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Okay, my daughter downloaded all my pictures for me so now I can start sharing some of the great ideas.  By the way, if you click on the pictures they will enlarge for you.

These pictures came from K & Company’s booth.  I could see this done as a centerpiece for everything from a baby or bridal shower to a Valentine’s Day Party etc.  You could make the top an actual box top and use them for gift packaging as well.   Without a pattern, I would simply cut cardboard for the bottom “cake plate” and use chip board or something similar to create the boxes with and then cover them with purchased scrapbook papers or print your own papers and piece them to cover the form.  They’ve used layers and layers of borders, and have used K&C Grand Adhesions dimensional tags, but you could also create your own out of any graphics set you want to use.  Just print multiples of the item and cut out the pieces to layer with foam tape!

I love these whimsical crowns as well.  You could actually make these at a little girl’s birthday party by pre-printing the items that they could use to decorate their own crowns with.  Of course, you must have lots of glitter and jewels to make them truly special!  K & C used lots of pearls, ribbons and layers and layers of their really wonderful dimensional tags.  I believe that all of these paper collections are Brenda Walton’s, but I’m not positive.  I should have kept a notebook for reference on the pictures and well… my memory is MY MEMORY!!!  Which means it’s not very dependable.

The final item for tonight is another Brenda Walton designed paper collection turned into a bird house.  I’m not able to find this collection online yet, it was Raspberry something.  I really MUST take better notes next time, sorry! The collection was absolutely fabulous!!!

This bird house would be very easily created with foam core, cut to size.  Just draw the front panel on graph paper, tape it to your foam core and cut two pieces.  Trace around a round object for your opening and using an exacto knife, carefully cut it out.

Measure the side of your front panel to get the height of the side panels and draw your template for how long you want the birdhouse to be, this was a square but you could make it a rectange as well.  Cut two.  Assemble temporarily with scotch tape on the inside and measure for the roof panels.  Cut two and cut a base one inch larger than the footprint of the birdhouse.

Cover each of the pieces with the papers you would like to use.  If you use Brenda Walton’s papers you could also decorate it with her matching Grand Adhesions Tags.  Assemble with hot glue and decorate to your taste!

I wish I could credit the creators of these wonderful crafts.  Unfortunately no design credit was given.  Each of them did fabulous work.  More tomorrow.

Hollyberry Christmas 12″ Instant Scrapbook kits Now Available

LINK TO KIT 1 IN STORE HERE. Okay Deb D, here they are just for you, and on sale at 20% off to boot :-)!  By the way, I’ve also put all of the Halloween kits on sale for 20% off, so if you were thinking about a last minute fun kit, grab them quickly.

LINK TO KIT 2 IN STORE HERE There are 2 kits, one with 8, 12″ pages and one with 6, 12″ pages that work together to make a super album. All files are 300 dpi png files that you simply drop your pictures behind, size, add text and you’re ready to go!

These are classic, elegant, timeless Christmas albums with a little twist of fun, that will work equally as well with contemporary Christmas pictures that you take this year or heritage photos of wonderful Christmas’ past!


Art Copyright Audrey Jeanne Roberts, 2008. Designed by Abigail Scott DESIGN Studio.

DEVOTIONAL:  Have you ever had everything in your life change in the space of a day?  Sometimes it happens for good, but more often it happen through either a tragedy or just unexpected and difficult challenges.  A phone call in the middle of the night.  A pink slip in your paycheck.  A look at your bank balances and a dawning realization that something seriously has to change in your life if you are to make it through.  I’m convinced that change should have been a four-letter word!

On a September day twenty years ago, I picked up the phone to answer a call and heard the words, “The biopsy came back positive for Melanoma, your husband will need to come in to my office to discuss treatment plans.”  Absolutely everything in my world changed that day, though I wouldn’t fully comprehend just how much until 3 1/4 years later.  All the same, I felt so disoriented and uncertain.  Just the day before I had my life well mapped out and was fairly certain of where I was heading and in 24 hours I was lost and felt very alone.

