she's 3

my beautiful little niece josie lynn ...here's her birthday card/tag that i made for her. this ended up very cool, but very different than what i originally intended. i started off with a large shipping tag, and josie's picture. over the pic i used adhesive and a flowered napkin for added design and demension. after i messed with it, i decided that i didn't like the direction it was going, so i tore the taped pic off of the tag, and took part of the tag with the pic! i placed the piece on a sheet of book paper for even more dimension. i picked out words that i wanted to keep, and the rest were 'lined' out with liquid white out. on the left i used heidi swapp decorative tape and making memories crown stamp.  the top of the tag is adorned with seed beaded bracelets, ribbon and lace. another tag that i made with a clock stamp and key tag. hks decorative tape again. its simple and fun.  i'm just glad that i don't have to pick up all the little seed beads when the bracelets break from excessive 'wearage'...!!   lol  perks of an auntie; play then go home! love that. after raising 2 boys, you know i'm crazy about having these 3 nieces! so fun. speaking of ..  here's my youngest manchild after friday night's football game!!!!! cute, isn't he -? lol. him and some of his buddies painted themselves for a big football game (still breaks my heart he's not playing anymore, but he's all about his 2 sports, and for now he's having fun supporting his buddies on the field) so eth was the "T" in trojans. oh yea, it was very cold friday night too, and these guys froze with no shirts on! this pic was taken right before he dove into a HOT shower!!!

i'll show in my next post a pic of my very cool, very generous gift that one of my girls brought me at the canvas art class saturday nt. very cool sack of findings- i'll def take a pic and show soon         Thank You Tina!!!  i love good surprises

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Comments

[sarah the kiwigirl]

How clever are you - even when you make "mistakes" that still turn out freakin cool!!!....Your "man child" has the same colours as our rugby team "the crusaders" red and black is the colour of the province I live in - Canterbury....and yes we too have guys painting themselves like your son and freezing in winter....getting back to your photo of your art, I really love the way you paint out the words you don't want to use and highlight the ones you do....will tuck that idea away...wink!

[Lee]

Girl you seriously keep on inspiring me everyday. So much texture... so much good stuff.
If only I could afford to fly all the way over there I would so be coming to that weekend.

[Lisa]

I knew all my random blog surfing would pay off someday. Just discovered your blog and just had to tell you, your artwork is beautiful. You have a keen knack for perfectly and incredibly conveying a mood, a thought, a feeling with all the different mixes of materials and textures in your pieces. Awesome.