Linda Israel

Handmade flowers that have a surprise center - Hershey's Kisses. I used the Cricut cartridge Pagoda Passion to cut the flowers at 2.95 inches, I then sprayed the flowers with Adirondack Color wash sprays by Tim Hotz and my own "glimmer mist" which is acrylic floor wax and pearl ex in a spray bottle. The rest of the items I already had in my stash to complete this Bouquet of Flower Kisses, which became a birthday present for my mother. Which she just loved.. lol... Very easy to make. What you will need: 6 colors of cardstock I used three shades of pink and three shades of purple bamboo skewers Depending on the size of vase you have 10 to 16 skewers Pencil sharpener Hot glue gun Tissue paper that matches the cardstock for your flowers Green tissue paper Hershey's Kisses (I used two bags to fill the vase and these were the Easter Holiday Kisses so there were pretty purple and pink wrappers) Packing peanuts Rubber band Adirondack Color wash sprays (or other type of color ...

I officially didn't sign up for the challenge that Mary at 2 scrapalot posted: http://2scrapalot.blogspot.com/2010/04/40-layouts-in-40-days-challenge-april.html but I decided that I would try to do as many as I could in the next 40 days.. I might not get them all posted everyday but my goal would be to at least get them created and then upload a video for each one... The first challenge was to use a Puzzle piece in the art. I had a puzzle that I picked up for a dollar of some dinosaurs and thought that would be perfect to use.. My husband laughed at me because I put the puzzle together before I took a corner of it for the art! lol.. I should have taken a photo of it when I finished the puzzle. lol... I'm glad it was an easy and small puzzle, would have hated to worked on it for hours only to take it apart for art. lol... Once I selected the portion of the puzzle I wanted to use I took the rest of the puzzle carefully and placed it in sections back in the box. I should have gl...

Lion wall art that I made to give to a friend. Rubber Stamped and embossed in gold ink on brown paper. Used scrap paper and put inside a brown frame. Took less than 10 minutes to make this piece. Quick and easy... Feel free to ask any questions regarding this piece.. I'll be glad to answer them. :) Thanks for stopping by. Linda

I was looking through old photos and found a couple of cards that I made last year.. I thought I would post the photos... I like making greeting cards. I usually make 6 to 8 of the same kind because I'll sell them either to coworkers, at the local craft mall (Loving Touch Crafters Mall, Yukon Oklahoma) or to family.. It seems I'm always in need of a card, but I don't seem to remember to mail them.. lol.. I can remember to hand deliver cards! lol.. Maybe some day I'll get organized.. Enjoy the photos. :) Will be posting a new video soon. :) Thanks for stopping by. Linda

Hello and Happy New Year! It's been a while since I wrote anything so I thought I would share what I created last night. I pulled out some oil pastels and a 6 by 6 art canvas and started to play. I got some ideas from looking at "art journals" on youtube.com I kept seeing these cool backgrounds that people were using in their journals and I kept thinking I could do that as wall art. Then more people would see the art... So after the Lion's Club meeting last night (it was a short meeting there were only 3 of us in attendance as it was around 15 degrees fahrenheit last night, no one wanted to get out and about. lol) So I pulled out the oil pastels, and some gloves. I decided that I really didn't want to get my hands dirty because I knew it would be hard to explain at work today. lol... I started laying some blue and purple around the outside edges and smearing it with my hands and decided that I wanted something to help soften the look and found a make up sponge.. ...