flowering thursday....

It's mother's day weekend, almost and I am anxiously 

awaiting my mom and dad's arrival. 

They are coming for the weekend... yippie!

So, i have been getting a bit ahead of my flower a day journal.

The two above are mine from today and this one below

is a gift for my mom for mother's day

she used to tell me this poem all the time.

and this one below is a bouquet of flowers 

for mother's day...

this one below is my new favorite way of drawing

white signo pen and prismacolors.

Love the color on black and dark papers....

the ones below here are all from you blog readers...

this pretty flower with butterfly 

is from Carol - it's an ATC card

 this one below is also from Cory

a cool painted book page... very pretty

this award winning quilt is by current blog winner

and birthday girl Cory!

and last but not least is this pretty dew covered flower 

from Lilli....

thanks for playing girls!

keep the beautiful art coming....

random number generator

Ok ladies.... I know that I said that my dog charley 

(pictured below)

was going to pick a number for the winner of the book

LOVE AND SALT

 well, here it is the 8th already and I am 7 days late and 

sick as a dog...really. Bad head cold. So, the last thing i wanna do

is have charley come in and chew up 32 pieces of paper to find the winner. 

How about next month for charley?

This month... we HAVE A WINNER....

i used random number generator

and the winning number is 

23

and that comment belongs to DOGWOOD!!!

(not kidding, yes... you won another challenge!)

I will get you your book next week...

thanks for playing ladies

Now... back to this months challenge

you all need to start commenting so these lovely entries

have a chance to win!!!

 above is a fabulous zentangle from

my friend Chris... pretty!

 the next two pieces here are from Dawn-

both the beautiful hydrangea pages

and

 the beautiful zentagles that she cut up into

cool little bookmarks.

and last but not least for the day is another 

IPad drawing by Lily's 

4 year old granddaughter. 

Fabulous!!!

thanks ladies for playing

keep 'em coming!

tuesday's treasures....

I am in need of a scanner and printer 

and until i find one...

I just have to continue to take pictures 

with my new camera the old fashioned way...

this is a piece i did with colored pencils 

and brown paper bag paper

with all the flowers I could think of...

so much fun... I am loving this flower challenge

and I am glad that all of you are too.

this beautiful Iris is from Carmen's garden

even though it's been raining...

it's still a beautiful spring day

This pretty pink and green journal page was made 

by Carol... so pretty

i love the way Davielle used the real rose here

and then the magazine pages...

so pretty.

Lory made this pretty tag using 

Elizabeth Craft stickers with 

glitter and copic markers...

 so so sweet

Carol has given us two pieces today...

this one is a pretty black flower

necklace that she made at her art group today

Vicci made this fabulous hand painted 

chair this week... so so pretty.

Thanks for sharing Vicci...

Carol also gave us this pretty Ipad doodle

there is some great work

being done on Ipads recently....

thanks for sharing ladies!

Artful Flowers

 Had time this weekend to do a little colored pencil drawing on some 

black paper - love the way they look....

hydrangeas and snowballs....

this pretty sunflower is done by Lory

 below is a sketch by Carol...

( but here in the sierras i think we skipped spring 

and just went on to summer :(

This pretty little circle flower is done by Dawn from 

class she took called Letter Lab

Below is a pretty daisy done by Teresa on the 

back of a cereal box...

I love art from recycled things, don't you?

 CC gace us this fabulous
mixed media flower...

what did you all work on this weekend?

A Saturday of Flowers....

This has been a great day for art and because i have been wanting to say...

"May the Fouth be with you"

all day long....

the pic above is a first time drawing from

Evelyn O. - fabulous evelyn. Keep it up!

 this pic above is a photo taken and 

manipulated by Claudia... lovely

These cards above were done out of 

recycled grocery bags by Joy...

if you have a Raley's market by you... check 'em out

This beautiful purples and blues flowers in a vase

was done by Ellen on her IPAD!

way to put us all to shame Ellen...

it's beautiful!

 Above is a photo take by Davielle at her daughters

engagement party... congrats to her!

Lovely California Daisies and a bunny 

adorn the yard of Janet F...

i have a soft spot in my heart for bunnies!

 These are from me...

all month doing 5.5 x 8.5 different sheets of papers

and doing lots of different techniques with flowers.

I NEVER draw without an outline first

so this was way out of my comfort zone.

Let's see what you are all working on....

( don't forget to comment on any and all you love!)

and one two three....from me...

So here we are ...

day three and no comments yet. 

Come on people... where are you! 

These folks need to hear how you feel about their pieces. 

Please leave a comment.

and please participate 

by sending me your art piece involving flowers...

could be a pin, earrings, a drawing, a wood

carving, a t-shirt... as long as you made it,

i will post it here....

a stool from Carol... with pansies

a mixed media piece with torn paper flowers

by Janet

and a piece by Arnoldo

in honor of his backyard...

love the feather!

 Three days of flowers from me....

Love, Dream and Hope

Spring

with pink dogwoods....

'goin to california

***

so, how do you enter?

send me an email with your picture attached

lindsayostrom@yahoo.com

or go on our facebook page and upload your piece

CHALLENGES .... lindsayostrom.blogspot.com

we're on to day 4 peeps....

a beaded rose....

Our first day of a new challenge,

and already a new player has given us a 

beautiful bloom to start the month off 

a beaded rose pin 

by Carol Hodges

Let the commenting begin

( the most good comments, the winner!)

( and for those who are interersted in playin in any of the challenges, i have created a facebook page in case you don't want to email them to me....

it's CHALLENGES.... lindsayostrom.blogspot.com

so come and join the fun on facebook also.