Handmade cards or playing with paper indulgence

Continuing my love affair with all things paper and in an act of sheer self indulgence I just simply played today and created lots of cards.

What an excuse to browse my favourite paper shops and buy oodles of delicious papers... Japanese rice paper, handmade cotton rag with petals, leaves and bits of grass poking out, papers made in Tibet with gold leaf and dreamy clouds, papers made of scrunched up recycled plastic ... yummm!

I have played with magical copper burnishing flakes - like an Aladdin's cave of golden copper flakes which have to be burnished onto the paper. They have so many delicious hues and hidden colours in them.

 

There are many more cards waiting in the studio to be photographed and listed but today was a wild and blustery day and I want to wait for the sun to come out and dance its magic on the copper flakes. For now there is a small selection of my paper frolics in my Etsy shop

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67450530/unique-handmade-valentines-day-card

Sending love

My family and many close friends are in Australia and I will be far from them this Christmas, far from 'home'. Sometimes following dreams can be hard!

I was thinking about them all and sometimes wish I could magic myself there, just for an afternoon cup of tea. Or attach some little wings to my heart and send it.

In this exciting creative adventure of highs and lows, they are my base and help me to make sense of what I am doing.

So I painted them 'Love' and send it on ... knowing I carry them in my heart even when we are far away from each other.

dancing stars

Some stars tumbled out of the sky to dance on the walls of children's bedroom and help them have sweet dreams.

How precious is sleep! My 'little' sister just had twins. They joined my darling nephew at 16 months. She is my hero!

These stars danced into my imagination for them... I loved the way the watercolour paint ran and congealed into dreamy swirly puddles. An excercise in freedom and control - rather like children it seems!

Sending lots of love to those awake in the wee hours attending to little angels.