Blue Steal

Well, can you tell softball season is starting again? Emma is on a new team called Blue Steal. They asked me to make a run can for the team, so fans can donate a quarter each time a run comes in and the girls can have a party with the money at the end of the season. I found this cute can at the goodwill and the rest of the stuff came from my stash. Go Blue Steal.

Mixed Media Collage

At the CHA show last week I watched one of my favorite artists, Claudine Hellmuth do some mixed collage tags at the Ranger booth, with alcohol inks and glossy accents. I was so inspired I came home and got out my supplies and started playing around with some of her techniques. This is what I came up with. Now I am in the process of doing an entire canvas with steps from one of the Somerset Studio magazines. I'm completely inspired..... You?

Comment Thing

this book was at the Rusty Pickle booth at CHA. I love buttons. I just had to post again, because I removed the comment section by accident and wanted to put it back, so I had to post again to see if it's there again. I added the extra word scramble thing, because I was starting to get spam in my comments section. Yuk! Hope this works. You might have to leave me a comment to test it. hehe! Love the comments!

{ART}

25 zettified me's are going out in the mail tomorrow for a zetti me atc swap. I will be getting back 25 zettified friends from the atc site called themailartist.com. This site as well as atcards.com will be closing their doors at the end of the month. There has been much controversy and panic about when and where we will meet up again, but there are moderators who are setting up new sites as we speak. I like that art is constant though and I can turn to my creativity in times of uncertainty and it is still there. Thank God for creativity.

These are photos of 2 inch squares in the fabric medium (not my favorite) but I am tempting it anyway. They are going to become part of a dress for an altered doll and quilt for:
"the pink artist"
is a community of artists joining together
to create one joint art doll to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
When doll is complete, it will be mailed in to Art Doll Quarterly™
before finally being auctioned off on eBay at a later date. See the site in the upper right of my blog.

{Sweet}

More Valentine's pics. I made cupcakes and used the cupcake tree to display them for my family. I got out some of the ballerinas and hearts that I purchased recently from the cake decorating store. I also altered my photos with the filters on photoshop elements. Faith, hope, LOVE, but the greatest of these is love. 1Cor 13:13. Happy Heart Sweetness to you.

more inspiration from CHA

These were from the Ranger booth at CHA. They are all done on canvases, so here is some good ideas to use canvas other than painting. I have been collecting canvases from garage sales and thrift stores, just haven't known what to do exactly with them yet, now I have some ideas. I love inspiration....

{Happy Heart Day}

Okay, so I had this idea that I got from the "For the love of heArt supplies" swap. I thought it would be fun to make hearts for the kid's teachers and instead of putting in art supplies, put in teacher supplies, like erasers and bandaids, etc. So here they are. Hope they like them. I had fun making them.