Love Bug Valentines from dandee

You may have seen these on Pinterest.. that's where I saw them....be sure to visit dandee's site

Magic Decal Paper Tutorial - from the Painted Hive

Kristine at The Painted  Hive has a beautiful tutorial and free printables as shown in this picute on her web site. 

Be sure to sign up for her mailing list when you're there!

Good stuff!

Many thanks to Kristine for her generosity - this is great information to have.

Custom Thank You Card

Art Journal - Balance

SheArt Girls

Mixed Media Needing Space

Close up - The Long Road Home

This is the close up of the collage I did for my folks - everything in this collage symbolizes his long hospitalization, months in the nursing home rehab unit and his eventual return home, 6.5 months later..

The 6 birds at the top symbolize his 6 children watching over him.

The turtle symbolizes him, the slow process of rehabilitation

The white bird... his goal... flying the coop and getting HOME

The hands... my mother, the ultimate caregiver's hands,

Moon Phases... the passing of time..

white texture... snow... daily trips to visit him, in the worst winter we had in years

The swirly thingies... bits of happiness for each milestone he crossed during his progress.

The raised, hard texture.... because therapy is hard, as is growning older.

As Paul Harvey used to say....And now you know... the rest of the story

Heavy Texture 12 x 12 Canvas

Art Journal - Recipe

Art Journal - Found Poetry

Note to self - stop using glue sticks!

Art Journal - Adding Recipes

Art Journal - Fast Forward in Time

Texture and Layers - Practice Piece

Acrylic Abstracts

Mixed Media Collage

First Attempt at Torn Paper Collage

I know torn paper collage may not look hard... it is ... esp when you use magazine pages... this would have been easier with my own hand-painted paper... but I wanted to give it a shot... will do more... would love to find a video to watch by those who have mastered this art form.

More Flowers in my journal - Mixed Media

 

A close up from my journal page.... spent the morning "painting ahead" in my journal. There's something about a blank white page I just hate.... love to journal on pages with color so I try to work ahead... leaving some white pages in between.

 

Grow - Heavily Textured Canvas

I made this for a gift then decided I could not part with it.

Betty White - My Hero!

Mixed Media - Mary Ann Beckwith Class

Hearts and Flowers - journal pages

The Crow - art journal

More Flowers....

I don't typically draw flowers in my journal but for some reason I'm suddenly drawn to them....

Mixed Media Flowers - Journal

Just playing with flowers and a new pen to see how it writes over watercolor and acrylic.

Quote - Soulmates

"Whatever our souls are made of,

his and mine are the same." 

-Emily Brontë

Mixed media photo transfer using Mod Podge

Mixed media photo transfer using Mod Podge

Wonderful quote - love

"He was my cream, and I was his coffee -

And when you poured us together, it was something." 

-Josephine Baker

wonderful quote

All good things are wild, and free." 

-Henry David Thoreau

Quotes - Dark side

“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature -

that's where the energy is, the passion.

People are afraid of that because

it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.” 

-Sue Grafton

Quote - gratitude

We often take for granted

the very things that most deserve our gratitude. 

-Cynthia Ozick

Wonderful Quote - Aging

"Whether sixty or sixteen,

there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder,

the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next,

and the joy of the game of living.

In the center of your heart and my heart

there is a wireless station;

so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer,

courage and power from men and from the infinite,

so long are you young." 

-Samuel Ullman

Wonderful quote - Life purpose

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." ~ Rumi

Wonderful quote - Mistakes

“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” 

-Sophia Loren

Wonderful quote - Open Mind

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder,

than one closed by belief." 

-Gerry Spence

Wonderful quote - Talent

“Use what talents you possess;

the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there

except those that sang best.”

-Henry Van Dyke

Wonderful quote - Kissing

“When he kisses you he isn't 

doing anything else. 

You're his whole universe..

and the moment is eternal 

because he doesn't have any plans 

and isn't going anywhere. 

Just kissing you...it's overwhelming.” 

-Author Unknown