decos and image challenge

These are pages I made for three different deco round robins.


Shattered glass image

This is a card I made from an image challenge. The image came from Adrienne. She shared some awesome photos she took. I made a blank note card using the door image and a photo of a little girl I've been itching to use. I sprinkled her dress with fairy dust and added a little to the vines. The quote under the photo "from small beginnings come great things".

I am having problems with my scanner and the color so sorry colors are off a bit. Hope you enjoyed them.

Art Deco pages

These are the front and back pages I made for an art deco book. The leaf print in the background was from a "little beauties - leaf" swap that Susie made. It was the perfect addition.

It Snowed - I played

It snowed overnight Friday so after cleaning the house I decide to create. I read about Gesso textured backgrounds on Trish B's site, you'll always find something interesting there. Anyway, I decided to give it a whirl. So following her easy-peasy instructions I went to work, or should I say play!

I gesso'd one 8x10 sheet and when dry cut it in half. Painted one black the other green. When they dried I cut them in half so I now have quarter sheets. Using acrylic paints I topped the black with silver, the second black sheet with bronze, a green sheet with bronze and the final green sheet with gold.

They are fabulous...thanks Trish. I will make these again.

I also signed up for another little beauties swap. this time the theme is MEN. So I started making them over the weekend. I used some of the background paper above when making a few. I thought I could go with Masculine as the theme but I was wrong there must be a man someplace on the little beauty. So, I'll need to either alter most or make some new ones because only three have men. No biggie because these will make great card starters.

Easter's right around the corner and I have 4 grandsons to make cards for not to mention a few others I send them to. So I decide to get cracking. I found some cute ideas in a craft magazine and created diecuts and started on them. Here's one style. That's it so far.

I've been tagged - 2nd time

I've been tagged again. This time by my new friend Charlie at here’s the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

My seven:
1. I had a little pony name Flame when I was a girl and loved to ride her bareback in the fields near our home. She was very spirited and would some time throw me off – woo hoo!
2. Although my studio is called little birdie studio my favorite animal is cats. Kitties do love birdies too! he he
3. I'm going to turn the big 50 this year... and saying it doesn't make it any easier. Hum, so they lied to me and now the cat is out of the bag!
4. My favorite color is red but I find a color that I get hooked on for periods of time. Right now it's light green. Don't worry red you are always my favorite.
5. I'm a wise guy, even at the office. But can you believe I was shy in school? Yup! EEEK
6. I discovered I really don't like the snow! Where is the warm weather? Hum?
7. When I was a girl my mom would take care of an elderly woman on our street and I would go with her sometimes. This wonderful lady became my “Nana”. I loved to visit with her. She was a worldly lady, an artist and flower gardener extraordinaire. Her stories stayed with me and her art, which she continued even when her eyesight was failing, made her special. She touched my life she became one of the most inspirational people I’ve met and my mentor. Thanks Nana!
Okay, so that's it!

Now for the fun part of tagging others.
1 Vicki belongs to one of my art groups. Currently we are going Deco books as a round robin. So when I checked out her blog and found such pretty pages she made I was thrilled. I instantly added her to my blog site.
2 girl-gone-thread-wild this site belongs to Monica Magness. She should be an inspiration to all of us! This wonderful lady took on the challenge of collecting 2x2 art squares to make an art doll that will be auctioned for breast cancer. Please visit this site and see all the wonderful work.
3 Funky Cat Studio is another talented new friend.

I have worked with the next 4 artists for a while now on I believe three yahoo groups.
I always find their art inspirational and creative. I visit their blogs often and you should too. Here they are:

4 Chrissy's Creations
5 Maggi's blog
6 Autumn Light Designs
7 Kathy "Sweetpea" Beringer

Now I'm off to their blogs to let them all they've been tagged.

Acrylic (ink) Blot Background Paper

Blue - green - sliver acrylic with green watercolor


Blue - green - gold acrylic with red watercolor

Made some more background papers for a swap. I always like the way ink blots look so I tried it with acrylic paints. They look pretty cool but needed something more so I sprited with watercolor and let it dry. Alot of fun and messy!

Make a Moo or two & Paper weaving

I came across this site: http://makeamooortwo.wordpress.com/
A Moo is a little card with the size of 2.8 x 7 centimeters or approximately 1.1 x 2.8 inches. Based on the weekly theme you choose the materials and techniques you like and go to town. Once you're done you post them on your blog, flickr- or other photo sharing site. Copy the direct link to your post. When leave a comment on the Make a Moo or two theme in which you paste the link to your Moos. Easy.

This weeks theme is TRAVEL so I gave it a whirl. Here they are ...with a moo moo here and a moo moo there, here a moo there a moo...see they travel a lot!





Paper weaving is up on one of our swap boards so I decide to try it out before signing up. I used on of my backgrounds I created with alcohol inks and a decorative paper. I'm not sure if this is my thing. I thought it needed something more so I added a finishing touch with an Asian girls in the center. Here it is: