DigiScrap Drive-In's Daily Download

 Be sure not to miss a day of  "Tea for 2"; a gorgeous kit by Bean Bunny Designs. Go to DigiScrap Drive-In  for the month of  May's Daily Download!

I LOVE this new kit -Flutter and Swirls!

Moments in Time just put out a gorgeously fun kit called Flutter and Swirls at DigiScrap Drive-In! The colors are bright and happy, can be used for boys or girls, and there are so many fun pages that can be made. She also has an add-on and dotted papers that coordinate with the kit sold separately. She has amazingly fair prices too!

Here's a couple I did with the collection:

I am adding some journaling to complete this one but the kits makes it so cute I really don't need to do much more than name and date it.

 I have been looking for the right kit to scrapbook this baby's bath photo for so long and this kits is it!

Her prices are so reasonable too! If you get the chance you should go check it out!

ArtBlog Hop 3 :)

Really quick post for The Art Blog Hop. I drew this for my brother and sister-in-law, my niece Reagan. I try to do this as a gift for all my new nephews/nieces. Sometimes it takes me a while to get them done because life happens. This is the first one I did about 4 years ago. I am working on one now for my newest niece just born towards the end in April;  I need to finish it quickly because there is another niece coming any day now :).

My second week ArtBlogging

I know this is super-duper late - but I did it! I posted 2 pics to make-up for being so late :) 
Still life has always been intimidating to me. So I decided to increase my intimidation by doing my still life in Prismacolor colored pencils! I have all these beautiful colored pencils and I bought a  How-to-Book on using them. I went amazingly overboard buying prismacolor pencils. I played with them a few weeks,  got frustrated, and then put them away thinking someday I will get back to learning how to use them. So why not use them in my art journal at least - right? I prefer graphite but I really want to push my skill set.

If anything, I could illustrate children's books:)

This next one I call "non-still life" because our cat Mallow kept moving! So this is my quick sketch non still life:

 

Having a great weekend!

Too cool...I made LOTD!

 Layout of the day at DigiScrap Drive-In (DSDI) for May 11th, 2011:

 

Click image to enlarge :)

I have been participating in the challenges at DSDI

mainly because it's fun and my designer has her digi-home there.

I get to wear a new blinkie and I am so excited!

ArtBlog Hop Week 1 (for me anyway)

This was the assignment for last week:

*NEXT WEEK’S TOPIC:  Create a drawing from a worm’s eye view.  Imagine and draw how different things would look if you were the size of a worm.  Have fun creating and have a great week!

Well this was my take on what things would look like if I was the size of a worm - I think I misinterpreted the instructions! I may at a later time do another drawing from a worm size perspective.

I used graphite and charcoal. I have never tried to use them together before. I also used a layered technique for both mediums, and then lifted the a few layers with a kneaded eraser until I got a texture I liked. Never used that technique either! I know there's a name for it but I don't recall what it is. I will have to look it up and post it to the blog later on hopefully this week.

 Mother's Day was fantastic! My children made me breakfast in bed with chocolate milk to drink :). My sweet husband bought me beautiful roses, chocolate and made me my favorite dinner (he make the very best Alfredo sauce!). I got so many flowers, hugs and sweet sentiments from the kids. One of my children ( my 3rd bio child Taylor, who is the oldest of our two 15 years olds)  made me a card with a poem she wrote for me, made me a "Mother's Day" crown, a sweet smelling paper flower that will never die, and snicker doodle cookies in a heart shaped box. And she gave me a box of Happiness! She colored a little box she made with a lot of little slips of paper she individually colored and wrote "happiness" and smiley faces on both sides. It was amazingly cute and clever! She also cleaned the whole kitchen. My youngest girl, Maddie, (who is my fourth bio child and is 13 years old) cleaned the rest of the house - she even vacuum under the living room couch cushions! Maddie also had my picture as her FB picture for a day and wrote sweet and creative comments to me and about me on FB. All of my family let me have the day to myself mostly so I could scrapbook! 

I hope all the moms out there had a great Mother's Day :) .

Things I accomplished in April

WOW! Talk about busy.

I crocheted Easter gifts for all my children at home, I finished and fixed brag book quick pages, 15+ scrapbook pages along with my normal responsiblilites. I am still wanting to do a couple of more scrap pages and finish a crochet project, but there is no rush.

Here is the crocheted Tails that I said I would finish for Emmy's bday but ended up finishing it for Easter.

I forgot the little curls for his head but I'll add them ASAP.

I will post the others with the Easter scrapbook pages...