Day 7: simple joy.

I went simple and back to basics on this one: ink on craft paper. Initially I thought I might watercolor it and mat/frame it for a holiday gift, but then the wheels started turning...

 I think I am going to make this into Christmas cards this year. This will be the base design, printed high contrast (below), so it has almost a blockprint-ish (real word) feel to it. Then I will handpaint details on top of each card to make them all one of a kind. Probably glitter. I am a sucker for the glitter. But then I think I will make a giant mess out of this project and splatter white paint all over the small prints to look like snow. More on this one later...

Riley's Room

Riley loves princesses and fairies and pretty things. :) While in Georgia, I had the pleasure of adding a splash of color and magic to her bedroom walls. I took the design from her bedspread and enlarged the flowers around the perameter of the room. I then added glittery bugs, a cute fairy and a quote above her dresser to encorporate her favorite colors and things. The best part is that it was a surprise...she had no idea I was painting, as she was downstairs watching a movie. This is a picture of her seeing the room for the first time: