Happy Like Yellow

Painted banners

When I begin to put together a layout I tend to pull from all sorts of things that I have in my stash. I make little drawings and watercolor bits without knowing fully how or when I will use them. It's just fun to play around and make little neat things for future use. One day I'll share my little stash of paintings and watercolors but just to look at it you might think it's one big mess of papers. But you can cut them up and use them as banners or strips to add to your layouts. 

For this layout I used some watercolor book pages, tags, stickers and a few other embellishments. But my favorite part is the watercolor banner. I cut strips from a little watercolor painting and then cut them into smaller squares for the banner. I attached them to a crochet ribbon so that I could manuever it across the page a little better. 

Sometimes I like to think that scrapbooking is the art of collecting as well as memory making. Or maybe it's just a matter of perspective... or sometimes even, justification for the treasures that we like to buy and create.  I used to think that I needed to buy a lot of things for this craft but moreso now I realize how many things that I have that can be used as fun stuff on a project.  

Try making a little painting or page of splatters and watercolors. Throw some glitter or mist on it then cut it up and see what you come up with. You might be very surprised at the outcome. I think I am just about everytime! 

I'll be back with more to share and some other fun news...Take care!

Kim

A little blurb

So what do you do when you have stacks and stacks of frames and you keep buying them for your walls but never seem to get photos added to them and actually get them ON the walls? Well you make pretty things with them, pretty layered artsy things! I started making these little inspirational frames and I've been slowly adding them to my Shop. Since I haven't gotten by lately to share anything new I figured why not blurb about some of my new shop items!

These are fun little framed 3d mixed media stacks that I recently started creating out of all sorts of fun tidbits! I love to layer and splatter and glue all sorts of things together and they look absolutely fabulous in a frame, if I say so myself! I like having inspiring things around me when I work and these just pop off the wall!

That's enough of my little self advertisement! Stop by sometime and see some of my new things! There is definitely plenty to inspire!

Take care everyone!

In the presence of spring...

Most of the time I'm all over the place! It's a quality about myself that I've learned to appreciate. This week it's cards...next it will be some sort of mixed media something!  I've been making all sorts of cards lately, maybe because they come together easily since it's such a small format and I move from one to the other with expert speed. Sometimes I think it's just a form of procrastination or just a need for a break from other things. And to believe making cards once was so daunting to me!  

I mostly attribute my lack of layouts lately to the fact that I've put off printing any photos. I have a few here and there that I've not yet managed to scrap and a few I plan to repeat, which I'm sure in scrapbooking is not legal but I do it anyways because some photos just need to be scrapped again and again in my book. 

I thought I'd share a few today that I made using my STAEDTLER triplus fineliners. They are my favorite because they come in all sorts of colors and they also have several different greys for shading. I'm sure I'm running out of ink in one of them I use it so much. I used several painted layers as my foundation and a few hand drawn leaves. These are such a lovely neon orange but the photo doesn't reflect their true vivid colors. I truly wish neon was an easier color to photograph!

At first glance I felt there was too much sun in my photos but then I kind of started to appreciate the sunny quality of them. Sometimes you just have to roll with the punches...

I hope everyone is slowly starting to warm up! We are approaching summer here without much thought of spring. If you blink in florida you could miss it! ha ha

Take care! 

working on wednesdays...

I managed to get better shots of my cards and tags yesterday much later in the day, just in time for my working on wednesdays post.  Layouts to come soon...I've just been enjoying the art of card making these days! I draw them, paint them and layer them to pieces as you can see. One day I will have to have some sort of giveaway or something because they have begun to pile up!  

I made these three in one sitting. I usually love to do that because you get a very cohesive look using all the same papers and embellishments you have in front of you.  Using all sorts of light colored papers, textured papers and that awesome dear lizzy polka dot I made several layers on my cards and blossom tags! I like the texture, the little strings and things that fabric and canvas creates. I still need to add sentiments or they can stay blank for any occasion.

The one thing that's been keeping me from completing a few layouts is printing photos. Hopefully I'll get that done soon. I have about 5 layouts started that need photos so that I can finish them up.  Most times I work sort of backwards and usually add photos last, there are very few times where I start with a photo first. It's been a great break from layouts though because it's given me a little practice in card making. They used to seem so daunting to me!

