Clay owl magnet and FREE PNGS

Good morning,

Another clay creation to share this morning.  I made this little owl magnet.  The owl sits on top of a background I made and is surrounded by a silver oval frame I purchased at Ollie's.

The frames came in round, oval, square, and rectangle, shapes and in several sizes.

Ollie's is a discount store, fairly new to Columbus.  It is much like Odd Lots, but our store is VERY BIG.  There are so many deals there, that it's just nice to go and look around on a regular basis.  Definitely a place to find frames and even photo paper.

I love their book section, too, and they often have lots of inexpensive computer games that are lots of fun.  I bought my share of books and games!!!  They have a huge selection of DUMMY BOOKS.

I love making owls, and I try to make each one a little different.  I have a collection of them now.  This particular owl hangs in my office on a steel rod 3-way lamp I use -- so I can see what I'm working on.  Underneath him is a pom-pom face.  I'll post his picture at another time.

In the picture up top, on the right, the picture came out looking like it had a gold rim, but it is silver.  I edited it to make it look more like it truly looks.

Along with loving clay creations, I still love doing my artwork.  And since this blog is basically about that, here are your free pngs for today.

This could be a quote box, a title box, or a photo box.  You pick how you want to use it.

I love the bright colors in this, and hope to use it myself soon.

You could also use it for a card front or inside the card with a message.

Here is the png again, with a different colored rim.

This is inverted.  I always like to do an invert of all my creations.  Sometimes they look more spectacular to me that way.

Anyway, it gives it a different coloring, and surely one will be just right for you.

I am off of work today.

And tomorrow ... as I work for "the man", and if you've read any of the news, you know there's a huge segment of people taking mandatory time off, without pay.

This really hurts ... for me ... as my husband lost his job in March of this year, and the income that went with it.  He's working again, but at a much lower pay, and it is through a temp agency, even though he's permanently on that job.  If he gets hired, hopefully, he will have enough of a pay increase that we will be doing okay.

So, to lose 20% of my income per pay period during this change in our life is quite a chunk, when you consider us as a couple.  Believe me.  I am watching my pennies every day.

I let my website go due to this.  I just couldn't afford to do it anymore.

Hope you all are having a wonderful morning, and this proves to be a productive and energizing day for you.

Enjoy!

Cj

Wild West Hair Doll 3 and Free PNG

Good morning!!

A quick post this morning.

Here is my third Wild West Hair doll, only the second with a paper body.  I featured her yesterday in my post, but wanted to have her own post.

These are the face steps I did.  Each is numbered.  In the first, I formed her face shape.  In 2:  I had already made and baked her eyes, nose and mouth.  In 3:  I pushed the baked face features into her unbaked face.  In 4:  I added cheeks and chin.  In 5:  I worked and smoothed her face till I got her looking the way I liked her.

I was not looking to make a beautiful face, but one with some character.  I really like how she came out.

Of course, her skirt is scrapping paper, and I glued pearls around her neck, and glued a clay decoration on her dress.  Her crown was made from paper, and glued into her hair.

And here's a free png for today for all your creative needs.

Hope you have a terrific day.

Cj

Look back to see the Wild West Hair Doll 2.

Wild West Hair Doll and clay creations in a picture PLUS FREE SNAGS

Good morning!

This weekend, I was working on making a clay background for a mixed media project.  I just had to take a picture of it to play with it in my graphics program.  It no longer looks the same, but I built this picture from its base.

The picture features more of my clay sculptures.  You see my new Wild West Hair Doll in the lower left hand corner, followed by the snail, the blue owl, the little butterfly with quilled wings, and the flower face under the quote is also a clay face that was edited and added to complete it.

I chose a quote I like about art to finish it off.

The little Wild West Hair Doll has another clay creation on its front dress.  She has pearls around her neck, and a crocheted trim around her base.  On top of her head is a paper type crown I made.  Her face is not a "pretty" face, but the face of a character.  Big eyes, big nose, and a really big mouth.

I'm very happy with how she turned out, and I will feature her alone one day, as I took pictures of building her face as I went.

She sits in my living room with my other red headed Wild West Doll.  Her dress is a scrap paper I bought long ago.

Today's free pngs are above and below.  This is a flower face I created this morning.  I'm always looking for "sayings" for my cards, and just don't have enough with messages on them.  Here is one I plan to use on "girly" cards.  I can print her out, put her on a stacked base, and add her to my card/s.

