Newest ATCs June, 2008, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.Opps-the entire one here:
and this one:
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Newest ATCs June, 2008
Newest ATCs June, 2008, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.Category Archives: craftiness
Newest ATCs June, 2008, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.Jun5
I’m so proud!
First my lettuce!
Had some in our shrimp salad boats (hot dog rolls) for dinner tonight. Lots more left too.
And where I snipped it from, the garden in an old tractor tire:
I didn’t pull it out, I snipped it with my kitchen scissors. I plan to do that again before our heat wave arrives as it may bolt. I also have nasturtiums in there. I have nasturtiums everywhere! I just found two more packs of them and decided to add them to flowerpots and in the ground all over the yard.
Then I assembled this cross stitch flat fold for my friend’s upcoming birthday (I don’t think she reads my blog). She’s from Birdsboro, PA and I thought this was perfect. It took me about 3 weeks (exclusively, but not that many hours each evening). It’s a The Prairie Schooler design. Shrinking the photo made it look a bit distorted:
Here’s the backing material. I am glad it matched the design so well as I had bought it years ago!
My garden across from the front door is looking good. The large plant is coreopsis:
Mom suggested floating the fallen begonia blossoms (from the heavy rain) in my different birdbaths:
Peonies are so gorgeous and last such a short time, but unfortunately, both my shrubs had one only bloom this year. Any ideas why? The leaves are healthy!
And last but not least, a cool plant called ‘Spiralis’ surrounded by portacula:
Yes, we are expecting a heat wave starting Saturday-ugh! Got to be expected. I am sure it will boost seed growth. I did weed out my seed only garden of zinnias, etc. and I see more of them all then I thought. Whew.
Sean will cut the grass tomorrow. I asked him to get out the weed whacker to do a few areas. He bought it for me, but it’s for a taller person, or I just can’t handle it well. I loved my little Toro one that I had for about 15+ years and it just fizzled out.
May27
Promised ATCs
It’s nearly 80 degrees out and a bit humid. I went out briefly to plant a couple of perennials in the pond garden (which needs major weeding) and I got warm and came in. It’s not even sunny either. I planted Lupine and English Daisies. Seems my color theme there this year is pinks and purples.
Here is the Food challenge card I made for Emily over at ‘The Floss Box’.
I have all these sheets of letters in different papers that you punch out and am glad at the chance to use them.
Then I was clipping magazines and ran across this angel statue and decided to start a ‘Butterfly Wings’ series. The butterfly wings are from wallpaper border. The pretty white wings are from some papers I just got from Creative Papers online (love them!)
Then I did a Butterfly Fairy. Her ‘crown’ is part of a raspberry from the wallpaper border.
Her banner says, I wish you love.
And for my stitching pals-Art and Soul:
I think Emily fits in this category too!
I have these chalks that don’t photograph well (her neck), but I also colored her in with pencils.
Feeling a bit in a funk from not sleeping well last night. I was restless, it was stuffy in the house, I turned the air on, ate something around 6 am. I guess we all have those nights. I hope to do a bit more outside, but here comes Mister Sunshine!
May20
What to do when it feels like March
That’s right folks! It crept up to about 60 today and rained until 4 pm. I had started a few ATCs yesterday and did a few more tonight (see Flickr). Sean started a writing course tonight down at the annex campus at PSU.
Here’s what I did :
I printed out some images on vellum paper and made this card for a friend. She gave me the neat backing paper with the ‘language of flowers’. I liked the way it turned out. The vellum makes the paper curl up though.
Over at ‘Facebook’, there is an application called ‘Sketch Me’, so I did it with a newer photo of me kneeling with my flowers. This is my new calling card!
Hope to get outside tomorrow. I walked around tonight and things look ok, but I need to do so much more weeding, planting and mulching. Hope my tummy is better too. I had to take some prescription medicine today, which is my last resort.
May14
Art by lantern light
A few of these I did on Monday with the use of a lantern (we have a mini Coleman that is a flashlight/lantern combo). It wasn’t really dark, but enough that I needed some light. My eyes aren’t that young anymore. : (
First two by lantern, finished Tuesday night:
Paradise-made with gardening catalog for the background, bluebird from old bird handbook and stickers
Want to Play?- tore up a few different colors of green handmade paper found at Dollar Tree and used Mod Podge to apply. Real looking flowers are from the gardening catalog. The rest are stickers.
This one was made before the power outage:
Blooms-background is my photo from Longwood Gardens, ‘Blooms’ is from the brochure from LG, and moth is freebie from Dover Publications. One side is a sticker and the other is paper.
And this one made Tuesday night as I got a big order of papers from Creative Papers online and wanted to dig in to my new stash:
Cardinal Song-flocked paper, Dover freebie gramophone, sheet music and awesome Marjolein Bastin bird stickers (gotta love stickers!). I colored the gramophone.
