Merry Christmas!!!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season.

acrylic on canvas

60th Wedding Anniversary

Last weekend I was in Connecticut celebrating my parents 60th Wedding Anniversary ~ what a blessing.

Mixed media on Arches watercolor:

July ~ Mixed Media

Flowers are watercolor on Arches; background is gesso and acrylics...

Happy Father's Day

Hope all the Dad's are enjoying their special day.  :0)

Happy Valentine's Day

Today's post is a Valentine's Day card I made for my parents.   For the hearts I used watercolors, gold embossing powder, glaze and glitter; and glued them to foam to raise them off the paper a bit.  The background is watercolors, Unryu paper, Golden matte medium, shimmer acrylics and acrylic paint.  Thanks for stopping by.  :0)

Simon Says Stamp challenge:  Young at Heart http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/

Hope Everyone has a Wonderful Holiday Season

Happy Holidays!

Clean and Simple Mudroom

Thanks to the hard work and vision of my sister, brother and brother-in-law, my parents little entry way has transformed into a lovely mudroom.

Happy Autumn

A little pumpkin card painting on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed watercolor paper.

Shell Watercolor

In between crafting cards and sketchbook painting, I continue to work on watercolor skills through Anna Mason's online tutoring.  My painting below was done on Arches Watercolor  Hot Press ~140 lb paper.

Mini Flowers

Here's a greeting card I painted with watercolors on Arches 140 lb paper.  I mounted the watercolor to the beautiful Paper Temptress Whip Cream paper and the fun Jellybean Green paper. 

Thanks for stopping by today!  :0)

Lollipops

Last Thursday was the start of an online class I'm taking in watercolor pencils with Dion Dior.  Like so many people I've had some of these pencils stashed away for several years unused and unloved.  Out they've come with the start of class and here's my first project for week one:

Thanks for stopping by today.  :0)

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Owl Friend

It's been a while since I've pulled out my Copics for a card; shown below is a digi image from Tiddly Inks that I colored on Cryogen White paper, a long-time favorite of mine.

Framing my image is a gorgeous paper called Copper Metallic Glossy; I recently purchased two sheets of this paper, and already feel like I want to purchase more backups since I cut into one.  Does anyone else have this hoarding tendency with art supplies?!  Paper Temptress was kind enough to send me the beautiful Autumn Leaves screenprint that I've used here.

There's a lot of shimmer and shine to both the papers, and these photos give some idea of how the brilliant colors change with the lighting.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  :0)

Mandala Card

I'm taking an online course with Dion Dior on using Twinkling H2O's, and this card is my interpretation of one of her lesson plans.  It's an abstract Mandala but my husband thinks it looks like a roulette wheel, lol.   I used 100# paper to frame my painting; the paper is called Whip Cream and I ordered it during the Paper Temptress summer sale.

It's difficult for me to capture the sparkle of the paints, but there's a bit of twinkle throughout the painting.

Thanks for stopping by ~  Ann  :0)
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Thank You Notes

It's been a while since I've posted here; I've been making some things, but I keep forgetting to take pics and post to my blog.  I'm currently taking a class in wire wrapping jewelry with my creative friend Beth.  :0)  This wire wrapping is not so easy. The instructor has us working with half hard silver, and I'm wondering if it would be easier to start out with dead soft silver as a beginner ~ anyone know ~ what do you think? .......  I've made a few cards using some paper that I just purchased during the Paper Temptress sale, and I may have to go back to get some more of the Avalanche White Linen; I love the texture and the shade of white.

****Paper Temptress Sale****

There is a sale going on now over at Paper Temptress  30% off everything from now through Monday, July 7, 2014!!!! It's the perfect time to stock up!!!   Go here for sale!

A Little Art Everyday

Like most people who enjoy art, I get the urge to create something almost every day.  However, many days I push aside that urge because I feel too rushed, too tired etc. to create my idea of how a final work should look.  I'm taking a cue from so many people in social media who encourage people not to worry about the final outcome but to create without regard to the final result.  So today I pulled out some watercolor pencils and one of those water brushes (I forgot what they're called but the nature of their in-preciseness makes them an ideal choice for a loose watercolor painting).

I got slightly distracted during the sketching when I spotted these two outside and had to run and take a snapshot:

Have a good day; thanks for stopping by.  :0)

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Happy Father's Day

For many years while growing up our family took a two week summer vacation to Castleton, Vermont.  We would stay on beautiful Lake Bomoseen, swim in the crystal clear water and go for boat rides.  I have wonderful memories of those family vacations and painted this watercolor card for my father with those memories in mind.  I hope all the Dads enjoy a peaceful, relaxing and joyful day.

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Love Owls

I was sent some fabulous paper by Paper Temptress and I made an anniversary card for my parent's with it:

I used Laser Gold Glossy Lustre and Blu Rasberry and added some Glossy Accents to the hearts.  Thanks for stopping by.  :0)

Watercolor Pear

......More practice for me in improving watercolor skills........I've been meaning to post this painting for a few weeks and kept forgetting to photograph it.  I painted it on Arches 140 lb. hot press paper using watercolors:

I'm taking online watercolor classes with Anna Mason and this is my painting following her class called Watercolors with WOW.

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