Then there are those marvelous, mysterious days that bring wonderful changes.  I remember the day I met my husband to be — once again I thought I knew the path I was walking on and the destination I was headed towards, but in the space of just a few weeks everything in my life had changed!  I learned though, that even good change is unsettling and stressful.  Change is always a challenge to find a safe and secure path to walk on.

Sometimes life changes come one upon another leaving you no time to get your bearings.  It helps so much to be prepared in advance with the understanding that changes will come.  The only consistency in life is its inconsistency.  So whenever change comes knocking suddenly at your door you need to remember this scripture and hold tight to it so that it can, in turn, hold you steady in the storm.

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY:  Ps 37:5-7  Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.   Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.  NIV

PRAYER:  Lord, sometimes it seems like everything about my life changes in the space of a day.  Yesterday I thought I knew where my path was taking me and today I find myself on an entirely different path.  Help me to remember that You know the path You have intended all along for me to travel on.  Help me to commit my way in your hands and walk in the light of your will and your ways.

Help me to sit still and not squirm like a little child asking constantly, “Are we there yet?  Where are we going?  When will we get there?”  Help me to sit still before you, wait patiently and not fret when things don’t seem to be going the way I imagined they should!  AMEN

“Holly Berry Christmas 3” Brand New Digital Clip Art for Christmas

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There are very delicate and detailed scroll work accents, hand lettered, hand-painted text, beautifully detailed holly sprigs in various shapes that work together very well to round corners and make frames with.  I’ve created some delightful “ornament” charms that can be printed on cardstock and placed back to back with your trims to make sweet little ornaments to adorn your hand made cards for Christmas.  These ornaments were first produced in gold accented orcelain by a manufacturer a few years ago.

I’ve been working with this kit today on two additional kits, an “Instant Scrapbook” set and a greeting card and envelope set.  It’s very, very easy to work with and almost anything you do with it will look great!

Brand New, “Holly Berry 2 Paper Pack” Classic Christmas Digital Clip Art

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christmas damask, red, green, lime green, digital scrapbooking papers, digital clip art, pinstripe, pin dot, classic ChristmasCLICK HERE FOR STORE LINK FOR “HOLLY BERRY CHRISTMAS PAPER PACK 2” Now available in the store for $3.98.  This is a brand new paper pack goes with the new art kit that I’ve been working on this week.  All of this is part of the “Holly Berry Christmas” series I started releasing last year.  Everything in this kit, while brand new, will coordinate with the other two Holly Berry Christmas kits and their paper pack.

These are very rich, colorful and yet contemporary papers that will work very nicely to create your hand made greeting cards, scrapbooking or other crafting projects.  I am working on a greeting card set with these sets and will have it out soon as well.

Super Easy Recipe Card Gift Box, Recipe Cards and Home Made Food Gift Packaging

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Abigail Scott DESIGN Studio, recipe box, labels, label, gift tag, gift tags, recipes, recipe card, recipe cards, recipe card kits, audrey jeanne roberts, audrey jeanne, papers, paper, digital clip art kit, digital crafting and card making kits, chocolate, chocoholic, cupcake, cupcakes, decorated cupcake, decorated cupcakes, cake, wedding cake, decorated cake, cake slice, decorated cake slice, cake plate, tags, recipe word art, recipe card kit, dessert, desserts, dessert digital clip art, recipe card digital clip art kit CLICK HERE FOR STORE LINK FOR “SINFUL DESSERTS” Nothing tastes quite as sweet as sinful desserts! Using Audrey Jeanne’s “Sweet Desserts” Digital Clip Art Kit (preview on the post below this one) and her “Chocolate Love” sets, this sweet kit has a beautiful variety of recipe gift items. There’s a 1” x 5” x 6.5” gift recipe box to put your 4” x 6” recipe cards in. There are labels in many sizes decorate jars & containers for your home-made “Sinful Dessert” gifts. Tie a recipe card on the jar or use the labels as gift tags, the possibilities are endless and quite inexpensive. .

