My Muse is back, my Muse is back.

I had a creative weekend and it was wonderful. My grandson came over and painted some rainbow watercolor back grounds together. He let me keep one and he took the rest home. So cute!

I then signed up for a swap with CCS group for Art Paper dolls and started to play. I found a paper doll template I like and tweaked it and decided to convert so I could cut it using my digital die cutter. That was challenging because I have only had it for a month and am just learning. Success! The die cut nice and clean with no errors or hiccups. Now I can make these babies anytime I want and not have to pull out the scissors to cut out the body. With mild RA in my hands having the die cutter to do some of my work is wonderful!

To create the doll I used some of my handmade background paper with the leaf pattern to create her dress, I added her facial features and some embellishments. I ended up making two dolls and used the water colored paper I painted with my grandson for the die cut butterfly wings and added them to doll #2. To attach the wings I made a slit in #2 dolls back and slid the butterfly’s body into the hole making the butterfly wings removable – pretty cool. I also doodled on her arms and leggs to jazz her up.

It’s good to be back in a creative mode.

This is an image of doll #1.

Oh, almost forgot. I tried out the shinny stone technique challenge last week and in my wackiness I mixed two techniques - shinny stone and glue resist. Let’s just say they were not what I expected! LOL. So I tried again and made two shinning stones backgrounds. These are better but they aren’t knocking my socks off either!

#1 Shinny - glue resist #2 & #3 Shinny stone techinque

Wacky and Weird - Disjointed Figures ATCs

For one of my swap groups we are making ATC's - Disjointed Figures. The basic instructions are cut a sheet of book paper to ATC size and attached to the front of an ATC card. Next stamp a face onto a seperate sheet of paper and cut it out. Then cut out a silly dress shape from magazine paper of your choosing. Now assemble the strange looking person together onto the background text page. Add some excitement to the page using watercolor, pens,and stamps to create your Disjointed Figure.

These are Wacky and Weird and a lot of fun to create. I added watercolor wash to the text page and also to the stamped face. Cut out a cute little birdie and a dress. Added a tree stamp to the background and colored that. Once it was assembled I added arms and legs.

Watercolor wash on text

This is a card I made for a swap using a text sheet that I water colored a rainbow of colors and stamp an image of a girl with buterflies. I pasted the title jouful flying friends on to it. I really like the water color wash on text and plan to use it on more projects.