Pretty Little Sea Shells

Just a quick little post for Paint Party Friday today. Come visit the site and see what everyone is painting these days. I'm showing a watercolor painting I did earlier this year; it's one of my favorite subjects, sea shells. They were placed on a wild patterned brown batik tablecloth. Not sure I like how it came out when I first painted it, but it has grown on me.....so I decided to finally share it with you.

Hope you will get to see some pretty things this week.
take care, gerri

"Pretty Little Sea Shells"

Home Sweet Home

For the month of November, Gingersnap Creations' theme is "On the Farm" and this week the challenge is titled "Farm Fresh" GC125. Come on over to plant your creation, sow the seeds of friendship and harvest ideas from my fellow Design Team members. My Design team piece is a card that combines several farmy items like red burlap, blue gingham and  red rick rack.

The sweet farm girl image might look familiar...she's actually Dorthy from the Magic of Oz paper by Graphic45.  Remember, she was a farm girl from Kansas. LOL. I removed her bow, painted her ruby slippers black and cut out little Toto from her basket. I drew and painted a pile of apples and put them in her basket instead. I layered the matching Graphic 45 papers for the background. You can find this paper at Flying Unicorn. Some red burlap, painted rick rack, a blue flower, red Stickles accents and a Home Sweet Home sign complete today's card.

Hope you will be able to visit your Home Sweet Home this week.
sincerely, gerri

"Home Sweet Home"

"Sweet details"

Wishes of Love Hope and Special Dreams

For today's Design Team piece for Retro Cafe Art, I created this pretty shrine with a cutout door. It's my 'wish" for you of  "love , hope and dreams."

I  painted the RCA Victorian Door Shrine, and covered it with different ribbons. I just love the fact that the door actually opens! The interior is lined with  RCA Damask ATC Vellum background collage sheet, love how it looks like tiny wallpaper. The center piece is a tiny  RCA Frozen Charlotte porcelain doll with glitter wings. Some tiny glass bottles are covered with Tim Holtz tickets. I added special little details of paper roses, rhinestones and a tiny pink crown. Please check out Retro Cafe Art to see all these wonderful goodies to use in your art!

Over at Flying Unicorn I will be sponsoring a November forum challenge all about bottles . It's called "she's like lightning in a bottle." You need to enter a project with a picture of a bottle or jar, an actual bottle or a creation in a bottle. Come on over and play. There's a RAK prize  at the end of month too!

Hope your wishes come true this week.
take care, gerri

You will be haunted

Happy Halloween,  my boo-tiful friends! Today's my favorite holiday and it has finally arrived. You know it's my favorite, since it's the day I met my dear husband. This piece today is for my 100 Proof Press Design Team creation  and uses the gothic Church Window #5475-U stamp. I hope it doesn't scare you!

I stamped the Church window on a painted ATC arch shape from Retro Cafe Art. I added the vintage lady image from an Australian image sheet. Some black german scrap wings and  detailed trim came next. An organza halo and black glitter compelted this Halloween ATC. The sentiment reads "You will be haunted".

Hope you will haunt someone this week!
take care, gerri

"You will be haunted"

"Haunting details"

The Original, the genuine Steampunk Debutante Model

In high school there were several artists that spoke to me including Charles Dana Gibson, Alphonse Mucha and Gustav Klimt. I even remember them as the posters and pictures that hung on my college dorm room walls. They remain some of my favorites still today. When I discovered this lovely Graphic 45 paper  called "Steam punk Debutante" from the Flying Unicorn store, I was in heaven. It had  iconic Gibson girl images  and Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha women done in the cool Steampunk theme.

I made this tag for Grundgy Monday #25 which was called Perfect Distress. It is hosted by the lovely Linda at Studio L3. The challenge was to use a Tim Holtz technique that you can find here. The color palette happened to fit the Fashionable Stamper challenge #7 of Coffee and cream and a hint of dark chocolate. Come on over and play.

To make this tag I used Tim's technique of distress ink and perfect pearls to make the stamped background. I added the Steampunk Debutante image layered on the vintage tag for dimension. Some additional tiny tags were cut out and distressed too. With a hole punch I punched some tiny gears out the paper too. Some antique lace, black ribbon and 3 teeny tiny metal gears complete my piece. It is titled "The original, the genuine Steampunk Debutante Model"

Hope you will be an original model this week,
yours truly, gerri


"The original, the genuine steampunk model"



"Genuine details"

Three Pretty Pink Muses

Haven't posted a creation for  Pink Saturday in awhile so to make this a special entry, I decided to make an altered piece. This was an old cracked pot that I had but now, it's in my studio space as a pencil /paint brush holder. I love to repurpose things, it challenges my creativity.

I added some floral  rose rub-ons and a dainty image of Three Lovely Ladies, that I call my Three Muses. Now I have my Muse with me everyday. I also stamped some script with lime ink. The pretty image is called Best Friends xoxo  and the image is from Retro Cafe Art. They do have the loveliest images there. Some pretty pink ribbon and Pink Stickles were added as sparkly accents.

Hope you will find your Muses this week.
take care, gerri

"Three Muses"



"Pink Details"



It's pretty to me

Haven't shown any paintings for awhile so I thought I'd link up to Paint Party Friday today. Come on over and join Kristin and Eva our hosts. You can  see what everyone is painting these days! Oh course, I'm showing a floral arrangement, since those are my favorite subjects. The arrangements are always unique and the flower colors and shapes are always a challenge. This one my dear husband didn't really care for,  but I say it's pretty to me. I do know why he feels that way, cause he really doesn't like the color orange. LOL!

Hope you can enjoy something you think is pretty this week.
yours truly, gerri

"It's pretty to me"

"Pretty details"