World Card Making Day

First Saturday's of the month are truly wonderful. It is the
day we meet for the town Girl Scout meeting. It is truly a rewarding experience. We have so many girls and each and everyone is terrific.
There are so many girls we break into stations with from 10 to 20 girls in each station. Today we made little books of the Girl Scout Law. Of course I
look and study each project that the girls do and look for places that I can apply them in my art! Look for some of the ideas in my future swaps!

When I returned home I navigated to the Caardvark site to join in the celebration of "World Card Making Day" There is some great work shown on this site. It's a great source for inspiration, there are so many artists featured with different techniques and styles!

Have a look and let me know what you think.
http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/

Please leave a comment for a very special gift!

Enchanting

Life is full of some wonderful moments, however time seems to pass so quickly. Before this day becomes just a memory, I had to create something to share. Therefore, I have create an "Enchanted Clock" for this weeks Artchix lottery.
I had so much fun selecting the Artchix images to use for this enchanted piece of art!
The bird at the top is a likeness to those wild love birds that I feed in the backyard everyday! Their melody is so loud it makes one feel they are in an enchanted garden, not the middle of the desert!

The Week In Swaps

......The Rolodex Swap!

How Fun... Mae West Quotes......

Labels came in........Create Art

Traded Fashion Cards

Picked up the Dolls

And to finish......Numbers !!!!

Trick or Treat

Halloween is so much fun. In pass years, Gabrielle and I would pack up our costumes, jump in the car and drive straight to Dallas. The neighborhood that my sister lived in was spectacular for Halloween. They would host a community event which included a pumpkin carving contest, a barbecue in the park for the children to have dinner, and then they would throw the kids up on the truck to give them a hay ride. The little ones would then grab their bags and trick or treat through out the neighborhood. There would be creepy music playing in the streets. It was like a huge block party. In fact this is me my costume one year!

This year I am having a little house guest! So I am planning a very

festive environment . So I have found this great table cloth and matching curtains at SAS for a song, so I had to buy them....... They are going to look so festive with the cauldron and the dry ice brewing.... What fun!

Bon Voyage

Well girls, I am sure going to miss you. It's time for your trip to Canada. I know you will have a warm reception when you get there........ Before you know it, it will be time to move on to your new home.

Friday Night on The Town

It was Motorcycle Night down on Main for this 2nd Friday. The festivities were extended to anything on two wheels, so we decided to jump on the scooter and have dinner on main. We went to sweet cakes and had sandwiches and cookies with the bikers! It was an exciting night. There was live music and lots of activities. The street was packed both with bikers and onlookers. It was one of the busiest nights that the city has had!

Of course, I had to go into Mystic Paper...While there I had to sign up for the next swap............"Altered Spoons"

Quotations

I cannot resist an ATC swap, especially if it's a Mae West quotation swap. Mae West was known for her great lines. So before her time. She was always wearing great clothes,too. I found this image in an auction catalog and thought it would be fun to use. Her name symbolizes her larger than life status. I love using black and white images, it's fun to do a little bit of creative make up. I gave Mae a line of Deep Navy eyeliner to make the whites of her eyes brighter, and a soft delicate pink blush. I actually put her in a blue dress and painted her nails red. Notice her her bling. You don't think it's over the top, do you?

Paper Roses

I have such a strong passion for creating art. It can be very challenging and also very rewarding. For example ...This rose~

This is my first paper rose! This particular rose has been on my mind for a very long time. One day last winter I sat at the table and thought that it was time for it to bloom.

The accomplishment that I felt afterward was tremendous.

The reward - it's beauty.

Creating paper blooms takes practice and patience and perseverance...

and ultimate glue!

Create Art

Holiday weekends are great. There is enough time for
art. I had the luxury of spending the whole day painting,
cutting and gluing.

I spent the day working on a collaborative altered
book project. This is a page from my book.
The background is very faint, however it is a faint map of London.

I thought it would be fun to design a page in the book that would be fun and represent me.

It was very challenging looking at a blank page and do some thing for myself. It is far easier joining a challenge that is picked out for you.

I also completed two pages from another book in this collaboration. The theme of the other book is Pin Ups. I picked a few pin ups to use and created a cute night and day spread.

It was so much fun.

De La Mer

My wonderful friend, Karen, hosted this fun ATC swap. When she asked me if I wanted to participate I jumped at the chance. The art work created for it was exceptional!
I created this sweet mermaiden!
I love the Mer People!


Many exciting things that happened during the summer.
I must share one of the best!
I found the sea in the mail box!
It was contained in this fabulous envelope covered with features from the sea.
It was only a preview of the amazing art which came flooding out when the envelope was opened.

Stop To Smell The Roses

Many years ago, while visiting my sister in Dallas, I attended a workshop to make paper flowers. Since then I have been addicted to these colorful blooms. Today I had the chance to attend another workshop,however, it was here in town. This beautiful bouquet is the end result.
It was an afternoon well spent. There are so many different techniques used to construct each different flower it makes the bouquet so amazing. I am so excited to infuse these techniques in other art projects.
It will be interesting to see what will happen with some brown grocery bags, stamps, inks and maybe collage sheets !
Today's project covered a lot of twisting paper and twisting wire.The most surprising event of the project was creating matching crinkle for the base by taking a plain sheet and sending it through the shredder and the pleating the shreds!

Saturday Artfest

I have several stamps that found their way into my stash that are text and numbers. I use them a lot in scrapbooks. I always love a challenge to use stamps in other projects, so when a numbers swap came up, I was thrill at the opportunity to use them to create an ATC. This is what I was inspired to create, "The Number Five"
The coin stamps are so fun to use, and they are great for using when the cards need to be mailed as they add very little weight. It was fun to create the nickel heads, I used colored pencil and finished them with a silver rub around the edges. It's so fun to see what other cards have been create for the swap!