Animal poster

Hi everyone! Today, when trying to organize some stuff, I ran across an old match game from a nature magazine. A little idea sparked. So I painted a cartoon-ish tree, and cut some of the animals out of the cards (along with a few from an old trail map) Stuck the animals to the tree and surrounding area, and then gave them some speech bubbles, and something to say. so here it is, along with a few close- ups

one of my favorites in the picture is the female cardinal  saying "Hey hun, could ya bring home dinner?" and then the male cardinal (picking berries) says "Sure hun" LOL i just thought it was kind of funny for some reason. . . 

"Come on dear! it's time for dinner!"  if you look of the other side of the tree there is a fawn saying "OK!" ( yes i know, this is a male deer. )

"IM STARVING!" "OH! I AM FAMISHED!" " HURRY! WE'RE STARVING!" "Hold on darlings!"

"Who woke me up?" "peck peck peck peck peck peck Oh, Sorry sir!"

                          

Altoilds catapult!

Today I made an Altoids catapult using these awesome instructions! http://craziestgadgets.com/2009/07/13/altoids-tin-catapult-curiously-childlike/
Click on the little thing that says "Instructibles" at the end of the little description thing. It takes through step by step instructions on how to make it. I used a peppermint altoids tin, while the instructions used an altoids gum tin. I also used a half teaspoon, where as the instructions seemed to use a teaspoon.

The range isn't perfect. I think I can only get it to go maybe five feet, but that's not bad considering it's made of a few simple things that are probably already lying around your house. Just make sure you wind the rubber band up real good.

Anyways, this little bugger can shot any thing from marbles, to hairclips, to dog treats! (yes I tried that. That's what happens when you are sick and can't really do any other fun things. LOL)
And, if you take the little spoon out of the holder and place the handle part under the holder, (or push it real far in the holder) you can close it up and voila! You have a mini catapult disguised as some altoids! There is even some room for small ammo to hide in there too!

Dolls

Well, I found this Cute little idea on pinterest, Mermaid dolls. That picture lead me to this tutorial of how to make 'Bendy Dolls' Here http://theenchantedtree.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-bendy-dolls-and-tutorial.html
I make mine a little differently than the tutorial says. I bout my supplies before I saw that there was a tutorial, so I bout wooden balls instead of wooden beads, and I hotglue that head and hair on. The result is a little messier, but it's still cute :) :)

This one is one i made for my little sister. Its looks like her when she makes a funy face that we call her "Gnomey Face." so I made her a doll, that looked like her Gnomey face. And she wanted me to make it a mushroom dress. So here is Gnomey, Dressed in her Magical Mushroom dress, as camouflage for when she goes to the Magical Mushroom Forest. (i made the mushroom snail too, a long time ago)

and here are two mermaids i made. The one on the Left (Green tail, pinkish red hair) Is supposed to be Ariel from the little mermaid. My Neice Absolutely LOVES mermaids, (Especially Ariel) So i thought she would like these for her birthday which is coming up in Feb. The one on the Right is supposed to be her as a mermaid.

My latest projects.

Lately, I have not been working on that much, but i have been working on a few things. First off, here are the cards I made for Easter ( I hope everyone had a Wonderful Easter by the way!)

 I also like to make Crowns out of Flowers and willow vines. This is the best one I have ever made. The aroma coming from this crown, Was so good, I can't even discribe it!

 Another picture of the crown pictures above.

 Here is the card I made for my Wonderful Art teacher, Ms. Bethany, For teacher's appreciation day today.

So there you have it! that is pretty much all I have been up to ( "Art Wise" ) lately!

-Fianna

Inchies

Well, http://www.rosesonmytable.ning.com/ also has inchie swaps. Inchies are miniature works of art that are only one inch wide and one inch tall! Here are the ones i made for the April Swap.

 You make six of them, send them in, and you get six back, each from a differnt person!

 I made little envelopes for them :)

 Here is the match up to the cards

this is how they fit in there :)

i think they turned out pretty good. I used colored pencils on scrapbook paper, and then cut out the words and glued them on. Then I put Mod-podge on the cards to make them shiny. I made the envelopes by taking 2'' x 2'' peices of paper, folded in the corners and glued them there, then I took just plain washable markers and made little designs on them. I put a little mod-podge on them too, so they would match with the inchies :)

Some Art

Well, Since i just turned my blog into an Art and Poem blog, I'm going to put up a few of my recent projects.

 Here is a Collage I made. The words are a little blurred it says " Enjoy The Wondrous Beauty Of Nature That God Has Created" on the petals. and on the leaves it says " Love, Joy, Peace, Hope"

 A little jar i decorated with magazine clippings and Glitter Mod Podge

 One of my panitings.

These are my Spring themed Artist Trading Cars for the ATC swaps at http://www.rosesonmytable.ning.com/ It's a wonderful site!

So, now you have seen some of my recent art :)