"Do Your Own Art Retreat"

My friend Jeri Aaron is getting together an art retreat for 15 women on Sept. 18-21, 2008 total cost is $100 per person ....... come join in on the fun, sharing ideas, trading tips and relaxing doing your own projects that you can never get time to do at home ..... for more into just click on Texas Art Retreats

Masquerade AB for RR

This theme is Masquerade and when I hear that word I think of the Masque Balls they use to have long ago ..... as you can see I put a folded tag holding pocket in the middle of the first spread ....
the middle one is just for fun and the last is a niche with a scrap of velvet that a dress might be made of along with sample flowers to wear in your hair and a make to complete the costume ....... click to enlarge

Assemblage

Sunflowers and Cardinals doesn't that make you think of fresh air, warm sun, bird songs .... well it does me so that's what I did ...... I got the plain little shadow box from this great place on Etsy, From the Heart of Hanes .... then I did the embellishing .... click to enlarge

RR pages

Remember that Peach - Antique Linen - Walnut Ink cover I posted not long ago ... well this is the first pages for another artist of that swap ..... her colors were Caribbean Aqua and Lime and her theme was something of the artist creating it ....... click to enlarge

More sharing

This time I am sending you to a site that is doing a Mother's Day count down with free images .... Lisa Vollrath at Ten Two Studios she has some super images you will need to link to her site when you use her images just read the the highlighted area above the image thumbnails ...... Thanks Lisa ... enjoy everyone

Sharing

ok I did rooster and chicken not to long ago (Jan 08) so here is another from my collection to share .... click to enlager

Reworked Row Houses

ok so some of them just didn't make me happy so I reworked them .... Jeri came by this morning and we were sitting around talking and I was telling her I wasn't real happy with these 4 so she made suggestions and I got out the grunge board and paint and did some slightly different things than she said and these are how they left my house on their way to her house and the swap system ....... oh in case you can't tell the first 2 have actual stenciling done with the negative part of the grunge board ...... there just aren't enough flourishes in the pack of grunge board but that might just be me cause I LOVE flourishes ...... click to enlarge

Peach-Antique Iinen-Walnut Ink

The cover of an 8x8, 7 Gypsy book, I will be working in along with 9 other artist ..... this is the cover of my personal book ...... decorative paper, grunge hinges, chipboard house cut out that I gessoed and reversed printed words on then direct to paper with Ranger Antique Linen ink pad then cut out an image of little girl with her dolly applied it to the house trimmed with antique peach & ivory tatting, roof is covered with Momagomi paper and last but not least a rhinestone broach that is a very pale peridot green, the satin ribbon is really satin smoke coming from the chimney ... then I added a bird charm that I applied gold on top of the silver ....... click to enlarge

Yes more Row Houses

finally got them done ....... click to enlarge

More Row Houses

got 2 more done .... I will be headed out of town for awhile so no post for a week or so ....... everyone take care and will see you around blogland later ...... Linda

Row Houses #1,2,3

ok I added to #1 and now I am happier with it ...... and then today I did #2 & 3 and at the moment am happy with them .... my lady is a transparency and I can see the camera in the refection but couldn't seem to get it out today so you get to see it ... click to enlarge

Sharing Image

I would say I am a little behind on sharing images ... so here are 2 that I hope you can use one is background ... click to enlarge

Row House #1

I finally got one of my row houses done, yep you guessed it the little school house .... the little girl is my youngest aunt at age 6 ...... more to come .... click to enlarge

For Mailmania 3 in Canada

Each year I try to send it at least one item to the Mailmania in Canada this happens to be year 3 ... my other entry for this year seems to be lost in the mail so I did this and we will see if it makes the long trip from TX to Canada ... click to enlarge

Postage People

yep I am giving it a try .... if you want to see who inspired me check out Bockel24 she has done tons of great ones ...... click to enlarge

Another Play Day

this time we were at Jeri's place and we did some great little projects here are some photo's .... click to enlarge

AB RR for online group

I am in a RR with 3 other people (4 people per book) my theme is "Fashion" and I am getting my spreads ready then I will need to do some work on the covers of my book before it's sent off ..... I am not going to post all of the spreads (3) today but here is one ... the colors aren't quite true on the spread photo's but really close on the close up of the corset .... click to enlarge

Help the Hounds

Doing this one for GRR "Help the Hounds" Charity medical fund-raiser ... 5x5" that will be added to a book for auction ... click to enlarge

Chicks from Count down on TenTwoStudios ......

