Creative Projects

Art Stamping

Stamping With Celery

Have you ever stamped with celery? It’s an old trick, but in case you’ve never tried it,  carefully cut off the stalks from a bunch of celery and you are left with a pretty rose stamp.   Celery roses make pretty stationery. I stamped on vintage notebook paper and added […]

Art With Children, Autumn Art

Candy Corn Art

Somethin’ strange is going on with my blog! I’ve been searching for some of my previous fall posts and I can’t find them. It’s like they’ve disappeared! As you can imagine this has me a little frazzled. My husband decided that the safest route would be to switch over to […]

Autumn Art, Drawings

Candy Corn Queen 2011

She started out as a sketch on tracing paper, just like last year. I decided on an Elizabethan style queen and  initially sketched out a castle along with her….but I changed my mind on the castle later on. After the basic sketch was done, I made a copy of it, […]

Autumn Art, Drawings

Moonlight Maiden

I used Derwent Colour Soft pencils and ZIG Millenium pens to draw this maiden in the moonlight. I’m not a big fan of the scary stuff this time of year. In fact, the only witch I’ve ever been fond of is this one.  But I do like to draw and […]