i finally found my frog prince....

here is a sweet cookie jar i found garage saling a couple of weeks ago...poor guy still has his $4 price sticker on him..lol!!

The green collages

Here are the two completed "green" collages. I played with my photoshop images that are floating aroundevery where....the fish boy even got published...yay!..although no credit was given to me...that was a bit of a bummer...anyway i have fun with these....making themand then playing with them...i just realized i can only post 5 images per post...so read below for my artful day and night yesterday...I used my new crepe paper for the flowers and the "seaweed"...what fun stuff!

An Artful day.....and night?...

I had a wonderful day yesterday. It started out early! I had to get baby Jon to the dentist at 8am so he could have a filling put in. Come to find he had two fillings with one needing a pulpectomy....a baby tooth root canal...eeeek~ poor little guy....but he sat there like a little trooper and did not peep one tiny bit! He is now pain free...i think!

so then i came home and hung out and dinked around in my studio a bit, got some package ready to mail and decided that when i dropped Turner off at Sylvan that i would stop in at Hobby Lobby and see if they have crepe paper..and also to check out the Love Elsie stuff every one was raving about....I think Elsie is an adorable and amazing and talented young lady...she is a mere 23(correction 24 going on 25..geesh that is so old..ha!) years old...the same age as my oldest Stephanie(okay pretty darn close). Any way...she is very inspiring and so cute...dog gone it it should be a crime to be so cute..lol!

I keep seeing these adorable crepe paper creations on Flickr...so i had to buy crepe paper...I am obsessed with trying some things out...as you will see i made a few things with the green i bought...well i bought every color they make...rofl! I also bought some stencils and some other fun stuff to play with!

So after an hour and a half of wandering around HL..i bought a pile of stuff...every color of crepe paper, some of Love Elsie's rubberstamp set which i put to use in my two collages...what a fun font~ I also bought the latest Cloth Paper Scissors...my new friend Linda Cain has some art in there...so for my afternoon tea i will sit and read that...and also i bought Elsie Flannigan's 52 challenges book...looks fun! I figured since i need to get familiar with the scrapping world...having assignments would be a great way to do it...i realized that is how i work best...tasks..give me a list and give me tasks! I made more messes of course..dumping out flowers and all sorts of fun stuff!

I also hung up my huge butterfly kite and hanging lights from my mom in my studio...and i completed two collages that i am going to submit for Somerset Studio's green issue....and i got Jeri's art printed and mounted on the wood...it should be dry and cured enough to cut it out today....and a third image for a third canvas. If i mail the collages by Thursday I will be able to get them there by Monday's deadline!
any way here my pics for today.....oooh! I almost forgot....my frog prince cookie jar i found at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago...i have been meaning to share him since...

two more and i am done for tonight....

okay here are two more tiles...and it is almost 10 and i am pooped...but i have to say 6 pieces is a great accomplishment~

Christine's 'robin egg blue and orange' and Heather's 'flowers'

It's an Art frenzy..on MY!!!

okay i am really screaming tonight..ha ha...well what started as ...I am going to do 15 minutes if nothing else, sort of got the roll going...a long time coming roll!..phew!

first of all I got the collage part done for a commission, Jeri who is quickly becoming a great friend asked me to create an angel pin for her, using a picture of herself as a child. She had stated that she loves teacups, green, teddy bears, fruitcakes and wanted the caption of girlie girl some where on it....such a kindred spirit i swear....so i created, so far, a mini collage of her sitting on a teacup with a teddy bear sitting on the base...tonight i will print it out and get it adhered to the wood so it can cure over night so i can cut it out tomorrow on the scroll saw.

Well, then i started playing with more of the tiles for my local group the Altered Sisters...so far i have gotten 4 more done...Joanne's bird themed one, Lorri's houses, Lynn's alphabets and Fontayne's fnatasy in cool colors

okay off the computer and back to the drawing board..it is way too much fun to be creating yeah!!

i DID some ART!!! yeaha

okay i finally just made myself hit my studio. I have some swaps coming due soon so i need to get to work! Today i made one out of 10 tiles for my local Altered Sisters group. this one is for Catherine..she provided the bingo card,the checkered border,stick and bingo chip to be used for the artwork..other than that we could do anything..phew1 what a fun ice breaker....so now i have about 10minutes to pick up the house before Art gets home..lol~

practicing

I have got to get myself used to this blog thing..lol! So this morning a report on our new puppy Oscar...he is crazy and silly and soooo sweet. He just cracks me up! His little pitiful whine in the morning when he heard me get up was just too hard to resist. Of course he didn't want to potty he wanted to play~ Ugh this housebreaking things is the pits...our house is so big i can't keep track of himand sure enough before I find him he has left his little pile or mark...*sigh* I don't want another dog that thinks the whole house is a toilet...did that too many years with Mitzi...she never was housebroken. It took me too many years to finally realize and admit it...then she was so stubborn about it and then went senile and became worse....*sigh*

I hope today i can get myself to sneak in some art time...i miss it so bad, but because i have waited so long, now i feel rusty at it...and it is getting harder to be motivated to come play. I do have some swap things i need to do...so i will use that deadline as my inspiration...lol!

oh crap..I forgot about a scavenger hunt one...ACK! I better do that one first~

i hate when i get this way...forgetful and behind on things...although it was a rough week last week with Mitzi being put to sleep and everything...ugh...how sad...okay off to get ready for the gym....