More Tulip Tales

Hello!

Today I will be telling more tales about my tulips!

These are some of my Art Nouveau Alphabet letters that I have sized and tweaked, hand colored and placed in recycled bottlecaps, backed with very sturdy magnets:

I sell these in my etsy shop:

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

I like the little Dutch girls in the letter "I"!

(Yeah, I know. I need to get better pictures of my "L".)



Here are some paper dolls with tulips:

These are from a 10 Dolls, 10 Nations vintage paper doll set.

Thanks again to OrigamiBears. See side bar for web site.

courtesy of VivaLasVegaStamps: a flower fairy.

See side bar for web site.

courtesy of Dover Publications. See side bar for web site.

Yes, it's true. I have ONE tulip blooming now. It is very pretty, with a pink color.

I would like more tulips now!

I have many many buds, but no flowers yet.

I hope they survive the freeze and rain and even perhaps snow that we will probably get this month.

this is a finished card, using a Peddler's Pack stamp.

They have some really great ones!

 Here is a painting by Claude Monet.

I love his colors and brush strokes!

"Tulips in Holland" by Claude Monet

NikkiCrossApplesauce makes these wonderful origami tulips,

and sells them in her etsy shop.

Picnic Pockets

for sale at www.gailscrafts.etsy.com

This is a kirigami cutting that I have done. Then I went back and filled in the 'holes' with leftover scraps of origami paper, to bring the design out.
It is one of my favorites!

Lovely silk tulip wreath by http://www.elegantholidays.etsy.com/ 

This is another of Laura Walsh Anglund's precious paper dolls:

A parrot tulip



I'd like to finish today with a photo that has many different, great ideas on how to display cut flowers. I hope you see something you will want to try!

courtesy grinandbakeit.com

Enjoy the rest of your day!

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

A beautiful spring day

Hello!
Today is a beautiful spring day in the Rockies. Yesterday we had quite a lot of rain, but today the sun is shining. The sun makes all the newly watered flowers and plants look so fresh.

johnny-jump-ups:

These are my iris blooming, from last year:

I can hardly wait for this year!

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments

when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

- Thornton Wilder

These flowers are from WaltDisneyWorld,

photo taken in January of 2009.

"I suppose if you had to choose just one quality to have

that would be it: vitality."

- John F. Kennedy

A beautiful rubber stamped card.

I have lost the name of the artist.

"Praise is a soul in flower."

- Thomas Watson

Barbie!

Here are some pretty spring paper dolls:

tip: Why not get out some old magazines, and make more clothes for her?

Remember, you can use cereal boxes as a backing for her.

Just cut out the doll, then glue to a thin cardboard (like cereal boxes).

Cut out, and you have a nice sturdy doll to dress.

Cut out a strip of the box to make a stand.

Mary Pickford, Hollywood star

This is one of Pat Stahl's charming paper dolls:

Thank you again to OrigamiBears for her fantastic sharing!

Here is a favorite quote of mine,

from a DressBarn ad, c.2007:

"Let yourself do something for others today.

Let yourself laugh.

Let yourself make funny faces.

Let yourself eat too much chocolate.

Let yourself meet someone smarter than you.

Let yourself be."

This is one of my favorite rubber stamped cards from my friend, Shelly.
Check out her blog, listed on the right.
The stamp used is from Peddler's Pack.

"Let there be no purpose in friendship

save the deepening of spirit."

- Kahlil Gibran

I hope you have enjoyed my little celebration of spring today.

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

Easter chicks galore!

Hi!
First of all, don't you just love the word 'galore'? We just don't use it enough.
So, today we will have paper dolls 'galore', chick coloring pages 'galore', and darling chick photos and vintage clip 'galore'!

Since I know you have that big ol' box of crayons out from yesterday, here is a fun Easter Chick coloring page for you!

and another:

Here is a rubber stamped card from Peddler's Pack:

Okay, okay, I know these wonderful eggs will not become cute little chicks,
but the card was so pretty I had to add it!

So, here are some more chicks:

and another vintage postcard:

“Our theories of the eternal

are as valuable as are those

of a chick which has not broken

its way through its shell

might form of the outside world.”

 - Budha

Here is a fun little paperdoll by Lucinda Darbin, courtesy of OrigamiBears.

Be sure and make some extra outfits!



And we can't leave out Betsy McCall, now can we?

"We can see a thousand miracles around us every day.

What is more supernatural than an egg yolk

Turning into a chicken?”

- S. Parkes Cadman

Here is a tip for making your own Easter egg stands:

Cut a toilet paper cardboard core into 1 inch cylinders.

Have fun decorating with stickers, scraps of fancy paper, lace and ribbons!

Now, how easy is that?

Here is a darling little cupcake recipe from McCormick's seasonings:

Chick Cupcakes

Hatch a batch of these cupcakes this Easter with your little kitchen helpers.

Makes 12 (1 cupcake) servings.

Prep Time: 30 minutes

1 container (16 ounces) vanilla frosting

McCormick® Assorted Food Colors and Egg Dye

2 cups flaked coconut

12 unfrosted cupcakes

12 plain donut holes

12 pieces candy corn or 6 orange jelly beans, halved lengthwise

Miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips

1. Tint frosting yellow, using 18 drops yellow food color. Place coconut in resealable plastic bag. Add 12 drops yellow food color to coconut in bag; shake until coconut is evenly tinted.

2. Spread top of each cupcake with tinted frosting. Press opposite sides of each cupcake into tinted coconut. Spread donut holes with remaining frosting. Press a donut hole into top of each cupcake to form the chick’s head.

3. Press coconut on top of the head for feathers. Insert a candy corn or jelly bean half into the face for the beak. Use the chocolate chips for the eyes.

Test Kitchen Tip: For ease in frosting donut holes, first insert small wooden skewer into donut. Use skewer as a handle when frosting donut. Invert frosted donut onto cupcake then remove skewer.

Copyright © 2008 McCormick & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | www.mccormick.com

And for a final too cute end:

Hope today's blog has made you smile at least twice!

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

http://www.myinkspired.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com