Designing DIVAS February Project

Debbie was our project hostess for February at Designing Divas and provided each of us a bottle to alter.  She knows I favor oriental so she brought some images of geishas for me to use on mine.  I painted the bottle first with gold but didn't like the effect so I stamped some paper with Chinese calligraphy and tore bits and pieces and attached them to the bottle.  I added my images and a few specks of the gold paint to soften the effect.  On one side of the bottle is a metal dragon to honor 2012 Year of the Dragon.  Everyone had fun with this project for a variety of finished bottles.

After I took the photo, I decided the umbrella needed to be level so the view from all angles would be pleasing to the eye.  Loved this project!  Thanks Debbie.

FINAL February Self Portrait Challenge at Mixed Media Trends

Finished the challenge and showed the results to hubby who said, "That's something a nine year old would paint."  I never laughed so hard.  Family and friends know I can't draw and if you put the original photo of my mom from 1930 next to this upload you would know immediately it doesn't resemble her with the exception of the pearls.  My mother liked to wear pearls.

For me, I'm thrilled that I attempted the challenge and actually finished it.  I will paste it into my ongoing board book of this year's challenges and look forward to March which might be more in line with my creativity.

FEBRUARY Book Project at Trends

The project for February was taken from the book, ART AT THE SPEED OF LIFE, by Pam Carriker.  The project selected from the book by our leader, Cindy, was Self Portrait using canvas and a pre-painted background.  I finished my background which will be trimmed and included in my board book started back in January (highly textured cover).

The photo will be added later in the month as a transfer, and, I elected to use a photo of my mother from the 1930s as a tribute to her.   Stayed tuned

A couple of cards

Some months back Jill from Designing Divas presented a project to make a card that has a heart on the front and when the card is untied you view the message on the inside.  I ran across the one I made at club and decided to make more of them.  You start with a 5-1/2 inch by 12 inch card; score at 2 inches and four inches from each side.  Cut a half heart shape on each of the two outside 2-inch sections.  Valley fold the card at the 2 inch and 4 inch score lines.  Fold the card closed so the two heart halves come together to stamp the background.   Be sure to mask off the areas where you do not want the stamp image to touch.    There is a slit on each of the heart halves to insert  the ribbon to wrap around the back and tie in front.  Finish the card as desired.  I used two sided decorative cardstock to make my cards and glued an extra 4 by 5-1/2 inch card on the very back for more stability.