melody of love

A few nights ago I did the book page with the flower print. I had a rose from Mother's day that the petals were about to fall off so I thought I would try to use it as a stamp. I love the effect and will have to do it again in the future.

On May 1st Richie and I had our eleven year anniversary (from the time we started dating). Time sure does fly.

fun night

I just finished cleaning up after a night of art journaling. I also made an ATC at the same time. It looks a lot like my journal page and I love it. I'm waiting for the paint to dry in my journal before writing in pen on my page. I will try and post pics tomorrow. Good night :)

more ATCs

I'm missing my art journal and think tonight I will have to play in it for awhile. Lately I've been doing a lot of swaps on swap-bot.com for ATCs and homemade postcards and I haven't had time for my journal. They are fun to make but I think I will slow down on the swaps so I will have some time for other things.

depth postcard

I printed a photo that I took awhile back over a 4x6 collage I made. I used a super thin layer of mod podge in matte to make my collage and waited until the next day to run it through my printer. I was worried it would ruin my printer but I just couldn't resist...lol. Printer still works fine :)

Mother's Day

I had a really good mother's day. Richie's mom flew in for a weekend visit and it was really nice having her here for the last few days. On Sunday we drove to DeLand to visit her best friend who has a few horses. At first Charlotte wasn't to sure about the horses and then one sneezed on her. She decided she didn't like them and wanted to be nowhere near them. We kept teasing her by asking if she wanted to go out to the barn and pet the horses. She would shake her head no, run to me and bury her head in my chest. For the hour and a half drive I brought my pocket moleskine sketchbook and prismacolor pencils. I'm really glad I did since I enjoyed making this page.

ATC's for swap

So I've been getting back into doing swaps on swap-bot. I thought it would be fun to make some ATC's. I still have 4 more to make but that swap doesn't need to be mailed out until the 22nd. I had so much fun making the postcards that I thought I would use the same idea for a series of ATC's. I used my Martha Stewart butterfly punch to make the masks and stencil. The other 2 are for a swap using only acrylic paints and nothing else. It was a little challenging for me. I never realized how often I go to grab my pens for detailing. For the black I used my neopaque acrylic paint and a super fine detail brush. That stuff rocks and I would love to get it in white as well.