Karen's Muse and Musings

Happy Easter!

It's hard to believe that I haven't posted anything in almost 2 weeks, but it's been pretty busy around here. I finally found time yesterday to work on my April spread for the Holiday Altered Book Round Robin. This one is for Lisa, and I'm happy to have it done so that I have Easter art to post today. My favorite part is inside the little envelope — a folded accordion card. Below are both sides.

Happy Easter, everyone! The Lord is risen. He is risen indeed!

Every Inchie Monday — Peace

I thought long and hard on this topic until finally I settled on the place I am most relaxed and at peace — the beach on St. George Island. Be sure to check out the other entries at Every Inchie Monday.

Sunday Postcard Art — Dance

It's time to dance at Sunday Postcard Art! Deciding to go digital with my postcard art this week, I chose one of the flower girls from stepdaughter Maggie's wedding as my subject. I worked in Photoshop CS4, using a combination of the artistic and brush strokes filters.

She's a Fabric House!

I'm participating in another welcome banner swap. If you follow my blog, you may remember that we have now done banners for fall, Christmas and Valentine's Day. My assignment was one of the E's in the word welcome, and when I receive the banners from the other participants, I'll have a complete set spelling out W-E-L-C-O-M-E. This time we decided to do a house shape, and I think this is my favorite. For the background fabric, I started with a wheat-colored denim, stamped on it with different script stamps and pressed the Wild Honey Distress inkpad directly on the fabric in a few spots. The bird is the Carolina Wren that I painted recently, although not the original. I scanned it and printed it onto inkjet fabric. It's a great feeling to get extra mileage from my artwork. I have two of these done now — five more to go!

Sunday Postcard Art — Mothers

I'm a day late with this one, but I did not want to miss this theme on Sunday Postcard Art. The beautiful woman and girl in the photo are my husband's grandmother and great grandmother. The photo frame and moth are from the Auntie Em collection at Deviant Scrap. I placed some pieces from my collection of ephemera on the scanner and used that image in the bottom corner.

Every Inchie Monday — Sing!

For all you opera lovers out there!