My goal is to get these framed but in the mean time I snapped some pictures of a few of these and thought I’d share here.  Nise, this is for you :

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My grandfather signed and dated everything for which I am so grateful. Most of these were drawn 1920 to 1929 with a couple in the early 1930’s.  My grandfather would draw/color on anything, from the back of wallpaper to newsprint.  Which means that some of these paintings have some damage and creases where there should be none.  (My aunt did get a quick lesson on preservation of photos/art).

In 1990, he had a showing of his work, which I sadly missed.  Wished now I had gone home for that.  Towards his last years, he couldn’t paint or draw anymore because of  a form of arthritis which would make his fingers and joints swell (um, hereditary and yes, my aunt and I have it.)

I truly didn’t get any of that ‘natural’ talent.  I have to work at everything to get half way decent, but that just means that I’m a firm believer that anyone can be artistic with practice.  Anyway, I miss him…. a lot and whenever I color an image or create something I so wished I could share it with him.

That’s it for me tonight.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Yes, I actually got to spend time in my craft room on Mother’s Day and although I finished the Birch Trees painting yesterday, I didn’t complete the card until today.

For a first time at attempting this type of painting, I am pretty pleased at how it turned out.  I followed Lindsay’s easy to understand instructions.

Really LOVED how Lindsay created the trees.  I’m not very good at free hand drawing but even I was pretty impressed at how easy it was to create these.

Not saying that I didn’t have, uhmm little mishaps.  Of course when reading the instructions, one should make sure they don’t skip a whole page . 

Still, I think my Grandfather, who was an artist (nope, didn’t get any of that in my blood-sadly) would be proud.   I think my next attempt will be a larger version which I’ll frame.  With several graduations coming up, I added an old sentiment from Stampin’ Up!.  The card size is 5×7.  It just dawned on me that this card would be a perfect masculine card.  Oh goody because I need a masculine birthday card .

I hope you give Learning to Paint with Lindsay a try.  Check out the other “Learning to Paint with Lindsay kits” at Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff over at myGrafico. 

Couple of challenges I think this card will fit to:

• Lollipop Crafts #80:  Just for Him
• Simon Says Stamp and Show:  Anything Goes
• The Crazy Challenge #119:  Outside

That’s it for me tonight.  Better get out there and help hubby finish up the yard work before it gets too dark.  Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time…..

I finally got my watercolors from Dick Blick – much cheaper than the local Hobby Lobby or Michaels.  This means I finally get to “Learn to Paint with Lindsay”.  I’m going to do the Birch Trees or maybe the Pussy Willows although Lindsay’s latest is gorgeous too.

Learn to Paint Sweet Peas:

Hey, maybe after all the heavy work I did yesterday hauling garage sale left overs to the Good Will ( 3 truck loads) and cleaning the garage, maybe I will be able to finish all of the above!  Well, I’ll be happy to finish just the Birch Trees . 

Be sure to check out Lindsay’s other “Learn to Paint with Lindsay” kits at Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff.

Oh and just in case you need some watercolor tubes, Dick Blick also has a sale going on: SAVE up to 75% off select items through May 16th at BLICK!

Well, now that I’ve enabled you, I’m off to get inky!

Again, a very Happy Mother’s Day, until next time…..

You know how I always complain about starting out following a certain sketch but then my card always deviates from the sketch.  And I’ve rarely ever tried to do a color sketch because of the exact same problem.  Ok, so maybe my husbands claim that I have OCD is partly correct.

Today however, I followed a sketch and (are you sitting down?) a color challenge in ONE card!  Yup, and I checked…. it is NOT snowing, nor are piglets flying in the sky (chuckle).

For my card, I followed Sweet Sketch Wednesday #153-96

and the colors were based on Color Throwdown #119:

When I saw these colors, I finished coloring chin chou kuik’s Midnight Waiting from Sweet Pea Stamps. 

Oh and I actually finished the inside of the card too.  Hm, maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket, I mean after weeks of no crafting time, no crafting mojo and here I whip up a card which follows a sketch and a color challenge AND I finished the inside of the card.

Both the sentiment and the “congratulations” stamps are from Hero Arts, although the “Congratulations” stamp must no longer be available.  I could not find it anywhere.  Ugh, I totally understand the need to discontinue products.  Having been a buyer, I totally get that.  But there are some things that are such classics and this Congratulations stamp is one, I think. 

She is colored with Copics and because I used darker (than normal) colors, I used a Copic multiliner to go over the tree branches. 

The papers used are from Basic Grey “Sweet Threads” which were a gift in one of Daisy’s goody boxes.  You do know that there are always “tokens” of thanks in all eclectic Paperie orders.  Daisy is so generous and is like my Santa – all year long .

On my schedule for this weekend?  Clean up the aftermath of last weekend’s garage sale, which means bagging it up, loading it and hauling it off to Good Will.  Hopefully that will not take all day.  Sunday I plan on working on my art journal for the next E-TEAM blog hop which is Wednesday, May 23rd!

That’s it for me tonight.  Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time….

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Retired/discontinued products used:

“Congratulations” stamp – Hero Arts, Sweet Threads – Basic Grey 6×6 paper pad

I’m still busy with other chores and obligations which are still keeping my play time in my craft room down to barely nothing.  I did pull out my copics and colored this gorgeous digi image from Shelly’s Images, called Sunflowers:

It’s been ages since I’ve colored with Copics and like anything else, it took me a while to get back into the “rhythm” of coloring. 

Be sure to head over to The Sisterhood of Crafters, because Shelly’s Images is sponsoring this gorgeous and fun challenge!  You know what that means, one lucky winner will receive a $9 gift voucher from Shelly’s Images.

For more inspiration and to play along with us be sure to head over to The Sisterhood of Crafters for all the details!  Can’t wait to see what you will create!

Thanks for stopping by…

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