This is a large kit with 16 single recipe cards, 5 two-sided recipe cards, a gift box, and 5 labels that fit Kerr jars, Rubbermade “Take Alongs” and other packaging options.

All files are 300 dpi jpeg. All templates were designed, created and copyrighted by Abigail Scott DESIGN Studios. Images are copyright Audrey Jeanne Roberts, 2008. Special thanks to Atomic Cupcake. Limited commercial crafting use allowed, see Angel Policy Terms before purchase.

New! Digital Dessert Digital Clip Art Kit “Sweet Desserts 1”

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This kit was created strategically to make creating your own recipe cards, gift tags or gift packaging very easy to do.  In addition to the 4 papers that are included in the kit, you can use the Chocolate paper pack, AJROB_184_AA as most papers in that kit will coordinate perfectly.

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“Harvest Blessings” Digital Clip Art Kit Comes to the Shop

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harvest, fall, autumn, halloween, thanksgiving, pumpkins, scarecrow, tree, owl clip artCLICK HERE FOR LINK TO THIS KIT IN THE STORE

This kit will be on sale at an introductory price for 20% off until September 4th, 2008.

It took all day to get this pulled together, but I finally got it up in the store.  I normally do not release new art directly for digital clip art, but I intentionally created these kits for this purpose.  So many of you are so patient with me when I show you art that you can’t have yet I wanted to do something special for this season and for my special friends!

There are quite a few pumpkins, pumpkin leaves and vines that  you can put together to make borders, frames or other items with.  In addition there’s an adorable art piece with a pumpkin-headed scarecrow, owl and a fun autumn tree.

This kit will also work very well with the Fall/Harvest sets that I released last year (and hope to have up on this site during the next week).  There will be a paper pack to match that will be out shortly.

In addition, later this week or next, there will be a sweet, innocent, non-scary Halloween set coming.  The art for it was painted at the same time this art was and it will coordinate perfectly together.

Tropical Gift Bags, Purses, Candy Wrappers, & Paint Can Digital Crafting Sets

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Tropical gift bag, party purse, gift cards, envelope and gift tagsCLICK HERE FOR PARTY BOXES ‘N FAVORS KIT STORE LINK Abigail Scott DESIGN Studios utilized Audrey Jeanne’s Tropical Clip Art kits to make these fun and useful Crafting Kits.  They will be on sale for 20% off from now through the month of August for your Summer party and special events use.

CLICK HERE FOR CAN & CANDY KIT STORE LINK These three kits made up the June/July Candy Club selection at The Daisie Company, so check your records before purchasing to avoid duplication!  However, now they are broken up into three separate kits so if you are only interested in Altered Paint Can kits, or candy wrappers or gift bags, you can purchase only the kit that you will use.

CLICK HERE FOR GIFT BAG N TAG KIT STORE LINK These kits were created with Weddings in mind.  A tropical theme for Summer weddings is a common one and these kits could create an entire Wedding Decor theme.  The Toblerone box can be turned into a place card by adding the name of the individual attending.  Use the matching clip art kits to create anything else that you might need to make the Wedding truly a unique and special affair!

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY:Col 3:7-14  You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.  But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.  Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices  and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.  Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.  Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.  And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.  NIV

COMMENTS:  Each culture has its ways of teaching that often vary.  In the Hebrew culture (see the Proverbs) contrasting good and evil, foolishness and wisdom was how values were taught.  They showed the negative very clearly and revealed the Godly truth equally clearly.  In our culture we decline to state that things are clearly right and wrong, and I believe it leads to a lot of our cultural confusion and powerlessness.

No one will achieve the peaceful, joyful Christian life who does not first learn what God considers wrong (evil) and right (good).  He knows what will work in our lives and what will lead to destruction.  There is nothing He forbids us from doing that will ultimately bring good long-term results in our lives.  He really isn’t a “meanie!”  I encourage you to study His guidelines and choose to remain within them, your life will be soooooooo much better and more peaceful if you do!

