Two Fridas & some recycled art

How has your week been?

I have been visiting blogs and I'm seeing many Spring posts up lately.

Seems like winter has lasted a long time for many of you.

Right now we are close to hitting triple digits here in Phoenix..

I usually stay indoors for the most part, unless it's very early in the morning or the sun has set.

I made a few things this week, including a couple of earth day projects..

first, the Fridas:

This one is created from a thrifted playing card tin, a Penelope doll head from Lisa Kettell

burlap papers and an old baby shirt that belonged to Helena.

This is acrylic and water color, I added paper flowers and glitter stars .

I created this Marie Antoinette inspired ornament using one of Lisa's

Kewpie dolls from her shop. 

She's wearing a dress made out vintage sheet music.

I made her wig with a bit of wool felting. She's my favorite right now!

I recycle/repurpose all the time..I love using old boxes for the cardboard..

A lot of my art cards and water color paintings are attached to 

 rice, cereal and cracker box cardboard.

I save all the oatmeal and salt containers we get. 

They make lovely little fairy homes.

Empty coffee cans and jars are used to store paintbrushes and pencils.

For Earth Day, Helena and I decided to make some purses.

We used these Pop Tart and Uncrustables boxes...

I had an old roll of clear contact paper

and some fabric remnants..

these are the boxes covered in contact paper:

this is the inside lined with the fabric.

Now, they are not completed but they are looking very cute!

We can't wait to wear them out in public:)

I'll show you how they turn out.

We also made a bird feeder out of an old milk jug, but I did not show a photo of it 

because my email was being very crappy and the pic would not upload.

I'm currently creating some fun paper mache creatures, which use up lots and lots of old newspaper..

Can't show you those you those yet as they are for a swap which has taken so long for me to get to.

Helena and I are going to our library's Spring book sale today,

fill a bag for $10 or a box for $15

We are so excited! 

I hope you have a happy, magical Thursday!

Three Muses..

Let's make postage stamp people!

That's the theme at the Three Muses this week.

This is what I came up with..

(click to enlarge)

Flowery Frida

Hello

Hope everyone has been doing great!

I've been busy

painting, gardening, trying to get healthy:)

(that's a whole other post)

I'm sorry I've been away so long.

I have a little project to share.

Let's turn Lulu into Frida Kahlo!

 paint a Lulu doll beige

 black for the hair

add  facial features (don't forget the uni-brow)

I painted her with an off the shoulder blouse

using plum & pink acrylic.

create the skirt part by hot gluing four flower petals folded over.

paint white glue over petals then add clear/snow glitter.

add any type of artificial flower to her arm for her to hold.

Her crown is created from the center of the flower

 which was painted pink and glittered.

The 6x6 canvas is one of my favorites,

it's so thick and compact.

cover the the canvas with a pretty scrapbook or tissue paper

using regular white glue.

attach the lace border last.

finish with a coat of clear acrylic spray.

Supplies

Lulu doll

Acrylic paint in

beige, black, red, purple, pink, white

pink, clear/snow glitter

white glue

hot glue gun & glue sticks

6x6 canvas

artificial flowers

scrapbook paper or tissue

you can find the Lulu doll

and more amazing things to work with 

at Lisa's art fire shop.

visit her lovely blog and Rit dye studio for

a ton of inspiration!

Thank you for visiting, 

Ill be by to catch up with you this week!

Halloween Tin swap

Wendy from Bliss Angels hosted an altered tin swap and she paired me with Karen from Karen's Monday Musings who lives about 15 minutes from me!! We met for lunch and talked and talked and talked!
She gave me my tin in a cute little drawstring pouch she made herself, she even included some delicious candy she bought from her recent trip to Germany, but, I didn't get a chance to photograph it:)

Inside was this gorgeous ATC she created..

This is the tin...

the inside...


and this is the one I made for her...
I decided to make it a shrine so I removed the lid completely.

Thanks to Wendy for hosting such great swaps!
I also wanted to add that I have a winner for the Practical Magic painting used the random number generator and it chose #24 Victoria, from Brushstrokes
Congratulations!

A Frida Halloween

Hi !!!
Wanted to post some pictures of my girls when they were Frida for Halloween...
Cindy from Cindy Adkin's Whimsical Musings also has a picture of her lovely daughter as Frida, so we thought it would be fun to post them all up together.
This my daughter Gabriella

Here's Helena...this is on her first Halloween, I tried but flowers would not stay in her hair, she kept trying to eat them.

This is Cindy's Daughter Jenny

Have a good night!!!

Viva Frida...again!

In June I wrote about a dream I had about Frida and how I was asking her for inspiration....
i think one of the main reasons I had this dream is because of the huge mental block I was battling, I was frustrated,with very few ideas,and even those I couldn't bring to fruition.
Right after I had this dream,I created these paintings...I used acrylics,water color pencils,artificial flowers,decorative papers and covered it all in beeswax.
I've had a lot more ideas and inspiration lately,and maybe they aren't life altering or earth shattering,some are actually pretty silly at times, but they have made me happy.most of this happy creativity I think is due to the lovely,amazing women that come by to visit once in a while.There may not be many but when they do, they leave such encouraging comments....they have made me realize there's a little Frida in us all.
Thank you!

Viva Frida!

I just watched a video on Frida Kahlo,and the dream I had last night came back to me in a rush!I remember praying (to her?)and practically begging her to give me inspiration,a flower from her hair,a smile.She appeared to me and I recall she was wearing red,with her hair all loose and flowing.She touched my hand and vanished.
That's all I remember......