A Painting We Will Go.....On Karen's Deck!

What a fun day!  Monday, Jan brought all kinds of beautiful colors in spray bottles and shared them with us. April gave us each a little watercolor tablet and we went to town.  There was lots going on...some of us were just spraying paint, others were using stencils, others were laying down items and spraying over the top...each doing their own thing.  It was so fun!  Yes, we had paint from one end of the table to the other.  Someone even got a little on the deck...wonder who...

The pictures below are of various things we all did.  Forgive me, but I really lost track of what was who's.  I think you will just enjoy looking at them.

There are three different colored stencils used on these pages...

 The red was really a big splash and fun to use.

 Jan is telling us about her paints and giving us some suggestions...

 April gave us each a neat little water color pad to do some painting on.  Thank you, April.

 Jan brought lots of spray bottles with her with various colors.  She even did purple and teal for April .

 Karen put her flags up in her studio.  Doesn't she have the most wonderful view to create by?

 We are ready to dive in and get creative.  Once we got going...there was no stopping us.

 There's that red splash again...what fun!

 We all agreed the one on the right looks like a perfect tree...

 Oooooh...More red splash.  Blowing on it produced such a neat effect.

 There was one blue spray bottle and one purple that made circles when we sprayed...love it!

 Below is where we dried our papers in the sun.  Worked great...

 No denying these are April's...tell tale sign is the teal and purple, leaves and dragon flies...

 Can you see the bird on this one?

When I was putting the pics on, I had a bit of trouble at first and duplicated two...sorry.

The red ink Jan provided came out in a big splash, but was fun to work with...

We are meeting at April's next week.  Jan won't be with us and we will miss her, but must charge ahead!  I think it is a free for all day unless April has something in mind.  We all are supposed to be working on ATCs made out of the paper we did this week.  That should be so fun to do.  We will exchange them on Jan's birthday bash...coming sooooon.  See you next week!

TriShutter Card

Everything's ALL upside down! Yikes! Who gave me control over this, anyway! You'll have to just try and make heads or tails outta this mess. Sorry, girls!!!




First, let me say that I'm not very familiar with putting 'stuff' on here. So if anything is out of order...or pictures a little 'funky'..it's because I'm not usually the photographer. (You girls will be more apt to remember your cameras from here on out. Karen was our hostess and let us use her great big table that's downstairs. Jan was our instructor, today, for our TriShutter Card Workshop. Jan did a fantastic job (of course!)



Here's a photo of the girl's working. Jan on the left, then Karen, then Pinky hiding behind Mary. Check out all of Karen's neat decor!


The second picture is what the TriShutter Card looks like after you have made your first folds and cuts.



The lavender card, with the lovely butterfly, is the beginnings of Pinky's Card. It's gonna be beautiful! The Teal and Lavender 'Leaf" Card is Jan's example (and of course..since it has leaves...I love it!) The rusty southwestern looking card is Karen's Card. It really turned out neat. For some reason this would only let me put up 5 photos, so I will add some more in a minute.

Joan's beading project

This is a photo of Joan & her progress on her beading challenge. She has used color coordinated beads that really look nice on her cotton fabric. This is backed with a piece of felt. She is thinking about making it into a magnet. Great idea, Joan. More later!

Squash Book

Here are some pics of one of the Squash Books that was made. It was such a fun project. I want to be sure to give credit where credit is due, though. These pictures of artwork are from: http://www.herondance.org Go give them a look see to see the most beautiful artwork and lovely prose. These are out of order...so please start at the bottom. This is a picture of the Squash Book cover. #2, from bottom, is the book partially open, #3 mostly open, #4 all the way open, and then the top picture is a close up of the inside. So much fun to make...and very easy once you know the secret.

Our Squash Book Project

Today was so fun! Here is a photo of the group today. Left to right...Karen, Jan, April, Mary, Pinky, with our guest and instructor, Nita, in the front. Hoping one of the other girls will add photos of some of the finished squash books. They were really fun to make. Thanks, Nita!