Falling Leaves 2

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8. Falling Leaves 2

handmade paper for background, skeleton leaf,craft punched shapes from magazines

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Falling Leaves 1

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7. Falling Leaves 1

handmade paper for background, skeleton leaf, butterflies, leaves and heart from magazines 

I ordered the fabric for the quilt cover and it should arrive in a couple of days.
So I'll be starting on that soon, I hope.

I also added some images to my Flickr account. 

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Work in Sketchbook...

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5. Flutter

watercolour pencil on drawing paper, butterfly and heart punches, alphabet stamps

6. Fly (again)

watercolour pencil on drawing paper, butterfly and heart punches, alphabet stamps

Work in my sketchbook...

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4. Fly

watercolour pencil on drawing paper, butterfly punches and alphabet stamps

Stamping- Day 2

3. Two Ladies Dreaming

stamping on scrapbook paper

Can you read the words in the background?

Stamping- Day 1

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Today I decided to use old rubber stamp which I had in my storage boxes. I like the idea of using images and text together. Originally, I had stamped directly onto the canvas, but because the canvas had a texture to it, it didn't look very nice. So I went back and stamped on acrylic paper, tinted the background and when it was done I glued the prints onto the canvases. The edges of the canvases are painted black. These small canvases are quite cute, especially resting on the small easels. I hope you enjoy them.

2. Three Ladies Dreaming

rubber stamps

rubber stamps- upside down

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Happy February!

This year is a special one because it’s a leap year; which occurs every four years.

Leap Year Poem

Thirtydays hath September, April, June and November.

All the rest have thirty-one,

Excepting February alone,

And that has twenty-eight days clear

And twenty-nine in each leap year.

Are there any Leap Year babies out there? How are you celebrating the 29^th February?

I thought I would make some goals for myself:

1. Tackle home projects: sew a quilt cover for our bed (I've been putting it off for a few months now).
2. Create some sort of artwork each day, either in my sketchbook, paper or canvas. I thought I would challenge myself to do 29 pieces of artwork.
3. Experiment with different techniques: stamping, creating my own stamps (I've been inspired by others artists who use stamps in the artwork.
4. Update my website: www.carmenbnorris.com
5. Update my Flickr account:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/carmenbnorris/
6. Document all my artwork!

#1 Joy, Joy, Joy

close up

Bye for now.