Jan 17
Why do I have a picture of a gift bag? Surely it’s not because I ran out of art and wanted to use something as filler. Surely not! I was lucky enough to receive a gift card, and it came in a bag much like this. The bag intrigued me, so I took it apart …
Nov 28
Here are some more bottlecaps I made for my friend’s birthday. I think my favorite one is the one with the screws, followed by the one with the plastic ant in it. It’s interesting that the words from the book become transparent when the resin hits them. Making the background and finding coordinating doohickies to …
Nov 22
Here’s the finished number plaque that I made the poppy tiles for (shown in an earlier post). I cut the background green tiles out of stained glass, with the help of my daughters (since ones hand hurts after cutting too many tiles, I needed help.) Cutting the background tiles was rather time-consuming, but it saves …
Nov 14
I think I like this best of the books in the rainbow series. It’s predominantly red, which is one of my favorite colors, so that’s part of it. This was one of the first ones I finished, so I wasn’t terribly concerned about making it that different. I decided to just go with the background …
Nov 12
Inspired by the previous book in the rainbow series, I decided I wanted to do some more lettering. It used to be that people who painted signs and drew ads had to paint the letters and numbers by hand, and they had to use both precision and creativity in designing their own fonts. I wanted …
