Arts and Cats

“Your Work Need Not Be Lost”

Quote adapted from Henry David Thoreau.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
~Henry David Thoreau

For the Altered Art Group January 2009 challenge: “Favourite Poets”

Base of chipboard and one layer of plain white cardstock. I blended chalks at the bottom and right edges, then cut a piece of cardstock from the “Old World” stack, slightly smaller than the ATC, to layer over that. I dotted the chalked edges with pearl sage-green fabric paint.

Next I cut a 3″X3″ piece of cardstock and dyed it with Adirondacks: Cranberry, Meadow, and Butterscotch. I stamped it with black ink and a sand castle stamp and tore the edges around the castle form. Then I rubbed the torn edges in gold ink.

Tim Holtz crackle paint on the left and top edges of the ATC. When this had dried, I painted it up with Stewart Gill Byzantia paints (Cardinale and Cerisanctum), edging that with a Krylon gold-leafing pen. I then attached the sand castle, and stamped and embossed the lettering.

Birthday card. Completed yesterday.

I used my glue embossing technique for the hummingbird:

Art institute glitter for the polka dots:

Stewart Gill Byzantia paints over Tim Holtz Crackle Paint for the lower-right corner. I ran out of bubble-wrap and had to use my finger for the gold ink and glitter spots around the text:

Some new kitty pics! It’s been so long since I posted any…

Here is one of Elijah. He got to come downstairs for a little while since Ethan was put up and couldn’t bug him. Joe cornered Elijah a few times, but other than that, it went pretty well. : )

And Willow dear, in the bedroom. : )

And one of Morgan. She’s been giving us some trouble going into the kitchen at night. :/

And Ethan! He’s still having some attitude problems regarding Iris… trying to urinate on everything. He has not succeeded lately, however… we’ve been catching him on time. I hope this works out!

That’s all for now! : )