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Purple Pansies Invites To Be Listed

I will soon list this set of Purple Pansies invitations which I designed using the pounded flowers technique.

I took a single pansy flower, spead it onto a sheet of yellow paper, covered it with a piece of plastic wrap, took my little craft hammer and started pounding away. When I had a look I was pleased with I carefully peeled away the plastic wrap.

There are 6 in this set and I will work on a design for some coordinating place cards.

Girlfriends Cards

Here are 2 of my new Girlfriends quarterfold paper greeting cards. There are 4 so far. They have a watercolor background and are collaged and altered. I am offering the originals.

I will be reproducing these designs and creating new, embellished cards from the prints.

Available at my My Winkelf Store .

Heart Papers!

I finally finished 3 Heart Papers and they are listed at my Winkelf Store. This one is 14 KT Hearts in bronze, blue & rose.

This one is Tiny Hearts in rose, purplish gray and bronze.

This is Sea Spray Hearts.

Use them in papercrafting, collaging, altered art, scrapbooking and gift wrapping of small boxes.

Upcoming designs: Chainlink Hearts, Hearts & Red Dots.

Sunny Sheila Greeting Card

Sunny Sheila is the 2nd greeting card I have offered at My Winkelf Store . If you feel down you can't help but smile when you look into her mesmerizing eyes. You can write your own sunny greeting inside this blank card. This is a print from my watercolor & collage painting. It is a happy card that I will continue to produce. I plan to make some mixed media wall art pieces of her as well.

I had a lot of fun drawing Sunny Sheila and watching her come to life. This is the watercolor & collage painting. Once I copied it onto photo paper, I made the card then reworked the copied image with permanent color & black markers. Because of this process each card will be a little different. I can alter the color & tones however I wish.

My First Painted Clay Pot

My first painted pot was done with acrylics, white paint pen, glass stones adhered with white silicone caulk and collaged with my painted hearts. I sealed it first, inside and out, with 1 coat 50/50 white PVA glue/water. The decoupaged hearts are designs I painted on a scrap piece of paper, using leftover paint from a brush. I cut them out and glued on. I finished it with a gloss decoupage sealer. It is durable enough to use on a porch or covered patio.

Wisdom Face Go-Getter Event Setter

I made my first art doll face with airdry clay and a fiberfill stuffed fabric body. This was a gift for a friend who does event planning. This doll has a craggy face from all of her experiences and learning. Her name is Wisdom Face Go-Getter Event Setter and she's running to plan an event, with florals in her hands. When I gave her to my friend, she exclaimed, "It's me! She looks like me!" I said, "You can trim the hair if you want too. I just left it like that after I made it." She said, "No, no. I look like that sometimes when I wake up!." Of course my friend does not have a craggy face. Lol.

I want to design a more whimsical art doll with a mask-type face and a fuller, star-shaped body.

Adornment Featured at Call For Creativity

My mixed media piece Adornment is featured on the homepage of Call for Creativity (C4C), a place of resources for artists of all kinds. Call for Creativity

This is a free site where an artist can have a nice gallery with unlimited uploads, conference calls, calls for creativity, etc. It has a non-profit feel. The membership is still small, about 500, and as with any site, most of them are absent or share limited info.

But I am enjoying being there. It is like walking into a co-op space, hearing the echo and knowing that you are relatively alone to relax, explore and work in peace and quiet, lol.

The gallery feature is dynamic. I've never seen anything like it though I'm sure similar exists somewhere in the vast cyberspace.

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as well as the stores of some of my fellow artists and crafters.

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Simple Collage Lamp Shade

I made the Drifting Leaves Lampshade by covering a lampshade with beige decorative paper. Next time I won't have so much overlap inside.

I attached ribbon to top and bottom and folded over into inside, using a tacky glue.

The gingko and pecan leaves are my drawings. I painted them with watercolors, cut out and glued in a pleasing pattern. Overall I am pleased with my design but will try more elaborate designs also.