Creative Play

 

 What a crazy weather week it's been in our parts again! Sudden downpours and thunderstorms in between bouts of hot sun with very high humidity and heat index levels. Luckily we never lost power nor had hail or damaging winds like some areas did. Aah, but we have yet another week of this same weather to deal with. Glad  my nesting birds have stayed safe:) Above is my latest peek at the three house finches in my front porch geranium basket. They now have most all their feathers. As for the Carolina wrens in our back porch basket- there are no eggs yet, just lots of activity.

 I spent much of this past Saturday in the kitchen baking - a French chocolate cake for my Mom's birthday dinner the next day (which I totally forgot to take any photos of), and finally I made the almond cookie recipe that Nicole (DVArtist) shared on her blog quite awhile ago for one of the T Stands For Tuesday gatherings.  I DID stop to take a photo while enjoying one or two with my coffee but it wasn't easy. These cookies are absolutely delicious- and friends and family who had some LOVED them!! So, thank you Nicole:

 and cheers to the T gang!

 For the art this week it's just going to be my latest index card art as I really didn't have time for anything else. 

Starting where I left off in my last post:

 In this off prompt series I started it with 5 landscape format cards, and then switched to vertical format for these next 5- all the backgrounds were done the same way;

 

Starting by gluing patterned tissue papers (from Joggles orders), and then adding lots of mark making with stencils, Posca pens, pencil, water soluble crayons:

before finishing each with a botanical and a sentiment from a collage sheet from Paper Whimsy:

 ICAD 36/61 flower is a Dina Wakley stamp

ICAD 37/61 flower is a stamp from Local King

      

ICAD 38/61 flower pods are hand drawn

ICAD39/61 Leaves is a stamp by Dylusions/Dyan Reavely

ICAD 40/61 Tree stamp is from Magenta

 And I am now on to another series of 10 similar style ICADs- this time using watercolors, collage, letter tiles (Tim Holtz), and a word from a typed collage sheet I've had in my stash for quite some time;) These backgrounds were inspired by You Tube Videos by Shanouki Art:

         ICAD 41/61 (for these first 5 cards in this series I am using my very favorite Daniel Smith Opera Pink, along with Cascade Green)

ICAD 42/61

 I've had these tile letters for so long and either had to find a way to use them or let them go 😁  Joining in at Paint Party Friday later this week. Will try and get back into some of the other blog challenges next week. Until then, have a super week ahead!

" The creative process includes exploring, experimenting, messing around with materials, being playful, entering into the unknown."       Natalie Rogers