Merry Christmas

Best Wishes for a very Merry Christmas from my home to yours!

Judy

Sick Day

Sheesh I have too much to do to be sick, just look at my desk (actually the dining room table) . But off to bed I go and hope tomorrow I will feel like turning this room into what it was meant for. If you look carefully you can see three pressies I opened and they deserve to be hung up and enjoyed. 1130 AM and I am going back to bed.

Poor Me ; )

Judy

collage and paper clay and Christmas

Wow two posts in two days!!!! I am doing a 12 days of Christmas exchange with the Byhand Artist groups on Yahoo and I was day two which was yesterday December 14 . I am in Group One and there are two more groups!!! What a great swap hosted by Mary-Beth. Linda C happily let me copy her pictures and so ta da here are photos of my gift. I used Paperclay and a mini cookie cutter to make the buttons and a very lovely napkin that I found this summer on a a Bird house shape (from Micheals) and on the buttons and used Quietfire stamps from the 12 days of Christmas stamp set that Suzanne has. I decoupaged the napkin on the house and the buttons with Matte Medium in several layers. Fun project and wonderful swap again this year.

Judy (thanks Linda C for the photos!!!!)

Felting

I have been busy felting some gifts again this year. The one with the bear button (I made the button using Paper Clay and a bear cookie cutter) is a holder for a gift card so is 4 1/4 inch X 3 inches and the other holds a package of beading needles for a friend who is into beading. I am very happy with them. I hope the girls like them too. I also have several bears that I am working on for family gifts this Christmas and a very wonderful Moose. I will post when I get them done.

Also in the midst of a 12 days of Christmas swap that is fun. I of course forgot to get photos before mine went off but hope to get some soon and will post them.

Just a few more sleeps till Christmas and so many things yet to do.

Judy

Vernon Art Gallery ATC exhibition

Wow this is a great exhibition of ATCs from all over the world in Vernon, B.C,'s wonderful art gallery. And it was great to see my own humble little ATCs hanging in such a lovely little room. Very inspiring! Joanne, Anne's , Judy M and mine are shown here in close ups. There were metal , watercolours, fabric and beads, rubber stamped , photographs and other great works of art done on a very small Size. For those who do not know what an ATC is it is 2+1/2 inches by 3+1/2 inches in size. I thoroughly enjoyed my visit and cannot wait till I can sign up for another swap in a venue like Vernon's. Hope you enjoy the photos! And if you are in the area stop in and see the ATCs in person in the next month. And when the exibit is finished the ATCs will be swapped out. I will post then which works of art I got in my swap.

Judy

Happy Halloween

I am late getting my October Rolodex done but it will go out tomorrow. I decided to try fabric and embroidery so used muslin and when I was finished my trees I used matte gel to glue the fabric to a rolodex card. Then I used acrylic paint mixed with Matte Medium to paint in the orange sky. I also used my water colour crayons to add more colours to the sky , reds and blues and then used browns for the ground. The photo doesn't show the shading at all unfortunately. I then distressed the card with walnut stain distress ink. The bats are traced from Tim Holtz grungeboard onto flocked black paper. I am happy with them. Hope that the ladies do too. Next project is the 12 days of Christmas swap.

Judy

ATCs for Vernon Art Gallery

So finally photos of the ATCs I am sending to Vernon for their exhibition/ swap in October. It took me several days to remember to buy batteries for the camera?? I have altered a photo of the S.S. Sicamous that is on Okanagan lake here. I then distressed the photos with sandpaper and used distress ink pads to colour the photos using four different colours. I used tiny brown brads in the four corners of each atc then used word Rub ons by Kaiser Scrapbook. I am quite pleased with the results but the resulting photo makes them appear lighter than they are in person. Thanks for looking!

Judy