My Altered Grand Tour - the book I taught at my Altered Book Retreat

Just Around the Corner

be sure to visit Lisa's free images for St. Patrick's and Easter ... http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/ ... these are some of her sweet little St. Patrick's kids

OK here are the full pictures

to reveal the sum of the parts ..... oh I think I forgot to say the red scraps are candy wrappers .... yes I sacrificed for art ....

Sneak Peek

I am doing a 5 for 5 tip in swap with an online group and the theme is "Recycle-Reuse-Scraps" ... so this is just a little glimpse at what mine are so far ... the scraps were from another couple of projects and so small I came close to throwing them away (so glad I didn't) the frog was brown and off an old blouse of mine so I died (with re-inker) it black to match my color scheme , the guarder hose clip was from a girdle I still had from the 1960's .... will post more later ..... click to enlarge

Spreading the word

just wanted to let everyone know that there is a relatively new blog that I think you should check out ..... From Salado Studio ...... Kate does such awesome things an it's every thing from stained glass work to paper arts and a slue of beautiful things in between .... Linda

Gothic Arches

Ok so I am way behind the curve on the Gothic Arches but last night I just had to do one ... no corresponding theme to any that is running right now I just wanted to do one .... so here is my first effort .... click to enlarge

Yea ..... kits are done

The kits are all made and so are the sample books ...... it's 2 weeks till my Altered Book Retreat and so far I think I am ready ...... will check my list of to do's again next week .... now maybe I can create something to post on this blog again .... Linda

I have been given a "You Make My Day" award

Andrea over at Andrea's Wimsey gave me this great award and now I want to pass it on .... "The rules for the “You Make My Day” award are to pass it forward to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration or just makes you feel good when you visit them. Let them know through email or by posting a comment on their blog so they can pass it on. Beware you may get the award several times, and if you do, consider yourself really, really loved. Here are 10 of the 100's of blogs that keep me inspired and bring a smile to my face. Check them out when you have a few minutes... perhaps there are some new friends to be made!

Chrisy

Penny

Kathy W.

Mandy

Caryl

Rande

Carol

Audrey

Jo

Catharina

Want to put up my new banner

but Blogger is having problems with slider bars on the layouts so it will have to wait .... in the mean time you can see it here ..... Linda

Did some art today

Well did some altering today ... this is a tote bag and the front of an apron that I altered for my up coming AB Retreat as prizes ....

Sharing image

Adopt an Ancestor ..... he just looks like he needs a home ..... enjoy ... Linda F

One World Winner is ---- drum roll

Angelika and she live in Leeuwarden, Netherland ...... so Angelika please email me your snail mail address so I can get this little goodie in the mail to you ..... thanks for stopping by ...... Linda

Mary Lynn's tag

Mary Lynn thanks for thinking of me ... at this time I have having family health problems that I am dealing with on a daily basis so I may have to pass up this tag ... not that I really want to just need to at this time ... by the end of next week I should have things under control so I can get back to my art ...... Linda

One World Give Away

I read about this super event and wanted to join ... life has been getting in the way of my art but this I had to do ...... to get all of the information click on One World .... I am late in joining but I will draw a name from the ones that leave comments and mail this by the end of Feb ..... oh I make these to keep track of the books and magazines I loan out to people .... Linda

Altered Book Retreat Update

ok the "how to's" are printed and the folders are made .... so this is what the handouts will look like .... now there is still lots to do but I am making headway ..... for all RETREAT information just click

Sharing

Still working on things for the Altered Book Retreat but decided to put up an image you might be able to use in some of your art ......