stamp art

I have added some new stamps to my collection.

Tim Holtz (above ) has some smaller stamps and I just love them.

What I did with them is make some new mail art.

....and I am just showing snippets.

Another Tim stamp with a gold crown, oh that one is Tim's also. An older one.

Stamp by Catherine Moore and she put's paper dolls on her packaging.....fun!

playin'

Just playing around with some artwork & photo's on the Photo Image program.
Brought this flower back from the dead.

Have to get to work now and quit goofing off. Happy Tuesday to all.

artsy weekend

No, I didn't create any art this weekend. But I did attend the Art's Festival downtown. And it was a beautiful day.

Robin reading a sign.

Flower art! Everything was in full bloom.

Oklahoma City is really a nice, clean place. This week is sewing week. I have bags to get made. Will have show and tell at the end of the week.

shoe art

My old bowling shoes needed an update so I added some new ink and paint to them and thought why not do some napkin college?

So I did!

Now that they look nice and springy.....I hope they help my game.

postcard art

I needed a postcard fo a confirmation of delivery for a piece of art so I whipped this one up. Made of watercolor paper postcard, ink, stamp & stamp pad, bubble wrap and paper napkin.

Next week I am hoping to do something artsy with this.

Have a great weekend....make some art.

I am going to an art show.

mail art

Just a couple pic's of mail art today.

Green for Earth week.

Quilt Guild meeting and lots of errands to do ......so I am tired and looking forward to having Gray's Anatomy back on TV.

travel journal

DH needed a travel journal for work so I made him this one. And of course it has my favorite 56 Chevy on the front. The inside has a picture of moi so he doesn't forget me.....ha!

It's Wednesday and storming here. The only thing I have painted in the last two days is the fence in the back yard. BORING! I know but has to be done and the weather was perfect until it started to thunder.
It's also good weather for sewing, so I will head to the studio after lunch for that. It's humid and I couldn't stand it any longer...had to turn the AC on.

returning birds

Our birds are back. Last year they built a nest of clay on our front porch and DH was going to remove the nest after they left, but I said maybe they would return.....and they did.

It's funny, while the Mom stays in the nest at night, the Dad stays on the back porch on the other side of the house. I don't remember what type they are but they are small and cute and look like they are wearing white t-shirts.

Happy Birthday to the Queen

Happy b-day to Queen Elizabeth today.

Thursday night was my creative stamping class at the Paper Crown.

We had chocolate!

And prizes!

And playtime!

And a good time was had by all.

chicken out!

chicken....... it's what's for dinner.

I read a quote somewhere that said "Food is art you can eat" OK, I'll go for that one.

A busy weekend here. Starting the old spring cleaning. I have been weeding out stuff I need to get rid of and planning a yard sale sometime in the future. Someone in my neighborhood was having a sale and put signs up, so I gathered my stuff and put it out and sold most of it and yay! it's done.

Now I need to wash some windows and maybe finish painting the fence (from last year) I know, it's art studio Sunday, I will try to work in some art (I am in sewing mode) if I have some energy left.

recycle

Before you throw out your junk mail and catalogs, give them another look with your art eye. I do this with catalogs. Clothing and quilting catalogs are the best. I also use colorful envelopes.

Pick out the colorful and fun prints that you like. Cut them into one inch strips and put thru the Xyron sticker maker ( make them just long enough to wrap around the straw) Don't worry about the patterns of the pictures. Use the permanent cartridge in the Xyron. Cut the strip on a diagonal when you remove it from the Xyron. Take a drinking straw and wrap the printed paper around it, putting the straight side on first. Then using scissor's cut the printed part off.

I put this piece on the end of a wooden dowel. Then roll it onto an embossing pad and sprinkle clear UTEE (ultra thick embossing enamel) on it and use the heat gun to melt it. Then dip each end into gold embossing powder and now you have a neat bead to embellish with.

These are beads I made with photo's from the Coldwater Creek catalog. I stamped them and used them as sample's at my stamping class last night. They look like glass with metal ends.

a few dolls

I am showing a few dolls by request. I don't have many of my own doll's and I never took photo's of them so they are few. Winter kitty - above.

A couple of Christmas angels.

Frost-tee, made from cotton batting.

I specialize in angel doll's. This one has copper wings.

Tomorrow I will try to post the art doll that was in Art Doll Quarterly magazine. As for today, it's my creative stamping class so I need to get going and gather all my class supplies. You know, chocolate and kits, and chocolate, and prizes....and chocolate.

Tomorrow is junque mail beauty!!!

texture

I love the look of this raw edge quilt. I believe this is a close up of a flower.

