Donkey and Bird Fiesta and Tiny Mushroom Sloth

 The other day I told my fantastic group of Facebook likers that I was drawing creatures and asked which animal is the best. I got a lot of fantastic replies with some really awesome favorite animals. So many! I had a hard time choosing, but I picked the donkey and the sloth (one of my favorites, too!) Both are done in watercolor and ink.

Here is a traveling donkey and bird fiesta... They bring music and fiesta wherever they go! Is it just me, or does the bird in the Mexican poncho make you want to go to Disneyland?

And those are either really huge mushrooms or that's a teeny tiny sloth. I prefer thinking of him as very little...

In other news: WE RELEASED BABY BIRD THIS MORNING!!! We opened the cage and he flew high up and disappeared into a tree.  I am going to miss that feather ball. Feeding such a little warm, fluffy thing and watching him grow and progress was such a nice experience and I feel good knowing that I helped. I hope he lives a nice long and happy life out in the wild...

And I hope you all had a long and happy weekend :)

Flower Journal

Snappppp, I have had a stressful couple of days (blame iTunes and rude people, separate incidents) and I'm feeling a little on edge. Darn anxiety... I'm over it, but I still feel physically sick. I hate how when something annoying or stressful happens, the feeling sticks with you. Anyhoo, I want to show you this notebook I made as a thank you gift for a good, kind girl. The quote says, "Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony you carry in your heart concerning things divine." --Gordon B Hinckley. Good advice. I think I need to heed that today...Think positive!

I used recycled kraft cardstock on the inside pages, so they're sturdy enough to use this as an album, not just a journal. Yeah, options. And I glued in assorted ribbons to serve as dividers, and I just like the way they look sticking out like that :) To keep the ribbons from shredding, I just coated the ends in a little clear nail polish.

"Flower" from FETC Clip Art

The flower has little diamond glaze dots on it to add a little fun texture and a little dimension.

So, have a fantastic day, everyone! I am going to try to do that, too... I'm going to Zumba tonight and I'll probably eat some ice cream. No, Bobby ate the last of it... Make that cheez-its and Cadbury Mini-Eggs.

Elmer's Projects: ATC Album, bookmark, birthday card, fancy pen, and a journal page. (WHEW!)

So I have found myself prettttty busy, and I decided to show you all in one post the sponsored projects I did for Craftster.org's Master Craftster's Campaign with Elmer's and X-ACTO! You can click each link to see a tutorial for each project :)

 ATC Album! Every teeny little piece of art deserves a good place to live, right?

 Bookmark made from Scrap Paper! Why not make some cool and functional bookmarks while using up some of my smaller paper scraps?

 Flowers and Bird Dimensional Birthday Card! Now I won't feel like a bad friend when I have this hand-made card to give to my buddy...

 Pink Feathery Pen! Plain old boring pens are great, but when you can go fancy, why the heck not?...

Altered Journal Page...Altered-journaling slump: defeated!

Thank you for taking the time to check these out :) Happy Wednesday to you all!