Petal Pushers

Hola! everyone...Kimberly here. I hope everyone is enjoying the turn of spring...and what better way to celebrate than to have a prompt that is truly fitting to the season.

PETALS... super soft, super pretty.

Our guest designer is even more awesome!

Meet this cute girl Denise...

"Hi my name is Denise. I live in the great northwest state of Montana but I am originally a New England girl. I am 41-almost 42 years old. I have a motley crew of boys, step children, grandchildren and a husband who made me fall in love with him and move to Montana.

I have lots of boring jobs that pay the bills but the most important thing is I make stuff. Food, trouble, crafts, photos, messes.

My favorite fashion accessory is glitter in pockets.

I have a blog here. I also have a gallery here.

I have been living my youth over through the adventures of Kara and think that this blog is a whole lot of fun. The women here are amazing and I am so excited to be a quest this prompt!

So the challenge, Petals. A friend of mine was celebrating her 54th birthday and I was thinking how beautiful she is, inside and out. Women are so wonderful. Since I live in northwest montana there are no flowers yet but I wanted to make her something spring -like and pretty. I made a mini out of an old photo print album and used favorite quotes or 'petals' of wisdom. I hardly ever use flowers in my work and I am kinda obsessed now. This was a hard one to give up but I guess those are the best gifts.

Thanks so much for the chance to be here! I hope wherever you are spring is to."

Her lovely mini art:

Kara's layout:

Kimberly's self portrait and art journal page:

The winner from last time is Calia!! Email your info to Kara please:)


Our sponsor this go round is "Such Sweet Tierney"!
Look at the awesome lovelies...







Happy creating!!!

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence;...

...see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.”
- Mother Teresa

Dani here and after a lovely little spring break, The Art is Found is back with an inspiring new prompt:

Green Grass.
Fresh, dewy, new, green grass.

Let this inspire you in every way... especially if it means trying something new! It's a new season, time for a little stretching and growing.

Please give a warm welcome to our guest for this prompt, I have been stalking her gorgeous paper collages on flickr for ages, she never fails to inspire:

Katie Licht

"Hi! I'm Katie Licht, I live in the western suburbs of Chicago with my husband and my super cute 3 month old son. :) Right now I'm on maternity leave but pretty soon I will go back to my full time job as a graphic designer.

My blog is the-oltremare.blogspot.com. (Oltremare means "overseas" in italian.) It's kind of turned into a mommy blog, but sometimes I share my art, too. I also keep a tumblr at oltremare.tumblr.com, i like to think of it as my little pieces of internet magic.

I'm into almost anything domestic: cooking, baking, gardening, sewing. . . but my main love is making art. I never really know what to call my art; it's kind of a hybrid of collage/scrapbooking/art journalling. Mostly I just love to cut and paste, and I love using vintage or found materials. So I am super excited to be a guest designer here, since I really love the spirit behind TAIF.

This was a fun challenge for me. Recently I've been creating some 12x12 art journal type pages about my son, and motherhood, so I decided to use that format for my "green grass" project. This piece evolved a little from my original intention, but that's one of my favorite things about collage. I always feel strongly that the materials show me what they want; my compositions are usually a process of discovery. It's so fun to just let go and let the art flow.

Thanks again for having me here! This week's theme is so fun, I can't wait to see what everyone else creates!"

Check out Katie's gorgeous project:



I have trouble tearing my eyes away from this - so fresh and pretty! Also, you can see more of Katie's work at her flickr.

Kara took some gorgeous photos:









Rhi made this amazing video. Seriously, it's lovely stuff:



see the journal page she created in the video here.

Dani has a little story to tell:



I was planning on doing a series of polaroids but my film still hasn't arrived. bummer. So, then I decided that since I not so secretly want to be like Kara when I grow up, I would take some pics with a disposable camera. This ended up with me at a local conservation area, running through trees (in leather sandals, those sticks were not very forgiving!) and remembering stories and thoughts I had when I was little.

In fact, if all this prompt does is get you to spend a little time outside then I say mission accomplished!

Our sponsor for this prompt is Vintage Plum!



Up for grabs is the lovely March kit, Hill Country:



So if you're wanting a chance at this yummy kit, get outside, roll in the grass and link up your projects here!!