...a good day for tea...

...good news locally, we have had enough rain to ease the drought and enough moderate weather for the farmers to finish their harvesting...a cool, crisp sunny day...lunch with 2 dear friends...tea was a gift card from dear lucy...thank you...doesn't it just sound delicious??  i'm sitting for a bit, after a short walk in the sun, to enjoy my tea then off to school to judge science fair projects...hi kimmie and girls!!

...hydrangela...last of the frost fairies...

...you saw this little face a couple of posts ago...this is the very first face i've painted...it was for a friend so i had to wait to post about it...butterfly by tuscan rose, copper heart by c. koop, everything else is just plain me...photo of the hydrangea, photo of tree treated and sealed, copper elements, silk (?) fabric curtain...

...hydrangela fairy, last kiss of frost before she sleeps...

...she came out of the frosty pictures here...

...paper break...

...needle felting+fiber+beads...i am totally hooked!!

...old technique, new video...

...i first published this tutorial as a blog post, now i have made it a video...

...if you can't view it here, you can go to my you tube page here...

...i made some atc's recently using scraps from a sheet of this painted paper...you can click on the soloist and to be tranced for a closeup of the rich texture it creates...

***jean***

...ghost at the window...

...ghost at the window...crackle is the theme for sunday postcard art...i am amazed at what i can produce with this alcohol hand sanitizer, i'm just totally into it!! ...made this background with my AHS+cheap acrylic paint and the lady was treated and painted with AHS, background is multiple crackle layers...free digital image by michelle at digital collage sheets...

...background paper by misty mawn a freebie from somerset studio mag...

...i'm having too much fun...another short video

...mother moon...

...mother moon...block ink background technique, painted with layers of acrylic glaze, white gel pen border, faces & wings painted over by hand...mother moon...theme thursday is borders...i can't believe what a difference such a small technique can make...making a border lightly, with a pen, teesha style...if you haven't seen the videos, you can view them on her blog here...

...mother moon...

...moon pod...

***moon pod***my version of "asian"***i am smitten with the faces & wings***

***i am also amazed by her***to be completely immersed in this kind of art could only be a magical life, don't you think?***there was a time when all i could think of were creatures, puppets, dolls and would have so loved to have immersed myself into that imaginary world...these little cards are a way of letting that out...what i have time for while i raise a little creature of my own...

...background is one of millions of ATC backgrounds i made with  my block inks...her leaf dress is a gift from patty...i have altered her face and painted her wings...wednesday stamper, asian...

*jean*

...another toot for you...

...first movie toot...toot toot!!!

...okay, i've never made a movie and i stumbled upon this feature in picasa as i was preparing a photo toot....this was soo easy!! be easy on me, i know it needs work....but i was so excited to share it, here it is...

*jean*

...wings & faces...

...wings & faces by tuscan rose...i love her collage sheets & transparencies...this one is teesha style again...theme for TMTA is brown...face & wings colored with conte crayons, caran d'ache, charcoal, markers...making them more "me"...background paper by chrysti...

*jean*

...teesha style...

...if you are interested in some really great tips, go visit teesha's circus...she has just posted a bunch of really good videos and i thank everyone that posted about it....background paper by chrysti hydeck, ripped out of somerset studios...

...face and butterfly wings by tuscan rose...face worked on in conte crayon & sharpie pen...painted background, stitches...can't live without the stitches...love atc size the most of anything since beading...love small stuff, feel really lucky to have found this most incredible book....won't you learn japanese with me?

...also, theme for mixed media monday is opposites...yellow and purple are opposites...go vikings...

*jean*