Dancing Butterfly Dance

A few days ago I received an PM from a DariRose over at ATCsforAll asking me to do a blind trade with her. I agreed. I was still on the butterfly thread so I decided to one for her. As I worked on her card I decided I needed to make me one.

dancing butterfly dance

 

~Ranie Patridis

The back ground of this card was done in Acrylic Paints several different colors giving it a abstract look. I then once the back ground was dried I then painted the butterflies in with Watercolor and Ink. Here I choose to have 2 different size of butterflies. The one I did for DariRose her butterflies were all the same size. This was so much letting loose playing with the colors.

 

 

Zentangles with a Twist

I just love making these zens to me it is doodling made into an art form now adays.

Over at ATCsforALL I have open up a Society group. This group of artist are there just to have fun, giving us a reason to keep practicing. 

butterfly delight

~Ranie Patridis

HAVING ENOUGH TIME

What we love to do we find time to do.

~John Lancaster Spalding

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

~Anon.

There is time for everything.

~Thomas A. Edison

Make time in your day to pray be in communion with your Lord.

~Ranie Patridis

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.

THE SHIP THAT SAILS

I'd rather be the ship that sails

And rides the billows wild and free;

Than to be the ship that always fails

To leave its port and go to sea.

I'd rather feel the sting of strife,

Where gales are born and tempests roar;

Than to settle down to useless life

And rot in dry dock on the shore.

I'd rather fight some mighty wave

With honor in supreme command;

And fill at last a well-earned grave,

Than die in ease upon the sand

I'd rather drive where sea storms blow,

And be the ship that always failed.

To make the ports where it would go,

Than be the ship that never sailed.

~Author Unknown

PRAY WITHOUT CEASING

Unanswered yet the prayer your lips have pleaded

In agony of heart these many years?

Does faith begin to fail, is hope declining,

And think you all in vain those falling tears?

Say not the Father has not heard your prayer;

You shall have your desire, sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? tho' when you first presented

This one petition at the Father's throne,

It seemed you could not wait the time of asking,

So anxious was your heart to have it done;

If years have passed since then, do not despair,

For God will answer you sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? But you are not unheeded;

The promises of God forever stand;

To Him our days and years alike are equal;

Have faith in God! It is your Lord's command.

Hold on to Jacob's angel, and your prayer

Shall bring a blessing down sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say unanswered,

Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done,

The work began when first your prayer was uttered,

And God will finish what He has begun.

Keep incense burning at the shrine of prayer,

And glory shall decend sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered;

Her feet are firmly planted on the Rock;

Amid the wildest storms she stands undaunted,

Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.

Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.

She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer,

And cries, "It shall be done sometime, somewhere."

~Ophelia Guyon Browning

Zentangles

This week in the Zentangle Society Group our theme was an Open Theme meaning it is open to your own interpretation.

Butterfly Delight

2.5 x 3.5

Peaceful Woods

A couple of cards I made for myself to represent the woods that surround us.

Size 2.5 x 3.5

and here is the other one......

Medium: Watercolor Paint
I also made three other wood scene drawings which I title Trinity Woods. I did those for the NorCal Swap that was being held over at ATCsforALL

ENTHUSIASM

ENTHUSIASM IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE

With renunciation life begins.

~Amelia Barr

As I grow older, 

part of my emothional survival plan

must be to actively seek inspiration 

instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

~Bebe Moore Campbell

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!

SUCCESS

Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes,

Is oft but perserverance in disguise.

Continuous effort of itself implies,

In spite of countless falls, the power to rise.

'Twixt failure and success the print's so fine,

Men sometimes know not when they touch the line;

Just when the pearl is waiting one more plunge,

How many a struggler has thrown up the sponge!

As the tide goes clear out it comes clear in;

In business 'tis at turns, the wisest win;

And, oh, how true when shades of doubt disma,

"'Tis often darkest just before the day."

A little more persistence, courage, vim,

Success will dawn o'er failure's cloudy rim.

Then take this honey for the bitterest cup;

There is no failure, save in giving up.

No real fall, so long as one still tries,

For seeming set-backs make the strong man wise.

There's no defeat, in truth, save from within;

Unless you're beaten there, you're bound to win.

C.C. Cameron

I THINK THAT GOD IS PROUD

I think that God is proud of those who bear

A sorrow bravely-proud indeed of them

Who walk straight through the dark to find Him there,

And kneel in faith to touch his garment's hem.

Oh, proud of them who lift their heads to shake

Away the tears from eyes that have grown dim,

Who tighten quivering lips and turn to take

The only road they know that leads to Him.

How proud He must be of them-He who knows

All sorrow, and how hard grief is to bear!

I think He sees them coming, and He goes

With outstretched arms and hands to meet them there,

And with a look, a touch on hand or head,

Each finds his hurt heart strangely comforted.

Grace Noll Crowell

Zentangles

Aw Zentangles again.

ZENTANGLE with a TWIST

SOCIETY GROUP

This is a card that I made for this week challenge.

Theme: Fall Harvest

 

ATC

As I worked on these cards I just had to do one more.

Office Calls

 

This is my last card in this series. 

 

DOING WHAT'S RIGHT FOR US

We Must Do What's

Right For Us

The great thing to learn about life is,

first, not to do what you don't want

to do, and, second, to do what you

do want to do.

-Margaret Anderson

ATC

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

MAY I MAKE AN APPOINTMENT

ATC

I belong to a group at the Flickr site. Each week they have a challenge. Well, I got confuse as to the due date so I ended up keeping this card. We were to make one card and the challenge theme was 

TELEPHONE BOOK

This is the card I made for the challenge

I SAW TWO CLOUDS AT MORNING

I saw two clouds at morning,

Tinged with the rising sun,

And in the dawn they floated on,

And mingled into one:

I thought that morning clound was blest,

It moved so sweetly to the west.

I saw two summer currents

Flow smoothly to their meeting,

And join their course, with silent force,

In peace each other greeting:

Calm was their course through banks of green,

While dimpling eddies played between.

Such be your gentle motion,

Till life's last pulse shall beat;

Like summer's beam, and summer's stream,

Float on, in joy, to meet

A calmer sea, where storms shall cease-

A purer sky, where all is peace.

John Gardiner Brainard