Thriving Art

WOW!! it has been two weeks since I last got to link up to T Stands for Tuesday with the T-Gang!! DH and I took off and spent 9 days at the beach with our oldest son, Brian's family, ......this would be Hannah's family.  It was a super great vacation, we started by camping down on the beach, only Friday through Sunday night for us seniors, then Monday we moved back up off the sand and into an RV park.  It wasn't much of an RV park, old and narrow spaces for our big trailers, but it worked for the rest of the week. The kids moved up to the same RV park on Wednesday. We had WEATHER while we were on the beach.....in JULY!!!   Thunder and lightning like I have never seen, at the beach.  It was mostly at night and early mornings, then it would clear off, the sun would come out and we had some hot and muggy days...........It is usually cool and breezy at the beach, so the humidity was something different.  It didn't keep us (me) from getting sun burned,...

Hello friendly bloggers and welcome back for an other T-Day  and more pictures of what the GDs have been up to, since last we met.  This week I didn't take the time to put these pictures through Photo Shop and pretty them up, so you will just have to put up with my poor photography......LOL   *******It is now 4 hours later and I need to get this finished while the GDs are having a break (snack)*****so to keep it short....here goes....... Last Tuesday we made "Booty Bags"....LOL called this because they are made from an old pair of shorts.  The idea came from Pinterest and below is the picture and the link to the video.  We did not line ours, as the video shows.   Of course once they were made they had to add decorations.  I just used OLD braided belts for the handles....we didn't even cut the buckles off.....LOL  They did make the ties on the sewing machine. Showing them off Hannah's Rachel's......She earned a Tab...

1 Green + 1 Green + 1 pink  Rachel's painted face.......since this was "face" week for the three of us.  Rachel sketched her face ( really well, I might add) but lost her sketch marks as she applied the paint, so she out lined with black. Rachel named her The Queen of Hearts.....again with the wide eyes (she watched Kristin's video too, and drew inspiration from it.   Please leave Rachel a comment on her art and THANK YOU for stopping by.   Inky Hugs Krisha 

1 Green + 1 Green + 1 Pink   IT'S ALL ABOUT FACES THIS WEEK ( thanks to Kristin's  video of her page)   Hannah's painted face.  She is so fascinated with the way Kristin paints the wide eyed girl. I told her " She looks a little angry" Hannah's reply "Yea, she is mad because I didn't give her pink eyes." LOL....the mind of an 8 year old!!   Please leave Hannah a comment and thank you for taking time to look at her work.   Inky Hugs Krisha

  1 Green + 1 Green + 1 Pink WOW! Only one more week to go and SOC 2015 will be over.....( frown).  Kristin has done such a great job of pulling this all together...Thank YOU Kristin!!!     Well, this week it has been all about faces with the GDs (check out my last post). I am NOT very good with faces, that was always something my Mom could draw, but I joined the GDs in giving it a try.....I figured abstract was as good as anything......* grin*     I mixed the lime green and the dark green and brushed on the background, then I used a small pallet knife to do the rest..........it almost worked!!...LOL    Up next will be the GDs pages, please visit them and leave a comment for them......THANKS   Inky Hugs Krisha

As anyone knows, that has been following this blog lately, I have had two 8 ( nearly 9) year olds every Monday and Tuesday.  With parents that work, and school summer programs that are just an expensive baby sitter ( where they get to play, watch some movies, color and occasionally get a field trip)  I chose to take them two days a week.  I told both sets of parents there would be no just sitting in front of the TV and eating, or playing on my cell phone.  By 5 PM on Tuesdays I often wonder "What was I thinking??"..LOL They have been a blessing and really a lot of fun to have here to play with, and really keep me on my toes figuring out how to keep them busy.  I have become quite proficient with Pinterest searches and have managed to find even more You Tube videos than imaginable. As I mentioned in my last post, the girls wanted to draw, and paint faces.....just like Kristin's SOC video. Their results were really amazing for their ages....who has the...

picture from Pinterst I'm reporting in to the T-Gang this week........yep with MORE of the GDs and their arts and crafts. I was going to include some of our 4th of July celebration, but this post is already so heavy with photos, that they will have to be shelved for an other time.......but I can't wait to go visiting and see how (if in the States) everyone else celebrated.   I can not thank all of you enough for all the comments you leave the girls each week, and yes, I am having just as much fun showing them off, as they are spending time here.  Once school starts I'm afraid you all might get a little bored with my T-Day posts......LOL    Last Tuesday we altered T-shirts.  I had bought some spray fabric paint at Michael's.  They were on clearance for $5.00, and figured they would work on paper too (grin). Plus there are 6 colors, and  once they are empty I can refill them with ink.........winner, winner, chicken dinner!....

Over at Mixed Media Card Challenge it is the challenge of blue, with an optional element of a vase. And so this card was created......on one of those days where you sit and stare at your stash.......waiting......and waiting........and waiting for your Mojo to decide.......   I finally grabbed a piece of light blue, glossy CS and sprayed some blue ink on it, then some alcohol..........just enough to kick start my Mojo........*grin*.  Once it was dry I stamped a flower and fussy cut it out.........okaaaaayyyyyy....now what??  Well, I know I would never be able to find that vase stamp, that I know I have had for years......so I grabbed my TH Apothecary Bottles die and a scrap of vellum........waaaah LAAAA!   I used one a scrap of the glossy CS, that was inked, to make the water in my vase.  What happened next was sheer delight.......the glue activated the inks and they created this:   I chose an embossed white background over a gingham ch...

Today we (in the US) are celebrating Independence Day, so what better time to bring on the stars and stripes and glitter!!!!  So HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!   We all know how difficult glitter can be to photograph, and I had to shoot this card more than once to get it to show off the sparkle......*grin*  A very simple card using die cuts, double sided tape and of course glitter. I hope all those who are celebrating today do so in a safe way.  Our little town does it's fireworks on the 3rd, due to a lack of pyrotechnics in this area.  Bakersfield is so close, and so much larger they get the pyrotechnics for the 4th.......even though many people will drive to Shafter to see our fireworks....cause they are free.  They used to have them down on the high school football field.....when Shafter was just a wee lass of a town.  Now they have a designated field, and just block off all the roads around it.......fire safety you know!  The HS football field and ...

 Rachel's journal page, 1 red, 1 red and metallic green.  (we are not too sure where that spot of blue came from, but I told her not to worry about it)   This little art journal junky is having the time of her life getting all painty.  EVERY Monday morning, after I get my hug......it's "What's our SOC colors this week Grandma??" At least I get a hug first......LOL    She was upset that, as we were taking our journals outside, to dry, her page flipped over and paint got on the next page.  Not to worry Rachel, we will just work it into next weeks page.  The biggest fear she has NOW conquered:  This is YOUR art journal, there is not wrong art in this house!   PLEASE leave her a comment...............she reads every one of them and is thrilled to read all the wonderful things you say about her art. (THANK YOU SO MUCH)   Inky Hugs Krisha