Days 44 thru 48 F-A-D

1-22-11

44/365

I am loving these Sharpie paint pens so I wanted to do another drawing with them. I think I need to go buy more soon.

Days 41 thru 43 flower-a-day

1-19-11

41/365

More fun with paper crafts today! I cut petal shapes out of handmade paper (not handmade by me, unfortunately) and then glued them to the end of a toothpick. After they were all glued on, I rolled the outer edges around another toothpick to curl them. This was a lot more time consuming than it looks, but I like how it turned out so I think I might do a bouquet version in the future.

F-A-D days 37 thru 40

Okay so I'm going to be honest - this project is becoming difficult to maintain. In part, it's because it has taken a back burner to everything else in my life. Every day around midnight, 1am, or even later, I find myself wondering what to do for that day, and settling for something quick and easy. I've had a couple of time-sensitive projects that have been taking up a lot of my time, but those will be over within the next week so I'm hoping that energy will go towards F-A-D. The bad news is that I'm feeling the inklings of project burn-out, but hopefully that will go away once I have a little less on my plate. On to the flowers...





1-15-11

37/365

Today I made a collage in my sketchbook with some paper scraps. The flower pots are made out of magazine ads and they have ruby red brads at the corners. The leaves and stems are scraps of watercolor paper from another project, and I cut the petals out of patterned glitter/embossed paper. Then I topped it all of with a couple of self-adhesive gems for the centers of the flowers.

Days 33 thru 36 F-A-D

Whew! My Sketchbook Project is 99.9% done so I finally have time to catch up on posts. I only need to do something cool to the cover and then I'll be done... Well, except for documenting it for my records. I'm glad they extended the deadline a couple of days. Now on to the flowers...



1-11-11

33/365

I got a gigantic coffee this morning, a Cinnamon Dolce Latte. I popped off the lid to let it cool down, and this shape was on the inside of the lid - but I added a little more whipped cream with my finger to refine the shape. Even though I asked for no whipped cream, I sort of liked this unexpected surprise start to my day. You're off the hook this time, Starbucks.

Days 31 & 32 F-A-D

1-9-11

31/365

I cut this flower out of a coffee filter. First I flattened out the coffee filter, then folded it in half, and then in thirds (the way you do for snowflakes) and then in half again (for symmetry.) Then I cut a few rounded shapes, making sure to preserve portions of the folds. Then I unfolded it and flattened it out, and voila!

Days 25 thru 30 catch up

1-3-11

25/365

Today I took apart a mini sketchbook (only 15 sheets) and made this abstract flower out of the wire binding.

Days 23 & 24 of flower-a-day

 (:  Wahoo! 2011 is here!  :)

1-1-11

23/365

These are hinged metal rings that I picked up for making books or binding other bundles of papers together.

Flower-a-day: Days 21 & 22

12/30/10

21/365

Fun with collage! I found this article about skin care botanicals in a magazine so I cut it up and made it pretty.