a bit further on my screen....

I have been able to find a bit of time to add some more color to my screen....

I am loving how this is turning out. I wish my lighting was better in my room to take better pictures. I am going to try and do a bit more. I also need to work on my ATC cards that are due tomorrow for my Flytribe group. It would be wonderful to be able to work the 108 hours every two weeks I have been doing at my job on my art instead.... ummm someday. Going to go to my room... 

Thanks so much for stopping by and looking! Have a great weekend!

Happy Easter, work and fun....

Happy Easter everyone! Have a beautiful day!

I have been trying to find a way to balance working of 50 hours a week and being creative. It is hard! Unfortunately work has been winning. I have been able to squeeze a bit of time in small chunks and work on my screen. Here a few pictures:

Previously I had paint what is "white" now with some purple and pink and really did not like it so, I started tearing pages from an book and applied gel medium and filled in the "white" space and then drew my design. I am much happier with this now. I love the texture and the look of this now. More to come this week...

Thanks for stopping by an looking. Hopefully I will be able to balance out everything and do more art at home and less work...

Breaking away from overtime work.... Blog Hop...

I feel like I have been gone, gone from my art, my blog.... I have a new position at work and have been working way way to much overtime - learning curve we will call it... But, I did get a reminder when I was checking out my groups Facebook page about our next blog hop. I then remembered I did take a photo a while back.... it is a blog hop of shoe shots. Now yes I know it is the first day of spring tomorrow but, I took this a few weeks ago and tomorrow we are supposed to wake up to the same thing:

Yes, we are to get snow... Last week I had to travel to Tulsa for work and it was in the 80's, got a nice task of summer and come back home to cold weather... I may be wearing my snow boots tomorrow and not my nice new wedge sandals. Come and check out some more Shoe Shots - on the Flytribe Blog Hop!

Thanks for stopping by and I will try and get back into posting more frequently again and not let work consume my time...

where have I been...

I must say that work has eaten me up alive lately, I haven't had much time for nothing but... I am trying to change that and not let it consume me. In the past few weeks I have managed to work on my screen....

The other night I did get a chance to change it up... I didn't like the pink and purple bit I did on the side so, I am changing it to yellow and something? May change again but, so far I like it and yellow is not a usual color I use as it is not one of my favorites.

Well, thanks for stopping by and looking... must head off to work. Have a fabulous day!

ATC cards... making pages for a book....

I have been working on making pages to mount my ATC cards on...













As I make the background pages I am going to mount the cards one the page using old fashion photo corners. As I work on the pages I am going to store them in my "cowboy" tin box (it's in the background) and when I am done with this years collection I will bind it all together into a book. I am waiting to get my February cards in the mail.... as soon as I do I will post a picture.

Thanks for stopping by! Will be checking in again soon with an update on my "screen"...

Karen


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Progress on my screen...

I have been trying to squeeze in time on painting on my screen.... In the past couple of weeks in has progressed:
















Every time I work on painting something I teach myself how to do a technique... thank goodness for books to go by when I don't know how to do something. I tried this gel medium with fiber in it on the flowers. I bought some new paint brushes that help blend better... I know my pictures not the best.... one day I will be able to take one in better light. Ha! Anyway... I love how it is turning out and I hope to be done soon....

Well thanks for stopping by and looking! Off to bed...

Karen

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Flygirls ATC's for February....

I finished my February ATC's for my Flygirls ATC trade...

Here is a new book that I got that I am very excited about....

I cannot wait to see what I get in the mail... I really like how they turned out. I am very excited about this book I purchased. I have always wanted to design fabric and now with sites like Spoonflower I think that I am going to develop some of my designs at have them printed up. I have so many ideas.... I wish I had the energy to stay up late every night to work on my ideas.

Well time to call it a night, thanks for stopping by!