• Art - Blog

    SOC4: Week 1

    June 9, 2014 - By 

    Kristen, our wonderful hostess for The Summer of Color 4, couldn’t have picked a better set of colors to start us out.week 1Aqua Blue & Yellow

    With a Smudge, Splash or Pop of Hot Pink

    Here’s my art journal page for today…

    aqua and yellowLove, love these colors!!

    aqua and yellow closeupI’m not sure if I’m going to label each weeks journal page with a SOC4 but today it just seemed right.

    Go check out what my fellow SOC4 artists come up with this week. I know I’ll be checking them out daily.

  • Blog - Crafts

    Grad card money holder

    June 8, 2014 - By 

    A very special young man in our life just graduated from high school. He is like my 3rd child…my unofficially adopted one. He surprised me with a cup of Caribou coffee one Mother’s Day morning.  So sweet.  He is friend to Big J…and an over-sized big brother to Little J.   grad cardThe boys have had a love for video games since the day they met. Nintendo was the platform of choice.  Now “my second son” is going off to college into a video game design  program in a few short months. I thought this card would make him smile.

    Congrats T!

  • Art - Blog

    Wish upon a star

    June 6, 2014 - By 

    wishLayers and layers under the aqua. I finally settled on that color after auditioning several others. The others were definitely not right.

    I’ve used this technique of making circles on my pages before. Highlighting little pieces of the page make it much more interesting. Having the layers underneath give wonderful texture to the page.