I'm Back After A Year

It is great to be back blogging again.  I have been very busy with family and the death of my sweet daddy.  I have been painting a good bit this year. I'm getting ready for an art show this Saturday.  If you happen to be in the area, come by the Vestavia Hills Civic Center for a visit.  It is the annual Central Alabama Artist Guild Show.  There are 50 artist showing this year.  And the variety of art is fantastic.  Here are a few florals I have done.  These are quite small and can be used in most any room.

Summer Flowers On A Wintry Day

This week has been extremely cold for Central Alabama.  We have had snow and ice on the ground.  So that means a lot of time inside.  So I decided to do some painting.  I thought summer flowers would warm us up.

This painting is on a 10 X 10 wood panel.  Doesn't it just make you smile!  It is entitled, 

Joyful!

This next painting is also done on a wood panel.  It is 12 x 12.  And it is entitle

Freshly Picked

This last little painting is on a 6x6 Wrapped Canvas.  And I call it,

On The Windowsill

I hope that you and your family are staying warm, wherever you may be.  

Handmade Art and Pickin' In The Park

What a fabulous day it was this past Sunday in Homewood Park.  Beautiful Art and Great Music, are two of my favorite things.  When you put them together on a pretty Sunday afternoon in October, well, it just does not get much better.

Just a few photos of my tent and some of my artwork.  It was a very successful day.  I sold several paintings of various sizes, and numerous little pumpkin paintings.   And if you noticed the little dog bed and water bowl.  Well that is because my little fun fellow Captain was at there with me.  He loves to go to art shows and greet all the two and four legged friends.  He had so much fun!

I'll be back at the easel tomorrow preparing for holiday shows.

Fall Wreath, The Beginning of my Decorating

Many years ago, I cross stitched a banner for a grapevine wreath.  I added some sunflowers and a bow to complete it.  For about fifteen years that wreath spent its life in the attic.  Well, I decided to give it a new look and use it.  So, here it is on my front door.

I just love making old things new again.  

Pelham's Golden Anniversary

I recently participated in the Golden Anniversary Celebration for the city of Pelham.  It was a pleasure to be invited to join other artist in a good show.
Here are some photos of my booth.

It is always fun to meet other artists, make new friends and sale paintings.

My Sheri Craft #135 Three In A Row

Hi everyone!  I am back from my absence with the team and so glad to be here.  I am been extremely busy completing my last year of 37 teaching kindergarten.  Packing up 37 years of my life and moving things was interesting, sometimes difficult, and sometimes exciting.  I am now officially a retired teacher!

I am excited to participate in our challenge this week Called Three In A Row.

  I chose to use items in the last vertical row of the game.  I have embossed paper,  flowers and pearls on my card.

I hope you will join our challenge and post your project on the My Sheri Crafts blog, HERE.  Thanks for stopping by, I hope you come back often. 

Art In The Hills Was Great!

The art show this past Saturday was fantastic!  I saw so many people I had not seen in a while and love visiting with them.  There was a great variety of art styles at the show.  I only wish I had more time to visit the other artist.  Here are a couple of photos of my place.  I was in a great location and the weather was perfect!!!

I sold seven paintings!!

Art In The Hills

Hello!  I'm so glad you dropped by for a visit today.  It has been a while since I have posted.  I have been very busy but not with the paper crafts.  I have been painting and loving every minute of it.  This Saturday I will be showing my work in the Bestavia Hills Art In The Hills Show at the City Center.I am thrilled and honored to be joining so many talented artists for this event!

Here are just a few of my psintings that will be in the show.

Hope you have a beautiful Easter weekend.  Come back and visit often.

Irish You The Best!!!

Hi! and welcome!!! Well March is here, Daylight Savings Time is with us , Spring is right around the corner, and the wearing of the green day will be here is less than a week.  St Patrick's Day is always a fun day with friends and especially fun in my kindergarten classroom.  We all wear green and eat all kinds of green things.  We do a mini unit on Ireland and listen to lots of Irish music.  We play games and I have all kind of things for the prizes.  I also have cards for the children.  Take a look at this cutie.

The little dog with the shamrock is a digital stamp from http://www.papercraftingworld.com.  I colored the little dog to look like a King Charles Spaniel all dressed up for the Wearing of the Green.  The sentiment is also a Paper Crafting World digital stamp.  I added a little yellow and green ink to the edges and layered it to dark green paper.  I used Spellbinder dies to cut and emboss the two images.  I decided to add the cute polka dotted ribbon to the card and then embellish it with sone glittered shamrocks.  Happy Saint Patrick's Day to one and all!!!

Happy Birthday, 105 Years Old!!

Hello everyone and welcome on this glorious day!  I am just so excited to be here and share a special card I made for a special friend.  My dear friend Ruth turned 105 on February 14th!  Is that amazing or what!!!  Yes, she is 105 years old, lives independently in her house.  She does her own yard work, knits caps for babies born premature, cans lots of vegetables in the summer, and best of all, makes a carmel cake to die for!!  And she does all of this without wearing hearing aides or eyeglasses.