I also love the imagery of this section of Colossians,  Paul uses the visual image of clothing.  We put on and take off our clothing and we do the same with our actions.  This implies an act of our will is involved.  We have to choose to change and then in Christ we will have the power to put off anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language.  In the same way we can “put on” compassion, kindness and patience!  But it’s important to remember that we can do nothing apart from Christ.

PRAYER:  Lord, help me to change my wardrobe!  Help me to put off the old nature and take off the old habits that are so destructive to my life.  Help me also to decide each day to “put on” the good character qualities that you desire me to walk in.  Help me to be as excited at this wardrobe change as I might be to shop for a new shirt or dress.

I know that I am powerless to work lasting change in my life, but that through the power of the Holy Spirit living in me I can be conformed to the image of Christ and walk in His character traits and nature.  Please Holy Spirit come work in me to make the changes God and I so desire.  AMEN

Audrey Jeanne’s Cross Stitch Kits Now Available

Audrey Jeanne Roberts, cross stitch kit Gerbera Daisy Polka DotFor those of you that like to cross stitch, Jodi at the Golden Hoop is licensing my art to create some very nice cross stitching kits.  On HER BLOG TODAY (LINK HERE) She features the first two, “Old World Poppy” and “Polka Dot Gerbera Daisy.”

You can PURCHASE THE KITS HERE.    In my younger, and much less busy years, I loved to cross stitch.  That was when I could see aida cloth 22 without reading glasses!  It is such a soothing hobby and the results are so sweet and beautiful.  If you’ve never given it a try, you might just fall in love with the hobby.

Audrey Jeanne Roberts, Old World Poppy, cross stitch kitIts a great skill to teach young children or grandchildren.  There isn’t a great deal of skill involved and it can give a child a tremendous sense of accomplishment to produce something that looks so beautiful and professional!  There will be many more kits to come and I’ll try to let you know when they are available!  Thank you, Jodi, for doing such a lovely job on these kits.

Tomorrow the FREEBIE KIT SHOWN HERE will no longer be available so get it while you can.  It will become a freebie inside of an altered paint can kit that will be out next week.  The kit will have candy bar wrappers and other goodies to use as a gift packaging set.

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY: Rom 15:13  May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.  NIV

PRAYER:  Lord it’s easy to trust in you and have hope when everything is going according to my desires or plan, but when the tiniest setback comes I can easily find myself right back to doubting.  That’s when I realize I’m probably trusting in the circumstances and not really trusting in you.

Help me to know more and more about you, so I can trust you more and have greater hope for my future.  When I know how great your mercies and and how much you love to show mercy, I can trust a little more that you will show mercy to ME!  When I understand that you fully know the future you have written for me, I can come to rest in the fact that no setback is a surprise to you.  I can also trust that you have planned a way forward whether I can see it or not.

Reveal yourself to me more that I can know you better and trust you more fully.  Give me a hope that is real because it is found in you!  AMEN

Antiqued Victorian Violets Gift Bag, Tags & Card Kit

Digital crafting kit, gift bag, digital greeting card, stationery, gift cards and gift tags, pansies, pansy, lilac, lilacsVIEW CRAFTING KIT HERE. Priced at $6.97, this set is so very versatile.  It’s a stationery tote with stationery sheets, blank note cards with text art for several different occasions, in addition it has lots of gift tags.  The tote bag can be used as a gift bag either for the product included in this set or any other small to medium sized gift!

VIEW MONOGRAM KIT HERE.  Priced at $4.97, if you purchase the monogram set that was created to match this stationery, you can make wonderfully elegant personalized stationery for yourself, friends or family!

Blue Cottage Rose Digital Clip Art Kit

Blue Cottage Rose Digital Clip Art KitIs in the store now RIGHT HERE.  This 35 piece kit was inspired by wonderful memories of sand and sea at a friend’s beach cottage years ago.  I hope that you’ll enjoy some of those wonderful feelings of rest and relaxation as you work with this digital clip art kit to create your own greeting cards, scrapbook pages or other craft or decor items.

