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!!

Introducing...Pretty little fairy, Lucy Folch :)

Hello everyone :)

Ready for some more magical inspiration? Our guest designer for our new prompt is the amazing and sweet LUCY FOLCH. She's adorable and so is her ART ! I love her interpretation of this prompt: Watercolours. Fabulous and ever so colorful. Isn't her art just magical?

Lucy's Art


Here's a little bit about Lucy:



Hello, my name is Luciane Folch, I am 38 years old. I am Brazilian happy girl.
First of all I´m thrilled to be part of this challenge,since watercolor is my absolutely favorite technique of all!
The challenge had fit me as a glove.LOL

I found out about scrapbooking by chance, in 2003, when I first moved to Sweden and needed to find something to keep me sane and to adapt to a new country, but I only started to take it seriously when I went back to Brazil, in 2005.
Scrapbooking is my outlet. It isn't just a way of expressing my emotions on paper, it is also the most pleasurable way of expressing my art and my colorful vision of the World. I don't like to scrapbook my sad side, my scrapbooks are always joyful and carry a positive and fun message.
I am very eclectic, I have experimented with every style possible in order to find what I really like. I like experimenting with materials, I like to make my own papers and embellishments, but if I had to put a label on it, I would be a carefree freestyler.


I design for
Scrap in style tv - US
Scrapdiary-Brazil
Angie de la Rie - Austrália


You can find more about my work here:
luzinhavip.blogspot.com.
But I'm a bad blogger...bad one. LOL

Kara's pretty watercolour art:


rhi love's beautiful art:


here's my little art


Random winner for the RAK is NEVIS!!!! *insert happy dance*
Please send your email address to sweet Kara! (karahaupt[@]gmail.com)

Alrighty loves that's is for now. The rest of TAIF ladies are going to be adding their art in later. So be sure to come back to check our new art and for our next prompt coming up April 13th!

Happy art splattering!
-debee

Birds of a FEATHER, (let's) flock together...

Hey lady loves!

Its aw here bringing your bi-monthly installment of The Art Is Found...
For this prompt its all about FEATHERS.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.


Emily Dickinson.


TAIF peeps allow me to introduce you to Emily...she is sure to inspire...and here is what she had to say:

My name is Emily O., and I’m from Ohio.

I love all things art and music. I love painting, sewing, graphic arts, interior design, (I have a degree in that) and sketching/rendering.

I’m obsessed with piano music (that’s what I play!) and anything with tinkling xylophones or sweeping strings. I adore Sigur Rós, Ingrid Michaelson and Copeland.


I wear berets and dresses at least three times a week, apply my eyeliner with a little wing, and have a weakness for gigantic, dangly earrings and anything with owls.

My big love nowadays is photography. Mainly digital, but I love film, and Polaroids.


I’ve been blessed with tons of people who enjoy my work, and as a result, have started a part-time business of my own. I mainly have been shooting weddings, but I do most types of portraits, and also have been able to photograph some talented musician friends.


When given the prompt “Feathers” for this challenge, I was thrilled.


Feathers have been a little obsession of mine lately. I chose to do a little photo series using my sisters as models. (We do this a lot, I style them, and then we go on whimsical photographic adventures.)



You can find me here----->www.emilyophoto.com,

and here-------> www.flickr.com/photos/emoemolay

I hope you all enjoy, and thank you so much for having me!

-Em

Here is the fabulous featherness that Em brought.




Dani made this FANFREAKINGFABULOUS Canvas with the above Emily Dickinson quote.




I made these peacock earrings for a very special someone that will ROCK them for sure.

This week was a very busy week for most of the TAIF girls, so check back throughout the week for updated projects/photos...

The prompt feathers is brought to you by the super dee duper cool etsy shop
Mariposa Avenue.


If you want to win this one of a kind lantern...simply rock the FEATHERS prompt, link it up and it could be yours!

xo,
aw.

Lace, glorious lace

Hellooooo dear Taif readers.
it is rhi to the oh here, coming at you with our latest art kick start, none other than my can't live without item... Lace!

Its so pretty. and feminine. and pretty. and versatile. and pretty. please show us what you create using it. a little bit of it, a lot of it, it is up to you!

This go round we are sponsored by the lovely etsy shop craftcake designs.

You can get your little mitts on this handmade eclectic art journal, so remember to link us up to what you create!
Now. I am thrilled and honored to introduce our guest designer, we had her dapper other half a couple of weeks ago, and now we have the one and only ms. jek-a-go-go herself. I have been a follower of her flickr for quite a few years now, and it never fails to bring sunshine and colour to my dull british days.

I will hand over to her to tell us how she came up with her delightful lace filled project.

Salutations! My name is Jessica but the blogging and flickr world knows me as jek. I currently have two blogs out there, one about life, crafting and living creatively and the other about making arts and crafts with your children. Both of which have scrumdilly in their titles. I'm a children's book specialist and a student of Human Development and I'm a little bit manic and a little bit Doris Day. When Kara asked me to be a guest designer for the Lace prompt, I jumped on it! I have a box full of beautiful vintage lace that belonged to my grandmother. It was itching to be played with. In this box is nestled a party of lace. Pale pink, blue, minty green, yellow...all sorts of colors and widths. I have been meaning to do something with it but always pushed it aside until now. What was I going to do?

I woke up one morning and stood in my tiny kitchen with a cup of tea wondering what I could do that would be pretty and inspiring. I would look from the open box of lace to the dull gray sky outside and sigh. Our lovely Los Angeles weather had finally turned somewhat wintery on us. The lack of blue and color was dismal and if you know me, you know i am a bit of a color fiend. As I took another sip of my green anji tea, I had an idea, or at least an idea of an idea. Why not take care of two things at once? I am nothing if not a manic multi-tasker. I would create a pretty science project using tea and lace. It would start out as a bit of prettiness on my kitchen shelf and hopefully, it would turn into something else. So I brewed three new cups of tea. A darjeeling, a chamomile and another green anji. I popped the tiny glasses of tea on my tiny kitchen shelf and dropped a snippet of lace into each one. As the tea brewed, so would the lace and in the end, I would have some tea-dyed prettiness to play with. I then spied a bit of left over coffee and dropped a bit of lace into that as well. For the next four days, the tea cups of lace acted as a mood lifter for gray skies. So pretty.

Finally, I took out the small pieces to dry and wondered, wondered, wondered what I could do with them. After many trials and errors, I was left with only itty bitty scraps and in desperation I had it! Documentation. Out came four metal ringed key tags, the mod podge, scissors, a sharpie. a scrap of wood and four tiny nails. So here you go, an itty bitty portrait of tea colored lace, labeled, hung and documented for future art endeavors. Enjoy!

Thank you Jek, you never fail to inspire :)

Our girl Ashley created this little bit of pretty, and apologises for the bad scan.

I am making one art journal a month, so for this months, i whipped together a little patchwork, squidgy book, with canvas pages inside. i used lace as the closure, and as a little handle so i can hang it when it is time for the march journal to be made and filled :)

Dani's whimsical creation makes my heart happy :)

The other girls will be adding their projects shortly, when they find their way out of the mounds of lace they are currently stuck under.