Victorian Roses and Lace

This is one of my favorite tags.  Victorian Roses and Lace lends charm and beauty to any gift.  Why adorn your packages with just any tag when you can have beautiful, elegant tags?  You can find this tags and others at Rosecote.com.  Just print the tag on sticker paper or index card stock.  Then cut it out with a pair of scissors, add a ribbon tie if you wish, and your gift will be uniquely identified with a tag that will be just as treasured as the gift.

Enjoy your day and be sure to visit How Sweet the Sound and participate in Pink Saturday with me!

Posh Pansies

Adorn your packages with elegant tags.  These summer pansies accented with lace and topped with a tassel lend charm and beauty to any gift.  You can find these tags and others at Rosecote.com.  Just print them out on sticker paper or index card stock.  Then cut them out with a pair of scissors, add a ribbon tie if you wish, and your gift will be uniquely identified with a tag that will be just as treasured as the gift.

Enjoy your day and be sure to visit How Sweet the Sound and participate in Pink Saturday with me!

Pink Perfume

Pink, pansy, perfume, pearls, and  pomp.  What two things do they have in common?  The answer is the letter "P" and Photoshop!  I was in a "pink" mood yesterday, and created a couple of background designs using my Gelli Plate.  I combined them with a watercolor background, blended them using several blending modes, then layered the photo elements and this is what I produced!  It is exciting to see a "feeling" realized.  Hope your feeling in the "pink zone" today.  Have a wonderful day and please visit How Sweet the Sound and participate in Pink Saturday with me!

Vintage Rolodex Rotary Cards

Do you still have a Rolodex Rotary Card holder? With the plethora of electronic devices, these are becoming obsolete, but now you might want to use yours again with these "Vintage" Rolodex Rotary Cards! Just print them out on card stock, available from your local office supply store, using your printer. Even if you discarded your rotary card holder, you can use these as note cards or place setting name cards. All you need is a pair of scissors.

This set of 6 cards measure 2 5/8" x 4" each.  Click to download them with my compliments.  The PDF file is 7.7 mg so it may take a moment to fully load.  Enjoy!

Be sure to visit How Sweet the Sound and participate in Pink Saturday with me!

Delphiniums

The tall stocks and the vibrant, yet delicate flowers of delphiniums speak to me of the early days of summer.  I love the height they attain, standing so tall and straight.

You might also know this flower as larkspur, though it's name is derived from the Greek word for dolphin.

In the Victorian language of flowers, the delphinium symbolizes devoted attachment to your love, big-heartedness, enthusiasm, fun and lightheartedness.  Being a daughter of an astronomer, I love the star-shaped petals fluttering in a soft breeze like twinkling stars.

For those of you who celebrate your birthday in the month of July, this flower is your birth flower.  Loved creating this composition of delphiniums for you to enjoy!

Participate in Pink Saturday with me at How Sweet the Sound.

Pansies Squared

The playfulness of pansies is captured in this background treatment of multiple squares against a photo of peeling paint.  As important as the painting is, the background treatment, and the display of the artwork is just as important.  All combine together to generate a mood or feeling.

Visit Rosecote.com and experience our original backgrounds for yourself.  If you are interested in learning how to make your own backgrounds/scrapbook paper, we have a couple of online classes that might be of interest to you.

Celebrate another Pink Saturday with me at How Sweet the Sound.

Celebrating Spring

Warm weather has arrived in Colorado!  It is supposed to get up to 90 today.  I thought today would be a good day for a little Pansy Sorbet.  This is painted in oils on a digitally created background which was printed on artist canvas.

Discover how much fun it is to paint on unique backgrounds from Rosecote.com!

I am also celebrating another Pink Saturday with How Sweet the Sound.

Have a wonderful day, and stay cool!

Vintage Romance - Rose

Inspiration for artistic endeavors can come from almost anything.  This background was inspired by dirt!  Working in the rose garden, digging in the dirt, set my mind to thinking about making a digital background framed in dirt!  So I set about creating some digital brushes that I could use for dirt.  A new painting surface is born!  Introducing you to Vintage Romance - Rose.  Quick and fun.  The background is available as a digital download at Rosecote.com.

