One of my top selling kits of all time has been the Gerbera Daisies kit that I introduced early last year. Well, I revisited it and updated it in a little bit of a new direction and created Gerbera Daisies 2 and its companion paper pack that will be coming to the store next week.
I have added some wonderfully textured, chalked, inked and otherwise distressed tags, frames and other goodies. I’ve also created some very fun buttons and embellishments.
If you bought the Gerbera Daisie Scrapbooking Album I released last year (You can find it here GERBERA DAISIE INSTANT SCRAPBOOK ALBUM, and ORIGINAL GERBERA DAISY KIT 1) this kit was created to compliment them and could be also be used to create additional pages to coordinate with and expand on the album.
I’ve also created some really fun "paper flowers" to take it in a more contemporary and whimsical direction. The paper pack offers several different colorways of some very contemporary papers and wonderfully complex plaids, florals and swirly papers. My 21 year daughter thinks this is the best (which help me to know I’m on track!)
I’ll post all of the previews at the Daisie Designers/Artist’s Announcement Forum later in the day, so you can see all of the item and papers included. I’ll come back and post a link here once I do.
I’ll be back tomorrow and try to post a little more frequently as I’m (hopefully) almost through two huge projects that have been stealing all of my time and attention. I’m REALLY hoping to get some painting time in soon as I’m itching to create some really new things instead of graphically arranging older things (which is what I end up doing for my mfg’s projects!)
years ago and it still is one of my all-time favorites. It was fun to pull elements out of this painting to create these two kits.
The main two hummingbirds included in this kit are Rufous (the brown with green and red throat) and Ruby-throated. Both of these frequent my feeders so I’ve had a great selection of photos and real life experience to paint from , the green hummingbird is a tropical variety that I’d love to see in the wild one day.
I’m planning on painting quite a few more hummingbirds later this spring. Those of you that have read my blog for a while know that I feed about 100 hummers during the summer and I have a wealth of photos to work from. They are such fascinating subjects that bring back wonderful memories of my childhood. My mother planting hummingbird attracting flowers in every home that we lived in and we would sit for hours watching the winged jewels flit and play in our gardens. 
In the Day Planner, I’ve set up project planning pages which I’m using for everything from garage/shop clean up to redesigning my framed print line and getting my web site up (the most important project that is still lagging behind) Using these have helped me to get my thoughts down on paper and filed where I can locate them again. In a way, it’s taken the load off of my brain because I don’t have to "remember" the information anymore, it’s written down. 
Well… 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!
The 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.
This 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.
Here is the coordinating paper pack. It works perfectly with this set and its companion which will be releasing in another week or two and also matches with most all of the spring or summer sets and even baby kits. It’s a very versatile paper pack.