I hope you're all getting some crafting in this week!  Have a great wednesday!

Kim

 

Blossom tags

Hi everyone, Hope you all had the best of Easter weekends!  I had every intention this morning to share a few of my blossom cards and tags. I've been quite the card maker and have taken a little break from my regular layouts.  Don't get me wrong though I have a few laying around awaiting my attention. I add a little something here, take away a litte something there. It's quite the process but I'm learning that my perfectionism qualities are getting a little stronger in regards to my layouts.  

In my attempt to take my photos this morning I got that awful blue tint thing going on. I always forget that I get a wierd sort of shadow on my balcony so the afternoons are best for taking photos because the sun has made it over the building and I get a more bright white sort of light! But I thought I'd share a few of my tags that I'll be adding to my shop. I call them blossom because they remind me of flowers and spring and happy things! Hopefully I will get back today with more to share!  

I'm off to stroll the rows of joanns and maybe buy fabric and some dye! Hope everyone has a great day!

Take care!

What's in the forcast...

Well here in florida it's definitely not spring...Maybe it sounds like I'm a little bummed about that but I'm sitting here bundled up and waiting for it to make it's return!

In the meantime Cocoa Daisy has it's fun new kit for april...Forcast...to be revealed tonight! It's full of these spring blues and yellows just in time for Easter! I just wanted to pop in and share a few sneaks. Stop by tonight at 9pm for the fun! 

working on wednesdays...

Ok so it's not actually wednesday anymore but that goes to show that I was working on getting a post up soon! Sorry for the image heavy post...when I'm gone awhile I feel the need to share more!

Even though the weather continues to be more like winter I still have spring on the brain. I adore seeing the sweet azaleas bloom and all of the signs that spring is right around the corner.  This lovely peach is constantly on my mind and it makes it hard not to craft with it and create color combos around it. So please pardon me while I have a little color crush that might last awhile!

I thought I'd share a few cards and new tags that I have in my shop! With the change of seasons comes the need to make changes and push forward with more ideas and interesting ventures.  I always get re- energized during the spring and summer months!  

I hope that I've managed to brighten some part of your day today!  Most of us are patiently awaiting the warmer weather.  Anytime now spring...ha!

Take care!

Shop update...

I finally did it...finally started working on my little shop over on Etsy...after long contemplation about where I wanted to go with it I've started adding fun little things like artful tags, watercolor bits and still just a little papercut artwork...  

I always love exploring with different mediums and thinking of simple and useful things to make, staying optimistic and sharing that with the world. So why not create some artfully inspired items to include in my shop!  It's just a little update and I will be adding more from time to time. Stay tuned...I have lots of fun things in store!

I'll be adding a few listings a week, Wow I have some major photo taking in store this next week, plus a few other projects to share... 

Be back soon and thanks for stopping by!

Kim

I'm all in and head over heels for spring...It's one of my favorite seasons because of it's cool breezy colors, the smells and dreamy textures. I go a little ga-ga for real. I've pulled out everything in the color peach from my stash. There are plenty of paper butterflies, vellum, flowers and all sorts of embellishments laying around. 

Just the other day I completed several cards and even started a little box just for all of them! They are layered and lush with lots of peachy colors and blues and some that I never would have thought worked together but they did. Here are a few sneaks of the ones I've worked on. Hopefully I will get to photographing more of them soon. I tend to spend so much time on styling and trying to come up with something interesting and new until that leaves me only getting a few things done. 

I hope to share these and other projects soon in their entirety. There are always plenty of things going on, my ADHD rears it's ugly head most days and I hop around for awhile until something gets completed! But I'll be back, I promise.  You can see more of what I might be working on over on Instagram at http://followgram.me/neroliskye

Until later everyone, Thanks for stopping by!

Hello Spring...

Just stopped in to say hello...((waving))! Thanks to a very slow moving computer that takes foooreever to load my huge photos this is the most I could accomplish today. More to come soon!

Do you like this time of year as much I do? Here in florida we have such a brief spring that if you sneezed you might miss it! One day it's spring then BAM straight into summer. So I try to cherish it and soak up these breezy days where everything is blooming some sort of blush pink, green or white!  

Be back soon with sneak peaks to share!

Take care!