If you’ve never tried it, digital clip art is perfect to use for home decor projects.  Print out the papers and decopage on a lampshade or print out the borders and use wallpaper glue to create your own custom made room decorations.  You’re only limited by your imagination!

The first purchase from the store successfully went through yesterday, but she said it took a little while for the process to be completed.  So if it’s a little slow, my apologies in advance!!!  We’ll keep tweaking until it’s working just right.  I’m heading off to visit my Grandson, so I will not be available to answer any questions or emails until this evening, have a great day!

“Les Fleurs Antique” Clip Art, Scrapbooking Digital Kit Coming Soon!

french garden art, scrapbooking, clip art, digital art kitThank you each and everyone that has emailed me to say you’ve missed my blog and hope that I’m okay!  I have been absolutely buried under deadlines for my new fabric line with Fabric Editions that will debut in September.  It’s called "Chocolate Love" and when I can finally show you the previews I’ll let you know.  It will be available in fine quilt shops all over the USA but I don’t know about the company’s distribution outside of America.

I have been working on a new multi-set collection for a while now and finally have the first set compiled.  There will be at least two art kits and possibly 2 paper packs. 

ivy, quilts, quilted stitching, antique french wallpaper digital clip art kitThese digital art kits were inspired by a magazine spread I saw some years ago about antique French wallpapers.  The papers they showed had such an amazing, faded, distressed but incredibly elegant feel to them.  I’ve tried to capture that feel while designing a contemporary art kit that woud be useful for creating greeting cards, crafts and scrapbooking.

I will have two more previews tomorrow along with a freebie as a way to say "Thanks for your patience!"  There are so many days when I wish I had a clone, but then I’m reminded about how much trouble I have managing and controlling myself let along another "rogue me!!!!!"  I guess I’ll just have to limp along.

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY: Ps 126:4-6  Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.  Those who sow in tears  will reap with songs of joy.   He who goes  out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.   NIV

DEVOTION FOR THE DAY:

I am fast approaching the "empty nest" phase of my life and though I have read about it and walked through it with many a friend, nothing in life can prepare you to go through it until you do.  I always try to be honest and share my struggles with my readers, with the hope that there might be a little encouragement to those that are experiencing the same thing I am.

What am I struggling with?  One issue is the changing roles in my life.  I’ve invested hugely in raising my children.  I’ve loved every minute and have also enjoyed letting them go when the time is right.  So it isn’t that I won’t let them grow up, but rather that I enjoy our friendship/relationship so much it’s hard to realize I won’t have that available every day.  Our family is close.  We share our struggles with our kids and vice versa.  The reality is that it is so much more easily done when you see them every day.  Now I have to work much harder at keeping connected and staying close with my kids (and I’m really lousy about making phone calls :-)!)

I also am struggling with a doubly great loneliness, as my "empty nest" also includes that my husband has a new job that requires him to travel extensively.  I’m going from a built in social network of dearly loved friends to working hard not to become isolated.  This requires a total change in my daily schedule and weekly planning.  I’m still not sure exactly what I need to do, but the Lord has convinced me that He’ll help me to figure it out! 

Are you struggling with unforeseen changes to your life (or maybe changes you should have seen and prepared for, but have been pretending weren’t going to come?!)  Have you lost a mate, a career or another loss that has left you reeling?  Do you desperately want life to "go back to normal" but know that it’s a normal that will never exist again?  The Lord is teaching me to allow myself to grieve the changes — and don’t pretend that it doesn’t hurt.  He’s helping me to feel the pain of a losing a life I really enjoyed and treasured and still trust that He has a "new normal" life that He has prepared for me to walk into. 

