Merry Christmas!

Christmas is the Season 

The Reason...

Santa 

ATC_Fun Swap 3 for 3...

With all the hustle and bustle, we forget the true meaning of CHRISTmas. Although it is not His real birth date, it is the day given to celebrate it with good tidings. It reminds us to celebrate love. Love entwined with many colors, gold and bling as gifts that were given to Baby Jesus by the Three Kings. 

Santa kneeling before the Christ Child is one of my favorite images for Christmas. May all your celebrations during this Christmas season be filled with joy, laughter and love...

Let It Snow...noooo...Not really!

ATC - 'Let It SNOW'

Just an Artist Trading Card for a Yahoo Group Swap: ATC_Fun. It is a 3 for 3 card trade. Had lots of fun with this one. I started on recycled cardboard. Background is a course acrylic medium with a little bit of blue acrylic(forgot which one-Cobalt?) ..(I don't want any real snow!)

 

After it dried, I worked red, blue and pink into the corners. I fussy-cut five snowflakes, courtesy of Kelly Donovan of:   http://knittingandthings.com/ ...The snowflakes were decorated with gel pens.

The snowflake in the top right hand corner is a punch cut out from wallpaper with glitter glue.

Bird Postcard Swap on MMSA(Mail Me Some ART)

Bird Postcard Swap

Each postcard has a different character/style to it, although the bird is the same. Each bird is created on my son's old MATH schoolwork paper from last year. I used water based pastels. Love how they allow transparency. I drew them with a thin black sharpie.

The fence is wall paper, The background of the one with the washy tape is stamped with a homemade foam stamper with paint.

I enjoy working with mixed mediums.

http://mailmesomeart.blogspot.com/2013/11/bird-postcards-part-1.html

Two new swaps for ATC_Fun Yaoo group.

Fall Colors Swap 3 for 3

I joined another Yahoo ATC group that is very active with wonderful swaps. it is a hopping group. I want to join all of them but don't have the time to create them! This one looks simple but there was a lot of work behind it. I used pastels on Text book leaves cut by my Big Shot. The tedious task was the edging each contour of the leaf. Background is gold metallic paint with stamping. 

Fantastic Fish Swap 3 for 3

The second exciting swap I signed up for, back to back! Had lots of fun with this one. The little fish isdone with watercolor pastels and some turquoise colored BIC ball point pen(my sister found them for me!!!). The fish was then given a coat of glass bead gel medium by Golden. Background was tissue paper strips cut into wave-like motion with some more ball point wave action and stamping of fish and circles for bubbles.

Can't wait to get theirs in return!

All about what makes you happy!

Post Card to Karen Isaacson of Mail Me Some Art in MA.

Scrap paper background is from my sister's construction company. It is a time sheet of sorts in which the Carpenters document the hours they worked in different areas. I help my sister by tracking the hours for the Project. I used it as a 'catch all' page and then doodled on it.

I applied water soluble pastels then added some metallic gold pen to the hand doodled cross hatch grid. Die cut flowers were collaged on...Made me HAPPY!

I sealed it in gloss medium to keep the water soluble pastels from reactivating if they get wet in transit. This post card is being sent to her randomly...Love her website: http://mailmesomeart.blogspot.com/

My Happy Place

MY Happy Place Postcard #1

is on it's way to the State of Washington!

One discarded tracking sheet from a construction company used as a place mat...When it looked really yummy with all the different markings, paint, etc., I doodled on it with no direction or plan. Stopped and used watercolor pastels...added outlined sketches of a butterflies then added die-cut butterflies, collaged. Stamped leaf patterns in green all over the postcard. The pattern made the butterflies pop.But felt they needed something else so I out line them with watercolor markers, blended them slightly and blotted them. The green butterfly is painted with a gelli dimensional paint while the other outlined ones were glittered. Hand written letters in metallic paint:  'Happy Place'. 

 

Covered the postcard with glossy gel medium. After viewing a photo of it, I noted that the stems and leaves needed more color on the tulips. They were painted with a green glitter gel pen. Metallic gold paint pen was used over the doodled checkered pattern. 

 

This postcard was created without a game plan. I went with the flow without any stress...my happy place...

An ATC for Jenn of Mixed Media Jenn

ATC- Pink
Tissue paper, acrylic paint, Jelli paint, glitter glue and gemstones

Made another tissue paper collage. Each blade of grass and each flower petal are glued down individually. The back ground was painted with corrugated cardboard on a sheet of brown paper. I doodled with India Ink and White Copic paint using a fountain pen.  This one will be heading down to Pennsylvania to Jenn of Mixed Media Jenn. 

She posted a video of a cool  beach themed ATC being created. We connected and are trading with each other. Can't wait to get hers!