The Line Up

The Line Up

A colorful array of longstitch books.

All the covers are painted with watercolors and ink.

The spines are sewn onto leather for added stability.

The Red one with a black leather spine.

The Blue one with a brown leather spine.

Bookbinding is always a fun summertime project.

I have many more waiting in the wings.

What have you been working on this summer?

The Summer of Color is ending this week so I have

added my colorful books to their list.

Have a great week!

Stay Put

Stay Put

You can find some big olive trees in the Tuscany region of Italy.

Occasionally, you might see a majestic one standing amongst

a grove of much younger trees. It is a sight to behold.

This is my entry to The Summer of Color, Paint Party Friday and IF.

Connections II

Connections II

Today I have two bookmarks/tags as the second in

the Connections Series. The green ribbon is woven

through screw punched holes on the watercolored paper

and looped out on the upper left corner.

I then edged the piece with tissue tape.

Here I painted wet-in-wet shapes of green and yellow

watercolor and then punched holes for the yellow yarn.

As a final touch I added striped washi tape on the edges.

Before washi tape was all the rage I would mask off my

edges and draw stripes with various gel pens...washi tape

saves so much time.

The quote is from Quiet Fire Design in Canada.

This is my entry to Summer of Color.

Flower Garden V

Series Finale

This is the finale of my pink and brown Flower Garden series.

I enjoy working in a series.

When I have all the paper and paint out in front

of me I try out different possibilites and designs.

Working in a series is always fun.

The first three cards from this series can be seen here.

This is my entry to Summer of Color which is featuring

pink this week.

This is also my entry to Wednesday Stamper which is

closing their doors this week. These flowers are for you

guys,,,,,Belinda, Hermine, Linda and Patty. Thanks for

all the inspiration and hard work all these years.

It sure was fun while it lasted wasn´t it!!

This Little Piggy

This Little Piggy

This little piggy went to market and bought himself

some cookies, pies, cakes, ice cream, chocolate,

pizza with extra cheese, pancakes, cheeseburgers

and a DIET COKE!

He has to watch his figure doesn´t he?

Or should he get diet Pepsi instead,,,what do

you think?

This is my entry for the Three Muses and

Summer of Color.

Vamos a la Playa

Vamos a la Playa

I find it hard to belive that summer is almost here.

Whenever I think of summer I think of the beach.

I don´t live anywhere near the ocean. I have in the

past and I miss the sea air, the carefree atmosphere

that seems to abound near the water and all that

bright sunshine.

Today I painted a miniature watercolor of my

favorite beach.

What are your memories of summers gone by?

This is my entry for Crazy Amigos, One Layer Wednesday,

Paint Party Friday , Stampotique Designers,

and The Summer of Color.