Belinda's Heart Page

Today I got busy and worked on several projects. This was one of them that I started and finished. Belinda's theme was Artist's Choice and a color theme of True Colors. I tried to stick to the turquoise I love so much and added the blacks as a contrast. The backgrounds on both sides of the heart were many layers. I started out by gessoing the heart, then painted them turquoise. On the side with the skeleton I used a beautiful piece of mulberry paper I have and adhered it with gel medium. I then stamped it and used H2O's to paint in the stamped area. The edges are inked and the bird is tinted with H2O's. I like the dark side of this Heart. Side two started out int he same way and was stamped with a couple of different stamps and then the birds were stamped on. The color doesn't come out well in the pictures...it looks much richer in person. I may look at it again today and see if any new ideas come to mind, but I think I'm pretty happy with it.

Helga's Turquoise Weekly Challenge

Turquoise...I love the color turquoise! So, I was so happy to hear that Helga wanted us to add the color to our art for this week's Challenge.

We were on our way home from vacation this morning....and while we were driving along, I was thinking about what I wanted to do for the challenge. I completed another Challenge yesterday that I used turquoise for, and decided that I wanted to use a simliar background for this Challenge.

This piece is approximately 4 x 7ish...I stamped the flourishes on the background and then used my watercolors to get the desired colors. Because I really dig black and turquoise, I decided to add the black border. I used the Fabulous Paper Dolls and Spoil Me collage sheets for this piece. I added Tulle around her hair, I snipped the arms and legs to place them like I wanted...and used vintage Bric-a-Brac to fancy her dress up, and a few shiny flowers for BLING. The final touch was to pen the words "This Much"....because that's how much she loves ArtChix!! : )

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Rolodex Cards

These are four of the rolodex cards I made for a swap over at Paper Whimsy. This is the second Swap we've had with these cards. I made 8 the first time...and this time I made 8 more. These cards are two sided. most of the detail is on the front with less detail on the back and room about me, the artist.

I took my Rolodex to work with my art....and I also use it to keep business cards...so I get to look at the art all day!