I took another class with Julie and this was the canvas we did.

This was done with artist grade shrink plastic and colored before shrinking.

Isn't she fabulous.  She has an honored place on my fireplace mantel.

I was having so much fun beading that I made this twisted peyote piece that I think would make a great pendant.

Isn't this fun?

This is the first class I took called the Woven Chain Book Binding.  We made the entire book.

Book Cover.

Inside front cover with the first signature on the right side.

The back of the book showing the binding.

Close up of the Woven Chain used to bind the book which was all done by hand.

I took two of her classes in March of 2013.  The first class was called Life Journal and the second was called Art is in the Heart.  I am posting images for the second class.  No images from the journal as i haven't taken pictures of it yet.

The background was textured, stamped, painted, and embellished.  The items under the heart are distressed paint brushes.  Here are some close-ups of the center section with the heart.

I still have work to do on this piece and will post a pic when it is done.

Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy from the 5 hour BBC version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

This was made for a swap that I was in. The background is made of fabric with beading on top.  There are single beads and clusters of beads.  The clusters consist of keishi pearls, size 11 and size 15 sead beads.  The heart consists of ironed angelina fibers which was cut out in the shape of a heart.  The heart was then stitched to the background using silk thread.  The left half of the heart was embroided with beads while on the right side I stitched another cluster as an embellishment.

I belong to a group that meets once a month to trade Artist Trading Cards.  At these meetings we always do some kind of technique for backgrounds, etc.  For our September meeting the theme is mail.

I always love an organic piece and an open canvas.

Here is the artist trading card I did for the Beneath the Sea theme.  I had fun with this but my hand was so tired after doing 10 of these.  I used inspiration from Suzanne's blog Tinkered Art Studio.

She will be three this year.

Now:

So ladylike.  Spoiled brat.

I was a computer geek for over 20 years so I turned my technical skills into digital artwork using Photoshop Elements.  Here are some of the images I created.  Each collage is a compilation of many layers using different effects.