Got the Winter Blues

 

Welcome!

It was 2 degrees Fahrenheit last night.

Brrrrr…it also snowed a couple inches…brrrr…

Today it got up to 42’ and a lot of the snow is gone now. Typical Colorado weather. 

It’s giving me the Winter blues. So, how about I share some of my favorite blue things with you? Let’s go!

Jellyfish. Way cool creatures. Fascinating shapes and colors, each one uniquely beautiful.

Teacups. Can’t get enough of them! This one has a moriage technique with raised areas in the design. Typically you will see this with dragon motifs.

One of my original zentangles that I have then used an app to manipulate the colors. I can get some pretty wild looks doing this!

My hand painted rock flowers. I love putting them outside around my garden areas, in all colors of the rainbow.

Kaleidoscopes made with my camera and an app called KaleidaCam. I am totally addicted…

Artwork about tea time. These fit in with my love of teacups, I’m guessing.

I love making cards to give to people. I have been doing this for over 40 years. Wow. My styles, techniques and overall quality have morphed and changed through the years, as they should. I continue to learn new things! I love to experiment with embellishments and supplies. This card uses a background technique called Polished Stone. Way. Fun.

This is an app called Word Pack. I can type in whatever words I want, choose one of their pre-set shapes and color groups, and come up with one-of-a-kind word art.

I enjoy seeing what other people collect. We human beings can be very strange in our likes and dislikes! While I may not want to collect dead bugs, it’s fun to see a well done collection of them. These blue vessels are very attractive.

My Collage Art Dolls continue to be a happy time for me. I use all recycled junk mail, catalogs, flyers, magazines - anything headed for the trash.

These snowflakes were cut on my Cricut machine. I LOVE my Cricut! Making custom ornaments is so easy with it. And it uses paper and cardstock of which I have an over-abundance of. 

This is one of my Iris Fold technique cards made with recycled gift wrap paper. Wrapping paper comes in soooo many beautiful colors and patterns. This is a great way to use up those leftover bits. I used to cut the openings by hand with an Xacto knife. Now I use my Cricut.

Just have to add in another snowflake photograph. Did you know there are NO identical snowflakes? Mind boggling. I cannot imagine that level of creativity. Says alot about God, don’t you think?

For this card I used a metal die and ran it through my Spellbinders Platinum machine. This is another machine I use very frequently. I used to be frustrated with dies not cutting well, or too difficult to crank through the pressing bars. Then my friend showed me her Spellbinders Platinum and I’ve been hooked ever since! The background is Polished Stone (see above).

This is a double pour glass pitcher made by Blenko. If you are ever in West Virginia and close to the Blenko factory - go! They have a seconds gift shop in the front where you can purchase beautiful hand blown glass items at very low prices due to some ‘flaw’.  We were there many years ago and also got to go on a tour. Not sure if they still do that.

This is a digital manipulation of a photo taken of my garden. Columbines are the state flower of Colorado. Blue ones that is!

I did not make this lovely example of quilling. I love the way it looks. I do not have the patience to do this paper craft! I still enjoy others work however.

Nudibranchs are fascinating, tiny ocean creatures. They were ‘discovered’ not so long ago, and since then they are still discovering new types! At first they thought they were a kind of sea slug. Then the scientists realized no, these little guys are their own species. Nudibranchs are absolutely beautiful. Just think, for centuries they have been living and dying and no one but God knew about them. He created them for His own pleasure. Again, unbelievable creativity! Truly, our God is an awesome God.

This bracelet pattern is what got me back into beading after many years. A friend taught me the pattern, and I have made several. After a few years’ break, I am back to beading again, and you guessed it - I’m beading a bracelet with this pattern!

What is it about gingerbread houses that I love? Perhaps because of the huge variety of decorations you can use to customize your own. I did not make this one. I am simply an appreciative fan!

I find vintage song sheet art to be a wonderful inspiration for me. You can find hundreds of examples on the Indiana Music Library site, in Harmony.

Are you feeling the Winter Blues, yet?

This is a purchased large letter ‘S’ covered in recycled jewelry pieces. I am saving up broken pieces of jewelry so I can make one of these someday. Think I will pick the letter “K” however…

This is one of my very first papercuttings. I used construction paper, as that is what I had at the time! I received the book Chinese Papercutting one Christmas and was fascinated by it. Since those first crude cuttings I have continued my love of papercutting of all kinds and from all nationalities.

Here is another papercutting I did, many years later!

Kaleidoscopes and quotes - doesn’t get much better!

I have downloaded so many wonderful free apps from AppAdvice. One of the best apps ever. The seahorse is a Zentangle original drawing of mine that I then used a photo app to manipulate. Love the colors.

My Collage Art Dolls are just so fun to make. Of course I have many mermaids, and the ocean is all shades of blue, so they fit right in for today’s blog.

Did I mention I love mermaids? :) and I love making cards? and I love my Spellbinders Platinum?

There’s just something so creative about doors that are…different. I love painted ones, and doors with interesting door handles, or windows in them.

I bought a rock painting book by Lin Wellford. Oh my! Totally addicted to painting rocks now! I especially love painting little cottages and shops.

Vintage beaded gowns - a lost art today. Can you imagine the hours that went into this dress to hand bead all those tiny beads? (They were also pretty heavy with all those beads!)

These winter blues are inspiring me to go make something…blue! How about you?

Iris Fold technique Cinderella dress I made with my Cricut and scrapbooking paper scraps.

Yes, playin’ with my apps again and an original drawing. Zentangles are so relaxing to do.

Time to close!

‘Til next time,

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