Get Well Card for Tui

One of Annie's doggie buddies was attacked by a coyote a few weeks ago. Tui was in her yard with her owner going into the house. It is strange for the coyote to get that close to a human let alon
e that close as they were going into the house! She has a case on her front leg but is doing well. 
Where I live every property owner has to clear their hillsides of all weeds so it's been non stop weed whackers and chain saws. People are also cutting down trees because of the wild fires CA has had. It's sad to see the trees go down but I'm sure the insurance companies are having a say in all that. With all that happening there are a lot of sticks on the ground, which is a favorite of Annie. She keeps bringing me them to me to throw. I saw on Pinterest someone had wrapped yarn around a tree branch so I decided to use a stash of "thrums" (end cuts from a loom) and give it a try. Then I thought it would make a cute card to send to Tui, Annie sending one of her favorite things all dressed up. 

Alter art house - 2020

I was inspired by all the big YT artists I follow on just making art for the fun of it and using what you have. 

For me, when I'm in a creative blah time, I just break out my twinkling H2O watercolors (I like the shimmer of the watercolors and I have a lot of them) and slap color down on paper. Never sure what I will do with the paper once I'm done with it but I know at some point in the future I will find a use for it. 

I saved a post from Pinterest about making these little houses from the paper used to protect your work surface when painting. I decided to give it a try. I realized that the artist who posted the original photo had to have made some of the elements (color of windows, doors etc...) to accent her houses because I doubt that those highlights would have been randomly found on her scrap paper but still a great idea!

My card design sat on my desk for a few days because I wanted to add a sentiment but could find the right one. I also don't have a printer at home or stamp letters small enough to write my own. During this down time of having to stay home I put all my wood mounted stamps that I store in my printer's cabinet back in order of theme. Over the years they have gotten put back in wrong drawers. Two hours later, everyone was in the correct place and I found the perfect stamp for my card. It is an old  wood mounted Amuse stamp from years ago. 

So today I'm going to try and finish off a dozen cards to send off to my friends. There are weeds outside that need my attention but with unlimited time at home now, one more day won't  make any difference. :)