Busy, busy,busy!!

Well I have been so busy lately. Working on some of these cuffs for a craft fair next month. I just love love LOVE mop buttons. I'm always on the look out for them. I love the feel and texture of them and the way they look. They just give a little umph to whatever I'm working on. I think it's because they don't look like plastic ones. Ya know what I mean? I wanted to make some skinnier ones, wish that would work on my butt!! Ha! But anyways.. I wanted some skinnier ones so I used some webbing, the kind for handles for a bag if you were gonna make one. It's thicker and holds the shape of the cuff when wearing it. A little layering of lace and fabric and some tulle and a stamped image and of course the buttons!!! I used some sew on snaps for mine.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week! It's also homecoming here. My daughters first one so you know I'll share some pics!! Plus the hubby has been gone since last Saturday for a fishing trip to Alabama. He better win, that's all I gotta say!! I'm going on a trip next time! Maybe to California to visit some family and maybe I'll find some California mop buttons!!

Finally feeling better!

Well I'm finally feeling better! I am sooooo glad! That sittin around crap sucks!! So I did manage to finally finish this page in my journal. Even though my hubby was a HUGE help when I was down, sometimes I just feel like I wanna rip his head off!! LOL! He on the other hand didn't find this to funny! Hehe!

Back pain is no fun!!

THis is what you do when you are down in your back with a herniated and bulging discs. I have been so bored I cannot explain it!! I'm sick of t.v! I can finally get up to get on the computer today and actually went to the store in complete pain!! I'll be taking some meds tonight!! So I wanted to share my doodles with ya.

Wish I had more to share with ya, but sleeping and having my family wait on me and my husband do chores is really no fun at all. But they are loving and wonderful and I am so lucky to have them!!

Why is there always such a big space in between some of my pics?? It's so annoying! Does anyone know how to fix it?

Oh I wanted to thank everyone for the wonderful comments on my previous post. So sorry I couldn't get to thank you guys sooner!:( But thank you, thank you, you guys are so sweet and they make my day!!

Ok I'm gonna go lie down thanks for taking a look and I hope you all have a great pain free day!!

Finally a PPF!

Finally I can post on http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com after running around so much this week! I wanted to do my own spin on some subway art for this blank space in my living room. So I bought a canvas that was on sale at Hobby Lobby and painted it black first. Then I decided what quote I wanted to use and I used my Cricut machine and cut the letters using contact paper. I used a removable one so I could get them straight and move them if I needed to. Then I just had some fun! I used acrylics, but I have to say I love oils for a big canvas like this because they move around and blend so much better. I even used some walnut ink and sprayed it here and there.After it was dry I took the letters off I did use some sandpaper just a tad to knock down some of the black in the letters so they wouldn't look so solid. I then used some black soft pastel around the edges of the canvas and sprayed it with a workable fixative. I still need to add a protective sealant on it but it's so rainy and blah here today I'll wait till a better day.

Thanks for stopping and looking I hope you all have a great day!

Where have I been?

Well I have been running my kids everywhere! I thought when school started it would relax a little, but nope. I gotta run here and there and everywhere lately and I finally have a chance to catch up on my blog! This is a journal that I made. I wanted to try my hand at making one from an old book. I covered the front and back with fabric and the inside is watercolor paper. I did a collage on the front cover. I think it turned out pretty good for my first try! I believe I'll be making some more of these!

The first collage on the first page! There is just something about that first page, just to get it started, that I love and couldn't wait to do! It is layers of soft pastels blended with my finger, best tool ever! I added some acrylics with some bubble wrap.

Some charcoal around the edges of page and images and added some doodles with a white gel pen.

The heart map is a vintage map I found at a flea market last summer. I had cut out a heart for something else but saved the negative of it. I knew I would use it somewhere!

Thanks for stopping to look and visit! I do have a painting for Paint Party Friday since I've missed the last couple of Fridays(darn kids). So I will post that on Friday!! Hope you all have a great day and hope something inspires you today!

School is back in!!!

This has been a very busy week! Especially this weekend. Football started for both grade school and highschool so Saturday I spent pretty much the whole day at the football field to watch my son play and my daughter cheer. This is her squad! A bunch of lovely young girls!

This is my painting for http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com. She is on a canvas this time instead of my journal because I wanted to add wax as the final layer. She needs a key to heart if anyone can find one!! The number has absolutely nothing to do with anything other than the fact that I like it there! The background is acrylics and I used some crackle paint on the sides, love that stuff. I've used others and it just never works for me but this one does, I think it's Tim Holtz. Oh I used a layer of vintage pattern paper I scrunched up and glued down first before I painted. I 'm getting ahead of myself today!

I glued down the images and used a watercolor pencil around the images for shading. I'm really loving the watercolor pencils and crayons lately!

I glued down the key and chain with gel medium and used watercolor pencil as well around it. The heart was drawn on watercolor paper and cut out. I used old snaps on the sides of the lock which is paper.

The words are from an old book and the number is a page number from the same book.

The final layer is a layer of wax. This can be addicting! You wanna wax everything! But it was late and kids first day of school today so I had to quit!:( Oh well there is another day! Thanks for stopping by and taking a look and hope you all have a great day!

Busy Busy!!

Well I have been busy around here lately I tell ya! It was this young lady's 19th b-day the other day! 19 boy how time does fly and makes me feel old!! She's beautiful and smart and I love her to death and hope she becomes everything she wishes to be!! The other two are going back to school next week so there's alot of cleaning rooms and getting rid of clothes that don't fit! Fun fun! I have been working on this one here and there this week too! She's catching her jar of hearts! It is another page in my journal that I was doing for http://twinkletwinklelikeastar.blogspot.com Summer of Color. Sadly it is over but there is gonna be one next year so be sure to check it out!

I started with washes of acrylics and then loaded a paint brush with lots of watery paint and let it run down the page. I let the dry and then used stamps here and there. I really didn't like this background and thought it was to bright so after I used the stamps I painted over it with a layer of gesso and it smeared the ink of the stamps but I liked it! It made it all dreamy and soft.

I added the borders on the top and side and then added the woman and her lovely wings and and hat. I drew the jar on watercolor paper and painted it with water color pencils and drew on the hearts and glued it on. I then added the border on the bottom of the tickets.

I drew on the swirl coming from the bottle and painted it with acrylics and added lettering in Sharpie pen. I drew on the hearts and painted them with a paint pen.

I drew on the banner at the top and doodled the circles around the edges. I edged everything this time with a black watercolor pencil but on the woman I used charcoal.

I used a white gel pen for the detail on the swirl and the green border as well.

I thought she turned out pretty neat!

And this is what happens when you walk away for min and leave your art on the washer. Which is where I do my work at. It's the only room with great light! Silly cat!!