Apr22
Altered tin #1 Blue things
Altered tin #1 Blue things, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
This is for sale at my etsy shop along with two other ones that I hand-painted and assembled. Link is on the right.
Apr8
Head spinning
I’m so excited about crafting things, that I want to do about 10 projects at once! My partner is putting together the most adorable fairy kits for you to assemble. I’m making art pieces out of Altoids tins and will probably make other things from them. I have 3 almost finished (thanks for prompting this post Sharon!) It’s the ‘finishing touches’ part that is holding me up. I have a few other tins bookmarked on flickr to help me out. People have such great ideas! I will say I painted the tins and they resemble the photo below featuring Cate Blanchett.
Have a few appointments set up this week and one more next week. I hope that is it for a while! Still waiting on the blood work results-a week now. No news is good news, correct? I have to be more optimistic now! ; )
Off to wrap some birthday gifts.
I took some photos and thought I’d share:
I keep my Art Trading cards in a notebook and use baseball card plastic pages.
I just got this Mona Lisa rubber stamp and whipped this ATC up right away! I also was in QVC outlet store and they had this big pack of letters on different backgrounds that you just punch out. I think there were 10K of them!
Here’s a kit I had started and pulled out last night. I am so sorry I didn’t change out the fabric.
I finished the first African violet ‘Nancy Reagan’-only 6 more to do. I am all purpled out and put this aside for a few days.
Apr3
Announcing
My friend and I are working on an etsy shop! There is nothing listed yet, but I figured if I talk about it, I’ll get busy! I hope to have something listed within a week.
Not much new on the home front. I made my niece a cute ATC for her upcoming birthday tonight plus I worked on a few other cards I am still trying to finish the first plant on the African violet cross stitch sampler.
It took me all evening last night to feel better physically. I think all this upset is going right to my gut. Just surfing, I went over to Flickr and saw a link-most views of my stuff and I saw that many people said that my photos or art were one of their ‘favorites’. That gave me a little moral boosting, especially when it came to getting etsy rolling.
Check out the elephant painting in my vid pod on the right. Angela Cartwright had it featured on her blog.
QUICK question-anyone have tummy trouble taking vitamin or calcium supplements? I’m wondering if that is why my tummy’s been so weird. I started taking them in February. I think I’ll not take anything for a few days to see. In the meantime, I’ll order some vitamins for sensitive tummies. Who needs this when you are trying to stay healthy?
Mar31
Last day of March already!
We had such a busy month, it just seemed to go quickly. Having Sean home in the middle helped with the winter drudgery feeling. I just got a phone call and the lady said my eye appt was moved to the 9th as the machine is down. Maybe Bri can go with me since it’s late in the afternoon.
Today I have to return a movie, maybe rent another and buy some cards, one of which is an anniversary card for us! It will be 24 yrs for us this year! *Bowing* With Sean not home a lot now, it’s rather like the old days of keeping each other company. I find cooking for two a drag. Sean use to eat most of my leftovers, his dad doesn’t.
Here’s progress on The African Violet sampler plus a ‘happy’ real one close up. I think I’ll finish this one violet and then pick up a different project.
A few ATCs I made recently:
Made from mostly recycled things-part of a postage stamp package, a stamped image that wasn’t perfect….the glare is a hummingbird sticker
This one is called ‘Dress rehearsal’. I love finding these old images:
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Tip of the day-eat rice cakes! They fill you up and help like fiber does! Enough said. : )
Feb27
Tried something new!
I bought the punch needle kit back in the fall and just today decided to try it out. The lady at my LNS (Strawberry Sampler) was nice enough to show me how to do it, although that lesson was far in the recesses of my memory. I did get the knack of it and turned out this ‘pink’ ribbon. For some reason I grabbed a brownish pink, probably because I didn’t think I’d actually finish the project in one night. I think it’s not half bad for a first try. (update 2/27-I pulled out the incorrect color at the very top and redid-in 5 minutes. I may pick a pinker pink for the rest-it’s really easy to fix). The only real pain was threading the needle. It comes with a hair thin wire with a loop on the end. Perhaps that reminded me of the needle they used on me in November-I remember it was pretty thin like this. I have another design-more folk art of a cat and a pumpkin I will have to do next!
It’s a limited edition pink punch needle to benefit the Susan G Komen foundation.
I’ve made a few ATCs in the past week too. I ran some printed scrapbook paper (with music scales) through the printed and printed some photos on it. I got some interesting results:
The baby’s photo just happen to print out right between the music notes! I used teal color tissue paper with a little glimmering chalk over it. Both my photos look a little out of focus. Hmmmm…guess I was going to close.
Collages & Creative Goodness 