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.