Fall Paper Goods

During my watercolor painting kick I got inspired and started to mix all of these fun fall colors.  There is an artist that I admire who is always sketching with black ink and then going back in to paint with watercolors.  I wanted to try out some of her method here.  I came up with some fall party paper goods with geometric shapes and a floral design.

Above are some food labels.  I just cut inside the gray lines and fold them over in the center.  This way your labels can be double sided and you can mix and match the floral with the geometric sides.

I always cut inside the gray outline here and tape two together with a toothpick in between as another food label.  Or you can hole punch it once at the top and another at the bottom and insert a straw and use it as a name tag for drinks!

Of course I had to have two different options for cupcake wrappers.  The background is a natural watercolor paper texture to give some interest to the fall or thanksgiving table scape.  To print off your own high quality pictures you can purchase them at my etsy site here.

Improvements

About three weeks ago I painted my room, with the lovely assistance of my BF.

My mom picked out a pretty green color that matches my bedspread. I found this
on the Craft Blog.
So I copied it. It was my goal to get this done before my college friends came to visit me. I did this hours before they came over.
I probably should have done it lower over the couch, but too late now!

My room is starting to look like it is mine. All I need now is a new desk.....

Empty Promises/Nude Creations

I always write about projects that I've started on the blog and then promise to show you. Then they turn out terribly and I'm so embarrassed I never show you. Last time I said I was working on some graffiti inspired art. Well here it is in all it's glory. It turned out to look like really bad '80s contemporary art not even worthy of hanging in my dentist office. (Sigh, c'est la vie)


Today I went to the library and I decided to take one of my creations on a walk along the way. It is finally warm enough to wear the clothing that I've made over the cold spring. It stretched a little as I continued my day, but other than that it was great. I got 2 compliments, which is always nice.

I always feel like I'm not wearing anything, when I wear something I've made. It's as if anything that I've created can't be any better than a sheet or towel wrapped around you and people are probably thinking that I'm just wearing a bunch of fabric draped over myself. So I basically felt naked while at the library.



(So my parents are planning on putting the house up for sale and my boyfriend knew about it before I did, and I live there! (sometimes) grrrrrr)

inspiration + Lois Lowry+love

I'm working on some SheOne inspired art right now. I'm also listening to this. I just finished listening to Messenger by Lois Lowry on my ipod. I'll level with you, Messenger was awesome. I loved it. It is a book that contains some of the main characters from The Giver by Lois Lowry. The Giver is the book that inspired me to read. From what I've heard of Gathering Blue, it's not as good. If anyone wants to know what I end up thinking about it you can add me on goodreads.com and see my rating.

I'll post something about how my artwork ends up, if it is okay looking.

I'm also cooking a quiche right now. I LOVE summer! I have time to do the things I want to do! FINALLY