Princess Bubbles Creates

I bought a bouquet of flowers for myself for my birthday.  This green flower is what attracted me to the bunch.  So interesting.  No clue what kind of flower it is though. I am linking with the following blogs http://www.shinethedivinecreativityisaspiritualpractice.com/ http://image-in-ing.blogspot.ca/ http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.ca/

I love trying new things.  I love buying the supplies to try new things.  However, sometimes, those things end up sitting for longer than I care to mention.  I have a large Gelli plate that I finally used to print these pieces of silk.  I used Akua ink to print.  I was expecting it to take forever to dry but that has not been the case.  I printed on silk and like that the ink has not changed the hand of the silk.  The push to try this was a printmaking show coming in a few weeks.  My approach to printmaking is fast and loose so the chances of being selected by a purist juror is pretty slim.  Nevertheless, it got me experimenting with my 'new' supplies. I am linking with http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.ca/#

My art bra 'Fruit Cups' is coming along.  I have added some fruit beads and other pieces of fruit that seem to be made of paper, possibly.  I would love to get this finished up in the next week or two as I have an idea for a second bra.  If anyone is interested in contributing and art bra to Her Cup Runneth Over fundraiser for HopeSpring Cancer Support please contact me through this blog. I am linking with http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.ca/

This worked up pretty fast!  I am pleased with the way it turned out.  I can't seem to get the colors right in the photo though.  They are a bit more vibrant in actuality.

My life is pretty awesome.  I get to play with my macro lens and make beautiful art.  I count myself very blessed.  Top photo is obviously a flower.  Bottom image is an experiment.  I love the abstractedness of it.  I could totally see printing this on silk and stitching into it.  Yum! I am linking with http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.ca/ . and http://allthevs.com/macro-monday-mixer-7/ and http://www.shinethedivinecreativityisaspiritualpractice.com/

I am still working away at the prompts from the Facebook group Fabulous and Free Art Journaling Challenge.  I feel these pages are not great art but that is the beauty of a journal, it doesn't have to contain great art.  The top spread uses markers and pattern paper as per one of the prompts.  It also has numbers featured in the journaling, another prompt.  Two for one in this spread.  The bottom spread features a tree.  The prompt was simply to incorporate a tree or a leaf on the journal page.  I love trees and leaves so that was an easy one.

Not sure why it has taken me so long to get around to finishing this.  Well at least finishing the embellishing, the fun part.  I will still need to put a backing and border on it which is not terribly exciting but it sure feels good once done.  I used a seam treatment idea from Valerie Bothell on Facebook at Joyful Embellishments.  She is very clever and it is good for me to learn from her! I am linking with http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.ca/#