Feel free to snag and use her, if you wish.

Here is the face again, without words.  I may want to use just her, or her with another saying.

Both are free to snag and use.

Hope you have a fantastic Tuesday!!!

Cj

Refreshing Flavored Waters, Clay bird, and free snaggable pngs

Good morning,

It's Monday, and the start of another work week.

I made this creation above after visiting www.theyummylife.com.  She has lots of yummy items on her site.  I loved her flavored waters, and they are so clear and delicious-looking, but I have a hard time not blending the berries.

So I made my own, blending the whole berry.  It was delicious!

You should check out her site though.  It is full of wonderful recipes.

In the creation above, I made the flower, took the picture of my cocktail, and the little bird with a flower is one of my clay creations.

Here are the png items.  They are free snaggables.

Enjoy.

See you tomorrow.

Have a great day!

Cj

Clay items in a clay collage plus free quote box pngs

Good Saturday morning!

I know I've talked about the clay creations I've made over the last couple of months.  It's well over 350 items and maybe more now, as I just keep creating.

So today, I thought I'd feature some of the items.

In the above picture, you see six individual items, 3 off to the left, and 3 more off to the right.  There's a little girl looking slightly up, and big flower (for a magnet or pin), a small box with a lid and off to the right is a heart, a lion, and another heart.  The center item is a clay bunny.

The center items are a bunch of individual clay items.  This is a clay collage, and the items are attached to a base.  It has many hearts, flower faces, a little slug on a base, a little clay block and just some other fun things.

In this picture, you see a close up a the bunny face.

Another close up, but angled down a  little to see some of the items better.

For today's art, here is my example showing how to use the quote boxes below.  Same design, but one is an invert of the other.  The quote boxes are available to snag and use in your art or scrap booking projects.  Also would make a great card front.

The quote box is in png format, so if you have a graphics program, you can download them into it, and there will be no backgrounds.  Of course, the top one is an invert, so it will have a black background,

This quote box  has no background, so you can choose what colors you want to use yourself.

Not a fan of black and white.  Tip!  The easiest way I know to add color is by using a drop shadow at 100%, all settings at 0-no blur.  After you choose your color, duplicate it to deepen your color.

To make it extra fancy, you can always bevel a black design to get an interesting look or use special effects to make them down right fantastic.  Try unsharpening it, too.

I also like to use black and white in cutouts and then use special effects on that as well.

Tomorrow, you will see some flowers and a common quote that I did using a black and white design, using the cutout method and then the special effects.  Every flower on tomorrow's post will be a different special effect.

These can get quite creative and colorful, so stop back tomorrow, to see more clay creations as well as pick up some new pngs.

The weather this week has been in the 90's.  It is HOT!!!!

It is so hard to understand how many reports you hear of parents leaving small children or pets in a car while they run into a store somewhere.  So many die needlessly.

As a young mother of three, years ago, I can't fathom this.  If I took my kids with me, they always went in with me!  Our children should be our greatest treasures and blessings.  They were NEVER an inconvenient, wherever I was.

Taking your children with you teaches them to be socially-acceptable, if you are doing it right!

MSN had a voting poll several weeks ago regarding a child/ren being in a restaurant, and asked if they belong there.  The answer is yes, as long as you've taken the time to teach them proper behavior.

My children learned early, that it didn't matter whether we just arrived, were mid meal, or what!  If they got out of control, we were leaving.  Why do so many young parents today, not know how to handle their children?  And once we got up to leave ... WE WERE LEAVING!  And when we got home, they spent time in their rooms.

Getting back to the weather,  my work place even sent out an email on Thursday, reminding us how hot it is this week, and NOT to leave children or pets in our cars.  C'mon folks!  This is a no-brainer.  Talk about the "dumbing down of America"!

Okay, enough said.

Have a terrific, and SAFE Saturday!

I'll be back tomorrow!

Cj

Happy Birthday to those born July 17th! Free birthday card front.

Good morning,

I made this card front for a special birthday today.  It's for my daughter-in-law, a sweet and beautiful woman!

If you'd care to snag it to use for yourself, please feel free to do so.  It's in png format. 

Of course, her version has her name in pink in the upper, left hand corner, and who it is from under the border in white, under the xo's.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!!

