Coffee Filter Watercolor Flower Boquet

Here is a lovely bouquet of Spring flowers!

They look so real that you would never know

they are made from coffee filters!

Took a white coffee filter and sprayed

it with Memories spray mist.

Dried it and then started to cut it into a 

spiral -about 1  1/2 in- going all the way to 

the center. Then I took an 18 gauge floral wire

and attached,with glue, the center of the 

spiral. Slowly build your flower as you turn

and dab glue along bottom edge to adhere.

When I thought the flower was big enough I

took green floral tape and wound it

around snugly starting at the base of  of the 

flower where it meets the stem.

I then added highlights to the edges of the flower

petals with a paint brush dabbed into the 

Memories mist bottle.

My son thought they were real! :)

Mother's Day Cards and Fun Friend Cards

Making 5 different cards is one day doesn't happen

to me very often...either because of time or the ideas just don't come. But, yesterday, at a very dear friends house her creativity spurred me on. Plus her little scrap heap of interesting odds and cast offs aided me in my creations.

I made two Mother's Day cards and 3 greeting cards. She has the most amazing collection of tools and gadgets you could ever imagine. :)

The flowers on the Mother's Day cards are

made by punching about 8 flowers from an ordinary 6-8 petal flower punch. For the paper, I used a page from an old story book my friend had.

Then you layer each flower one on top of the other, staggering the petals alternately, then add a brad through the center of them all. Starting with the top layer you fold and crumple each petal upward, doing the same with each consecutive layer. Then you gently fold down the layers to create the look. I then sprayed some color on. So fun and easy.

 Picture of my kitty Cosmo with a new cartoon 

cat and dog carving. I think I am going to have to do a series of these cute little critters. My son is the artist on the originals, and I the interpreter! :)

Penguin custom carving with the name Montana. This one was so much fun to design and carve! I love special requests.

 I am sure this one is difficult to figure out, so I will tell you...it is a carving of a bottle of nail polish! Printed in any color you like, how fun is that?

Here again, Cosmo helped me out by being my easel.

Nice little hand carved Siamese Cat. Another nice thing about the NZCut carving material is that the ink color slightly stains the white and makes the carving look pretty, too!

Hello. Wanted to post a few of the FUN things that I have been carving. I have been using NZCut from stampeaz and really think that it is THE BEST carving material that is available. I like the firmness and durability of the surface. Also the fact that the back side is so shiny and slick that it will stick to my clear acrylic blocks without any adhesive. Takes ink well, too. I lightly sanded the front before using. I like the fact that it is white, designs transfer easily and can be seen nice and clear. I would highly reccomend trying this newer product from stampeaz.com. The price is very reasonable as well!

Wood Cross, Handcarved, with Tulips

This is a carving I did from a solid

piece of wood. You can't tell from

the picture but, the Tulips 

are carved away from the base of the cross.

I have done two of these and 

was so glad to share one with a very dear 

auntie, and the other with one

of our pastors.

Felted wool bag, Mimbres Cave Cat

Made this Wool bag with a cat design

needlfelted onto the front.

Black and gray with ivory, all details are done 

with the needlefelting technique.

The design is based

on an old cave drawing from the Mimbres people that

used to exist in the S.W. part of the United States.

The bag is large and also has leather accents, as

well as a horn button, from deer antlers that 

are shed naturally. Lined it with a cream

colored brocade fabric.

'Spring Chick' and 'The Garden' hand carved and printed on cupcake paper!

Today is just for FUN!
Here are two carvings that I just finished.
Made both into cards. 
Highlighted the image with Mica pens. 
I love those pens! Adds such a subtle shimmer.
Printed them both on CUPCAKE paper!! 

Folk Art Bunny Carving Note Card

Just finished this carving.

I love folk art and this is just 

'folksy' enough for me. I also love chocolate

and of course with Easter coming up I

had to print it in cocoa brown ink.

Used PZCut's new carving medium called 

NZCut. I have to say, I love it. Not only is it 

wonderful to carve on, it sticks to my acrylic

block without any glue or other 

adhesive! Bravo Diana Hammond (stampeaz.com)

for this new version of the dearly departed

PZCUT carving material.

I would love to hear anyone's

comments on my carving or

your favorite carving material!

Thanks, Michelle

A Cat and His Girl

 

A very 'thin' portrait of 

an adoring cat and his favorite

girl!

Here is a carving of my little sweetie, Cosmo.

Was an interesting challenge to leave 

as much fur to the imagination as possible!

 

Watercolor of a Madonna Gourd

Made it into a card for a friend.

Another view of the Madonna and Child

Mother and Child Gourd

This Mother and Child gourd was painted 

using Golden acrylic paints.

They are beautiful to work with!

I have burned gourds for years and

this is my first time painting one.

                                              She stands about

8 inches tall and 5 1/2 wide.

Just wanted to let my fellow bloggers

know about the little shop

I opened up on Etsy.com

My shop name is :

crazyboutart.

Looking forward to

hearing any comments you

might have for me!

Thanks~ Michelle

Carved Flower Gift Tag

Made a gift tag out of this

recent little flower carving.

 

Was very quick and easy. Covered

the image with Color Box chalk ink.

Then used the brown Color box ink to

edge the image and give the 

center some definition.

Put a little shimmer in the middle

with some sparkle glitter glue.

Carving of Six Geese a Laying

Here is number 6 in the series.

Six Geese a Laying

Year of the Dragon carving, 2012

This is the Year of the Dragon

so here is my carved interpretation 

folk art style.

Needlefelting class that I held at the Burlap and Roses shop in NewVirginia.

 Photo's from a Needlefelting class that I held at the Burlap and Roses shop in NewVirginia. The gals in the class were so fun, we had a great time. The final pic is of the cup cozy (my design) that you could choose to make.

Felted Wool and Watercolor

 

This piece is done using felted wool 

and watercolor crayons. The background 

fabric is a medium weight muslin.

Two more Baby Cards

 

Here are two more cards,

for a new baby, using  one of

my carvings printed on muslin.

Print on Muslin of one of my own carved images

 

Here is a print that I did on Muslin,

with one of my carved images.

Printed with permanent ink, and then colored with watercolor crayons. Used a Copic waterproof black

marker for the  le fluer and merci script writing. 

I love those pens, they say permanent and 

that is what they are.