Artsy additions

This is a spread that I made for Linda Eustace for her "journey" altered book. I challenged myself to take a "journey" around my art room and use images stamped on tissue paper and mulberry paper. Plus a ribbon pennant and some gold scrap!

These are Gothic arches that I made for Heather Robinson...her theme is "anything vintage", so I used a couple of soft, romantic images on fabric backgrounds, the 1st one reads "a mother's kiss, a child's whisper" & the 2nd "the soft blush of Spring upon her cheek". I embellished the pieces with Lumiere paint, silk flowers, & hand-dyed lace.

This is a piece that I completed for the April 18 PW quote challenge. The quotation is "Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come". I distressed a PW image and gave her a little crown, used some Basic Grey "Boxer" papers around the edges, stamped, fringed, & folded a wee bit o' muslin, and stamped a little house on tissue paper. I finished the other side with background papers and then put the quotation there.

This is a combo pic of my Moonbeam Fairy slippers and the little box that I altered to hold them. The box is a round papier mache that I painted with royal blue, turquoise, and silver acrylics. I stamped the blue moon face on some tissue paper and adhered it to the top of the box, stamped on Moonbeam, and added some tiny silver stars. I stamped the words "weaving silver threads among the stars" on tissue paper and glued it to the side of the box. I then drew some silver "threads" and stamped some tiny black stars to finish it off. I sewed a round pillow of silver faille and stamped it with the blue moon face, stuffed it, & put it in the box so the slippers could rest on it.

Just a quickie!

Just wanted to brag about getting an "honorable mention" from Annette Emms for my Moonbeam Fairy Slippers......I was floating on air when I read her nice comment!!!! A little affirmation goes a long way!!!

I'll be sending my slippers to Linda Kunsman and will be receiving slippers from Peggy Gatto....Lotus Blossom Slippers....they are beautiful & I can't wait to see them in person!

This has been, all around, a wonderful project & exchange....due mostly to Carol Stocker - Hostess Extraordinaire!!!!

A fun quiz!

Here's a link to a fun quiz about left or right brain dominance....here's the link: http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/vancouver/left_right/rb_test.htm

These are my results:
Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being:
Left Brain
Right Brain
45%
55%
You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the "whole" picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the "whole" picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed. You probably find it easy to express yourself using art, dance, or music. Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist.

Challenge!

Here is the 5x5 that I created for the PW bi-monthly challenge. We had to use the quotation "If you can't teach me to fly, teach me to sing" by James Matthew Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, as our starting point for our collage. We didn't have to use the quotation on the page, but we had to have the piece be inspired by it. Ultimately, one lucky person, will win a professional binding of their pages into a book...what fun!

The WINNER!!!!

Happy April Fool's day to you all...this is the day the we adults are "allowed" to act like children if we want to...such fun!!!

This is also the day that I announce the winner of my give-away, so let me enter the name numbers into the random number generator...whirrrr, whirrrr, whirrr....ka-ploooo-ey....and the winner is.....#14...RELLA!!!!!

Hooray for you and thank you all for playing this little game with me...you are all winners in my eyes!!!

Come back & visit me often, please leave comments, & be looking for more fun in the future...ta, for now!

Some new pieces for your viewing pleasure (I hope!)

Here are a pair of fairy slippers for my little fairy "Moonbeam" and yes, they are tiny, a little over 3 inches long!!! They are based on a pattern created by Annette Emms, who was nice enough to allow the Paper Whimsy group to use her pattern for an exchange and contest....Annette will be the judge!

We make a pair of slippers and then create a housing for them, all of the posts have been so beautiful! I found this quite challenging but it was so much fun, I'll be finishing pair for myself!

I used silk and other sparkly fabric remnants that I found at JoAnn's, along with Lumiere paints, PW silk ribbon, & beads to create them



Here are two 8x8 pages that I created for Heats on our AB round robin exchange group....her theme was garden-oriented, so I used some new PW images and background papers, rubber stamps, tissue paper, inks, & trims to create them.

This is a page for a pirate-theme book from another AB round robin that I'm in. I used Anne Bonney for my page, according to history, she was a "fierce hell cat" in battle, and told her lover before his execution "Had you fought like a man, you wouldn't have been hang'd like a dog". Quite a colorful character, she had a good friend, Mary Read, and they fought side by side in many battles.

Comments!

Thank you all for your lovely comments, they were such fun to read!

I'm off to take a walk and then work on my Fairy Slippers for a little while. It's supposed to rain/ snow later today, Spring is struggling to get a foothold, but Winter still wants some action!!!

I just found out that 2 of my catz have hyperthyroidism, so we will have to pill them twice a day as long as they are with us. I found some fabulous treats called "pill pockets", you just tuck the pill inside & they eat it....and they really work!!! I was thrilled, it's so much easier that trying to jam a pill into their mouths and getting clawed and hissed at...much less trauma for us all! I just don't understand why they can't make cat pills in yummy fish flavors so they'd like to take them!