Art by Ardnas

First day of Spring and it is snowing -

which made it a very good day to watch my Farmville Feed and work on some new images for Qwikart.

These images will be 1×1 inchies or 2×1 in size. Some will be black on white and some inverse (black or your ink color with white design).

Here is a mock up that looked okay until I scanned it. Glued on crooked. My scanner is acting up making the pc unstable. I have spent the afternoon trying to get things working – setting the date back several times, removing and installing all the affected programs repeatedly. Afraid to unplug it from the pc and attach to the mac for fear it will mess the mac up too.

I am trying to decide whether to use a border around the images. I think they are more cohesive as a whole with out a border. The color of the background paper provides a border. Tell me what you think? Here are a few of the images:

Birthday Flowers from Mark

flowers 1 from mark

flowers 2 from mark

flowers 3 from mark

flowers 4 from mark

Birthday Flowers from Greg

flowers from greg

flowers 2 from greg

flowers 3 from greg

flowers 4 from greg

Definitely not a jolly time …

“See what my life is like!” “Are you expecting jolly?”

Gordon

“Do you really think I am going to try to fly? I am thinking nap time.”

Gordon

January ATC

Some one asked me to post a sample of a calendar ATC. I will be making my ATCs slightly different as I don’t have enough of any one item. The one shown needs to get the Stickles applied before it is finished. I choose to make them portrait style to fit the embellishments I am using. The card stock is the same front and back, just looks different because of the lighting on the embellished side when scanned.

The front side.

The back side.

December mail

Gift card

I thought this was ever so clever. It is a regular tag folded with a slot at the top to tuck in the front and close it. The inside has a message.

Artist Trading Cards for December

If you are not familiar with Artist Trading Cards. They are referred to as ATCs. Each one is a work of art and can be done in any medium. The only hard rule is that they are consistent in size to the baseball card size of 2.5 x 3.5 inches.

Here are scans of our December ATCs.

My studio tables waiting for the ATC traders.

Decorating at home

I love the decorations – who could guess? It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! I have 3 regular trees this year and 3 smaller trees. Plus if it is flat or I can hold it in place with an electrical tie – it gets an arrangement.

white poinsettia

living room tree

red tree

studio tree

buffet arrangement

dining room table

There is a small tree like these in the hall too.

coffee table arrangement

bookcase arrangement

studio door

Another month has gone by…

and I have not taken the time to post anything. Today’s post will be the start of the Christmas season. I have most of my decorating completed and will take photos to share soon. Three very organized individuals have sent me cards and ATCs.

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