Nebulas

Kat host another swap called Nebulas I found these to be so challenging and so much fun! We had the choice of either doing this as a collage or hand drawn/hand painted. I decided to do both boy was that an experience and so different.

Watercolor Nebulas

Collage Nebulas

In the Garden there are Many Flowers

Collage Art

by Ranie Patridis

Look down at our feet there is mama

Waiting patiently for her little babies

That we ahve in a bag

Where shall we take them?

We must keep them safe

***

Betsy dear look at that

A bag full of puppies

Just for us

What shall we name them?

And where is their Mama?

***

Come Mama follow us

We are looking for a safe place for them

Betsy dear are you awake

Don't you hear the puppies whimpering?

Come Betsy let us find a place.

***

Out in the Garden among the flowers

They're the Garden Fairies

Will help watch over them

Mamam watch over your babies

Just like I do with Betsy Dear....

by Ranie Patridis

Rolo Art

Made for Linda4atc

Front View

Collage with original background

Back view

Hand drawn

Medium: Ink and Watercolor

QUEEN for a DAY!

Do you want to be Queen
for
a
Day?




Will this lady
did
not!

ART DECO CARDS

Back in December CattyCat Hosted a Art Deco Swap she gave us 9 cards that were printed with an Deco Designed then we were to fill in the blank pages. If memory serves me correctly I showed the cards I did for her swap.Now here are the cards I received back each one unique and special.

 

ART DECO CARDS

Last Thursday I shared with you all the Art Deco cards that I did for CattyCat swap. I mention that I was making a set for my self using children.  I love Vintage clipart especially if they are children it just touches my heart. I think the reason for this is my love for Cloth Dolls. I love making the old fashion rag doll when they use to paint them. When I discover ATC and vintage clipart will I was won over, here they are.

 

And did you notice that some of the children are holding dolls. ..*smile*..

I notice in my vintage clip art that it shows children were use a lot for advertising different products back in those days. Interesting!

ART DECO SWAP

My friend CattyCat is hosing a swap over at ATCsforALL.com 

DECO ART

CattyCat sent each of us 9 cards that where printed up into a pattern

with plenty of bare white spaces of all size. 

Now that was a challenge! 

We were not to cover much of the printed sections of the card

these cards go together like a puzzel.

Once everyone turn their cards in, we will be given

9 different cards back.

I can't imagine how they will go together with all the

different styles, patterns, collages, drawings

that each artist did to their cards. 

Here is my 9 cards that I will be sending in.

 

It is hard to cypher here which part is hand drawn and which part is the pre-printed Art Deco Pattern.

I am making another set just for me all in children I notice on the one I am making for myself that I am covering up a bit of the patterns. Since it is for me it does not matter.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

  

BLING CHUNKIE PAGES

My friend ArtstandingStranger a while back hosted a BLING Chunkie Page. I wanted to participate but at that time, well, my health was not the best I did not feel I should obligate myself. To my amazement one day visiting her admiring everyone chunkie pages she gave me one that she had made. Oh it's beautiful! So since I'm one of these people that says I'm not making chunkie pages I decided to make her one hoping it will come out okay. I'm not a Bling person more of a tom boy and shiny things don't always grab my attention. 

Ranie BLING for Diane

 

I base my BLING on a Couple of Lovers I use embossing powders, pearl ex, glitter, bling, beads, lace, clipart, metallic watercolor paints, threads and yarns. I had so much fun making this that I made myself one too. Now I have a total of 3 different chunkie pages for myself. This is so addicting. 

Ranie Bling Chunkie Page

 

Well, they are almost just alike a little different not much. I like to make an extra one for me. To be able to show off my work in person. Always looks so much better in person than a picture. I tend to give most of my stuff away. Now I beginning to have a nice display of my art.

 

Fabric Chunkie Pages

Well I have said over and over again. I have NO intention to start making chunkie pages. Guess what I'm making chunkie pages. These are 4 x 4 pages made of fabric or paper. We take these pages turning them into a book. Well here are my fabric pages. Our Host over at ATCsforALL wanted them chunkie. I had come up with an idea then I suddenly decided I better re-checked and see if there was a theme we were to go by. ..giggle..oh my there was boy did it turn my idea up side down. The theme was In the Garden, my mind started ticking in the garden then I had a great idea ........

In the Garden are my Funky Flowers

I started out with 2 pieces of fabric with batting. Then I sewed a design hoping to make it stiffer, I wasn't too happy with it then I took some silk flowers and hand sculpted a bunch of  nylon faces. Then I attached a few on each page I made 8 pages. Once done with that I decided those funky flowers needed something more so I went into my stash found some fuzzy yarn putting that around their faces now that dress it up a bit. Still something else was 

needed oh my goodness they were bald needed to fix that! I got some glue and glitter out gave them a funky looking cap still looked a bit plain, decided to add beads and buttons and so much more. My first chunky page and it had to be fabric. Lots of hand sewing a lot of work. I kept 3 giving one to a friend of mine here at home, two for myself, that means I sent 5 to UK. Now I am patiently waiting to received four pages back from four different artist. Once I get them back I get to turn them into a book. Now that is going to be interesting!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

One of my favorite times of the year is Fall with Fall comes Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving, my husband and I always spend it alone coming from split families and everyone so far away from each other it is not easy to get together. This year Thanksgiving is different for all of us, with times being rough so many have lost so much. Yet, there are so many things to be thankful for now and each and every day!

Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude to God,

Our creator and Provider,

whose guidance and care go before us....

and whose love is with us forever.

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the changes,

to remember that we, too, grown and change

from one season of life to another.

Thanksgiving is a time of changing seasons, 

when leaves turn golden in Autumn's wake

and apples are crips in the first chill breezes of fall.

Let us remember the ture meaning of Thanksgiving.

As we see the beauty of Autumn, let us acknowledge

the many blessings which are ours....

let us think of our families and friends...

and let us give thanks in our hears.

~Author Unknown~

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

may your day be special!

 4X4 Collage Chunkie Page

 

One Day to Thanksgiving

Times are rough, yet, we have so much to be thankful for!

Collage by Ranie

2.5 x 3.5

Two Days till Thanksgiving!

Here in the USA we are getting ready to Celebrate Thanksgiving which is on Thursday. A special day to remember our inheritance and a time to reflect be thankful for what we have.

 

Collage by Ranie

2.5 x 3.5

REMEMBRANCE

Over in the Flickr group the challenge for that week was REMEMBRANCE oh my I thought what should I do? As artist started turning in their cards they were all referring to love ones or soldiers that have pass on. Each had a comment which made me shed tears. A little emotional I am. As I thought about it I finally look up the word in the dictionary. Learning that Remembrance is also consider Memories, ah! I came up with something that I thought would be special and a bit different. I decided to collage a scene with a two-fold memory. A young girl standing before Yia Yia (Grandma) learning to do needle work as they are working the you child said to her Yia Yia, tell me a story when you where a little girl? Hence a young child forming a memory and Grandma looking back on her life sharing a memory of hers.

REMEMBRANCE

 

Vintage Tag #2

Here is my 2nd vintage tag. I have a friend here that is also involved in a lot of art groups. She is mostly into chunky books right now. I'm trying to stay away from them. Anyway she just host a Blink Chunky Book swap. Well I wasn't sure what bling was, the other day I went over to her house admiring everyone chunkie book pages. Some marvelous work there ladies! After viewing all that lovely work seeing what they use for bling ..giggle.. I have bling, oh how funny. While working on this 2nd vintage tag for the challenge swap over on the flickr site I just couldn't get that bling out of my head.

vintage tag #2

 

~Ranie Patridis

Oh my, once working on this card I started adding bling in the form of beads, lace and button. The clip art I painted with metallic acrylic paint add lace to hang the tag by. When all done and said, I couldn't let this go either. This was my 2nd tag and my first bling ..giggle.. I kept it!...and NO I did not attempt to try to do a 3rd one I decided that 2 attempts were enough. Hopefully when I enter the next challenge swap I'll be strong enough to let go....

 

Vintage Tag

Over on the Flickr site i belong to a group of artist that once a week we have a challenge swap. At this time the challenge was making a Vintage Tag size 2.5 x 3.5 Well I made one, loved it so much I kept it. After all it was my first tag I had ever made. 

vintage tag #1

 

~ Ranie Patridis

I love Fall I love seeing the changing of the colors not to say the harvest from all your grow. Pumpkins are my favorite squash I love pumpkin pie and soup. Can't you see a child carving faces into a pumpkin at harvest time? I can. This is a collage I alcohol Ink the background then I added vintage clip art that I had layering it. I like to cut my figures out and mix them up. Then I cut up some straw very small then last not least like to take my paints and touch up the clipart. I then add a bunch of yarns and ribbons to hang by. I kept this one and thought to myself  you can make another one for the challenge to swap. That you will see tomorrow.

INNOCENT OF HALLOWEEN

My 2nd card in the set title

innocent of halloween

 ~Ranie Patridis

The innocent of trick or treat running from home to home asking for treats. Not realizing as we grow up what the true meaning of Halloween is. Most think of it as just a night of spooks n tricks getting the daylights scared out of ya or the one day of the year you get lots of candy. Do a seach for the history of Halloween then decided is this what you really want to be part of.

INNOCENT OF HALLOWEEN

When we are small the season come and go. As the seasons are passing through we have these Holidays along the way. Halloween is one of them. Over at ATCsforALL they have a monthly contest. This month contest Title: Halloween

What else would it be. I decided to particpate keeping a mind on the Innocent of Halloween. So many children who even grow up to be adults do not realize the history of Halloween or how it all came about.

innocent of halloween

 ~Ranie Patridis

I made a set of 2 only enter this one in the contest.  

Tomorrow I shall share with you all the 2nd part of this set.

Home Sweet Home

Challenge for this week is Home Sweet Home

Size 2.5 x 3.5

My version of Home Sweet Home.

For me Home Sweet Home is have the birds sing outside your door. The sweet smell of the flowers beauty all around your. Not to say having a dog or cat maybe a bird or two.

Inside the home is the beauty of a relationtion with family. Here I portray a child playing house with her little doll. 

Matrimony

Over on the Flickr site I participate in a group name Maggy Monday Musing. Each week they have a challenge that is due on Saturday. 

 

This challenge is on matrimony so this is my version of Matrimony not many of us pick the right mate the first time so for those of you that manage to stick it out it must be true love an ever lasting love!

ATC

I had so much making atc using the theme Telephone Book I came up with this one.

MAY I MAKE AN APPOINTMENT