Jewel

Created in my Moleskine journal for Collage Dreams on Paper Workshop. Kind of different for me working in my journal..smaller work area..I have no idea where this one came from! I think it started with the heart I used for the balloon, and then it made me think of the whole "Balloon Boy" fiasco! I guess that is one story I will never understand!! Hope that you all have a nice weekend! We are going to the Falcon game on Sun! My neighbors Pam and Skip were so nice to give us tickets, they can't use this week! Should be fun! I will see yall soon!

Created this crazy girl for Collage Dreams on Paper workshop. I am trying to create some collages leaving them unfinished because we will be working on lettering in the future. I seriously wish the top and bottom borders were straight!! You all know this is going to really bother me! I learned a little lesson, stand up when I place the borders, so I can look straight down at the page!! Ohhhh you all should see my desk!! Well, you can't see it! I need to do some serious organization of my papers etc. AND...to top it off right before I got through my box that had all my small images in it fell off the table and now they are scattered waiting for me today :D Might be better than a bead spill though LOL! Anyways, been working in my moleskine journal getting some backgrounds ready.
Have a great day!

Jail Birds

This collage was for the Crowabout Group. I got the plant images from a magazine. I wish I knew what that plant with the purple leaves was! Looks so pretty with the Alliums and the bright green plant, not sure what it is...but Goldmound Spirea would be pretty! Most of the borders are from Nancy Baumiller, I got the birds frommm...that Free image site on Flickr, and at the moment I can't remember who posted it. The background was another image she gave us to use that I enlarged and printed out on cardstock...I painted over it some to give it some color and by the time I did that and pasted everything on, you can't even tell I used the image! Had lots of fun with it though. Hope you all have some kind of fun today, see yall soon!

Halloween Pics!

My niece Megan and boyfriend Austin as...Taylor Swift and Kanye!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Hello my sweets!! What are yall doing for Halloween? You know, I have never lived anywhere where I got trick r treaters! The house we lived in before I moved up here to the cabin, had this long driveway back at the end of a culdesac, and now I live up on a mountain...but..Blue Ridge has the most fun on Halloween. They shut the entire Main Street down, and everyone takes the kids there for the night, all the stores give out candy, there are costume contests and it's a huge deal, lots of fun to go and people watch!! Hope the rain clears out before tonight!! I just found out from my daughter Kathryn, that my niece Megan, and her boyfriend Austin, are going to be "Taylor Swift and Kanye West'!!!! Isn't that funny! I can't wait to see the pictures of THIS!! Maybe I can share it with yall! Whatever you do, enjoy the night...hee heehhaaaaahhaaaa!

I was at Bella Euphoria in Blue Ridge talking to my friend Cynthia, the owner. She hops up and says, I want you to draw this for me! She had received a beautiful sunflower from a friend that she had put into a wine bottle she had on display. It had a metal rectangular piece tied with ribbon looped over the bottle, of that man in the corner...I'm thinking...how can I draw this? She had taken a picture of it so she printed it out for me and that's what I had to go by...I realized that just cutting it out and pasting it into a collage wouldn't really look right. So I just started drawing and then I had to figure out how to get the man on metal involved! So I scanned him in and cut him out, I knew better than to try and draw him!! The bottle was a challenge......I don't see how artist do this, where you can see through it, see the wine level inside....AND mainly how to get the shape the same on both sides!! It's all so amateur but anyways this is it, I couldn't post it until I gave it to her because I didn't want her to see it on my blog first LOL! I took it by there the other day and she wasn't there, so I left it for her, hope she likes it!
Now I can show it to yall!

Today

This page was created for Crowabout, so many interesting images provided from Nancy Baumiller...the central image lady was so mesmerizing I knew she would be the center and then my daughter Alyssa posted the quote onto her facebook status. I really liked the quote and told her that I was pretty sure that she would see it in a collage one day! I began the page first with Neo II water soluble crayons, smeared with a baby wipe, then glued on the images and the quote ended up being a part of the plan after all! Had so much fun with this one I am ready for more! Have a great night!

Magic!

This collage was created for the Collage Dreams on Paper class! Boy what fun I am having in there! We have been learning background and border techniques and now CRAZY PEOPLE!! Yea, they're a little crazy alright! The girl on the right looks like the child of Mimi, from Drew Carey...but she's cute in her own way...I got her from Fidgetrainbowtree....the rest of the images came from magazines...borders came from Nancy Baumiller and some of them I made myself. I was sitting there last night wondering what I was going to write on it or if I should write on it as usual...and I pulled out all my pieces of papers that had different quotes I liked on them and there it was! I thought it was appropriate for the Crazy People and I think we all feel this way sometimes! I feel this way everyday! Never want to grow up!! Enjoy the day!