Art Fun

Saturday afternoon with daughter no.1 painting, and painting and making books!  

Index Card A Day June/July 2012

Tammy at Daisy Yellow is having another Index Card A Day challenge over the months of June and July and I loved this the last time so really wanted to be part again.  I am a little late in posting so here are lots altogether.  It's a great chance to try all sorts of different techniques and thoughts - usually done at the end of the day quite quickly and sometimes more than one at a time!

Encouraged by one of the prompts on Tammy's site  I went for green, trying all the different greens I had in pastels, pencils and crayons.  I also had a go at the Union Jack (another prompt on July 4th!).

Some inky blobs here and some oil pastel circles, a little 'create' in the genre of Traci Bautista

Lots of pastels here

 Pan pastels, washi tape and some doodling

Some acrylic credit card swiped backgrounds

Lots of fun - thank you Tammy.

Thoughtful Friday 168

"Nobody has ever measured,

not even poets,

how much a heart can hold."

Zella Fitzgerald

Little things

I've been looking longingly at Becky Shander's article in Somerset Life and wanting to try my hand at producing a little fabric book necklace and this weekend I had a go.

Wanting to display them on a different background meant I gained a visitor who thought I had got it just for him!

and I experimented with a few more lace colours and words like, Hope, Joy, Peace and Love.
These little books are made with lace folded over with some dryer sheets or muslin/gauzy fabric inside.  Little words hand stamped on other bits of material form the front with the addtion of some pearls, rhine stones and on one (and on Becky's original) a rusty safety pin holds it all together.  Then a piece of string sewn in at the top provides the chain - such a lovely idea.  One of these is going off to a friend tomorrow.

And all the time I had company with me of course!

I love Becky's work and hope you get a chance to pop over there and look too!

Thoughtful Friday 167

“We need, in love, to practice only this:

 letting each other go. 

For holding on comes easily;

 we do not need to learn it.” 

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Thoughtful Friday 166

"Overcome the notion that you must be regular.

It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary"

Uta Hagen

Thoughtful Sunday 165

"We shall not cease from exploration 

and the end of all our exploring will be 

to arrive where we started

-- and know the place for the first time."

T S Elliot

Desire to Inspire Inspiration Deck

You might remember that here I showed 52 cards I made for Jessica's Desire to Inspire swap.  It was another fun project allowing a creative flow of ideas to fall on a pack of playing cards, each with an inspirational thought.  And the swap required us to send in our 52 cards so that Jessica would swap them all around and send us 52 different ones back!  Thank you Jessica for all your hard work!! I think she had over 100 responses!! So here is a glimpse of the lovely set I received:

 I couldn't show them all individually but it is a great selection of inspirational art and words and I am really glad to have them.

The Postcard Swap

Well it's been a long time but here I am again.  Lots of family stuff going on just now, some good (daughter no.4's catwalk collection at CSM and the culmination of her BA is tomorrow at 2pm), some not so good (MIL has had a stroke and the need to visit (4 hours one way) regularly now is something we are doing.

But I have not forgotten the lovely postcard swap that Hanna Anderson put together and from which I received some really beautiful cards which I want to share with you so here they are:

 Such a beautiful mix of style and technique; painting, collage, stitching, mosaic and below are a couple of envelopes I recived too.  One was a couple of book pages stitched together and one was a envelope made from a local map - great ideas.  Thank you Hanna for a really fun experience.

Thoughtful Friday 164

"It takes courage to stand in a place

you didn't know existed...

and learn from a view

you previously couldn't imagine"

Mary Anne Radmacher

Thoughtful Monday 163

"Love is fruit in season at all times, and 

within the reach of every hand"

Mother Teresa of Calcutta