Downtown Disney

It was my birthday recently and a friend gave me a lovely present in an awesome sparkly bag with the express purpose of using the bag in a paper project.  Well here it is and sadly photos never convey sparkly, shiny things in the same was as real life.  Makes you wonder about buying jewelry online.  It's just not the same without the halogen lighting and the light bouncing all around.  It's mesmerizing!  I thought that this paper added to the sparkle and dash theme of Downtown Disney.  If you've been you know what I mean.  If you haven't, well it's sort of like an outdoor mall, combined with a club district, combined with a theatre district.  There is entertainment, music, art galleries, clothing stores and the biggest Disney store ever,ever, ever.  We almost lost the girls in there.

7 Gypsies Mykonos Paper Project

I saw these papers by 7 Gypsies and immediately thought that they would be a good fit for my pictures of Key West.  Yes, they are Greek travel themed papers, but the rich saturated colours in riotous patterns felt very tropical to me.  I decided to start with my picture of the wild rooster.  The rooster was very uncooperative and took forever to get into the right pose.  He completely ignored me as I got closer and closer.  He should give Brad and Angelina anti-paparazzi lessons, cause he was a total pro.  No pushing, no shoving, no nothing.  Anyways, the paper worked very well.  I stuck to the colours in the paper, and even with very busy patterns managed to get a focused (in my opinion, feel free to tell me different), not busy layout.  The metal flowers are from Graphic 45 and the stamp is a Wendy Vecchi by Stamper's Anonymous.  I used Quickutz Fiesta for the title and Hero Arts Typewriter Letters to finish it off.  Thanks for looking.

A Bisque Paper Doll

Another Catherine Moore paper doll.  I dressed her in layers of shimmery tissue paper and gave her a flower hat.  Isn't she as delicate and pretty as the china dolls she's modeled on?

And because I can't help showing the beautiful things happening in my garden, here she is on a peony.  I don't know the name of it.  I started it from seed about 10 years or so ago.  I was at Canada Blooms talking to a gentleman from the peony society.  He gave me the seeds he collected from some of his plants.  I think I started with something like 10 seeds of which about 4 or so sprouted.  Of those just this one plant managed to reach maturity.  It has no scent, but the contrast of the deep magenta petals and the bright yellow anthers is gorgeous.  This peony blooms quite well every year, despite being in quite a bit of shade.  This year it was a little thin.  I think because my weed of a wisteria was shading it to a point where it is unwilling to cooperate.  I hacked back the offending vine and hopefully next year it will be happier.  I can't wait to see what the fern leaf peony seedling I bought for a dollar last year gets up to in the coming years.  Boy I love these quick result gardening projects!  Now you know why I need quick fix paper projects.

Butterfly Girls

I can never stray too far from paper.  The sewing machine will gather dust, despite my best intentions and the knitting will sit, but paper always draws me back.  Buying a new stamp set and a die helps too.

Thanks again to Catherine Moore and her great inspirations.  The Birthday card uses a Paper Artsy stamp.  The butterfly wings are from Artchix Studios.

Oh she's cute with her little dragonfly side-kick on her shoulder.  She's a superwoman of nature, defender of pollen, fighter of bad bugs, and a delight to the eye.

This is a Birthday card made from scraps.  I finally figured out how to make the spiral flowers.  They are really not that hard, but sometimes I just get stumped.  That's the last piece of that ribbon I had.  I must get more, I adore that colour.