Saturday, January 23, 2010

Openness..





A feeling of warmth creates a kind of openness.
You'll find that all human beings are just like you.

The 14th Dalai Lama


These pages are collaged with embossed cardstock and tissue paper and background with acrylic paints.
The pictures are from a book and the lower is altered with prismacolor pencils.
Charcoal is used to create depth and the edges stamped.

xo
steph

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Mail Art






more mail art to go...this is quite addictive I must say...;)

xo
steph

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

lotus pages...



This started off with an acrylic background created randomly and I decided at one stage to complete it by "pulling" out the lotusses from the background and covered the upper half with gesso and water color. It took me a while to pick up the courage to paint an object (directly with paint)...;) I played with my waterbrushes, which are pretty handy to pack them in the journaling on- the- go pack.


I wanted to be reminded today of the "spiritual dimension" as I meditate upon the daily happenings and find peace...




steph

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Strength, Blessing and Be loved




some ATCs I've just completed for a swap.



xo
steph

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Art Journal


these pages were created with, collage, stamping and transfer techniques on acrylic background.




peace,
steph


Thursday, January 14, 2010

"C" is for Compassion



"By feeling gratitude towards life,
I move towards light, wholeness, universal energy, love.
I move beyond the bounds of my own life and discover
that I am an expression or form of universal life, of divine energy"


Arnaud Desjardin



Photograph taken at the Laotian border at the Golden Triangle


In Wishcasting Wednesday, How do you wish to shine?

I wish to shine through my compassion for others........

Peace
steph

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Mail Art to go..

here are some envelopes ready to be filled with heartfelt gifts for some special friends...














"A friend is a present you give yourself"
Kelly Rae Roberts

Peace
steph

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

What dream do you wish to explore?

Jamie Ridler on Wishcasting Wednesday asked this question and I thought hard about it.....not that I have no dreams, but I have for a long while put aside my dreams for my full time job which I so love.
The time has now come for me to explore POSSIBILITIES, and perhaps "do the things that scares me the most and rediscover my freedom, my worth and my creative spirit" (Kelly Rae Roberts)...



                                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                    
                                                                                Peace
                                                                                steph