Art for Kina Gallery

Kina gallery, here in New Zealand is having it's annual Christmas exhibition.
Each piece has to be created on 20 x 20 cm boards.
I have wrapped mine in water colour paper,
it gives it a lovely finish and perfect for me to collage onto!
they look a bit wonky as I havn't stuck anything down yet!
I'll show you the finished results in the next day or two!

printable Christmas Angels craft

I have decided to add 2 printable Christmas angels to complete the set!
 

Printable Festive Paper House

Yippe!
now available in my etsy shop.

done!

Printable Christmas craft house, lantern.

and here it is!
I am going to sell it in my etsy shop as a printable craft, so you can make as many as you like!
what a great gift!
I've run out of time to show you it complete, hopefully, I'll be able to show you tomorrow!

Christmas Paper Lantern House

A lovely lady recently left a message for me on my etsy site asking me if I was going to create a Christmas themed house.
It certainly made me wake up to the fact that Christmas really is just around the corner,
I think here idea is great and I have decide to turn it into a lantern!
It will have 4 sides and an open top,
You will be able to cut open the windows to let the tea light candle shine through.
Here is what I have done so far,
I should have it finished at the beginning of next week!
what fun!

1950's Vogue knitting books

As you probably know by now, one of my biggest delights is discovering 1950's treasures (amongst the groovy 60's and 70's and hideous 80's!)
During this weekend's hunt and to my delight I found a pile of Vogue knitting magazines for 50 cents!
 I don't know about you but to me they are simply stunning, sometimes I wish I was born into this era.
I might just have to dust of my knitting needles and give one of these a go!

Favourite things

and here are a few of my favourite things..

Free OWL Calender

I am thrilled to let you know about a fabulous 2013 calender that you can down load for free on one of my fave blogs; MY OWL BARN.

Mr Owl paper cut art

I thought you might also like to see how Mr Owl came to life!

As you can see I have changed a few items, this is the great thing about collage!

6 birds art

and here they are finished!

Birds of a feather art series.

as you can see I have nearly finished!
I still have some tweaking to do. The earlier ones do have a nice simplicity about them and look good as a group, however because the are being sold separately I have added more detail.
I changed the yellow bird too as I thought it would be nice to keep them in pairs.

new cut paper art work

It was a very happy day yesterday. I have finished all the illustrations for 2 books!
I loved every minute of it and I can't wait to show them to you. They are very cool, no ordinary books either, I'm not allowed to say anymore yet... watch this space!
now that I am free once more I am busy working on 6 little works for an exhibition that is coming up in November. For fun I thought it would be nice to show them to you as they develop from beginning to end. As you can see they have started as simply ideas and shapes. I will up date tomorrow!

KIWI designs

when people think of New Zealand one particular bird often springs to mind, the Kiwi.
it's become one of our best known symbols, in fact people often refer to us as "Kiwis"
We have a wonderful abundance of native birds, many are very intelligent, clever, boisterous, resourceful and full of energy, the Kea for instance. Some say therefor that the shy, flightless Kiwi
doesn't have the personality suited to our temperament, I think that these things come about irregardless of logic and the fact that it is such a unique character will ensure it remain our symbol for a very along time to come.