Change, Grow Butterfly - TMTA

This is my ATC for Think Monday, Think ATC where theme is suppossed to be butteflies. I found a picture of a girl in a magazine and cut her out and loosely drew around her.  I filled in the details with a pencil. Then I painted her in and added  details with a black pen and butterfly wing from printed paper.  

Here is the original photo that was the inspration for my ATC.

Bird Card

This is a card that I made for my online art group, AAWA where the theme was birds. I also made rectangeles of paper with "Happy Birthday", "Thank you", and "Thinking of you" with the same colors of papers so that the receipent can personalize the card.

postcards

Here are two postcards that I have created. This one is a vintage sewing/fashion postcard for my online art group, AAWA. I show the back and front of this card because I have not put any personal info on the back of this one. The red square on the left of the postcard is a vintage needle package front and the ad for the tape measure is from a 1904 Sears Roebuck catalog. The scissors is a Crafty Secrets Stamp and the tape measure is from printed paper. The "sewing" around the card is also a stamp. The dressform and sewing machine are on printed paper.

This is another postcard that I did for a friend in my local altered book club. Her theme was fairies. She also likes cats so I made her a cat fairy. I did not show the back of her postcard because her personal info is back there. I painted the background and altered the child's photo to add wings to her. 

e is for egg - TMTA

Here is my ATC for this week's theme which is eggs.

alterd Altoid Tin filled with goodies

I did this Altoid tin swap with my online art group and this was the tin I altered and all the goodies that I put into my tin. This was such fun to do this tiny tin filled with goodies.

Drawing and Watercoloring just for the fun of it

My dear friend, Bren gave me her book that she used several years ago to learn to draw. I am reading the book and have gathered my supplies. It seems like I never have the time to just enjoy doing some art. So last night I was just itching to get started so I found a drawing that I liked of a frog and got started. This is a postcard for a friend that always makes me laugh so I wanted my drawing to be lighthearted. I was also influnced to do some watercolors after watching the Strathmore art workshop videos. My drawing is a long way from perfect but I am just starting out without any formal training and just starting to read Bren's book so I was very pleased with it. I hope my friend, Kathy enjoys it.
Here is the original drawing in a book of the frog.

And here is my watercolor drawing.

This is one of the matchboxes that I swapped with Roxanna. This one is sweet and simple. Both matchboxes are a Valentine theme.

This is the 2nd matchbox.

This matchbox has beads for feet.

On the inside it has a stamp and heart shaped sequins under Glossy accents.

I hope you had a Happy Valentines day!