windy day

today it is very windy in north carolina!...in memory of windy autumn days, i made a card for a friend of mine, using leaves from the cascade mountains in washington state!:-)...the bookmark was made by placing the leaves on a leftover piece of sheer ribbon...laminated and hole punched with more leftover ribbon to make it pretty and quick as that, a fun flowerart project!:-)

enjoy,

rebekah:-)

dancing leaves

this was a quick, fun project:-)...the leaves were pressed and sent to me from a friend in massachusetts!:-)...lucky me!:-)

i call it dancing leaves!:-)

enjoy,

rebekah:-)

winter forest

with a scant hour left until the deadline in the world wide pressed flower guild holiday card challenge, i managed to finish!:-)...these pressed ferns were really pretty and made fun evergreen trees!:-)...i decorated them with the tiny blooms of elderberry:-)...the star was punched out of a calla lily!:-)...easy and quick, i enjoyed my little project:-)

hope you do too:-)

rebekah:-)

hooray for brown!:-)

it's a crispy, crunchy morning in north carolina:-)...the back deck is covered with fallen leaves...as i looked out the window this morning, i noticed how many shades of brown there are...each one beautiful!:-)...sun and shadow...dark and light...hints of red, gold and an almost creamy white, sprinkled occasionally with the deep green of pine needles before they turn golden...
as a pressed flower artist, i feel especially lucky to be able to have nature's bounty presented right outside my back door!:-)...brown is a particularly useful color to have for pressed flowerart landscapes or critters!:-)...a young girl's hair or a lion!:-)...the possibilities are endless:-)
for now, i will go and gratefully gather my shades of brown:-)...when our world has totally turned to winter, i will sit quietly with my leaves and let them tell me what they want to be!:-)
hooray for brown!:-)
rebekah:-)

christmas mouse

i had fun with today's pressed flower project:-)...a tiny mouse, made from clover, decorates his fern tree with queen anne's lace and a tiny red flower that a friend sent to me:-)

enjoy,

rebekah:-)

well, here it is, my mystery flower of the day!:-)...earlier this year i planted some seeds that i thought were a vining clematis with a yellow bloom...this is what grew!...it's beautiful, but i don't know what it is!...

this spot had hummingbird vine and morning glory growing together for several years...it would reseed itself from year to year...this plant rather looks like a cross between the two!...is that possible?:-)

anybody have any ideas?:-)...i will be interested to see how the flowers look after they are pressed!:-)

oh, happy day!

 


this little fellow has remembered to stop and smell the flowers!:-)...framed 5x7 mouse made from clover, stands on a dandylion leaf to sniff a garden flower...this was really fun to do and i am planning on doing a series of little mice:-)