More Tulip Tales

Hello!

Today I will be telling more tales about my tulips!

These are some of my Art Nouveau Alphabet letters that I have sized and tweaked, hand colored and placed in recycled bottlecaps, backed with very sturdy magnets:

I sell these in my etsy shop:

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

I like the little Dutch girls in the letter "I"!

(Yeah, I know. I need to get better pictures of my "L".)



Here are some paper dolls with tulips:

These are from a 10 Dolls, 10 Nations vintage paper doll set.

Thanks again to OrigamiBears. See side bar for web site.

courtesy of VivaLasVegaStamps: a flower fairy.

See side bar for web site.

courtesy of Dover Publications. See side bar for web site.

Yes, it's true. I have ONE tulip blooming now. It is very pretty, with a pink color.

I would like more tulips now!

I have many many buds, but no flowers yet.

I hope they survive the freeze and rain and even perhaps snow that we will probably get this month.

this is a finished card, using a Peddler's Pack stamp.

They have some really great ones!

 Here is a painting by Claude Monet.

I love his colors and brush strokes!

"Tulips in Holland" by Claude Monet

NikkiCrossApplesauce makes these wonderful origami tulips,

and sells them in her etsy shop.

Picnic Pockets

for sale at www.gailscrafts.etsy.com

This is a kirigami cutting that I have done. Then I went back and filled in the 'holes' with leftover scraps of origami paper, to bring the design out.
It is one of my favorites!

Lovely silk tulip wreath by http://www.elegantholidays.etsy.com/ 

This is another of Laura Walsh Anglund's precious paper dolls:

A parrot tulip



I'd like to finish today with a photo that has many different, great ideas on how to display cut flowers. I hope you see something you will want to try!

courtesy grinandbakeit.com

Enjoy the rest of your day!

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

A beautiful spring day

Hello!
Today is a beautiful spring day in the Rockies. Yesterday we had quite a lot of rain, but today the sun is shining. The sun makes all the newly watered flowers and plants look so fresh.

johnny-jump-ups:

These are my iris blooming, from last year:

I can hardly wait for this year!

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments

when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

- Thornton Wilder

These flowers are from WaltDisneyWorld,

photo taken in January of 2009.

"I suppose if you had to choose just one quality to have

that would be it: vitality."

- John F. Kennedy

A beautiful rubber stamped card.

I have lost the name of the artist.

"Praise is a soul in flower."

- Thomas Watson

Barbie!

Here are some pretty spring paper dolls:

tip: Why not get out some old magazines, and make more clothes for her?

Remember, you can use cereal boxes as a backing for her.

Just cut out the doll, then glue to a thin cardboard (like cereal boxes).

Cut out, and you have a nice sturdy doll to dress.

Cut out a strip of the box to make a stand.

Mary Pickford, Hollywood star

This is one of Pat Stahl's charming paper dolls:

Thank you again to OrigamiBears for her fantastic sharing!

Here is a favorite quote of mine,

from a DressBarn ad, c.2007:

"Let yourself do something for others today.

Let yourself laugh.

Let yourself make funny faces.

Let yourself eat too much chocolate.

Let yourself meet someone smarter than you.

Let yourself be."

This is one of my favorite rubber stamped cards from my friend, Shelly.
Check out her blog, listed on the right.
The stamp used is from Peddler's Pack.

"Let there be no purpose in friendship

save the deepening of spirit."

- Kahlil Gibran

I hope you have enjoyed my little celebration of spring today.

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com