Am I back? I hope so!

Dear Blog-o

It’s been a long time since I’ve stopped by to visit and play—too long, in fact.

My excuse: Having to relearn how to be a student all over again, after a hiatus of more than three decades. 

It's a learning process.

What takes my young classmates a few hours to accomplish takes me a day—or days—to complete.

But now that the grueling semester is over, I can make time to play and create.

At least I hope so.

I begin a four week art class on campus tomorrow.

It’s just a basic color foundation class.

I took the first of three basic classes two semesters ago and absolutely loved it!

Hopefully I can apply what I learn to my craft...

And hopefully I can craft what I learn...

HA - Cuter in real life...

Had this idea in my head all week long, but only just got to execute it this evening.

It didn’t come out how I envisioned and it really does looks better in real life.

It’s a Mother’s Day card/gift, with a note attached to the back, to say thanks for being such a great mom.

I don’t have many Hero Arts Stamps, so I have to work with what I have.

I stamped the image on heavy muslin, outlined it with a copic marker and embroidery thread and then attached it to a canvas I had painted/washed with acrylic paint.

Thanks for looking…

Sweet Sixteen, and all that...

I wasn’t sure where I was going when I first started working on this tag/card, but somewhere along the line it turned into a birthday card.

I think I’ll add “Sweet Sixteen” somewhere.

The charm is too big, but it turned into a little “gift” tag (or card) for that sweet special someone.

The lace was an afterthought (and I see from the photo that it is way too white), but I wanted to give her a bit of a younger look.

The heart and the gold filigree are actually from this wonderful wrapping paper and the fabric is from some samples I purchased at a “going out of business” sale.

The young lady is from a 1975 Needleworks magazine (and I hope it’s okay to use!)

Thanks for stopping by…

Hero Arts Spring Challenge

No, this isn’t a spring color combo…

but it is bright and cheery, which is something we need in our neck of the woods today since we’ve had snow, ice and wind the past two days.

I used the Happy Hello clear stamp set (Cl231).

Since I have yet to venture into the world of “Copic-ing,” I decided instead to use some Prima Daisy Doodles to add color.

Happy Spring everyone…

I love the concept of the wood tags and cards, so I think I'm going to stick with them for a while.

I'm not happy with this one and would love to re-work it.

Problem is, it's covered with decoupage sealer.

At least I didn't use my original...

Caardvarks Challenge

Ditto for this photo...

Again, sorry to be reposting this photo from yesterday's "Frontier Lace" series, but I just went to visit the Caarvark's site and saw their current challenge, and well...I just couldn't resist.

Again, don't know if this tag qualifies...

Caardvarks Challenge...

Sorry to be reposting this photo from yesterday's posting of my "Frontier Lace" series, but I just went to visit the Caarvark's site and saw their current challenge, and well...I just couldn't resist.

Don't know if this tag qualifies...

What fun!

Thanks, Caardvarks!