Cj

P.S.  Happy birthday, Kathy!

Clay Heart with a Flower Face and a free flower png frame to create with

Good morning!

I'm back with a mixture of my artwork along with a clay-sculptured heart decorated with a little flower face.  It was shown previously, but this post is basically featuring it as the only clay creation today.

Here is a free png for today.  It's a little flower frame.  I love these colors together.

Hope you have a fantastic Tuesday.

Enjoy!

Cj

Wild, Wild West Hair Doll 2 and Free Pngs

Good Sunday morning,

This post is featuring my wild, wild west hair doll #2.  Her hair is much fuller and longer this time.  And even though her hair looks pink, it's actually red.

This is her close-up and featured on my art pictures.

This is a free background, should you wish to snag it.

Here are the steps I used in creating her.  I didn't take any pictures of making her face.

In the first picture, you can see her head and the beginning of her making her hair.  I used 4 ply red yarn, and divided each small piece apart of the 4-ply yarn.  I then bundled those with sets of three, so 12 small plys together to make one hair plug.  I tied them together with another small ply and let it blend in with the rest of the hair.

I don't know how many make up her head, but it's approximately 16 to 18 sets of plugs.  I wrapped wire around the middle of the plugs, and inserted the wires into her head at intervals.

Then I baked her.  The yarn does not burn at all or discolor.  I baked her two times to make sure she was done, as she is bigger than my first wild, wild west hair doll.

The second picture shows the front after all her hair was added.  I added some shorter ply plugs along the top of her hair line for bangs.

The third picture just shows the back.

Here's her close-up again, without the art work.  After she was done, I tied her hair the way I wanted it, and then gave her a haircut.  Her painted checks are gloss and pink acrylic mixed together and painted on.

In her hair is a small crown-like item I made from white printing paper.  I glued it into her hair with a little E6000.

I used the same glue to attach the pearl strand around her neck.  Underneath the pearls is a pink gem and a clay heart that I made with a pink and blue bug resting on it.  The heart is red, and has one miniature flower on it.

Her dress is scrap paper I purchased some years ago.  It is sparkly and is in light blue and pinks.  I shaped this into a cone.

The edging is white and light pink yarn that was twisted together and glued along the edge of her cone dress.

She stands about 4 inches high.

The face took me about one hour to make.  The hair took quite a bit longer.

I am very excited about this doll.  She was a lot of fun to make, and I've very pleased with the final results.

Hope you enjoyed this little project of mine today.

Enjoy.

Cj

Wild, Wild West Hair Doll and free pngs

Good morning,

Had a little computer problem yesterday, so this is being posted Sunday, but it's my Saturday post.

This is my first Wild, Wild West Hair Doll on a base.  She was an experiment in mixing clay with yarn.  I really like how she turned out.

And a few free pngs to snag for your scrapbooking projects are above and below.

Hope your Saturday was wonderful. 

While they predicted thunderstorms today, the day was beautiful and sunny.  We didn't see dark clouds appearing till much later in the evening.  If we got any rain, I must have totally missed it!

Be back shortly with my post for Sunday.

Enjoy!

Cj

Pretty Kitty Clay Sculpture and FREE pngs

Good morning,

Continuing on my clay creation progress, plus a few free pngs, today I'm offering another kitty that I did recently. 

Being a fan of pinterest, I saw a copy of this little kitty, and made my own version.  I always make some changes, so it's not exactly the same.  Sometimes, instead of looking at clay creations, I'll look at crochet items and cake toppers and cake decorations to get ideas to try in clay.

Here you see the FREE pngs for you to use in your creating today.  They are all on one layer, but using a graphics program, it's easy to use your selection tool to choose the one you want to use.  Break each one out and save individually, if you want.

Also spaced so they can be printed out and used physically.

It's Friday!!!

I've been on vacation all week, and spent a lot of time creating.

Tomorrow, I'm offering a look at my a new doll face I've created.  Then on Sunday, a second version of the same, yet different doll.  I'm so excited about her, I wanted to post her today, but already had this one ready, so I am holding myself back for now.  I'll get to her soon enough.

Till then ... have a fabulous Friday!

Cj

Clay sculpture:: my version of Hello Kitty.- And Some FREE Pngs

Good afternoon,

Just a few pngs to offer for your creative needs.

