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From time to time I have to go find myself... where I am... do I like what I am creating, can I do better, what direction do I need to take now...  etc.   I guess we all go thru that thought process one time or another... I do it pretty frequently these days...  not really sure where I really belong... 


So I decided to take a little break and regroup with myself and I pulled out a canvas  (12 x 16 inches)   and started to work.. 

I started to play with the Texture paste and some stencils that I had just received as a prize... they were all so inviting.. .but used the leaves... 

 

I started to add some textures.. .the brown shaded areas are ground Mica that I added to the Gesso...  what fun I was having...  just doing my thing... and nothing else.. 

 

I colored the canvas with Distress paints and also some Adirondack paints... as I only had a few of the distress ones at the time...

 

I added a few butterflies and also some 'stone' work... NC where I live has so very much stone work all around the place... love it all.. so I wanted to capture some of that...  but I was at a stopping point now... and didn't really know where I wanted to go next... 

 

BACK TO MY GOOD OLD PAPER .... 

 

I hope you can see this ...

(please click on pictures to get the fullest size of any pictures.....  )

 

I took a piece of white cardstock... and started to play with some more stencils...  one was of a gingko leaf... I love Gingko leaves...  they are so very wonderfully different to me... so I wanted to play with that one.. and the hexagon one I had made from one of Tim's Dies... LOL.. Love those dies... and then to get a stencil too.. .great guns... how fantastic is that...  Okay...  so then I started to lay on the textured paint... I did happen to dye it... that was something I wanted to try again.. I had done it once... but this time I went to town... embossing, and then texture paste off and on all over the paper...  what fun...

 

NOW WHAT??? 

 

Well one thing I have to confess now, is that I got so wrapped up in what I was doing... that I forgot to take pictures... LOL... so very sorry...  but when that happens, my husband even knows not to bother me... I am deep in fun, messiness and sheer play time...  music is off the walls, at times... and the room is bouncing with good energy... loving it all.. 

 

I decided to rip the paper up into small pieces and put it onto the canvas... could I really do that???  Well I did... 

 

At this stage I hope you can sort of see where I used each and every little bit of that 8.5 x 11 piece of paper... I loved it... and was amazed that I could tear it up... 

 

I also added some misc leaves I had made.. .using texture paste that was left over... I just made a bunch of leaves... sheets of them... 

 

As you can see I added tissue tape, and real live branches from the yard... and I also drew and cut out some garlic.. 

 

I added a piece of Mica that is in the lower left hand corner of this picture above... it was found on the farm...  lovely layered mica... clear and beautiful...   I still have about a 1/2 inch of it left...  love it... 

 

I used a crackle stamp and made it look old... and more tape... and painted the butterflies... 

I added a few leaves... as fall is coming... sooner than we expect it this year...  and these leaves are from kraft glassine paper from Tim's collection of goodies and stuff...  love it.. special occasions it is used.. this was one of them.. 

 

 

 

I also used a crow stamp and colored it with black and DEEP VIOLET... not sure if you can see it as well as I can...  it is perched on the real branch...  loving the whole thing... 

 

There are areas where I have tucked textured assorted papers under other pieces of textured papers... just because I felt like it... no other reason... just having that deep rooted feeling of fun and creativity.. 

 

Another crow... but this time he is made from textured paste and also a die cut that was turned into a stencil...  love him... in fact I made about 15 of them... 

(too much mixed paste... LOL.. but they will be used... no fear... have fun... make things... enjoy what you are doing...  ) 

 

A little heart...  a little sweet memory

 

 

I had bought these really neat letters from Tim's stash of stuff...  and had to use them... they were really special and so this was going to be their premier...  LOVE THEM... I didn't do anything to them other than to glue them onto the canvas... wow... LOVE IT... 

 

I dropped the A  as there is little glass corked bottle over it... not sure you can see it...

 

I had a very difficult time photographing this picture...  but I hope you can see it all..

 

 

 

A crow hiding it's face under the gingko leaf... LOL... 

 

 

Hope you have enjoyed this LONG posting... but I did want to share this with you all... I was waiting for the right moment... and I think that entering it into the Frilly and Funkie Challenge is the right moment... 

 

As the challenge this week is Summer Garden... and this is all about our farm... our gardens and our memories of this summer time here on our farm... 

 

I do hope that YOU have a wonderful day and that you enjoy everything about it...  Thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit and commenting on this part of my life, that I have shared with you... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Reality.... birds are cute!!!

Today is SUNDAY STAMPERS day... and Hels has chosen a GREAT theme... Bits and Pieces... what ever is on your worktable...  OMG Hels... I could build a ship with all that was left on here last night... LOL... but I pulled out a FEW THINGS and played... 

I had a Ziploc bag of scraps of paper... my favorite to use for things...  and I also had a few pieces of paper that I had inked... so I was in luck...  Also a few flowers... HEY... my work table always has a FEW flowers on it... so we were lucky there that there were not a dozen... 

So here is what I created... 

 

I took the bag of scrap paper and collage little tiny pieces of it...  and made a whole 8.5 X11 inch sheet of paper... LOL.. so I have a lot left over.. not a big deal... I love this kind of thing... so it was fun....  then I pulled out a BIRD Sizzix Die cut... and made the two birds... they didn't have wings on the template??? So I had to make my own...  not a problem either...

 

The rest was all on my work table.. .I just glued it on the paper... oh I should say I sewed the two pieces of paper together and then glued everything onto it... 

