I'm back

Ok, it's been a LONG time since I posted anything. I've been creative (off and on) but forgot about the blog. Here's a card I made for my sweet regional manager. She surprised me this weekend with a lovely card and gift. Since we work for AFLAC, the duck image inspired me. The image is from Land of Nod Studios.

Also, I made a digital collage a couple of weeks ago since there is an Alice craze right now. It's always been a favorite of mine so I'm glad people are reading Alice in Wonderland again. The images are from vintage images, Sherrie Drummond, and Ilene Alexeeva.

Quilted Owl Pillow

Here is a pillow I made last week. I just need to stuff it. It's pretty good for my first quilting experience. I'm terrible at freemotion quilting but the owl pattern itself is so cute and I love the colors. The pattern is from the book: Be Attitudes by Nancy Halvorsen. I'm hooked on her patterns!!!

Photoshop... Orton Technique

I just installed a coooool action from: http://coffeeteaphotography.blogspot.com/ called Orton.

It was deveolped in the 80's by a photographer named (Michael?) Orton who took two slides of the same thing, one being out of focus, put them together and printed. It makes this beautiful, etheral photo. Click on the image to enlarge.. It looks much better that way :)

More funky artwork

I made a few more paintings. I know most people think they're weird but I had fun creating them and love the bright colors.

Art inspired by Lisa Kaus

Lisa Kaus is one of my favorite mixed media artists. I found a banged up canvas in my closet and decided to try to recreate her work. I'm not crazy about the dark green thing on the right side but it was too late to fix it. Her work is usually on wood. I used collage elements, and oil pastels. I'm going to coat it with beeswax tomorrow...

Nest of Phoebe's

Here's a scrapbook page of a nest of birds on my porch. The mother bird was dive bombing me whilst I took the pictures!! Here's a link to purchase the digital kit I used.

http://scraporchard.com/market/product.php?productid=18074&cat=0&page=1

Two new digital pages

Here's the first one... I took the boys and their friend Ben to the free skate park twice this past weekend. They had a blast.