blooming

Apple

Grape Hyacinth 

Tulips

Hellebore 

Bleeding Heart

Violets

Spring is springing 

sun in spring

Today was sun and rain, 

Rain and sun.

And when the sun is out we all look up

My daughter had a bit of trivia for me:

We haven't had a -sunny all day- day since October 

I hadn't noticed

typing

I'll share a little technique with you ...

(It helps if you have a typewriter though)

If you type on tissue paper ....

And then carefully tear around the edges of what you typed ...

And then apply some gel medium to your substrate ...

And then adhere your tissue paper over that (and coat with more gel) ...

You end up with a transparent application of text.

Happy Friday

cherry trees

University of Washington 

Seattle 

flowers

The hyacinths were laying down in mud after today's rain ... I had to bring them in.

Now we have lovely sunshine - ahhh

And here's another flower of mine.

She's taken over my art desk today and I am happy for that.

None of the old feelings of 

"that's my space" or "that's my stuff."

Maybe I'm coming into bloom too.

inchie swap

Last day to sign up: April 1st

Deadline to mail inchies out: April 20th

Date inchies are mailed back to you: May 1st

The theme is:

One Word Affirmations (or encouragements)

Try choosing words that finish this sentence: 

"you are ........"

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Guidelines:

- Must be one inch square

- Use media of your choice or mixed media

(collage, paint, pen, stamping, etc)

- Include a one word affirmation

(book text, typing, stamping, handwriting, etc)

- Please mount on tagboard or mat board

- Finished edges are preferred 

(use sharpie, gold leaf pen, paint, etc)

- Honor yourself and others with your best effort

- Sign the back

- Please let me know if it's ok/not ok to publish your inchies on this blog, on Instagram, or on my FB page

How it works:

You will send me 12 inchies and I will send 12 back to you from a pool of players. You will receive one of your inchies back plus 11 more from other people.

Last day to mail to me is April 20th.

Include $3 in cash or stamps for the return trip.

I will reuse the bubble mailer you send them in.

Questions?

Reply right here in the comments

Message me on Facebook

Message me on Etsy

Or email me at: 

artinred44 (at) gmail (dot) com 

inchies (swap?)

I suddenly wanted to make inchies today

Which I haven't done in quite a while

It felt important

I started with mark making

Mounted my paper on tag board 

And cut into 1 inch squares

Added important words -

Inspired by Abilene Clark 

"You is kind

You is smart

You is important"

Affirmation inchies to keep in a box or bag

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I'm thinking of creating an inchie swap with this as a theme (one word affirmations) - would you like to play? 

PM me,

 or just say so in comments,

 and I'll PM you.