Christmas card/picture

Hello everyone and Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you all are having a wonderful time with family and friends on this great holiday. I can almost smell the turkey cooking now. I love Thanksgiving it is my favorite holiday. Just good food with great people, no hassles of buying gifts or any of that. Just great conversation with the people you love.

Oh by the way, this is Donna.....

Today I have a Christmas  picture I made for my younger brother and his wife. She was born and raised in Germany and my brother met her there when he was stationed in the army. They married over there and the ceremony was beautiful, but boy can those people party!!! Any hoot, the background is made from hand made paper and then painted then I attached a painting I did to the front and wrote Merry Christmas in German on it.

I also used some LOVELY ribbon around the outside that was so thoughtfully given to us by The Ribbon Resource, it is just lovely and fit this picture perfectly. Thank you so much Ribbon Resource and go check them out, they have lovely items to choose from.

Well, I don't want to keep you from your busy day, so I will just show a few pics. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

A small painting done with acrylic background and Inktense blocks used like watercolors.

Pastel Fairy

Here is a drawing done in Pastel chalks.

Hello again, I hope everyone is feeling well. I know the flu is going around, I got a flu shot for the first time this year. I did NOT want to get what my husband had....UGH!

Today I want to show you a canvas I did, I call it "After The Rain". I took a painting that Leonid Afremov did of a ballerina and changed it up a bit. He has beautiful paintings if you would like to go take a look, He uses a palet knife to paint, I find that a little challenging for me since I have not had much practice with one.

Hope you like it and thank you so much for stopping by.

Renoir's Red Peonies on canvas

Recently I found a fantastic painter on You Tube and her name is Ginger Cook, she is the mother of Theartsherpa, Cinnamon Cooney. If you have never watched either one, you should look them up and paint along with them.

Recently I viewed a painting video that Ginger did called Renoir's Red Peonies and thought I would give it a try. So here goes......here is my interpretation of what she did.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by. Make sure to check out both of these very talented women.

ATC October

Hello all, today I made an ATC for the ColourArt blog Challenge "Orange is the new Black".
I used Twinkling H2O's to color the pumpkin and then made leaves from paper pulp and a mold then painted them with H2O's. I then added the words "Hello October".

Thanks for stopping by.

Stop by the ColourArte Blog and make something to join in.

From Paper Pulp to Jewelry

Here are a couple things I had been working on before I received my goodies from Arnold Grummer Paper Making. I used paper pulp, which I had been playing with for a while now but not being able to make paper, I went for the jewelry making with it. This first piece is a pin I made from molds. I can't show the mold because I packed it up to go out to my new shed I just had build and delivered. I haven't come across it yet to unpack.

I used paper pulp in the mold, painted it when dry, I then put Glossy Accents on it to protect it and make it stronger and then added the pin to the back with a good strong glue.

Here are the earrings I made also.

This one I still had the mold out so you can see what I used. Again I used paper pulp, painted them and then adhered them to each other with a strong glue. This time I used a wood hardener and dipped them a few times, let them dry between dippings and then used a lacquer on them to protect them even more. 

Since, I have received my package and have been playing around making paper. It is soooo much fun. Go check out   http://arnoldgrummerpapermaking.blogspot.com/ to see all the fun things you can do with paper pulp and don't forget their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/arnoldgrummerpapermaking?fref=ts. They have a ton of fun items to help make your paper making so easy and fun in their store.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy what I made.