 

 

 

The raffia had fallen on the floor... from the table... does that count... the  birds have stamping on them...  and so do the leaves... and also the saying... which I had just put a huge drawer of misc stamps onto my worktable yesterday... so I was in luck there too...  some of my favorite ones too...

 

I did have to get rhinestone eyes... but they were in a container on my table... truthfully they were ... .

 

So that is my contribution for today...

I really love this one... and think I will hang it next to a bird house... as these birds are really fun...

 

Hope you have a wonderful day... or had a wonderful Sunday.. .I am still stamping and having fun... have another 6-7 hours to play... yea... 

 

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon...

Love, Light and peace...Bonnie

White on White with the MOTHER

Who is the MOTHER??  Well Mother Earth of course... 

This week on Simon Monday challenge blog the challenge is to use WHITE...  You can use it in any way the you choose... but I love white on white... some of my favorite cards are white on white...  love the confectionery type of card...  with lots of laces and multi layers of it all... and then all of a sudden on the last section of the card... colored FLOWERS... love it... 

Anyway... if you are interested there should be a few on my blog someplace... as I sure sell a lot of the kits to make these... 

But back to this piece that I just finished... I wanted Mother Earth's spirit to be as real as possible... so I gathered up all kinds of things and played... now mind you... I only have a few hours... as our green beans are popping... and 30 quarts are waiting to be canned  NOW...  we do love them in the winter... so it is a pleasure to do them in the summer months...  they are so very delicious too... 

Okay.. I know you want to see the picture... enough already with all the words...

 

Embrace the MOTHER

is in chit chat at the bottom of the frame... all the details as we go along here...  but that is the official name of this piece... 

 

I took many pictures of the face and draping... different ways so you could see as much as possible... 

 

 

 

She really is smiling, and has a very sweet face... just as the Mother does...  a very serene one...  but you will see many views and they all sort of look different... 

 

I started off with a face that I had made at least 5 years ago... using air drying clay and a mold I made at least 10 of them... I found them the other day when sorting thru stuff...  and thought I should use one of these...???  so I did...

 

I glued it down onto a piece of card stock and started to drape tissue paper around the face... this is what happened... of course I had a jar of Gesso handy.. and that is how it all got to be so wonderful around the face... I love it...  and I know I will use this technique again and again... (hey I have at least 9 more faces...  )  When I pulled them out of the mold each one was really different too... so I picked out the one I loved the best... 

 

 

 

a little bit more black in the picture... just to show you the depth of her face and drapping... 

 

she really is smiling at you... saying how much she LOVES YOU... 

 

 

A lot darker, but you can again see the depth and also all the imperfections...  but I still love her... and she almost looks like she has painted eyes... which she doesn't... she is ALL WHITE... 

 

You know these kinds of frames... from the $1.00 stores... well this one I think I again have about 3 of them...  ????  for what... ART and playing with... love them... so I gesso it a long time ago too... and never used it... but today.. .I put some of TIM's Tissue on it... OM Goodness... I love it...  really fun too..  I don't want to hide it though... 

 

Well she just fits in there so perfectly... and I added some of these fun little flowers that I made... you know the kind... the ones that you use to buy in the dime store in the late 40's...  oh my... that long ago???  anyway... I made a few hundred of them the other day... and some were white... with white stamen...  You can see a cute story about these on the post I did on the  29th of June...  I love these little flowers as much as I do all the big ones I make... 

 

Here is a side view... well sort of ... and the flowers look like a lace blouse...  I love her...  she is really so pretty... 

 

 

 

Just another view... 

 

have you ever crackled a glass bottle... well I did... the directions are in the Compendium of Curiosities book three by Tim Holtz... I love this...  and I gathered up some Fairy dust and put it into the bottle...  it is all white...  with the exception of the cork top...  didn't want to color that...

 

Again ... so you can see the completed picture... 

 

I used my Tim Holtz butterfly die and cute three butterflies from clearly art plastic sheets by Wendy Vecchi , and covered it with Tim's frosted film... and then used some white alcohol ink to add some 'color' to it... there are three butterflies, one on top of the other to show flight and freedom... 

 

Using the best flower die on the market... Tim's Tattered Floral die, I cut some Muslin and also some tissue flowers... and added some stamen to the tissue ones... the muslin flower and leaves are really fun to play with... will get more into these for a quilt square really soon...  I have to get my quilt done this year... it is to cover up my French doors in my studio... and the squares are 22 inches square and each one is painted and created differently with all kinds of color themes...  love it... totally FREE in all ways...  nothing set in stone... 

 

I added this really pretty white glass disc... it looks like a large marble has been flattened... ??? dont' know what it is... or where it came from... but a dragonfly has decided to rest on it now...  along with a few of these flowers in a Antique Linen...  they are all around the place...  look.. you might see them... 

 

 

 

Since I had fairy dust... I needed to have a fairy... so I cut the flower fairy out that is called white clover... this series of fairies is one of my very favorites.. LOVE THEM ALL... 

 

 

 

 

 

Mother Earth Energy... 

You can see the flowers a little bit easier here... each one has two flowers and a stamen... simple and cute... do you remember them... they came in a little bunch and each flower was a different color.. .I loved them... 

Embrace the Mother...

Be kind...

love her in all ways... 

 

Hope you have enjoyed this and thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit...  Please don't forget to go to the Simon Monday blog and check out all the other work there... there are some really magnificent pieces there...  really dynamic... 

 

Thanks again... have a great evening and day...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

so here she is in all her glory...