What a cutie!

Festisite has a fun money generator. Pick your currency, upload your pic and there you go!

Postcards from around the world

The Postcard Crossing Project has been around for about three years now, but I just stumbled on the Web site through another artist's blog (thanks wackystuff!).

You sign up to send and receive postcards from people all over the world. One member just received his 1,000th postcard! The site is trying to log 2 million received postcards and is about 23,000 shy.

I just signed up because it sounds like fun -- and it's so much better than getting only bills in the mail!

Check it out:





I also put a perma-link in my right-side column.

Monica Zuniga's giving this away!

Uplifting spiritual artist Mónica Zúñiga is giving away this beautiful piece of art on canvas. Check out her blog by clicking the title above this post to find out how to enter. Or check out the link "Hands & Heart" on my artists blogroll to the right. I've been a fan of her work for a long time and recently bought one of her gorgeous paintings!

So much art, so little time...

Perhaps this time piece I created earlier this month at Jo's will help remind me to make more time for art. I'm so busy, art has taken a back seat recently to all my other priorities. Which is a shame, considering that art helps ground me and bring peace to my otherwise hectic life.



This clock is made out of a little tin lunch box -- about 4 inches by 3 inches. It was primed with Killz before I splotched on acrylic paints to give it an antiqued look. Others dabbed on alcohol inks, which I did use for the clock hands to dull some of the shininess.

The swirls and stuff are from a rubber stamp and some rub-ons. The BINGO card is a cut-out. The clock numbers are on little round pieces of wood, on which I stamped the numbers. Some artists used Scrabble tiles.
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Glad tidings to you!

Free Christmas-themed printables

Lisa Vollrath brings back her annual holiday present with The Original Printables Holiday Countdown. Get a new set of downloadable holiday images every day between now and Dec. 25 by visiting her site.

Merry Christmas!

Homicide Turkey!

Riffing on noir art for a turkey-themed Thanksgiving postcard. This one digital, of course. It's hard to glue while one is giggling the whole time. :-)


Oh, and I'll have to pay homage to wackystuff for this piece, without whom such demented alterations would not be nearly as inspired!

A Halloween chunky

Better late than never!

Stephanie Rubiano's art

she rests, originally uploaded by stephanie rubiano.

I just ADORE this artist's work. Check out her multitude of winged-creature boxes on her Flickr site. They're all amazing.

Back to school nostalgia

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Woefully behind, tonight I finally completed these (non-digital) chunky pages that celebrate back-to-school nostalgia.These are for a swap I hosted. In August. God bless the angels who keep playing every month! Retro images from 1960s and 70s advertisements.
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Halloween matchbox shrines

The outside of my matchbox shrines, closed:

A peek inside each one:

These were made for a swap, and the ones I received in return were just outstanding. So glad I tried my hand at this new altered art!

Eat, drink and be scary

Oh, I've been horrible at posting this month, and I feel awful about it. It's been a challenging month, dealing with layoffs, husband's surgery that sort of thing. I should know by now how healing and relaxing making art is, but at the same time, it's hard to find the muse when one is stressed out about other things.

Nonetheless, I did manage to create a few seasonally themed things, and that alone has started to break my stress barrier. I feel more creativity coming on!

This Halloween postcard was done mostly digitally for a LetterHeads swap.

Beauty of the Orient

ATC for swap due this week. Vintage image with transparency overlay, some shading and the Chinese symbol for "Beauty."

I Still Play With Dolls

I made this postcard in Photoshop with some ephemera I own and some digital ric-rac.

One bottle at a time...

Here is my contribution to Go Make Something's Message In A Bottle challenge. I'm sending these out two at a time, as bottles come in my mail box.
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This is a sample of what's going into my bottles, although some later ones have more of a theme of fall and Halloween:
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(Click images to enlarge)

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INTERESTED IN PLAYING?

Are you an artist interested in receiving a bottle and keeping it going? Click on the image above and read how. Then e-mail me with your name and address and I'll include you in my next set of bottles.
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More Art in a Bottle received!

Another cool art bottle received today! Check out all the goodies:


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Thanks Robin S.! Love the ATC.
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All this is part of Go Make Something's Message In A Bottle art project.
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1950s Ad Art

A postcard I made for a swap with the theme of 1950s advertising. These are all authentic '50s images (except the butterfly). The quote is from the 1953 movie "Roman Holiday" starring Audrey Hepburn. Can you believe these outfits -- two and three pieces each! -- cost less than a sawbuck?

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Free Matrioshka labels, to do lists!

If, like me, you love matrioshkas -- and who doesn't? -- you'll love these free downloadable prints.

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Thanks to Jessica at How About Orange for the alert and Yas over at A Print A Day for making them!

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