Find Peace & Dream

This is a collage of torn and punched out painted/glazed papers on the backside of a small (8x10) cork board. Stamped with a bunch of my favorite rubberstamps and then colored here and there with water soluble oil crayons.

Bad Baby Earrings

I've had this idea in the back of my mind for awhile now, and this weekend I finally got around to making them. Bad Baby Earrings - complete with tattoos, red nails, and silver bangles - just what every well-accessorized Bad Baby is wearing this season. lol!

*Click on the pic with the lighter background for a close-up shot.

Background papers

I played around with some paints and a credit card to make these background papers. You just squeeze out a little paint along one side of the paper (one color) and then kind of squeegee it across the paper with a card of some kind. Follow immediately with another color. You could use a playing card, but those fake credit cards you get in the mail with all those credit offers work great! You just keep adding colors right over the top of each other until you are satisfied with your result. I used a number of colors on the first one, but only two colors on the other. They're both great looks I think. I love the grungy chaos. You can add to that grunge look by going back over your swipes of paint and "cutting" in with the edge of the card. It scratches down into the other layers of color.

Altered Child's Chair

I donated a chair I altered to the Crisis Call Center for their "Chair-ity Ball".

They asked artists to donate items to be auctioned off as a fundraiser.

Here's a link to all the fabulous chairs that were created:

http://www.crisiscallcenter.org/crisisweb/chairity_ball_chairs.htm

And below are a few angles of my chair. This started out as an unfinished pine child's chair kit. I covered the chair with torn pages from an old copy of Great Expectations and then ripped and sanded some of the areas for a more distressed look. Then I went over the whole surface with brown shoe polish which gives it a nice, antique look. I finished up with some rusting solution around the hardware and here and there on the chair for added interest. The old book, faux apple, and dried roses in the glass vase were the final touches.

"Pretty Girl"

Acrylic painting with collage and colored pencils. FUN!