Dress Inspired Card

I had a long overdue thank you card to make for a dress that was given to my daughter last month. 

I've finally made the card. I'm quite happy with how cute it looks :)

I miss cardmaking, creating, and cutting paper. I need to get back into the creative groove of things but lately I've been busy with either yoga, getting enough sleep, thinking about the summer months ahead (which includes moving to a trailer for the summer), and organizing my basement into an art studio of some sort.

That's it for now. Until next time!

A little paint

I haven't done painting with my daughter in what seems like a long while (maybe a few weeks) so I was very happy about starting that again. This is one of her recent paintings now hanging up in her playroom. I love how children's art is so expressive in their lines and full of energy. I also find it very fascinating watching her paint. Do you see the little dabs of black paint? She says those are footprints :)

Preschool Name Art

I got this idea when I supply taught at a preschool recently and I thought I'd try it out with my daughter. I told my 3 yr old that we're making name art. The steps were:

1. Trace name

2. Cut out paper following dotted lines

3. Glue onto a big sheet of paper in the way that he/she likes

4. Decorate!

I found that this was a great way to get her to work on some fine motor skills. I'd like to enter this into the Sunday Showcase over at Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas, where you'll have an endless list of other literacy/writing activities for the little ones.

Postcards!

I love postcards especially handmade art postcards. 

When these postcards arrived in the mail, I couldn't stop admiring every detail about them and be inspired. 

These were sent through the postcard swap earlier this month.

Enjoy!

Terrie Purkey from Creative Explorer

I just love the collaging and use of mix media in this piece. The corrugated textured heart really stands out against the neat text background.

Anita from Zafaran's Dream Doses
This postcard is so beautifully painted and the detail is astonishing. I can't stop looking at this!

Lorinda Fraser from Everyday Endeavours

I love the mixed media background and the collaging of the different pieces especially the stamps. This reminded me of when I used to collect stamps and now I would love to incorporate stamps into a future art piece.

Thanks to all these talented for the postcards! It certainly made my day when I received it :)

love

"We are all a little weird, 

and life's a little weird, 

and when we find someone's weirdness whose compatible with ours, 

we join up with them and fall into mutual weirdness 

and we call this 

love."

-Dr. Suess

This is my last postcard out of the three that I've sent through postcard swap. I've definitely had a lot of fun with it and it gave me a chance to actually try watercolour (believe it or not, I haven't really used watercolour except for a few recent times with my daughter). I think out of the three postcards, I like this one best just because I love the simplicity and white space. I think I have a thing for admiring beautiful watercolour paper :D I can't wait to share the postcards I received in my next post :)