Graduation Card

The day before yesterday, I made a set of these Graduation cards for my daughter to give out to her friends.

Swirl and Owl stamp - Inkadinkado, Celebrate - unknown, pens: brown and green - stabilo and border Pentel Hybrid Gel, Inked edges and stamped images - Tsukineko Dew Drop

Have fun creating,

Theta

Thank you card

Made a dozen of the same design Thank you cards yesterday. My daughter is graduating this year and needs to give some Thank you's out. Her favorite color is orange, so I used mostly orange with red.

Hex and thanks! stamp - Studio G, swirl stamp - unknown quite old from Wal-Mart, pens: card and card front edges - Crayola, Inked edge and stamped images - Tsukineko Dew Drop, Tape -Somitape, Red and Orange string - Pearl Cotton India

Have some fun today,

Theta

Bithday card for 17th

My daughter's friend had a birthday last week and this is the card I made for her. The patterned paper is from one of my old scrapbooking kits and the cut-outs are Sizzix (except the candle and flame which I snipped).

Have a great Day!

Theta

Experiments 3+

 This is the first painting in a three painting series. I've been thinking of desert sand and rock.

This is the second painting of the series. The third painting is in progress. Since it wasn't my idea, and it involves perspective and some other things, it will be awhile before I get it done. Prodding always makes me take longer on a project "/

This is my newest Leaf Dragon. I am obviously having fun with my new watercolors here :)

Grass King is my newest scene. Also done in water colors. I thought about doing a wash first, started painting the scene, and then decided to forgo a wash. I was having fun and when I was done, that was it.

Made this today for a lady that took Megs and I around a week or two ago. I have to return some stuff to her, so this is going with the returned stuff.

These are for Jean. They are called hood-hood in one of my husband's Arabic children's books and hunt for bugs in the sand our 'lawn' is growing in. The second photo was taken through the screen door and so is not as clear, but you can see it's beak meets better.

More on the 'lawn'. Here they put down a layer of sweet sand (in other words it's clean, no salt) and then put plugs of grass (often Bermuda grass) in it. So water intensive grass is planted in quick draining medium. Interesting... This way of planting calls for several hours of watering in the morning and in the afternoon. Having grown up in water rationing areas and this being desert and all, I keep cringing. However, since they use desalinization plants for water, I'm told "Don't worry, this is the way they do it here." It's still hard not to cringe...

Have a great day!

Theta

Card #5

After cutting out square windows in a bunch of other cards we were making, we had a lot of cut squares. These we stamped with 1 inch square flowers from Inkadinkado and glued to a larger colored square. We made several color combinations. The merci stamp is from Ellison.

Have a great day!
Theta

Card #4

My daughter and I had fun with this one. Randomly stamping the swirls and butterflies gave us a release from the exactness of some of the other cards we did.

 

Butterflies and happiness - Studio G
Swirls - Inkadinkadoo

Be creative today!

Theta

Card #3

Here is another card. We made quite a few of these as we really liked how they turned out. On some of them we used clear glass affect and glitter on the swirls and circles. It doesn't seem to show up in this picture.

 

Inkadinkado - Circles and Grateful; White pen - Sakuro (sp?); Swirl - unknown

Have a great day!

Theta

Card #3

For this card we cut a 1.25 inch hole in the lower right corner and stamped a 1 inch square stamp from Inkadinkado. The word Beauty in the opposite corner is from the same set. We used a wood butterfly stamp (unknown origin) with a rainbow ink pad to add interest and some glitter for fun. Some of the cards we made are for specific occasions, but this one is general. It's a pleasure to give cards "Just because".

 

Have a great day!

Theta

Cards #2

Here is another set of the cards we made.

 

I'm not sure who the manufacturer of the patterned paper is, we used scraps. 

The stamps:

Happy Birthday, Miss You, Grateful, lily - Inkadinkado

You're Special, heart, and die cuts - Sizzix

Sun - Stampendous

Butterflies - Unknown wood stamps (I didn't bring them)

Swirls - Unknown