Say It With Flowers

Hi everyone.  I'm here today with art for the newest challenge at Try It On Tuesday.

 Since Mothering Sunday is coming up on March 22, and so many mothers love flowers, our challenge for the next 2 weeks is Say It With Flowers.  Of course I realize that you don't have to be a mother to love flowers. 

I'm addicted to making mini-books lately, so today I have a garden mini-book to share with you. 

Sorry for the fingertips in a few of the photos!

My book measures 3x2 inches (7.6  x 10.1 cm) and is made by folding a single sheet of water colored paper into a little book. This particular book is made with the paper being water colored on both the back and the front, so I didn't need to make  separate front and back covers.  I glued the basic book together and then used some green tape around the binding for extra hold.

I did some stamping and coloring to create my designs. The quotes are from TH, and I also added a few plastic gemstones to finish off my pages.

I had fun making this book as it made me think about my garden getting green and blooming, but not until the snow melts.

Be sure to check out the design team art too. If you should need some inspiration, there's lots of  great ideas there.

I also wanted to share a flower page for Second on the Second over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog. I went back to March of 2019 and found this page, which was also made for a different Say It with Flowers challenge at Try It On Tuesday.

Thanks for visiting, and I look forward to your flower art!

Assorted Friday Art

 Hi everyone. Today I have some assorted art to share as we start to wrap up the month of February.

I have another page for Valerie's Heavy metal challenge at Art Journal Journey.

This is also my page for February 7 with Cheiron Brandon at Creative Jumpstart. In this lesson we were creating a story with TH relatives and a created background. 

I decided I was in the mood to collage so I went my own way and used up a few scraps which is how my page came to be what it is.

I made my background by first doodling one night while watching tv. I wanted to do something with this background pattern so I  collaged some printed tissue paper and some left over wrapping paper.  I added a few pieces of  ruler printed tape, a piece of sanded down gold paper (it was too shiny if you can believe that), some word circle stickers as well as these ladies with their apple. This page still needed some more pop and the ladies needed something to sit on so I added the brown metal paper trim as well as the copper medallion. This is the first time I tried out this die and some metallic paper, and I must say I love the results.

I think background is still looking like individual pieces not a complete finished background, but it is what it is going to be, at least for now. Smile!

 My story is about these 2 ladies, Eleanor and Gloria, who are teachers. Eleanor on the left was given an apple by her students. I don't know if that is a worldwide idea or not, but giving an apple to your teacher is a way to show appreciation. She must really be loved because she got one giant apple! Gloria doesn't seem to mind not getting one, but being that big, Eleanor's could be easily shared .

And I have a little more art to share today.

Last Friday I showed you the little frivolous spring book I made (post here if you are interested: Watercolor Book #2)  There were still a few empty pages that I've now completed  from this project, and I thought I would share those today also.

After reviewing my post I noticed how light these last pages feel compared to the my first piece. I guess it's much like this month has been. Cold days and then for a few days earlier this week, some beautiful spring like weather. Now we're back to some colder temperatures.

That's all for me. Have a great start to your weekend.

Watercolor Book 2

 Hi everyone.  

Yesterday I showed you a watercolor book I made  for a class from Creative Jumpstart. I love making little books, so I made a second one. This time I used a warm color palette, and I made it with the intentions of turning it into a story book. The story this time is spring. I can't wait for it to arrive.

I like to think of spring as a time of lightness after all the heaviness of winter. I decided to go whimsical with my images because they're light, fun and playful.

Instead of taping my pages together, I stitched them together. Since I was at the machine, I added some decorative stitching on some pages.

I used all kinds of images to make book. The majority of my images were stamps or punch outs  from AALL & Create and Stampotique designed by Janet Klein, Paper Artsy's Elenazinski and also Studio Light's Art by Marlene. I also used a few quotes from Technique Tuesday.

I still have a couple of pages to finish up, but spring is mentally needed today so I decided to publish what I had finished. That storm that hit so much of the US has now moved in here in New Hampshire. We're not due for too  much snow or ice (we got our ice the other day), but still, it's a reminder that winter is not on her way out yet.

Have a great start to your weekend. And thanks for visiting.

Watercolor Book, First Version

 Hi everyone. 

Today I am sharing a lot of photos from one of my creations for Creative Jumpstart day 21 class.  Andrea Chebeleu was the instructor. 

Andrea asked us to to freehand paint designs with watercolor onto both the front and back of some watercolor paper. She recommended a limited palate so no one would end up with muddy colors.

I have only a small set of watercolors, so I chose the blues and greens in my set.  For me this activity started out with learning a lot about getting various shades and tones with those colors (since I am not  very practiced with watercolors).

After the pages were dry, Andrea  had us cut and then fold out papers. Along with some tape, she showed us how to create little booklets.  

I always want to add details, as you can see on the right front of my little book.

Here's a few of my undetailed pages and also some pages where Andrea asked us to use a pen and add some markings.

Back to this detail thing I previously mentioned. To me this was now a book ready and waiting to be turned into it's own project. As I made this last week, with Valentine's Day still ahead, I decided it needed a love letter theme. I also decided I would only add shades of red paint to contrast with the blue and green, just to keep a limited color palette.

I should also point out that this might be partially why I am not moving along with Creative Jumpstart as fast as I could be. Smile!

My cover is finished above. Here's the pages in my little book.

I went a little over board with daisies. Also please ignore by not so straight pages. It is hard to keep the book flat and photographic straight.

There you have it. I enjoyed pulling out some old stamps as well as drawing hearts.  I had so much fun with this project  I have made a second book. More about that one in another post.

Thanks for visiting.