Paint Party Friday

Ok......So I finished the art early this week and here I am late posting it. I sure wish I had a way to organize my brain! 

Now to the once again late ART :0) 

These are little tags I have made out of recycled laminate samples.

When they changed out the laminate samples at work last year I brought a semi-small rubbermade tub of them home. Saving them from the dumpster. I had no idea what I was going to do with them but I knew I would come up with something. 

Here is what the other side of these look like

They will make adorable key chains or gift tags, book markers, even a necklace if you got creative. 

I'm playing with printing my art info and email  and gluing it to the backside.

Nothing firm yet but they are fun to make :0) 

they are only about 1 and a half inches by 2 inches.

Linking to 

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

Paint Party Friday and Butterfly Effect

It's Friday again and here I come ... sliding in at the last minute with my post for the week :0/

The theme at Butterfly Effect this week is 

Frida!!!! 

So here is my rushed piece....some week I am going to start early...I really am :0) 

It's another 5x7 inch blank note card done with acrylics on watercolor paper. 

Since Frida is the theme this week I thought I'd share a photo of my youngest grandson and a fabric doll I made his mom when she was about his age...

They have turned onto  Frida..

I love this  photo of him!!!!!

Linking yo

http://whisper-to-whirlwind.blogspot.com/

and

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

Paint Party Friday and the Butterfly Effect

Another week has passed and I haven't blogged at all since last Friday :0(

It's been busy.....I mean really busy in a good way. 

The Granddaughters came and stayed last week end. A Fun 3 days! So much fun I forgot to take pictures. 

The rest of the week was divided up between my outside job that puts food on the table...and my crocheted hat challenge. I have committed to make 25 hats for charity and my personal goal is to get 50 done. I now have 16 hats crocheted :0) 

Enough about me and back to the art :0) 

The challenge at Butterfly effect this week was non-dominant hand art. 

Can we say SCARY! 

I started out with faces drawn on phone book maps.

Then I attached them to watercolor paper with Liquitex matte gel....

The last one I glue face down so it was looking the other direction.

Then I started painting it using Water soluble Oil pastels. 

I'm really not good with my left hand at all....but I was having fun.  I decided I wanted a brighter and bolder background so I used soft pastels and clear gesso.

So there he is all bold and bright and slightly cross eyed :0) 

Linking to :

http://whisper-to-whirlwind.blogspot.com/

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

Paint Party Friday and The Butterfly Effect

It's Friday again!!!!

Time for two of my favorite challenges. 

Every week I say I'm going to get down earlier and it never happens. Something always happens and I rush in at the last minute. 

So here I am again squeaking in at the last minute. 

This weeks challenge at The Butterfly Effect was:

"STAR TREK" 

This has been one of the most fun projects I've done in a long time.

It's a mixed media project to the max and I think my oldest grandson is going to really like this one. 

First I did the background using two of those fantastic tint patterns I'm alway taking photos of at work.

I printed them on tissue paper and glued them to a 12 X16 inch canvas board.I tried really hard to draw a good "Enterprise" but after several failed attempts I printed one on another sheet of tissue paper and glued it to the picture. 

Then came Capt. Kirk :0) he turned much better than my space ships.

So I'm linking this to:

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

and

http://whisper-to-whirlwind.blogspot.com/

now I'm off to check out great artist at both sites :0)   

Paint Party Friday... I made it :0)

Was beginning to think I wasn't going to make it today. The computer has been off line all day and I was becoming rather unpleasant about the whole situation.

Was anxiously awaiting for my computer master to get home from work and fix it.... and then it wouldn't fix :0( 

He fiddled and faddled and used some very harsh words and then Wa Laa!! It started working again. 

So here's my little acrylic painting on a 5 x 7 inch watercolor paper blank note card. 

It's thundering outside :0) I sure hope it really rains this time..

Linking to: 

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

My Birthday Art...Sorta :0)

Remember My Birthday Necklace?

My Birthday was last month and my daughter gave me a beautiful necklace she bought while in Africa:)

Here I am wearing it at the birthday party. 

I knew I wanted to create a background to hang it on  my wall. 

So this is what I ended up with and I am very happy with it :0) 

I found a piece of scrap plywood at work that had the shapes of the leaves in the wood pattern and best of all it was free. Wish I had taken a photo of the wood before I did anything to it. 

I stained the main parts of the wood and then made a stain glaze for the leaves. then I went over everything with a brown glaze and then a golden glaze. I then waxed the whole thing with paste wax and glued flat rope around it for the frame. I love it!!!

The heat is still with us so I'm spending lots of time indoors which is weird for me. I go out in late evening to tend to the garden for a bit and move the sprinkler about. 

Stay cool this week ! My project for this week is to clean and organize my studio so I can set up the new sewing machine and move my computer in there...can you see me happy dancing? 

Studio is still tore up so this will also be my link for 

Paint Party Friday 

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

Paint Party Friday & Butterfly Effect

It's Paint Party Friday 

& 

the Butterfly Effect

Didn't think I was going to make it this week. I've been working the closing shift all week and that really messes me up. The temps being over 100° every day hasn't helped either. Yesterday was 110°!! And it's only June! 

So much for the whining and on to the art. The theme this week at Butterfly Effect was the 80's. Who says the 80's more than 

Cyndi Lauper?! 

Not my best but it was fun. Might work on the hair a bit more ..we'll see.

Linking to:

http://whisper-to-whirlwind.blogspot.com/

and

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/