12 Days of Christmas with AAWA

AAWA is my art group that is all over the US. We open one gift a day the 12 days before Christmas.

These snowflakes were opened on the 3rd day of Christmas and they are from Jean.

This is Jean's pretty handmade packaging. Jean is from Florida.

This is Julie's pretty stitching on our day one gift. Julie is from Texas.

This is my little Christmas tree before all the gifts were put under it and I
am putting many of the 12 days gifts on my tree.

This is Yooper's Day 2 gift. It is a cute little magnet on my fridge.
Yooper if from Florida.

Our Local 2nd Saturday Altered Book Club Christmas Party

Our altered book club had our Christmas Party Saturday. We made handmade gifts and put numbers on them and had fun opening them.

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This is Jean's wreath to Charlotte with stick pins. She designed it for them to be removed from the wreath and cards to be made from them but I would be hard pressed to take them off that pretty wreath.

 

 This pretty box that Linda made was given to Martha one of our newer members and she is a paper doll collector and maker. She said that she would probably put a doll and her clothes and toys in the box.

 

These vintage Vargas girls paper dolls were Martha's gift to Pam. They are dressed in vintage wallpapers.

We have an art exchange each month and these are mine from Dorothy and Jean.

This is the configuration box that I made and Jean received this gift.

Martha, Karen, Linda, Pam Jean, Charlotte and Dorothy

Hopefully I will get one of the other girls photos because I didn't get in any of these.

Pam's stained glass bottle to Linda.
 



December's art exchange to Pam. Woodland theme.

Sorry but this photo is blurred and doesn't show off this beautiful canister set
that Dorothy made and Karen received.

Jean opens my gift to her.



Roxie's gift to Nancy which is a box with little folders inside to
hold pictures and I LOVE it! Thanks, Roxie!


 

Dance in the Rain

I have not had a lot of time for art lately but here is my latest art that I did for Roxie in My Altered book club. Her book is an artist choice so I had fun doing a face and some flowers.  She also wanted a quote in our layouts for her book so the quote is on a Tim Holtz stamp. I think she looks like she is in the rain trying to learn to dance in spite of her circumstances. That would certainly be what I am going through right now! We are taking care of my DH's 90 yr. old Mom and she has dementia. We have good days and bad days but we try to make the best of them. Hope Roxie and you that see this enjoy the art! I had fun doing it!

Mix It Monthly Challenge - Still Life

This was a magazine picture that was the inspiration for my still life drawing.

This is my still life of jars and bottles and it looks like it is on my back porch table. We have white siding on our house too so
I can just picture these old jars and bottles on an old antique table on our back porch. I was trying to get into the color scheme so I decided to use some packing tape that I had made on my Gelli plate to one of the bottles.
I hope you enjoy my still life. I had fun making it.

Another crazy dress for Mix It Monthly

I had to do a tag for a friend in my Altered Book club so I did this one. It is from a book which I don't remember the exact title but I purchased it for my 9 year old Granddaughter. It was something about the art of Zentangles. I did a head drawing in my sketch book and so did she and she did quite well. Wish I had taken a picture of it before she left but alas I forgot to. We had fun all weekend with that book. One of the pictures was of a fairy zentangle dragonfly bride. I changed her some and made her into a butterfly bride as my friend, Jean wanted a tag with butterflies and flowers on it for her piece of art that we do in our local altered book club. She has red hair which is a nod to another of my lovely Grandgirlies. I hope Jean enjoys her and I hope that you enjoy looking at her. After I did her I realized that she would fit right into that crazy dress theme that Mix It Monthly has going on so I will add her to the links there.

Mix it Monthly - Crazy Dress

I had to do an altered book for my friend, Char in my altered book club and her theme is Seasons.
Lots of people have worked in her lovely altered book and most of the seasons had been done. So I looked at Pinterest for some design inspiration for Seasons. I saw in there that an art teacher had dressed the Mona Lisa for the Seasons in the classroom. Well that inspired me to dress some famous characters for the seasons and I thought that I might could combine it with Mix It Monthly's theme of crazy dress. So I chose American Gothic for my characters to dress. I painted over them with gesso and drew their outfits onto them. The Spring outfit is the crazy dress for Mix it Monthly. The flowers
were from Easter Seal stamps and I found the Summer drink in some of my Summer stuff. The Winter one has glitter snow on it. These were fun to do but were quite the challenge! I figured the original American Gothic would be perfect for Fall. What do you think?

Mix It Monthly - Theme sailboats

Here is my art for my online group, AAWA (An Affair With Art) where the theme is Bright Sunny Day and for Mix It Monthly where the theme is sailboats. I had to do 3 4x4s for my online group and they are all similar but just a little different. Here is the one that I liked best because the sailboat is in the middle of the sun. Hope you enjoy seeing it.