After two years away from the blog, I'm back. It has been a very stressful two years, but things are finally back to normal for me. What has happened? To make a long story short, a multi-steps move to a new home in Montana, near loss of my dear husband to heart failure, his retirement, and losing my mother to Alzheimer's disease. Plus a host of smaller things. But now all is good. Hubby's health has improved and we are finally settled into our new home and are loving it.
With this new start, I am going back to an old commitment: art every day. I returned to this on June 1st, so this post (and the next few, as well ) will be my catch up of all the first 24 projects completed. And, of course, the daily project, too. Onward ...
Item 1/365. (Item one of the 365 for this year.) This greeting card was inspired by a card made by Jennifer McGuire. The bird houses are 6 layers of cardstock thick, cut from a gorgeous die, as are the cute little birds. The branch is hand drawn. The leaves, bushes and sentiment are stamped.
Item 2/365: This greeting card was inspired by Sandy Allnock. I saw her use some Brusho (which I had just gotten) and this looked like a great way to experiment with the powder. Her card was MUCH nicer -- she is a terrific watercolorist and I'm just a dabbler -- but I was pleased with the experiment and will work with the Brusho powder a lot in the future.
Item 3/365: A new white stamp pad was the inspiration for this greeting card, with white "grasses" stamped onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock. I used a bit of scrap cardstock as a paint "brush" to add the black scratchy lines, a little sentiment from a Tim Holtz package. It was a fun, quick card that I really like.
Item 4/365: Back to Brusho. Here, mostly sprinkling onto wet paper, then wetting the powder even more. Fun and the results were unpredictable, which I also enjoyed.
Item 5/365: And even more Brusho. The powder is so much fun and gives really interesting abstract results when sprinkled and wetted with a fine spray.
ITtm 6/365: Brusho, once again, but this time on top of a die cut series of hexagons that were cut, painted separately, and reassembled. If this were larger, it would be hanging on one of my walls.
Item 7/365: A small watercolor painting of grasses in the early morning sunlight fronts this greeting card. Multiple strands of fiber cross the front and are anchored by a decorative button.
Item 8/365: Inspired by Leslie Weinrich (the frugalcrafter), this card is made of patterned papers cut with a hexagonal punch and assembled to resemble a hex quilt. Then, I embossed the entire thing to resemble quilting lines. It was fun, fast and looks very "quilty."
More to follow. It is so good to be back!