PRAYER:  Lord, if I had the choice I just might want to go back and stay in the place that I’ve enjoyed for many years, but I don’t have a choice.  Life is moving on.  Life is making changes for me, that I’m not sure I would choose to make for myself.  Help me to feel the pain of that loss, grieve for it, but also let it go and not try to clutch at the past and hold it close.

Help me to find at least a little bit of joy and excitement as I ponder the future that lies ahead.  Help me to make practical changes in my life and routine that will help me cope with my "blues."  Show me new ways to keep in touch with those I love and help me find new relationships and friendships that will be a blessing to me as well as the new people you will bring into my life.  Most of all Lord, thank you for walking me through this difficult stage in life and that you have promised you will NEVER leave me or forsake me!  AMEN 

Audrey Jeanne’s Expressions Web Site (www.audreyjeanne.com) is Live Today!

We specialize in personalized wedding, anniversary, family, baby and other special calligraphy gifts with many original verses written by Audrey Jeanne Roberts.  

Audrey Jeanne Roberts' framed baby handprints calligraphy personalizedAfter many years of desperately needing to have a web site  — we have finally gotten one up.  Though it is incomplete and imperfect, it’s live!!!  This site currently carries only our framed print line, which is where I began in the art business.   You can find our site at: www.audreyjeanne.com

Many of you know me only for the art I create or the design work I do for about 35 manufacturers in the art, gift and home decor industries.  However, I began my career as the artist, author and calligrapher of a framed print line called, "Audrey Jeanne’s Expressions."

baby birth announcement, little girl, Audrey Jeanne Roberts' framed print, personalizedAbout a decade ago we had nearly 4,000 stores that carried our products, but as my licensing career grew, we cut back on our wholesale operation.  It became too overwhelming to do both manufacturing and designing.  It felt a little like trying to ride two horses at once! 

During the almost 30 years that I have created these products we have built relationships with thousands of retail customers who love to give our products as Wedding, Anniversary, Baby and other gifts on a regular basis.  Now there will be an easy way for those customers to see what is available and order online.  We do continue to do some limited wholesale sales, so if you are a really, really special store that likes to carry unique items (especially personalized items) you can give us a call.  The contact information is on our web page.

Sympathy, Memorial, Memory framed print, personalized by Audrey Jeanne RobertsSome of the things we are capable of doing, but are not yet reflected in our web site are drop shipping, gift wrapping and including an enclosure card.  So if you have an out-of-area Wedding to send a gift to, you can find the piece you like and call our office to have it wrapped and sent as a complete gift without having to leave your home!

THE SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY: Zech 4:10  Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand. For these seven lamps represent the eyes of the LORD that search all around the world."   NLT

PRAYER:  Lord sometimes I tend to feel a little "less than" when I am beginning a work.  It seems so small and puny I can’t even imagine how it can grow into anything significant.  But in this verse you said "Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin."  What was true then is still true for me today.

When I take steps in new directions, or begin new ventures, remind me that great trees from tiny acorns grow.  A "ministry" can begin by meeting the first need that is put before me.  A deep and wonderful relationship will begin to develop with the first, "Hello."  Every thing that you want to do in and through me has to start somewhere — help me to rejoice in the day of my small beginnings trusting that everything I commit to you for your blessing will grow to produce fruit in its season!

Lavender Fields Paper Pack in Store Next Week

french lavender, lavender fields, clip art kit, digital clip art, digital crafting, scrapbookingThis paper pack should be out in the store next week at www.daisiecompany.com.  It was created to go with the Lavender Fields art kit that is part of the May, 2008 Daisie Club set which released yesterday.