Thank you to Beverly for her dedication to Pink Saturday.  How Sweet the Sound.

Roses on Wallpaper

The neat thing about being a creative is that you can find all kinds of things to paint upon.  Wallpaper lends itself to some exciting backgrounds.  It doesn't have to be perfect either.  Ripped, torn, dirty.  All the better.

This is a background I made from some wallpaper, added the writing and grunge.  Once painted, I tore the edges and antiqued them.

The painting is mounted to a mat and framed as shown below.  This background, without the three painted roses, is available as a digital download to be printed using your own printer.  Visit www.rosecote.com.

 Thank you to Beverly for her dedication to Pink Saturday.  How Sweet the Sound.

Rose Post

I love creating vintage looking backgrounds and then painting on them, enhancing some of the background features to integrate with my artwork.  This "postcard" exemplifies my technique.  The card was digitally created, printed on archival card stock and then mounted to an 8x6" panel.  This can be displayed on an easel or hung.  Either way, it makes a charming accent.

These backgrounds are available in a digital download format on my website, www.rosecote.com.  This one is from the Vintage Papers Collection.

 Thank you to Beverly for her dedication.  How Sweet the Sound.

Raspberry Stain

This is a painting of some roses from my garden.  I designed the background on the computer using Photoshop, printed the graphic on archival card stock and painted the roses in oils.  I love integrating digital art with traditional art.  It gives me so much more to work with.  The digital background design is creative in and of itself.  Then painting the oil design on it is exciting, uniting the two art forms.

It has been awhile since I have participated in Pink Saturday.  I hope you enjoy my contribution.  Thank you to Beverly for her dedication.  How Sweet the Sound 

Oil Painting Expressions

Oil Painting Expressions, an online oil painting course, has kicked off Session Four. I am teaching the first lesson, Ageless Beauty. There are 8 lessons from 8 talented artists plus the new Oil Basics Brush Ups series. New to oils? We make it easy to learn! Watch and paint along with the short tutorials in the Oil Basics Brush Ups Series covering topics like surface preparation, blending, leaves, twigs, fruit, flower petals, shapes, gold leafing, varnishing, and more. Already an accomplished oil painter? Then you can pick up some valuable oil techniques to add to your skillset! Visit www.oilpaintingexpressions.com to find out more. Join us for 11 months of painting inspriration and learning all in the comfort of your own surroundings!gold leafing, varnishing, and more. Already an accomplished oil painter? Then you can pick up some valuable oil techniques to add to your skillset! Visit www.oilpaintingexpressions.com to find out more. Join us for 11 months of painting inspriration and learning all in the comfort of your own surroundings!gold leafing, varnishing, and more.  Already an accomplished oil painter?  Then pick up some valuable oil techniques to add to your skillset.  New to oils?  We make it easy to learn.

Visit www.oilpaintingexpressions.com to find out more.  Join us for 11 months of painting inspiration and learning all in the comfort of your own surroundings.

Forget Me Not

Love this background design!  Lots of potential for a painted design on this one.  The design tells a story and the painting should add to the storyline.

Find more background designs at www.rosecote.com .



Damask Burn

This is a graphic I created recently on my Ipad using the apps iColorama and Art Studio.  I love making these graphics/textures and using them as backgrounds for my artwork or as textures over photos.

You are welcome to use as you wish.  Clicking on the link will open a larger version more suitable for print.

http://bit.ly/2ptL53e

Enjoy!

Roses, Drops, and Lace

This is a digital graphic I made some time ago, but it looked so fresh on this beautiful Easter Morning, I thought it would give a new perspective to the "old is made new".

I love roses, lace, dew drops, the vintage look and putting them all together to create something of beauty.

My wish for you on this Easter Morning is that you find joy, comfort, and beauty in the knowledge that everyday brings His blessing.