Carpet Inspired ATCs

Guess I can only download five at a time....

These are from the carpet series. All are rendered in sharpies on stiff board. The stiff board is actually from a game board that came in the mail. Very nice paper that would have otherwise gone to the landfill or sat in my trailerhouse shed in the back yard collecting dust. I like it much better this way!

I made a dozen of these cards...I'm pretty sure it was a dozen. I'd have to check to be 100% sure though.

They were inspired by casino carpets found in a google image search for the word carpet.

I have traded three of them thus far.

Each is 2 1/2inches x 3 1/2 inches

These five are up for trade still.

Orange Cat

This is the third time I have drawn this particular cat and each time this cat has been a shade of orange. He was actually quite YELLOW before this drawing was completed. Ronnie said he was 'way too yellow' so I added a layer of orange sharpie on top of the yellow sharpie and he's now a tad too orange for my liking but he's born now and that's the color he will remain.

2 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches

sharpies on watercolor paper

Four Leaf Clover Carving

Good Morning All~!

That's an ATC the carving is attached to. The carving itself is made of soap. The label on the soap said it was made in India. It smelled real nice. Some soap stinks badly when you carve it. After using my long nosed tweezers, a toothpick and my very flexible steel pallete knife my hands were as smooth as a baby's bottom! Then I stunk up the house by painting that little chunk of soap with fingernail polish.

The background is a pc of chipboard covered in pink body glitter and very fine green glitter. That was achieved with a layer of modge podge to adhere the glitter.

I made it yesterday. It is one of four good luck charms that will be made for the Good Luck Charm Swap at atcsforall.com.

I'm pleased with the result.

Almost Home Again

Hey you all! Here is my newest painting. It is a copy of another painting I did a few weeks ago.

Painting my fingers off!

hello

The day has been going on since yesterday for me! I've been awake since about 12:30 p.m. yesterday. It is now almost 10 a.m. Monday. I have been busy in the hours I've been awake! This painting you see on the page is one of my creations for the day.

I did some organizing in this deskroom of mine too. I found a set of glass paints I forgot I had. Paint to use on glass. I only follow the rules if I am forced to and I didn't paint on glass with these paints. I painted on thick paper I cut from a greeting card and painted white with acrylics. I know now why those paints had never been used before for anything that I can remember! They aren't very good paints! I have two paintings started though and I will finish them later when I've had some sleep! I'll show you them when I get them done and scanned.

I am not familiar with the way this blog works and I can't get my pictures where I want them. This picture should of been at the top of the page but it appears that it will end up at the end of the post instead. I suppose it really does not matter where in the blog the picture is. I just wanted to show you all one of the paintings done in the last twenty four hours.

Origami, Conte Crayons and Acrylic Paint

I had quite a time this morning folding boxes from magazine pages and wallpaper. I lost count of how many I actually folded. Somewhere around 20. I also made folded paper stars. Don't let anyone tell you those little guys aren't a pain in the ass to make. Cause they are danged frustrating when you're just learning how to fold them! I made around 30 of them with help from my sister Susan. She showed up at 6 am for a smoke and some hot tea, after calling to make sure I was up.
I've been awake since the last post.
I do need some sleep but I can't seem to get any so here I am again. I've created five ATCs today. Four of them for the Cave Art Swap done in conte crayons. I really like working with my conte crayons but they do make a mess! They are the ideal medium for replicating cave art though and I'm quite pleased with the results. You all aren't gonna see any pictures today of them though as I haven't scanned them yet. The fourth card is a painting of a womans foot walking across a lawn wearing red polka dotted sneakers. I like the prespective on it.
I should of worked on my Etsy shop today but instead I sat over there at the light table working on cave art and then at the painting table working on the red sneaker in the grass. I also made some labels to use on the backs of my ATCs. I figured it was time to upgrade from just writing all the info on the backs of them. I look at some of the cards I've recieved in trades and the backs are as pretty as the fronts! I couldn't say that about my own cards. Until now.
Ron is out on his motorcycle riding all over the yard. Terah calls it his hog. I call it the piglet. It's a mini-bike. Ron's not a little boy! He weighs in at almost 300 pounds. He just got it on Wednesday from the auction house in Hays along with all the other stuff he won in that auction. I've yet to venture out to take a good look at the piglet. The bike, not the boy!
Last week I did a series of cards inspired by casino carpets. I'll show you some of those in a little bit here. I traded my Ebony Man card to a girl in The Netherlands and I am quite worried about that card making a trip across the northern hemisphere and arriving in one piece at its destination. I hope I packaged it up well. I'll show you all that card as well. I will be doing more crayon carvings once summer rolls around and I can take the crayons and the hot plate outdoors. Melted crayons stink! But they sure are fun to play with!

Nor will you know WHEN you will find it!

