Valentine Painting challenge

Let's Make Art had a valentine challenge. These are suppose to have funny Valentine sayings. 

We mer-maid for each other. 

You Complete Me

Even smashed, I love you . 

I love you to the moon and back again. 

You are out of the world. 

Alcohol Ink card

I did an alcohol ink swap. This is the card I did. Playing with alcohol ink has the same kind of feel as playing with watercolor. Put it down and let go!

Have a Creative Day

Painted girls - Hope Girls

I made these painted girls.  They were fun and I hope to do more.  

My grandson named this one Claire 

This one is Abigail and goes by Abby. 

I have been thinking about doing some of these girls for people diagnosed for cancer.  Not sure what to call them but maybe Hope Girls. 

Watercolor painting

I am still doing tutorials with Let's Make Art.  

Here are some of the recent ones. Ocean theme this month. 

March Craft Class

I am going to start having monthly craft classes. They will not all be card classes but this first one is. Here are the projects for March.  The emphasis this time is dry embossing. Thought it was a good place to start.

The Stamp on this one is from Stampin Up. 

Car Die Cut Card

This is a quick 6 by 6 card.  I got the die at Craft Outlet in Grand Rapids,  Michigan.  The car die is part of the Daily Transport by Amy Design.

Congrats - You made it around the sun

I made this for my daughter.  Inside, It says Congratulations on making it around the sun another year. Happy Birthday! 

I am not certain where I got the dies for the word and the heart. 

Rainbow Unicorn

I did this painting last week.  It's another lesson from Let's Make Are. 

As usual, I used Dr PH Martin's Radiant Watercolors. 

Have a Creative Day 

Card with Alcohol Ink

I haven't done a swap in a long time. Today I did this card for a swap.  I played with alcohol ink on Yupo paper.  I splashed a lot of 91% rubbing alcohol on it too. 

Lots of fun playing 

I only used part of the sheet on the card. I will save the rest for a future card.  The words were cut with a word die.

Jelly Fish

I haven't gotten my kits for February yet but I still painted along with Sarah Cray at Let's Make Art using my own paints and papers. Brent joined me too.  It has been a long week as the power was out for about 36 hours this week and the house got VERY cold since it was 13 Fahrenheit. After the power came back one and the house started to warm up, I painted this.

I used the wet on wet technique. It has to be my favorite. :)

Africa Paintings

While in Africa, I painted these two paintings. Two people on the tour had birthdays, and I did these for them.  I had a small box of paints I brought with me when I came. 

Bunch of Painting

I have been doing some painting since Africa to try and catch up with the Let's Make Art tutorials. 

Here are a bunch of the painting I have done recently. 

If you want to learn watercolors - Check out Let's Make Art. 

Computer Card

I gave popup cards to all my kids and grandkids in 2018.  I made most of them.  For my youngest son, I did not do a pop up. I did this amazing computer card out of a heavy metallic paper.  Part of it were a cut file I got on Silhouette. 

He is studying computers in college. 

I added some writing inside but as an afterthought, I should have used a post it note to write the message inside. 

Watercolor Giraffe

I think this is the best thing I have painted so far. I love it. I did it before I went to Africa in November.  It is a project from Let's Make Art. 

After I did it, I sent a photo of it to Walgreens and printed all kinds of projects. Below are some boards I had done for two of my grandsons.  I also did several cards which I will show later. 

Painted with PH Martin Radiant Watercolors on Canson Cold Press paper.

Halloween Watercolors

I have been loving the lessons from Let's Make Art. Their business has exploded. It's not longer as personal as it was in the beginning  but I am learning a lot and still enjoying it. 

These are projects from Oct 2018. 

Watercolor play

Here was another time I was playing with paint left from a painting project.  I did a bunch of small paint blotches.  This one also had a little salt added for interest.  Later I added a diecut word and mounted it to the card base. In this one, I added some washi tape to balance the space. 

Have a Creative Day 

Halloween 2018

I used these cute stamps to put these card together for my niece and nephew. 

Pretty quick since you just stamp, color with Copics and and glue it together. 

I had wanted to use theses stamps for a log time.