Hope you enjoy them.

This is my version of Hello Kitty.  It is a clay sculpture.

 

A border for scrapping or card-making.

 

 

Flower-purple hue.

 

 

Red flower.

 

 

Flower-pink.

 

 

Title Tag.

 

Have a terrific day!

Cj

Sunday Color Me Flowers Fun!

Good morning!

It's Sunday morning, and its been awhile since my last post.  I'm still been creating though.

The picture this morning is one I call give me flowers or color me flowers.  The picture above is a jpg, and it is a flower design I created yesterday.

The big flower was reduced 50% and then 50% more to get the small flowers.  On the two small flowers, I added to layer effects to get the changes.  I love playing with layers.

The above picture shows the flower big!  This is a png, and free for you to snag.  Isn't it pretty?  Can you find a spot for it your scrapbooking projects?

Another png, this time, making a border out of the big flower which has been reduced.  This shows the versatility of using these pngs.  You can take them and make additional items with them.

My husband and I just celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary, so next I'll post the wall card I made for him.  It is now hanging on our wall in the kitchen/dining room.  We celebrated a quiet day.  For dinner, we ordered in some Chinese food, which was delicious.  We spent the evening watching Netflix movies.  All in all; a very good day.

I also sent out 2 packages yesterday.  One to my mother-in-law, and one to a friend I correspond with and make little gifts for.  She's a widow, and a very kind lady.

I will be taking down my website at Easy As Pie Daily Graphics dot com.

My husband lost his job at the end of March after 12 years with his company.  His company fought his unemployment request.

He found a job with a temporary service, so he worked for four days, and then trained on a Sunday for another week-long job, which he just finished.  He's starting a permanent placement by the temp service tomorrow morning.  Unfortunately, they did not tell him where to go, and he tried to reach them on Saturday.

He will get ready tomorrow for work, and call them until he finds out where he's going.  He has a general idea, but they didn't give him the details.  He may be a little late, but it is due to the temp agency.

Our income has dropped, so things are a little tight right now; hence letting my website go.

I'll just keep blogging along, which thanks to blogspot, is free.

Take care, and I'll be back with several posts to show you some of the items I've been creating.

Cj

For Wed. 2/19: Nine/9 Free Frames for you to SNAG

Good morning!

I am a day behind on my website, but this is the kit for yesterday.  I will get caught up this weekend.

The zip kit file today holds nine (9) frames.  They are basically the same frame, but with different colors and special effects.  Some look best on white backgrounds, but don't forget to try them on black.  The above picture is a summary of the frames in the kit.

If you don't like the large flower in the left upper corner of the frame, just cut it out.

The kit has 2 different psp files in it.  One at regular size, and the second at 50%.  There are also individual pngs and jpgs in the zip.

They are free to use in your creations; whether you just create for fun ... or for profit.  You may NOT resell them, as I did make them.  Credit to me is necessary when you use a graphic.  Otherwise, they are free to use, recolor, edit, etc.

This is a close-up of the detail on the frames.  I had a lot of fun playing with special effects on this frame.  There's a lot of different colors and effects, so maybe ONE of them is just perfect for your scrapbooking projects or card-making creations.

And last, but not least, is a free png to pick up here on my blog.  I love the colors in this one, but really couldn't pick a favorite.

I hope you had a great Wednesday, and I'll see you back here ... very soon!

Enjoy!

Cj
http://www.EasyAsPieDailyGraphics.com
free zip files for mini kits; free for you to snag

February Calendar, Valentine's Day mice, and FREE small flower pngs

Good afternoon!

Today, I have a basic February calendar for you.  Of course, February is almost over, but I'll try to get the March calendar up earlier.

February has been a very strange month this year.  A lot of days have been in the 40's, and lots of sunshine.  We have had snow, usually on the weekends. But there has been a day or two where it snowed on a week day.

On Friday, the 15th, it started in the morning.  I left early from work by about 1 hour and 45 minutes.  I was planning on going to my daughters, but after she and her daughter had flu last week; her husband was now down with it!  My husband had a vacation day, so I headed home.

It really snowed pretty good, and we had more on Saturday, and throughout the night, because there was morning snow in our street this morning!  Funny ... it's supposed to be back up into the 40's tomorrow!  Amazing; but I love it!

