Thinking of Spring

While I am home on another snow day, I am thinking of spring and the break that I will not see this year!! I am an elementary art teacher. We have had the most incredible winter with more snow, flurries and cold weather than I can ever remember!!

Over the weekend, I went into my studio and made some greeting cards with wildflower seeds in the pulp. Check them out! I think that it would be a fabulous eco friendly way to communicate! What do you think? What do you think of the words/greetings?

Thanks for your comments. I have been slack in commenting on your posts. Going to correct that now!

And the winner is......ME. Look at the miniature sunflower against a Tulip Popular leaf. It makes a wonderful card.

I'm happy and nervous and excited and sad about my son's graduation. I have to voice/type these feelings so that I can calm down. He's is so talented and will do great in college.

PS. Don't forget to choose your favorite paper from the 3 pics below. I'll send the winner their favorite card.

It's graduation week at my house!! My son will graduate from High School and I'm disgustingly proud of him!!

I have squeezed in time to make some neat flower paper. Look at the three samples below and choose your favorite. Iris, Daisy or bouquet of rockcress and a daisy. Leave me a message and a way to contact you and I'll send you the card you chose!! Announcement of the winner will be here, next Sunday the 14th.

Flower Cards Finished!!

The flower cards are finished. Take a look at the results!! Everyone loves them and they are perfect for spring notes to mothers, friends and family.
These flowers are "Common Smooth Rockcress" Arabis laevigata. Each pack has 5 notecards for $15 with envelopes. The left is a natural pack, the right is 2 square. Choose your favorite!

Papermaking Fun!!

On Friday when I was driving home from work, I stopped in a field and picked these flowers.

Then on Saturday, I spent time making paper and pressing these flowers in the paper.

There are simple cards and then there are the ones which I had fun
adding color of other HMP papers.





The picture on right is the wet paper pressed on a green army blanket, the picture above is after the paper has been pressed under a hydraulic press for 20 minutes


and I've transferred it to a white sheet to take it through a drying process. Check out my etsy store for these neat cards by the end of this week!!