Blogger is frustrating me today! This is my 3rd try to upload this! More rubbings! I am learning and will keep going until I ge this the way I want....the overstamping is fun, and like stenciling over too, but I want to make some smaller stencils and show more of the rubbing! Also I want to try gluing in an image instead of using a rubbing image off a rubber stamp! The better quality crayons work best......crayola if you have them! Go to the link in the post below for a great tutorial by Michelle Ward! Have fun!

This is a great technique by Michelle Ward.....link here
http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/2008/06/crusade-no-21-irresistible.html
You use crayon and paints and have fun! I did orange crayon, black paint and some over stamping and high lighting with pencil, and spray stencil too! Lots of fun things and it comes out with great depth! I will try some other colors, but this was fun! Get those crayons out girls!!!!
Wheeeee!!!!!!!!!! Hugs,Patti

This is my Amber and her new tattoo! Her Dad always included her in his "gaming ventures" as a young child even! He loves video and computer games and sooooooooo does she, because it is a good memory of time they spent together having fun! So she drew out this fab tattoo and included some old time computer font to give her message.....Respect Your Roots! :0) I think it is pretty cool and the tattoo artist did a fabulous job! I just wanted to share! Have a great weekend all! Hugs,Patti

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Barb has tagged me! :0)

I have to write my memoir in six words!
Here it is:

Happiness comes in return, when given!

The rules of being tagged are:Write the title to your own memoir using SIX words.Post it on your blog.Link to the person that tagged you.Tag 5 more blogs.

Instead of tagging, I will invite you to review something important to you, a sort of approach you face life with and try to phrase it in six words! Just the thought of it is a refreshing thing! Have a great week bloggers! I hope happiness can be yours!

Time to share some of NATURE's ART! See the beautiful flowers that are up right now by our home!

The Poppies are almost done, the irises are full open and the Allium(purple sensenation)balls are open and I love them! The colors make me smile and I am in awe of nature's beauty! Our clematis(On the house creeping up on the trellis) are just starting to open the flowers! And I just trimmed the bushes yesterday, so that they are nice and shapely! :0) Hope you enjoy a peek at nature's beauty here! :0) Happy Weekend! Hugs,Patti

These are ATCs for a Patriotic Swap! I found this darling little girl with the flag, and added some RED WHITE AND BLUE and of course stars to go with the stripes! A little ribbon and some sewing machine zigzag finish this off along with some glitter! Enjoy! :0) Hugs,Patti

These are clothes pins! For a group swap, we were supposed to alter them any way we want, and we will use these to hang a line and pin up some art! Doesn't that sound totally fun!?

We create three and send one to three people! FUN!
Hugs,Patti

I just finished (a bit late) a little giftie pillow for sweet Janelle and Mark! They were WED on May 23rd and we attended the wedding! I wanted to make a little something personal for them, and here it is! Better late than never right?? I work with Janelle's Mom , Julie .....a real angel! Along with this giftie, the tag says........

"Every house where love abides

And friendship is a guest,

Is surely home, and home,sweet home

For there the heart can rest!"

This is a fabric page for a wonderful round robin I am in! In these books, we make a hidden pocket and insert something artful and goodies too if we are so inclined! :0) My pocket is at the top of the right hand side and you can see just a tease of what is hidden in the pocket! FuN fUn! :0)

BANNER SWAP:Hi all! This weekend I finished the banner swap pieces! Here is how it goes! We are spelling out INSPIRATION. Each of 11 people got a letter, mine is "T". Each person gave a color theme! We create 11 banners of fabric making sure to put our letter on it and use each person's color theme! This way, when the hostess swaps them back, it will be the whole word in a cordinating color scheme for each person! What fun right?? I love these and will upload mine after it comes home! :0) This weekend was a good art time weekend between the crazy rain and storms which were horrible! Hope you have a nice start to YOUR week! Hugs,Patti

This is a 6x6 canvas for a swap with Mandy! :0) I hope she likes it! It will be a fun exchange! I got the canvases from Dick Blick! They are so cool, no staples on the sides and lovely to work on! I will mail this off on Monday to Mandy! Hope everyone is having an artful weekend! Hugs,Patti

I have been under the weather lately, so I am going to share some beauty with you through nature! My neighbor has a lovely tree in bloom with fuchsia blossoms and I love seeing it out my window! You can see my fairy and birds at the top of my tree that I carved the female tree spirit into, when it had to be cut down from being ill. I also added a little tree nymph(below her) and a FAIRY door (way at the bottom) which we will fix up, we need more wood chips etc this summer. And then, we got this cute little welcome pup! Isn't she fun!? I shot her close and then next to the door so you could get a feel for her size! :0) Just adorable! I hope that everyone is having a wonderful weekend and I just want to say a word of appreciation for all our service men and women who are now serving and have ever served our country........on this Memorial Day weekend! God bless them all!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMBER! Yesteray was Amber's party! Last year, she was in horrible shape with 3 herniated discs and her Graduation from HS and Birthday was drugged and not happy! SO, this year, we promised her a wonderful party and so here is a group shot from when the majority of the kids were here! GREEN is her favorite color and all the kids were supposed to wear something green! They had lots of fun (it seemed :0) and today was cleaning up! They all wrote wishes in chalk on the driveway and did lots of fun things too including a scavenger hunt, pirate gift exchange, Guitar hero, Rock Band, Sing Star and more......just a bunch of fun kids having a fun time! We are blessed with Amber and thankful she has nice friends! :0)

These are all the little birds from the swap I was in to make a bird totas! How fun right? We all created birds with a loop at the top and bottom and when they came home, we could do what we wanted to attach them together and hang them! They are meant to be close to a doorway and are supposed to be full of good luck for those that enter and leave! :0)

Earl and I sanded and painted our garage side door yesterday! It was cracked and peeling terribly, and we sanded it to the wood and repainted to match the siding! And of course, I could not leave it alone....by that I mean plain, so there is a little stenciling too! :0) Art is creeping to the outside of the house now! Hehehehe!

This is Belinda's book for a fabric round robin! We have a pocket theme, and hidden in the pockets are little treasures! So those I will not share! :0) But, these are the two sides to the page I made for Bel's book! It is great fun, Bel's book is called Gretchen's Book of Dreams! The page could be any shape we chose, so I did the shape of a crown for the party! :0) She wanted us to just play and add lots of fun things , so I did my best! The first side with the three party girls, has a base of lots of fibers, materials, and lace sewn between fabric and netting and then collaged on! I hope Gretchen likes her crown and friends! :0)

Here is a puzzle swap I am in! MINE is home now, finished.....the burgandy/pink one! Great fun right? The others I have worked on still have pieces to be worked on except for the person I send to, which is now complete also! The greenish one above! Most had themes, mine was Numbers and wings, and the ochre/brown one is ABC using words that begin with A B or C for the main idea of the piece, the other teal one is vintage children....and so I think they came out great! This was a fun swap! The puzzles are 5x7 total size! Little mini collaged works of art! :0)