A Wonderful Present

Melissa made this card for my birthday.

It is so beautiful That I had to put it on my blog.

• Take a look at the detail. It's kind of like a seek and Find Book.
• Do you see the table with the birthday cake it looks so good (I want to eat it) and those candles make it look so festive. I am ready to blow them out.
  There is also a tea cup on the table. Tea please!
• Above the cake is a poster that says flower grove and it is filled with hearts, eight hearts.
• To the left of the table is a rainbow colored toucan.
• Isn't it outrageously beautiful. The center of attention of this drawing.
• To the right of the table are two white flowers and they are raining petals on the little girl.
• Petals of happiness are falling on the girl that could be Melissa.
• The little girl has the biggest smile and she even has little pink cheeks.
• The sun is in the upper right hand corner looking down on everything making a happy warm place.
• On the far left is a girl with blond hair and a long pink dress.
• I think she looks like me. I am the birthday girl.
• In the sky is a banner that says, Happy Birthday Eve.
• It is decorated with green and blue stripes and looks like a balloon. It tells the viewer what is going on in the picture.
• There are two other people in the picture, they look like a small women and a big man. I think this is mommy and daddy.
• Melissa has even drawn the ground and it looks like it's alive with plants.
• I was so excited about this amazing drawing by Melissa.
• It has so much detail that it is interesting and exciting to look at.
• When you look at the color it is bright with an impressionistic quality.
• The drawing has a real feel of texture.
• The composition of the drawing is excellent.
• It is balanced and all the elements retail to the subject.
• Melissa is a true artist as she draws what she feels.
• She takes time with her drawing and wants viewers to share her interests an enthusiasm.
• I am proud to have received this masterpiece.
  
  
  

Thank you very much Melissa!

I Love you!

Christmas Crafts From The Past

Fun With The Famly

Just a little family fun I thought I would share.

• 4th of July
• The Walnut Room at Macy's (Marshall Fields)
• Family Golf
• High School and College Graduation
• Celebrating a Birthday
• A Bug Collection

Memories and photos are great.

Look At My Slidshow

I was fooling around with www.slide.com, a site that allows you to make slidshows. It is fun to do. It has a lot of options for creating different slide shows. Take a look at it. I would like to see what cool things you could do. What do you think.

http://www.slide.com/

Making Valentine's Cards

I made the cutest cards for my family for Valentine's Day. I bought some vintage valentine cards from an antique store and some of the cards are images I found on the internet.

• Photo-shopped the cards: fixing the color and the size and printed 3 copies of each image.
• The bottom layer was the base. Cut the second photo into the large sections following the outline of the image on the photo/card. I than put the picture back together like a puzzle and used silcone to raise the image up and glue them ontop of the base photo.
• Next cut the third layer into even more defined parts of the card and raise them off the card again using the silicone so they added another 3-D effect to the photo.
• To make them a little more interesting I added plastic flowers and ribbon, as well as, a heart that labeled the valentine: who it's for and who it's from.
• Supplies needed: Photo-paper with semi gloss finish, a small tube of silicone, scissors, small nail scissors, ribbon, small plastic flowers.

Making Valentine's Cards

I was just working on making some Valentines for my family. I scanned some vintage valentine's that I got from an antique store. I than photo-shopped them and copied them and made 3-D cards. I added flowers and ribbons to give them a little texture and depth.