Do you see the beauty of this dying flower? I was eating dinner and I looked at these flowers and thought OMG look at the texture! I like it better this way.

Oops! This picture is sideways but you can still see the texture. I put tons of texture in my rag bagz.

mail art...plus

I recieved this beautiful envelope filled with goodies and something special on Saturday. I love the reaching hands.

Then I made and sent out this mail art with goodies inside.

The goodies that I got......And.....

Joanne made me a desk kitty! It's sooo sweet! Thank you Joanne!

I just love it!

SO CUTE!!!

tag skirt

I have been busy making tags for my upcoming class and you may ask what do we do with all the fun tags we make? Besides putting them in and on art mail, making cards, labeling things, the ideas are endless. Anyway to show them off I made a skirt with them on this wire mannequin form.

Later this week I will show a neat trick. What to do with your catalogs and junque mail, besides throw them away. I will use the color photo's, ect. to make pretty art things.

Tomorrow....is mail art day and I can't wait to show what I recieved on Saturday. And I will show what is leaving here via the mail.

tag.......

Tag....you're it!!

Just a tease, more on tags tomorrow.

checking in.....

Just checking in this Saturday afternoon. New art..... I made this funky stamp last night.

kitty update

Kitty update: She is growing like a weed and getting into EVERYTHING!! But she's soooo cute!

Everyone have a great and artFul weekend!!

Next weeks topic's will include textures, more tag's and what to do with them and some doll photo's by request.

rag bagz

This bag was made for a friend who gifted me with a TRUNKLOAD of jeans to recycle!
This is the back.
Her favorite colors are lime green with black, so I lined it with two of the green prints from the top photo. It's from the new ZA ZA line from Moda. I hope she loves it.
Now I am working on a special order bag for a little girls Birthday.

more pages & sneak peek

Happy hump day! More storms in store for us tonight. DH loves the storms and I used to until it became a near everyday thing.....it's getting old. The photo above is a peek at a new bag I finished and will reveal tomorrow.

Here are two more pages from yesteday's card. The Happy Anniversary tag is on a pocket and you can insert a gift card or money or a secret note. The tulip is a paper napkin and of course there are stamps involved.

tickets...tags...stickers and bubble wrap...oh my!

a couple pages

Update: Storms here weren't so bad.
Here are a couple pages of a special book card I made for someone.
Gotta run.....it's bowling day.

a little birdie

A little bird told me yesterday to skip the art and work in the yard. And I had to because the weather was right (a the yard was in despare). The temps were good...I can't take the heat. And in my mind in early spring there shouldn't be a lot of heat. And I can't be in the sun either, sooo....

I weeded and planted some flowers and of course they were PINK!

DH is home battening down the hatches for tonight's big storm. They are predicting baseball size hail. That's just wrong!

Tomorrow will be some art....I promise.

class sample

Just showing my class sample for my upcoming creative stamping class. It's a tag-in-a-tag. You make a pocket on the larger tag and I will be demonstrating the fabulous tool....the Cropodile. Then you make a smaller tag and insert it into the pocket of the larger tag. I will be using tags to show how to get all the different effects using distress and other types of inks, distressing and embossing,ect. Then we will making tags of the students choices. There will be chocolate and prizes! A lot of fun.

pink artist doll

Here she is in all her glory. The pink artist doll made by Monica at Girl-Gone-Thread-Wild. She did an amazing job and you can see her process and more photo's here.

She is going to be published in Art Doll Quarterly magazine and then auctioned to benefit the Susan G. Komen foundation For the Cure.

I was proud to be a part of this project. You can see one of my squares here. See it? It's the pink one inside the second hoop. Yep, have a crown on my head.

fabric flower friday

Here I am showing some of my florals for my jean rag bagz. They are so much fun to make.

I made rows of cut out flowers on green fabric's. Free motion stitched them to batting for texture. Then sewed them in rows on the bag. Like rows in a flower garden. Then added some random strips of denim for some added interest. This would make a nice bag for a gardener for Mother's day.

And as always......have an artful weekend!

violets

My violets are in bloom. I just love them and the way they spread. One day back in Maryland I wished for violets. I can never find them for sale and I really wanted some and by some miracle they started growing in my yard. So I brought some with me to Oklahoma. They are just so sweet with their heart shaped leaves.

This is a sneak peek at a project I am currently working on. Tomorrow I will show the finished piece.

sunset art

The calm after the storm. Another beautiful Oklahoma sunset. We have two nice days before the storms are expected to be back. I am headed up to the studio to work on something. I don't know what yet, I'll see what grabs me.