All Hail the Royal Falcon! This paper weight was done before the Royal Wedding for a fun show called Chick Picks.

Royal Wedding and More...

I'm back!! I haven't posted since last year - wow! I have been doing crafts and art just not as much. But I took care of my father thru his last days and my youngest is graduated from high school so I hope to use my art to express my feelings and share my joys the rest of this year and on! In the spring I was thrilled to enjoy showing some of my art at a wonderful home show called "Chick Picks". It was in the spring prior to the Royal Wedding so the theme was Royal. I made vintage england postcards, birds with crown paperweights and more.

More Christmas Canvases!

This one was layers over a canvas primed with yellow ocher. Next paper that has been embossed with clear embossing powder on patterned stamps was spritzed with liquid paint to add the green and purple shades. Star embossed on additional purple paper. Isn't she sweet?

Merry Christmas!!!

I was very busy making 4 x 4 canvases this Christmas. Most have Mary or an Angle on them! This one was custom made for someone who did their entire family room in aqua for Christmas - it was stunning! She even painted Nutcrackers aqua on the red parts! Canvas primed with black gesso then touched with luminears paints. Angle hair and glitter at bottom. Mary cut our from artwork purchased from Lisa Vollrath at

More Hokie Art

Two more Hokie Colleges - using ticket stubs, bits and pieces of anything maroon and orange. Canvas was base painted with splotches of gold, orange and maroon. The pieces of napkins, photos, scrapes of paper and fabric were glues on with gel medium. They were originally made for my son's apartment at Virginia Tech but since he claims it is fully decorated we kept them for our Hokie basement!!

Angel Beeswax Collage

Wednesday our Altered Art group played with beeswax! What fun! I made this 5X7 canvas with some Cavallina paper in the background. Angel is from the web and dove from a catalog. Whispering Hope was from a sharing friends hymnal! Paper Flower and brad and button too for dimension - wax held these with no problem!

My Latest - HOKIE ART

This is my latest Hokie Art series. I have done 3 but need to finish up the last two. I first painted the canvas with patches of color hokie style and then added napkins, scraps, ticket stubs and other orange and maroon embellishment. I then used distress ink to darken the true whites. Finally, I used rubber stamps with grids, numbers, and manila folder closure patterns to add depth and texture. I will post the next two soon! Happy Easter!!