Kelly Creates

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Happy Valentine's Day!

Some handmade, mixed media Valentines I made for my son and husband! I used watercolor paper as the base.

Free course from Brave Girls Club!

I am a monthly member of the Brave Girls Club and enjoy getting a lesson every month as well as art journaling ideas! The founder of this group, Melody Ross, is one of the most inspiring, loving women I've heard! As a Valentine's Day gift she is offering this ecourse on love completely free to everyone (you do not need to be a member to view it)! Definitely worth checking out! Just go here: http://bravegirlsclub.com/archives/25293. I also highly recommend you sign up for their daily emails called "A Little Bird Told Me." very inspirational and soul satisfying!

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Mixed media village

Saturday, November 8, 2014

mixed media piece

art journal pages

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Fall/Halloween mixed media pieces

Fall is my favorite time of the year!

Sunday, July 6, 2014

a little fourth of July mixed media piece

atcs

Some atcs I made to send to the "Brave Girls Club." They send these to organizations that support abused women and women rescued from the sex trade to give them a little encouragement!

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Birdhouse

trying my best to think spring! sigh.......I miss hearing the birds chirp!

Teacups

I collect tea cups so I made this to go in my dining room!

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Mixed media heart

new mixed media piece! I used Luminere paints for the background and they are beautiful and shimmery!

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Another valentine piece

Art society piece (January)

I'm taking a monthly class with Christy Tomlinson called the "Art Society." You get 2-3 videos every month where she demonstrates how to make a new project using mixed media techniques and then you can create it on your own. This is the January project and I love how it turned out! I have it in my front hallway!

Valentine mixed media piece

Favorite Quotes

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming something more........
Love not only who you are, but who you may become.-Miguel de Cervantes
Life is 10% what we are dealt and 90% how we handle it.
Today gives us a chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.-Henry Van Dyke
I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are seen.-Richard Paul Evans
I look at every day as a challenge and watch the Lord make the crooked places straight. He knows my need, and He'll meet me there.-Luci Swindoll
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can't find them, make them. -George Bernard Shaw
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. (Henry Drummond)
There is no explanation for how Christian faith works, it is a mystery, it is beautiful and true; it is something you feel and it comes from your soul. (Donald Miller)
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.