Happy Father's Day, Part 2

We love you Daddy! Thank you for being such a great part of our lives!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day, you crazy Clint Eastwood impersonating fool! Hope you enjoyed your pancakes and sausage links this morning. We love you!

{Of course-these are MY pancakes and sausage, because I was too busy cooking them when I was doling them out to the menfolk. And I started with the homemade recipe-which reminded me as soon as I poured the batter in the skillet that I hate it...I quickly threw it away and made the "Complete" (ie-just add water so you can make thick fluffy pancakes) version. They were much better. Hope to remember this for previous years. It's been a while since I last made pancakes!} I hope to have a scrapbook page coming soon. But right now I think it is time for a nap.

Happy Sunday!

Fave Photo Right Now

Okay-I can never choose one photo for my favorite. I love the first photo because it is so rare that I am able to get my teenage son to actually pose for a photo with me. And the second photo shows how he is always trying to pull away from us-even when he really does need us. Love you, William. (Post in response to "Describe your favorite photo right now" for Ali Edward's sponsor giveaway this weekend.)

Finished Painting

I finally finished the painting. I finished it last night and scanned it in at 11:00 pm. The painting is done on an 8x8 canvas from Dick Blick. {It has been sitting around waiting for inspiration for quite some time.} Then I hung up the original in my cube on the "wall" when I got to work this morning. It totally brightens up the area. I love it!! Happy Friday-have a great weekend!

Thursday-Playing in the Studio

Last night I decided to work on some paintings. My inspiration comes from Traci Bautista and her "Springtime" print on Etsy-her blog can be found here. I totally have to learn by copying first. Once the techniques are embedded in my brain, then I can draw on them to create my own stuff. Until then...I do a lot of pointing to other people's work :) Anyway-I am still loving her Creativity Unleashed class! I haven't been doing a lot of "finished" paintings lately, just a lot of backgrounds that I have been scrapbooking on, or creating journal pages for. So I had a GREAT time creating these pieces. The above piece is a 9x12 painting done on watercolor paper. The other inspiration for the painting is some new paint that I just ordered from Heidi city. It can be found here. The colors I bought are icee, betty, and cotton candy (under accessories)-of course I had to order a couple of other things as well. What I liked about the piece was the colors and the flowers. What I didn't like was that the background was a little bland.

That's where this piece comes in. I didn't like the flowers so much on this piece, but I LOVE the background and the stems. Tonight I am working on an 8x8 canvas piece that will hopefully take what I like from the above 2 paintings and merge them so that I can take the piece to work and brighten up the "Pod" as they are known at work (6 cubes=1 pod). Keep in mind that I don't often spend a lot of time in the pod. I also work in the lab a lot and do some running to different buildings as well.

This is the front cover of a journal that I created using a combination of techniques learned in Traci Bautista's class as well as a couple of techniques from her book which can be found here.

This is the back of the journal. I am totally loving the painted pages inside the journal too. In fact, my post from yesterday was written on one of the pages of the journal and scanned on my scanner. Gotta go-boy is it warm in here! Hubby just put the AC in the attic window. Back to creating soon. Happy Thursday!

Wednesday

And that is all I have to say about that today...

Mini-Book

Here is a look at pages that I created for a mini-book. I started it as a way to experiment with watercolors on cotton duck canvas fabric. The photos were printed on the "wallets" setting on my computer, and the pages are 6x6. The paints I used were just plain old Crayola watercolors with water. I love the effect! I plan to sew the pages together soon, but I wanted to scan them individually first. Happy Tuesday!