My eyeballs have gone buggy. We need LARGE font.
The art bug has certainly bitten me hard! I am still busy as a little chipmunk gathering fodder for the winter stores. I can't wait for spring to arrive! I want to get out of this house much more than I have been during this long winter. I miss trips to the lake with the dog. My yard is in dire need of some major work! There will be smoke in the air before too long when Ron and Justin, hopefully Rich as well, burn off the brush on these three acres of land his mother and I share.
Some of it is solely hers and some of it solely mine. We adjadcent to one another with no visible divinding lines.
People in town confuse my sister and I all the time. The co-op delivered me $350 worth of propane a few weeks ago and it should have gone next door in my sister's tank, not mine! It isn't only that we live next door to one another that confuses them. They swear up and down we look alike as well. They just aren't paying attention is all I can figure. My brown versus her red hair and the fact that I am much larger than she, they aren't paying attention!
Brenton came home from kindergarden this afternoon to find only me here. He couldn't get the front door open when he and Fred (dog) came to the door. I let him in. He doesn't usually have a lot to say to me and I not a lot to say to him. We like each other quite fine. He burst into tears after he had taken off his coat and thrown his bookbag on the sofa. I asked what was wrong and he said "I lost my ........" I hadn't a clue what the boy was talking about. So I asked, "You've lost your what?" "Frog!" he says quite distinctly. I knew just which frog he was referring to! An origami frog I had made for him about three weeks ago one morning. He loved that frog. I asked him about the frog cause I hadn't seen since the morning I handed it to him as I told him to have a good day at school. He told me he liked to play with it on the bus. He had little tears running down his cheeks...I promised him this evening before I went to town that I would have another one ready for him before he left for school in the morning. He wants a blue one! That will be the extent of my creativity today if it gets done before midnight.
I don't generally count days like everyone else does though. I keep a sleep log. Faithfully I write it down every single day. It's very important to me to know the sleep pattern. It is very erratic. I count days from the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep. I guess that's really neither here nor there though.
To be quite honest, I totally fogot about this blog. I was going through my favorites tonight and this one was next on the list. Took me four tries to get my login information right! lol
Now that I know it's here still, I'll try to check it more than once a month or more!
Ain't a soul gonna read this till someone stumbles upon this blog and goes back in the archives just to see what a crazy woman had to say at the beginning!
Howdy! Glad you stopped in!
My mother says that. Howdy! Call her on the phone and if her answering machine picks up....first thing you hear her say is HOWDY! I love my mother!
Yesterday was my day of creating. And the day before and the day before that. I scanned 23 cards today. I made 20 of those cards. All of them originals. I got a new set of Sharpie markers on Saturday. 15 new shiny markers to add to the overflowing box of other Sharpies, Bic markers, highlighting pens and other various markers. I had to get a bigger box out of the closet for the new ones to fit! I drew and colored for three days with those markers! AsI said, the art bug has certainly bitten me hard!
I've little desire to even LOOK at those markers today.
I have a frog to make. I have to find the instructions first. That's how I ended up here...going through favorites to figure out which site I've saved in that long favorites list has the instructions to make the frog. I'll be back after the frog's done. I have half an hour to find the instructions and fold that boy a blue frog.
Don't go anywhere!
Well, it is now 3 o'clock in the morning.
We, we. That being ME, has made two origami frogs. One blue, one orange. I made the orange one first, forgetting I was supposed to make a BLUE frog. I have made 10 little origami boxes, four small and six half an inch larger than the small ones which actually makes all 10 boxes on the smallish side. I learned how to make three different kinds of boxes but settled on one that was relatively easy to master and made a much sturdier box than the other two versions. I made my boxes out of various papers. Magazine pages made the prettiest boxes in that they are much squarer than the boxes made from wallpaper. The wallpaper boxes are prettier in their patterns in my opinion.
I have been a paper folding fool for the last three hours! I not only folded frogs and boxes, I made 15 folded stars as well.
I wasted a lot of time looking at other things too. I learned how to manipulate cardboard into different shapes and make it behave how YOU want it to behave, not how it is meant to behave. Eventually I will put that new knowledge to the test. Paper mache armatures come into mind.
I also learned how to fold a 12 point star but I did not actually fold one. I didn't want to take the time tonight to fold 12 pcs of paper to form that star. I'll tackle that one another time.
Right now, I need to go to bed! I still have to write in my journal and read a few pages in my book. I have a goal to reach where the book is concerned. I have made the goal to read 50 books before 2008 is over. I forget the name of the book I'm reading. I just started it last night and have only read a few pages. This is book #8 for the year thus far. I need to keep on the books to accomplish the goal of reading 50 this year. I also must feed the rats before I go to bed. They probably need their water bottles filled as well.
So, this is the entry for today.
I will try my best to make it back here within the week. Don't hold me to it though!
Nighty night!
Go collect some hugs. They're good for the soul of the hugged and the huggee.
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