a season of Blessings 22

Hi there! This time of year seems to fly by so fast. Before we know it, we'll be ringing in the new year! I combined a couple different PTI stamp sets to create a trio of Autumn inspired cards to mail off to my loved ones.

I dry embossed the background using an oldie but goldie embossing folder :)

For color inspiration, I joined along with the current the paper players challenge:

 and for sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current Pals Paper Arts challenge:

It's Day 14 of 30 in 30:

Up next is a 5" x 7" painting featuring a pear that was inspired by an online art lesson presented byHall Groat Oil Painting Video DVD course. The lesson is about color theory and harmony. This particular painting focuses on COOL/WARM HARMONY A cool/warm harmony is a four-color scheme involving opposing colors. It’s based on a single pair of neighboring warm colors and a single pair of neighboring cool colors.

Still having fun learning how to incorporate the use of a palette knife. It just adds a whole new look and dimension. I'm also getting brave using more bold brushstrokes:

I'm linking my painting to the Paint Party Friday site:

Thanks so much for visiting ~ I hope you have a great day / evening!
Be Sweet ;)

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just because 18

Hi there! Today I have a couple of very different projects to share. First up is a rather clean and simple card that I made for my dear sister:

I was not only inspired for color by the color throwdown inspiration graphic but also by the fancy flowers featured in the graphic. Here's my attempt to create a felt / paper hand stitched flower embellishment:

Here's  the current Color Throwdown color challenge inspiration graphic:

 and for the card sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current Fusion challenge:

It's Day 13 of 30 in 30:

Up next is a 5" x 7" painting featuring a pear that was inspired by an online art lesson presented by Hall Groat Oil Painting Video DVD course. The lesson is about color theory and harmony. This particular painting focuses on an ANALOGOUS HARMONY which is a color scheme that is defined as a simple harmony and is built upon two or three colors (I limited myself to 2 colors) that are adjacent to one another on the color wheel.  I also incorporated a new technique which is referred to as "fracturing" thatI learned from one of my favorite artists Julie Ford Oliver:

I'm having fun learning how to incorporate the use of a palette knife. It just adds a whole new look and dimension:

I'm linking my painting to the Paint Party Friday site:

Thanks so much for visiting ~ I hope you have a great day / evening!
Be Sweet ;)

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Happy Holidays To You 30

Hi! It's official ~ I've made my first Christmas card for Christmas 2016!!! I'm joining along with the September PTI create Along With Us challenge.  This challenge allows you to select something that the amazing team has created during the release that inspired you and you create your own version.

I was inspired by the beautiful card created by Amy Sheffer. I love the bag full of foliage:

I combined three different PTI stamps including: Winter Swirls, Season's Greetings and Spruce & Sprigs to create version of Amy's card:

I love the die cut PTI seed packet full of Spruce & Sprigs:

For the main sentiment, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from the Season's Greetings stamp set on a die cut label. The die cut tiny tag and the snow flurries are all from the Winter Swirls stamp set:

It's Day 11 of 30 in 30:

Up next is a 5" x 7" painting featuring a pear that was inspired by an online art lesson presented by Hall Groat Oil Painting Video DVD course. The lesson is about color theory and this particular painting is focusing on a monochromatic color scheme. I also incorporated a new technique which is referred to as "fracturing" thatI learned from one of my favorite artists Julie Ford Oliver:

I'm lovin' the loose brush and palette strokes and impressionistic style of this painting and can't wait to start painting another pear in another color scheme:

I'm linking my painting to this week's Paint Party Friday site:

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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You're so sweet. 21

Hi there! I hope you are off to a great start of a new week! Today I have a couple of projects to share that I created for my sweet sister Tina. First up is a rather clean and simple card featuring button cherries along with lots of white space:

I inked up the sweet cherries stem image from the PTI Everyday Button Bits stamp set then stitched on a couple buttons. Doesn't get much easier than that!

It's Day 4 of 30 in 30:

Up next is a 10" x 10" painting featuring a bowl of cherries that I painted for Tina which was inspired by an online art lesson presented by Hall Groat Oil Painting Video DVD course.

I'm so thrilled to have learned how to paint cherries! Now I can incorporate some in my still life floral paintings:

For card sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with the current MOJO Monday sketch challenge:

I'm linking this painting to the current Paint Party Friday site:

Thanks so much for stopping by ~ I hope you have a great day / evening!
Be Sweet ;)

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patina and silver 16

Hi there! I hope you are having a great weekend! The thermometer is still reaching temperatures above 100 degree but I'm chillin' in my craft room with snowflakes on my mind ;) Today I'm joining along with Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2016 Technique Remix September:

Here's my interpretation of the challenge:

Creating the background tag using the Paint Patina technique went well probably because I have created projects using that technique in the past:

as for the Alcohol Ink technique using YUPO paper was a different story. It took several attempts and by the third, I was satisfied. The tag features a variety of pretty snowflakes from Tim's Grungeflakes stamp set along with a Paper Snowflakes die cut layered snowflake:

 Here are a few of my other attempts at the alcohol ink technique on YUPO paper:

It's Day 2 of 30 in 30:

Today I have an 8" x 10" painting to share that was inspired by an online art lesson presented by Hall Groat Oil Painting Video DVD course. The antique silver teapot is one of the subjects to paint in the How to Paint Metal series:

I learned a lot along the way and can't wait to paint another teapot as well as a variety of other metal objects:

I'm linking this painting to the current Paint Party Friday site:

Many thanks for stopping by ~ I hope you have a great weekend!
Be Sweet ;)

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