Drawing of my husband, Scott when he was a little guy!

Gourd Vase, pyrography

This gourd is the top half of a huge bottle neck gourd.

I layered a disc of wood to the stem end so it would have

a nice base to sit on. It was unusual because the interior fiber that usually balls up, had dried

to the walls of the gourd creating a mother of pearl finish to the

entire inside of the gourd. The outside art work is the flower and vine of the

White Bindweed, a less friendly member of the Morning Glory family!

Gourd Art, burned and painted

A few of the gourds that I have done some art work on.

My favorite technique is drawing and then burning the design into the surface,

called pyrography. I will add some more of the more

detailed pieces, soon.

Coffee filter flowers, verse and bird carve

Another take on the coffee filter paper...

Ironed the filter flat, inked it with a background stamp.

Cut spiral flowers and leaves from it. Also used cashmere dryer lint for 

the nest under the bird!  Branch is watercolor crayon.

New carving.....New cards

 Here is a carving I made from a sculpture located in

Nikko, Japan. It is printed with Brilliance

Pearlescent Chocolate Ink, on unbleached

coffee filters. That paper is interesting to print on.

 Here is my bunny carving, also using one of ggdesigns

pussy willow stamps. Embossed a strip of paper 

using Zing metallic finish embossing powder, then 

cut the top edge into grass strips and glued 

down to bottom edge.Top of card is shaded using 

good old fashioned colored pencils.

 Recent bird carving, verse carve.

Shaded with colored pencils.

 Another version!

Here is a card using one of my favorite  ggdesign

images, her poppy.It is a two piece carving.

Bunny Planter

Here is a bunny planter made with Quiet Fire's bunny template!

Fish , Verse carvings

Card made with fish and verse carvings I've done 

recently. The 'sea weed' was done using dog food bag

'paper' I made using alcohol inks. Gives a nice 

shimmer to the sea weed.

Japanese Kanji carvings with English words

Here is a set of  8 one inch carvings with

more to come soon . Added a little flower to go along for the ride!

Carving of glass bottles made from recycled glass

I saw a photo of these glass bottles

made from recycled glass and 

I new I had to try to carve them.

Carving the layers of glass

was a challenge. Recycled glass

has such a beautiful color!

Birdcage/Birdie ATC

Here is an ATC that I made using the little bird image again.

Used colored pencils on this one to add some shading and highlights.

Bird cage carving, card

This is a card that I made using a  gg Designs (STAMPSggdesigns@aol.com) bird image

and a birdcage and word image that I carved. Used the feet of the bird at the bottom of 

the card. Added some ribbon to the right and

layered the word stamp over that.

Bird on Barbed Wire Carving with Japanese Kanji word

Went to look for the original

carving of this little bird

the other day and could find

no trace of it. Thankfully I

had a print of it, so I ended 

up carving another one. True love :).

Added a little Japanese character carving.

 

I can't decide which bird I like

better. Hopefully I will find the first

one someday.When you lose something 

that you've created, it is almost like

losing a child! Melodramatic I

know, but I think other creative

people will know what I mean!

Anyone else understand?

Family theme stools done for my friend, Kathryn at the end of 2010

Year of the Rabbit!

I love Rabbit's, so I was glad to make this the first carving of the year 

for the PV-21 group, doubly so since it was the

Year of the Rabbit. I loved drawing out the Japanese characters, and 

printing them in gold was so elegant!

Madonna and Child carving

This is a carving that was done for the December issue

of the PV-21 group,2010

The first baby I carved I ended up not liking so I 

drew and carved another baby image,

masked the other baby,  printed the Madonna, and then printed 

the new baby right over where the first baby was supposed to 

have been!

King of Hearts, carving

                                                    This is the Queen of Hearts' husband
                                                  

Queen of Hearts carving

 

Here is a carving that I did for a Valentines Day contest

that Quiet Fire Designs is sponsoring.

        http://quietfirestyle.blogspot.com/2011/02/queen-of-hearts-valentine-challenge.html

Carvings

Here are a few carvings that

I have done in the recent past.

The Hedge Apple Farm carving was

done for their business

labels.

Family Theme Stools

Family Theme Stools

Here are a few wood stools that I have designed
and painted. I will add more as photos become
available. I love to design these for families using
a special verse or saying and incorporating an
art theme that represents the family's interest's, pets, hobbies etc.