jar of Whimsies".
The little scrabble tile as well as the charm on the bottom are finds from that.

Materials:
Paint, glaze, scrapbook papers (The border is one sheet of double sided paper cut up)

Wandering Aimlessly ....

..is a good thing sometimes!!
I went shopping with my friend Jenni the other day. We don't see each other often so when we do get together we end up kind of lost...a lot. I swear her and I can walk aimlessly around in circles for hours and it's still fun.
I made the below painting to highlight our journey...round and round in circles. We are represented by the paper clips.
I got the "personal object" idea from the Journal Revolution girls..maybe someday I will come up with an idea of my own but for now I will um... borrow theirs:)
I love the idea of an object representing me on a page..I just do not want my actual face plastered on all my art!

Valentine Goodies!!

These are mailboxes that I made Keely's preschool teacher's for Valentines Day!
I think they turned out pretty good considering I suck at following directions!!
I found a tutorial here.


Materials:
Paper, modge podge, super sticky tape, ribbon and $1 plastic mailbox!!

Cloudy...

Whenever it is cloudy out, I have an attitude and mood to match. Cloudy weather makes me feel gray, literally. I took a picture of this page looking out of my bedroom window, with a view of the grim weather....
















Materials used: sky blue paper, gesso mixed with Lumiere for sparkle, blue water color and black watercolor to make gray. Words and clouds stamped using gesso.

Obey

Obey...sounds easy enough but I know I struggle with this. The rebel in me wants to go against the flow as much as possible.


Materials used: Black tempera paint and gesso to make the grey. I printed my pictures on my laser printer so I could wrinkle it up better, and give it a distressed look. I used stampin up doodle stamps again with a white ink pad. "Obey" is done with stickers.

Venti Iced Vanilla Soy Latte

Ok, so I am a total Starbucks addict, I admit it. I love my Venti Iced Vanilla Soy Latte.
I just switched to drinking soy after reading "Skinny Bitch".
Milk, they say is basically poison. Terrific. I might add that they say coffee is equally horrifying but, alas, I won't give up everything!


Materials used: Gesso,mixed with a cream and brown making memories paint, some prisma gold powder, all smeared around with my hands,white correction pen, stampin' up doodle set, brown ink.

Martin Luther King....

I made this today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
My son really took to heart all that he has been learning in school about MLK jr. His 7 year old mind can't even believe there was a time when all people were not treated as equals. Thank God for that.






Materials used: 6x6 paper, a vintage recipe, the lid of the puff paint to make small circles. Black water color for drippy paint, red staz -on pad just stamped directly on the paper and some vintage glass glitter for sparkle.