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The direction and colors I started with for this page got totally covered up. So strange how things work out.
The background is a page I put together to make a custom Photoshop brush several years ago. It never made the cut so I stuck in a drawer and it promptly disappeared. It surfaced yesterday and was the perfect second beginning of my journal page.
Just trying to get some new cards made in categories that I didn’t think of before.
I’ve also got some ideas in mind for Mother’s and Father’s days.
I should likely think about wedding, baby and graduation while I’m at it.
But as I have learned…you can’t push it…just have to let it happen.
I was feeling the need to just paint. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to DO so I grabbed some paper and just DID.
It was really fun and free. As in free like a bird, of course.
So I ended up with a 9×12 sheet of watercolor paper covered with random painting..mostly geometric in style.
I decided to cut it up a bit for card backgrounds.
Sort of like serendipity pages.
I made these three cards and have some painted page left over for who knows what.
I did a few more background sheets that haven’t fired up my inspiration yet. I figure the more I push it…the less inspired I get.
In the mean time I’m getting more cards made. I found out today that I’ll be able to do another craft show in April. Nothing like a deadline to get me working!!
Quick art journal page this morning.
Lots of layers and texture…
Children’s books are so much fun. 
Silly stories, tales with a moral, social stories, nursery 
rhymes and so forth, all have one idea in mind. To get kids reading or being read to by others.
I volunteer in our elementary school library once a week and love to see those certain titles that are being checked out time and time again. They are sometimes tattered and torn…what I like to call, well loved.
In my new altered book I’ll be highlighting some of my favorites. I’ve been throwing this idea around in my head for a while. Now I’ve finally gotten started. 
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White…a classic. I remember my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Clark, reading it to our class.
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin is one of the funniest kids books I’ve read. I get a chuckle just sitting here thinking about it.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is just one of many favorites by Eric Carle. Certainly the easiest to illustrate.
I made a few more cards from some scraps and photos laying around my workspace. I just love using those scraps! It’s like a challenge to me.
I can’t remember what these flowers were…something is making me think they are an herb that flowered. Hmmm.
The green scrap is from a very pretty card I saved from the recycle bin. It matched the pink and green of a thank you card perfectly.
Isn’t it great when things like that just work out.
A tag with a little bit of ribbon looks much better when mounted on little foam squares. It gives nice dimension.
And then there’s one of my favorite pictures…
My girl sharing the heart shaped inside of a black walnut shell. Pesky squirrels left me a present in the garden but it made for a fantastic photo op.
She’s even wearing her LOVE shirt. <3
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