Artful Challenges and sweet mail art

 spending time making journal pages for friends...

  Linking up with Alphabet Soup! over at Artist Trading Post Challenge Blog

 

spending time challenging myself in my journal...

challenge over at Community Thrive
Linking up to Art Journal Journey ~Birds, Beasts and Humans

               

received a most beautiful mail art postcard from a dear friend, Judy Shea! thank you my friend!

                  

 Life is good!!  

Namaste'

Jackie ")

Happy Chinese New Year-The Year of the Goat

The Year of the Goat

 2015

Linking up with Art Journal Journey~ Birds,Beasts & Humans

Today I am sharing a piece that I made for my post over at Altered Pages- my date to post fell perfect on the Chinese New Year celebration!

 I started with a piece of hardboard and covered it with Asian Papers from Altered Pages.com

 Next I gave them color using Distress Inks and Stains

 Here I am auditioning my papers to decide on my layout

 I have stamped out a few of the fans from the multi stamp and fancy-cut them

 Ahhh, a favorite part...adding glitter and beads-

 For the hanger, I used a kitchen skewer and wrapped my vintage lace around it and glued it to the back of the board, using clips to hold in place overnight

 A few more details added-microbeads in the flower centers and glitter glue on the red flowers

 And the last detail, a lucky cat charm hanging from the lace!

Thank you so much for your visit

I do hope I inspired you to create something today!

Be sure to stop over to Altered Pages.com to see the exciting items to use in your artful altered creations!

Altered Pages Products used:

Asian Joss Papers

Joss Print & Leaf Papers

Asian Fan Stamp

Gold Glitter/Micro Bead Assortment

Other Products used:

Distress Stains & Inks~Fired Brink,Vintage Photo,Mustard Seed

Cut-outs from scrapbook papers

Vintage Lace

Skewer

Lucky Cat charm

Martha Stewart Glitter~Glue-Garnet

It is with regret,that I share some sad news with you today

The mixed media art world has lost a wonderfully gifted , talented and beautiful art sister this week~

JoAnna Pierotti of Moss Hill Studio is resting peacefully now after her long battle with cancer.

For those of you who know of Joanna,or been fortunate enough as I to take one of her classes know what a cleverly kind soul she was and how beautiful her fiber art as well as many other creative pieces are.  A very caring, generous woman, who was very brave and fought hard.

We will miss you, JoAnna ,sleep peacefully

~ sending out prayers of healing and wishes of peace to her family and friends

Jackie

Soul Food Class and other musings...

Seems I have not been posting as much, but that does not mean I am not creating my art. Quite the contrary! 

I am finally taking some time to enjoy some of the online classes I had signed up for. My muse and I have been quite busy and today I would like to share a few of the pieces that are now finished.

   To begin with, this is my my Folk Art Mermaid that was inspired by my Soul Food class with Mystele.

This was such a freeing class and one I am so happy that I signed up for!

I do hope the pictures allow you to see her beauty~she really is gorgeous with all of her color and textures.

                I've yet to give her a proper name,any thoughts?

       Next a few journal pages...

I thought for sure I had a stencil with bamboo- turns out- nope, never got one, so I made my own with a wood burning tool , to complete this page.

This is a card I made for my sister Jayne's birthday- she really likes my dragonflies.

                   A journal page for a friend...

I used Jessica Sporn's  "Namaste" stencil here as well as every beautiful color that was in my reach!

Finally, I'm spreading the Love today with a tag for a swap I belong to on Google+

thanks so much for your visit- I truly appreciate each and every one of you who stop for a look,or leave some blog comment love!

may your days be filled with sweet creativity and lots of love! xo Jackie ")