Diva Challenge is Stripes!!!

This week Laura Harms challenged us to use stripes.

For the past three years I have faithfully tangled my 

Carole Ohl Tangle A Day calendar.

This week, with time constraints, this worked best for me.

Stripes show up a lot in my calendar.

And I love the option of trying new tangles in each day's box.

Thank you Laura for a fun challenge and the opportunity to share

Carole Ohl's brilliant calendar.

This weeks Diva Challenge...Water

Thank You Laura!

In the midst of a hot steamy Florida summer

our challenge is "water"

Perfect!

One nice advantage to our summers is the wonderful aromas 

floating in the air.

Early on it is the gardenias and magnolias.  Later we have

the ginger and in our case an assortment of cattleya orchids.

Enjoy!  I wish you could smell them.

Shine....

Many months ago I did this spider web on yupo.  Today I had an idea for using it as a background.
I made my star stencils, taped them down on the background to show off the most interesting colors and painted the whole thing with a transparent acrylic paint.  I let that dry and then put down a few smaller star stencils and sprayed it lightly with white acrylic.

Unfortunately, the original is upside down from how I used it  today.

I think I will stamp a few white stars around and call it done.

It was a fun afternoon project and I used one of the many backgrounds I am accumulating.

Happy PPF!

Diva Challenge

It feels so good to read a "Dive Challenge" 

and have time to do one.

Work has really put a crimp on my tangling and I miss it.

So this week we are to use patterns that start with our initial letters.

So here we are...Sand Swirl and Arrowhead.

That would be me!

Finishing up some projects

I have had some fun with this and now I think it is about ready to head off to my granddaughter.

And before I dispose of the stencil, I will have a little more fun with an "elephant hide" yupo I made months ago.  I never found the "perfect" elephant for the  hide so this was the result.

This is acrylic on yupo and before it dried I added some alcohol.  Nice affect if you want to create a foam or frothy look.

Hoping you all are having a great week.  Happy PPF

The pond

Slowly but surely, I am working my way through my acrylic dumps

on yupo.

This time, I didn't want to cover up the background so added my frogs

after the background had dried.

An update on the orchid that fell in the pool in February.
I pulled it out of it's pot, trimmed up the roots and repotted it.
I think it survived quite well, don't you

Happy PPF!

Work....and art

I never thought it would happen.

I always thought I would make time for art (and my blog)

but working has really knocked me for a loop.

The summer is a slow time for us so I have no excuse.

Last week I headed out to our Art Center and signed up for a class.

That will, for sure, make me get my act together.

I haven't been "gone".  I have become a "lurker".  I see your beautiful things every Friday

and kick myself for not participating.  I have done some "dumps" on yupo so  thought this

week, I would share them.