I made this card for Ruth's birthday.  I know how much she likes pink and loves flowers.  The cute cake is a digital stamp from Paper Crafting World.  I did a little inking around the edgeswith some pink and them added the little flowers. The flowers are gummed stamps from Jolee's Boutique.  I also created a border for the card with hearts.  (I just had to add the hearts border with her birthday beingon Valentines Day)!  I topped that border with a flowered trim that I had in my sewing stash.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is also a digital stamp from Paper Crafting World.  It too was inked with some pink. Now I know that you would like to see a photo of my friend, Ruth, so……… HERE SHE IS!!

This photo was taken of us at her party.  Isn't she just adorable. Thank you for joining us today.  Come back often for more fun projects.

My Sheri Crafts #126 Valentine

Hello and welcome to our new challenge at My Sheri Crafts. This week the ever o talented Sandy is hosting our challenge.  The challenge this week is all about Valentines.  Jus tmake sure you add a heart to y our project.

The papers I used for my card are from the Kaiser Craft "Charlotte" stack.  I love these papers so.  And this stack was a gift from our sweet team leader, Sheri, herself.  The little Yorkie puppies are frim BoBoBunny and the ribbon is from my stash.  

Please join us for this fun challenge with a heart at My Sheri Crafts.  I am looking forward to seeing all those amazing projects!!  Have a great week.

Lots of Love Blog Hop

Welcome to the Lots of love blog hop. We are so glad you have joined us today! There are only 8 stops along the way. So this will be a quick and inspiring hop for your Valentine's Day crafting. If you came from Sue's blog at http://suecrease.blogspot.com) then you are in the right place. The hop starts with Melin at My Paper Crafting so be sure to head over there and catch every stop along the way.

As many of you know, I love my dogs and am an advocate for animal rights.  So my project focuses on puppies.

I began the card with the delightful little digi from Paper Crafting World.  Is it not just adorable!!  I used chalk to color the little puppies.  The embossed mats are cut from Spellbinder dies.  They are inked in  bronze.  I created the sentiment on the computer and framed it in a red swiss dot paper.  I added some fun little puffy hearts for the glitz.  And then completed the card with two pretty ribbons. All papers are from Martha Stewart.

If you would like to create something with these sweet little puppies, you can find them HERE.

                                           

To sweeten up the hop, we are giving away a $20 gift certificate to PCW as well as picking one person from each blog that leaves a comment for a free single svg or digi of their choice from PCW (sets no greater than $2.00).

The gift certificate will be drawn from one person who leaves a comment on any one of the 8 blogs participating. Via random selection.

The individual winners will be selected via random selection by the comments left on each particular blog.

Don't forget to leave a comment on each blog so you can increase your chances of winning!

Now on to Suzanne for some more fun!
Have a great day and come back to visit real soon!!

Hot Cocoa

Hi everyone!   I hope you are happy and warm on the very cold winter day.  And what better way to get nice and warm than a cup if hot cocoa.

The cute little bear with the cocoa is from Paper Crafting World.  Is it not just adorable!  The hot pink snowflake paper is from Recollections.  I'thought it was the perfect touch of color for my little winter card.  The sentiment was done on my computer. And I added the little polka dotted ribbon for a little whimsy and texture.  

Please plan to join us this Saturday, right  at Paper Crafting World  for our first blog hop of 2014.  You are going to see so many fabulous projects and have such a great time. So mark your calendar.

My Sheri Crafts Digi Challenge

Hello and welcome back for the first  challenge of 2014 from My Sheri Crafts.  We have so many great challenges lined up for you this year.  You will not want to miss any of them.  Our design team is excited and ready to share new projects.  This week our challenge is hosted by our team leader, the ever so talented, Sheri, and she has chosen the theme, Delightful Digis.  I went to the Free Digital Stamps blog to find my digi.  This is a great resource.  Each day new sites are posted that are offering free digs.

I just loved this little Pennsylvania Dutch design.  It reminds me of some cross stitching I did as a child.  And later on I made a pillow of a design similar to this doing crewel work when I was in college many years ago.  Sounds like I'm living in the past doesn't it!  I decided to color the design using these little Twinkling H2O's paints.  It is hard to tell in the photo, but they are so bright and pretty and have the most amazing shimmer to them.  You can find them at Amazon.  

I used two different cut and embossed Spellbinder mats to layer the image.  The papers are from DCWV and K&Co.  I inked the edges of the mats with a little gold and bronze. I cut a little Fluer Di Lis border with a Spellbinders die for the bottom of the card and then added a gemmed pink butterfly border from Micheal's to the top.  I used some gold and green crinkled ribbon to compliment the colors of the card.  The little "To Cheer You" sentiment is a stamp from Just Rite Stampers.  

Please come and join us this week for our first challenge of the new year!  And i hope that 2014 will bring you much happiness, good health and peace.