Tomorrow is Washington's birthday; also called President's Day.  I am off, and that is very nice.

The last time I posted, I wanted to show you a picture of my Valentine's Day presents to co-workers.  Unfortunately, my phone was NOT sending my pictures to my email box.  My husband got it configured for me, so now ... I'm up and running again.

I put 8 of these little mice in a black bowl.  They don't have their bows on them yet.  I made a total of 16 mice.  Three of them have magnets on the back of them to put on the fridge.

I wanted to make one that my granddaughter could play with.  Being almost 3, she is still a little young to have items with glued-on features.

I made 3 bigger mice.  One is hot pink, like the ones above, with a cream colored nose.  This time, I made the pompom and tied it through the front of the face.  I hope to have those pictures tomorrow.

Her eyes are heart-shaped red buttons, with a little flower sticker attached.  The bow on hers is sewn on it's head between it's ears.  I think this will work.

I also made a cream colored mouse, and a totally white mouse.  I will also have pictures of those tomorrow.

Everyone at work loved their little mice.  I also gave them a small box of candy hearts with sayings.  It's traditional for Valentine's Day, and something sweet is always wonderful.

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day.  My sweet husband bought me a small orchid plant with white flowers tipped in red.  I still have the orchid plant from last year, and it has little buds on it now.

 He bought me some chocolates in a velvet heart-shaped box.  He knows how I love keeping them to store my scrapping items in.  It is beautiful.

The card he bought me is the absolute sweetest he's ever picked up.  I was totally "blown away"!

And here is a little something in a png graphic for you today.  These are 8 small flowers, and can be used freely in your scrapbooking or card making.

I have several kits up now on my website, so hurry on over and check them out.  There is a zip file for downloading the items.  Items are free, and can be found in psp, png, and jpg format.

Till tomorrow; have a great day.  It's almost 4 pm now, so it's almost over.

Take care ... and enjoy!

Cj
http://www.EasyAsPieDailyGraphics.com
Scrapbooking and card making graphics and kits.  Papers, and pattern fills for letters and numbers.

Free Zip File Kits Offered

Good, good morning,

I am working at home today, and is almost time for me to get connected.  First, a post for today.

The above png is your free png graphic for today.  It is from yesterday's kit 13-0207, and can be picked up at my website.

The kit comes with psp layers, pngs, and jpgs, all zipped together.

This little graphic was done yesterday and represents my new kit posted today.  Kit 13-0212.  It is also free to snag.

It is red and black kit and has about 8 flower frames like the one above.  There is no writing on those items, but left for you to decorate and use as you like.  Below this flower frame, made smaller for this post, is a flower chain.  Use as an accent or border by placing several together.  (There are more items in the kit/not shown here.)

I've been busy making Valentine mice.  The little faces are shaped hearts turned upside down and little round mouse ears attached.  They have white or pink pompom noses, which I also made.  Little eyes are the movable kind.

I'll have pictures tomorrow.

I took them this morning, but lost track of time, so I haven't edited them yet.

Check back tomorrow to see 9 of the "meeces" in a bowl.  I want to add a bow to their heads where their ears are, if I have time.  I have 7 more in the works, as I have a lot to give out.

See you tomorrow!

Have a great day!

Cj
http://www.EasyAsPieDailyGraphics.com
Free pngs, psps, and jpg kits in a zip download.  Pick them up today--free. Use one or more in your own creations!

Decorate a card today!

 

Good morning,

 

This morning, I made a card front for a friend.

That's an old picture of me.

I believe I was about thirty-something.

Probably late 30's.

 

I like the card front on black.

 

 

Here is a png of the front card.

You chose the picture to put in it.

Here are some additional flowers I made

to go along with decorating the

rest of your card.

 

 

Unfortunately, I am still having trouble

getting my blogger to post my words

against the left edge.

 

The background paper is a seamless

background I made for this card.

 

And here is another border flower, and

three additional flowers to decorate

with.

 

Enjoy.

 

Have a wonderful Sunday.

 

Cj

 

P.S.  It is another beautiful Sunday in

my city.  Yesterday was the same.

 

We are expecting frigid temps very soon.

I believe it's coming in either tomorrow

or Tuesday.

 

I am off tomorrow.

I work at home on Tuesday and Wednesday,

so I won't be dreading it til Thursday.

I'll be bundling up!