23 fussy numbers

mixing everything together.

morning pages
folk flowers
valentines
doodles
painted pages

 Fussy numbers refer to how I was so into creating I forgot the order of the posts. 

17 valentine book

I started this creative session with painted papers. 

I took one of the papers from this session and freehand

doodled, folk art style flowers. 

I printed out some black and white stripes from 

my "made by me" scrapbook paper collection.

 The paper is regular printer paper with acrylic paint. 

The flowers are a light black watercolor wash.

That was my warm up.

I have been eyeing this paper Penny black "beau jardins" for a long time. 

The cardstock folds crisp, and the bright colors go well with the valentines.

 I scanned them and deduced the size to fit the narrow space.

I cut them out and now am working on completing the book.

I will post all the finished projects, or if they go bad,

(crosses fingers) I will update the results.

16 arrows

I created these primitive arrows because 

most of the ones I saw available for purchase 

were beautiful, imaginative, very boho 

but too perfect.

Fresh off the cutting machine, they have a primitive, 

animated quality that I was looking to capture.

The silhouettes have inspired other ideas.

small 

book layouts

valentines

14 Valentine will you be mine?

Today I'm starting with a few abstract paintings that 

I created a while back.I scribbled on the paper with black crayon. 

I painted over the scribbles, and when the paper dried, 

I scanned then at 300 dpi.

I created hand cut scalloped edges from various scraps. 

At one time I used scallop scissors, but I prefer the 

randomness and relaxation of hand cutting.

The scalloped trims were glued to the bottom of the squares. 

I made a lot of these and used my morning pages process 

to write on some of these.

The final results: embellished with arrows, and word tags.