5 Day Creativity Challenge

I've been participating in the 5 Day Creativity Challenge 

hosted by Christine Phelps.

 

We're moving into Day 4 today. Please head on over

to get a look at what's been created so far!

Days 1, 2 and 3 can be reached by clicking

on the images below.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for checking out the Challenge!

Take care and enjoy your week,

Fran T

Fabrics have arrived!

I'm really excited because yesterday the fabric
swatches I ordered from Spoonflower arrived.

My Spoonflower shop is now open!

The swatches are 8"x8" And it is so cool to see your work on fabric. Its a whole different thing than paper or canvas.

Speaking of fabric, I've been working with felt,

which I have put on the blog a few posts ago.

I made some cute pieces right before

Easter to give as gifts. The bunnies are my favorite.
 I drew out the form for the white chocolate bunny but the chocolate bunny's shape I traced off of a box of candy my son received. It wasn't too hard to figure out the base to stand.
I sewed pennies in at the bottom to weigh them down a bit.
I did't have any dry beans.

We had a great time at Easter, as always. 
The younges ones are getting big but they are still 'kid' enough,  young and playful enough to keep it fun. Not to mention that we're all a bunch of 12 year olds deep down. That helps.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Take care,
Fran T

Posting here and there

 hello! Happy Saturday to you. I'm busy with posting things to my shop, then twittering about it and eventually will FB as well. It's a process but a fun one at that. I've been painting. I sneaked this flower in right before it died, that ranunculus was hardy, lasted almost as long as the mum flower did in my bouquet. I took photos and worked off of that to get this:

I love the green in this flower, and I wanted to really emphasize that.
It is such a good color contrast against the pink petals on this flower head.





I added in the name as well,

I probably should include the Latin spelling as well, just thought of that!

 

Today I worked on finishing up some lettering I did with my Copic marker. I have just one, a 02, because I wanted to try it out as I usually use the Microns [which I just love]. I read this in a magazine and thought it would be fun to do:

 

 

Lastly I just wanted to share some more felt fun, last weekend I worked on the felt pieces below, AND my crafty neice worked on one too! Em's is the Dream pillow. She designed that and executed it so well! don't you think?

 

Take care and I will try to post again sooner this time!

Enjoy your weekend and remember to SPRING forward an hour tonight.

Be well,

Felt Fun

About a year ago, or more, Pat at Lost and Found mailed me a wonderful handmade sketchbook and a felt heart pin she made. I am so in love with this pin and its always wanted to make my own. This weekend I finally bought some felt and my mom and I worked together to figure how out to do this. Here is our work. My mom made the flower, and I made the circle piece. Barb is amazingly good at all crafts and gets it right on the first try! I needed another shot to get it right. I tried the bird later last night and am pleased with the results. 

Mom's flower



First try for me:)



My second go at it!

Then after making the little thingies, I thought I would try embroidering a typical doodle I do... I have to say that, for me,painting is a whole lot easier than embroidering! I've got to hand it to those who stitch! It's definately a process!

 

 

 

 

 I hope everyone had a very nice Valentine's Day!

Take care and will be back soon!

Linking up to Creative Every Day.

So that means I'm going to try to post more often.

Daily as a matter of fact. 

Wish me some luck, for cryin' in a bucket.

 

;)