Lavender holds a very special place in my heart.  My earliest memories of the scent were from the hand embroidered sachet bags that my two dearest Great-aunts would make for me for Christmas each year.  lavender fields, digital clip art papersI remember how incredibly they fragranced my entire room when I tucked them inside my sock drawer.  They were both such talented ladies, the knit, tatted, embroidered and crocheted great masterpieces.  I wish they were alive today to see the way their genes have been passed along and how I create with a unique set of gifts that have come from the same family "stream of creativity."

lavender fields digital clip art kit papers, scrapbook, card making, craftingEach sprig of lavender that was painted to create the plaid "trellis" of lavender, was painted at full size from stalks I hand picked at a local lavender farm near where I used to live in Southern California.  The experiece of picking your own lavender is one I highly recommend if there is a farm near you!  At first I was frightened because there were thousands and thousands of bees buzzing all over the place.  I’m very allergic to their stings, but though the bees buzz all around you, they aren’t the least bit interested in humans as they are practically drunk on the nectar of the lavender plants!   The smell of thousands of lavendar bushes is too awesome to describe and the lovely purple hues of the hillside with the sun shining in a clear blue sky is a picture I have stored away in my heart and mind forever.

hybrid scrapbooking, digital card crafting kitsI’m including just one product shot of the "Lavender Fields" art kit so you can see a little bit of how these papers would coordinate to create hybrid scrapbooking layout, or how you could make your own greeting cards out of them or other crafting uses. 

You can see the rest of this art kit here: "Lavender Fields"

 

Are You Anxious For Spring? A New Digital Clip Art Kit Might Help a Little!

(UPDATE this set is now available for $5.98.  Just click on the first picture and it will take you to the store)  This kit will be out later this week or early next week and will sell for $5.98 for a digital downloadable clip art kit you’ll be able to find at www.daisiecompany.combutterfly fountain garden digital clip art scrapbook scrapbooking crafting kitI was looking through my art archives today and found a painting that I did about 4 years ago when I first moved to my mountain home and was experiencing my very first spring here.  Being born and raised in San Diego, California, I had never experienced a cold-weather climate and the sudden explosion of spring.  San Diego spring’s just lazily roll out one type of flower group at a time, starting around early March and since there’s very little that hibernates over the winter you almost barely notice.

greeting card front fountain, pond, garden, garden bench digital clip artWell… the wonder of going out into my yard each morning and discovering a dozen types of bulbs popping up all over the yard, lilacs putting out their buds, and the beautiful new green of oak leaves as they begin to open was a tremendous delight.  This set of two paintings, "Butterfly Garden" and "Garden pond" came out of my imagination of what I would love my garden to look like — I have to admit I’ve never quite gotten there!

garden paintings, artwork, rose arch bench, fountain, pond, butterflies, digital clip artThe painting with the hedged in hidden garden and fountain was inspired by the garden outside of my room when I stayed in South Africa to write and illustrate a series of six books.  Christian Art Publications brought me in to work with their wonderful team and every afternoon and evening I looked out upon a huge fountain and manicured gardens of a victorian era home that had become a guest house facility.  Though my trip was in October, in the southern hemisphere they were just experiencing the beginning stirrings of spring and the change that occurred in the two weeks I was there was amazing.

garden bench, roses, picket fence, flowers, rock path, digital clip artThis kit includes 5, 4" x 6" painting portions that can be used to make greeting card fronts.  There are four backgrounds and extremely detailed images of an arched rose-covered bench, a wooden garden bench and two fountains that have been clipped out of the artwork so that you can use them as individual elements in your crafting.

I hope that if you are feeling blue from the long, loooooong winter many of you have been experiencing that this beautiful blue butterfly garden will bring a little cheer into your days.

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY: Song 4:15-16  You are a garden fountain, a well of  Flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.  Awake, north wind,  and come, south wind!  Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread abroad.  Let my lover come into his garden and taste its choice fruits. NIV

PRAYER:  Lord, sometimes I feel like a dried up, end-of-winter garden.  All is dead and cold and I wonder if there will ever be new life in my heart again.  Today is one of those days.  Come blow on my garden with the warm winds of your love and cause my heart to spring to life once again. 

Bring the seed that you have hidden in my heart to life and let me bloom again for your pleasure.  Help me to remember that you are pictured in the  word as my lover, and I am to become your bride — remind me that it is not service you desire but love and relationship.  Make of me a fruitful garden that bring you delight.  AMEN