Wings

I joined a "Wings" swap on the Scrapbook News and Review Site.  I was playing with these two and I love how they both turned out.  So now the decision, which one to do for the swap.  The Butterfly Wings card might be a bit dark around the bottom edges, but next time, I'll try not to be so heavy handed! lol.  Both the cards are done with stamps and distress inks.  I added the white dots which I'm adding to nearly everything I'm doing at the moment!

Cuttlebug - distress look?

Wow, I hadn't realized how long it's been since I posted.  I've been playing quite a bit with the new cuttlebug folders I got for Christmas.  I haven't created a lot of finished projects with them, but having fun experimenting and seeing what I can do.  I did this one with the cuttlebug birthday folder.  I distressed it with white pigment ink and did the edges with a dark brown marvy ink.  I ran the blue cardstock through the cuttle folder too and cut out some of the words to help pop out the word "Happy Birthday".  The cupcake is done with Martha Stewarts punch/stamp combo.  What cool gadgets she makes!! Love this one.  The candle is just made freehand with a bit of ink.  Did I overdo the distressing?  Distressing is just not my forte! 

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  Wishing all my friends the very best the new year has to offer.  I hope all your dreams become reality and all your wishes come true.

We had an incredibly relaxing holidays.  I've never been home during this week in all the years of my marriage.  We've split this week half between my folks and half between my husband's family.  This year, we stayed home and it was simply marvelous.  In the meantime, I've been quite busy this past month and will be posting my art projects that I did in the next couple of weeks.  In the meantime, I've been playing with the gifts I got on Christmas.  One of the gifts I want to give myself is playing with a photo editing program.  In some of my past jobs, I jused to do a lot of creative work with painting programs, but I've been a SAHM mom for more years than I can remember!  There are so many new programs out there and I just want to get back into working with some of these programs again.  I love looking at all the pictures people can do special effects and drawings with.  This year I really look forward to expanding my skill base and techniques and I hope you'll be there with me through this journey!  I wish you all the best on your artistic journey too!!

Faces of my imaginations - Mermaid

This is probably my most favorite face.  Maybe it's the background, or maybe it's her coloring, but she makes me think mermaids.  She's done in various watercolors, just painted on in random strokes.  What does she make you think of?

A new addition to our household

We are expecting a new arrival to our household next week. This cutie is 7 weeks today and we get to bring him home next week. Just in time for my birthday! We'd been looking for a puppy off and on for the last couple of years, but because for one reason or another, it just didn't work out. Finally, we decided that we weren't going to get one unless it fell into our laps. Well....this one did. I got a call last Thursday asking if we were still interested in a puppy. This was a place where we had gone to over a year ago and the last puppy had sold just an hour before we showed up! After a lot of discussion with the family, we went and looked and no suprise, we fell in love. This guy was one of 8. 4 boys and 4 girls. When I held him, I knew he was right one for me. He nearly fell asleep in my arms. He's a mixed breed. 50% lab and 50% golden retriver. Now, the question is how will he do with our older dog. Or should the question be, how will the older dog do with the new puppy? Any suggestions!!

Faces of my Imagination 2

I've been playing with these closeups and here's another I painted using all acrylics.

Faces of my Imaginations 1

I started drawing these faces a bit earlier in the month, but finally got them colored.  I used mostly acrylics with a bit of watercolor.  I think this one's a bit resembling halloween!  Not sure why, but I've been loving drawing and painting these close up faces.  More to come in the next few days.