G'day to my friends and followers in blogland. This is my first post for the year of 2012 and I am well rested after veg'n out for the last 2 months. I've done nothing exciting in that time that I could say is worth typing about. Enjoyed a huge Christmas with family, read books and slept a lot.
After much encouragement from some of my friends, I finally kicked myself in the butt to get myself out of my lack of mojo, inspiration and self indulgent habits. I'm happy now to enter back into my world of cyber friends and share some more digital images with you this year.
To entice my mojo into creative mode I thought I'd try making some handmade Fimo carrots. Not to difficult and it only took me 2 hours to hand sculpt the carrots. They looked good enough to eat with their orange bottoms and green tops...well that was before I cooked them to set the Fimo. It should have only taken 10 minutes but somehow I got sidetracked and they were in there for about 20mins. *Sad Face* as I dare to show you what happened.
*Laughs* not much different than my real cooking attempts. Oh well, time to apply what I always preach to my student; There are NO mistakes only creative challenges! A couple of coats of white gesso and some paint and nobody would ever know. *Smiles*. See the end results of the carrots in the Easter cards I made below.
Easter Card (The Easter collection digital set is available for free for the month of February. You can pick it up by joining my group at
Crafters Digital Arts Center. Please pop in and say hello we'd love to get to know you better.)
Inside of the Easter Card. I keep it simple letting the beautiful words from Helen Steiner Rice's 'An Easter Prayer' pass on a special message to a few of my special online friends. The sentiment is just one of 10 that will be available on my new word art sheet 'Easter 2'. So keep your eye out for the upcoming word art sheet appearing in my digital store.
If I'm going to make one, I might as well make 8 *Laughs*.
Thank you for stopping by and I'm looking forward to catching up with your sites and to check out what you've been up to.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI like your carrots and they turned out nice and colorful in the end! Wonderful Easter card and so good to have you around again! =)
Lot's of hugs, Elenor
G'day Vickie, I just love your Easter Cards, and those carrots turned out a treat wish we could change burnt carrots so easily *laughing* I love the inner too and I agree with you Helena Steiner Rice' work is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteLove ~ Lady Anne xx
Vickie so glad to see you back and creating. We missed your beautiful creation. Love the carrots, I have fimo clay and have never used it. The inside of your cards are so inspiring.
ReplyDeleteBig hug
Wow Vickie, an entire set, gorgeous!! The carrots look so perfect on the cards, and what a great corner punch on the image frames! You certainly have been busy!!
ReplyDelete♥ Sandi
what a lovely image and de card is fabulous.
ReplyDeletegreetings karin
You are ahead with your Easter Cards, and I love the carrots!
ReplyDeleteYEAH!!!! So glad to see you back creating again. Glad you had a good rest and are rejuvenated. Your carrots are adorable and I adore the Easter card with the bunny. See ya again soon. "Hugs"
ReplyDeleteVickie, your Easter cards are amazing and a whole lot of work and detail. The bunny image is just so adorable and the transformation of the carrots - wow! It is so good to see you back!!
ReplyDeleteI see you have lots...do I get one?
ReplyDeleteLOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!