Rain's Thursday Art Date: Your Flower

Today we're meeting at Rain's for her Thursday Art Date.  This week, the theme is Your Flower.

I'll start by pounding an iris or two.

I like how this turned out.

I created this for a challenge.

Here's a detail of the left side.

An ICAD from 2017.

I created this in my Coll-AH-ge altered book made from recycled materials.

I was auditioning several layouts for a quiltlet

and never came up with a design I liked.  All backgrounds were hand painted or hand dyed by me, as were the yellow petals.

I called this Funky Flowers, and created it for a challenge.

These were made using deli papers.  Every time I moved the page, I had to fluff the flowers.  Since the page was scanned, the flowers were definitely flattened.

This is quite recent, as some of you saw from this year's 22 days of recycling.

This was created in my large art journal.

This was for one of the words I created in my Alpha-Numeric altered book I made for the year long Craft Barn challenge.

I created this one April during my 22 days of recycling.  My grandmother crocheted the flower.

I made this in my 7-Continents altered book.

This was another recycled project.  It's made from a cracker box, but looks like wood.

Part of a three person round robin I was in.

I am not sure I like this one, but I was playing around with rust when I created this quiltlet.  I practically hid the pressed pansy in the center.

A recent entry from this year's 22 days of recycling.

This one, made with a painted wood substrate, was part of a Summer of Color challenge.  The blue and orange flowers (originally white) were dyed for the challenge.

Another Summer of Color challenge entry.  I turned the flowers from an old calendar into a transparency, but it doesn't show well on the scan.

Another Summer of Color challenge, again on wood.  The various layers of fabric were hand dyed (by me).  The flowery heart was created from a stencil.

I made cabbage roses from cutting the end of a stalk of celery and stamping.  Here I've not sewn the two sides together yet.

I dyed all my fabric for every Summer of Color entry. 

Another Summer of Color entry.  The birds and flowers were dyed using blackberries from my garden and the rick rack was dyed using turmeric.  The background fabric was spritzed using my handmade shimmering mists.

Yet another Summer of Color entry.  For this one, I painted the wood and painted the white flowers.

I bet you know I'm going to say this is another Summer of Color entry.  Yes, it's on wood, and the center, made of heavy embossed chip board, was colored using a pan pastel.  That's when I learned you have to seal the pan pastel or it gets all over your arm.  Yes, I colored the flowers, too.

Another Summer of Color entry.  I fussy cut all those flowers and added some on both sides to the base of the watering can.  The background is my handmade shimmering mists.

I've never said I was original.  This was made for a Summer of Color entry and it is also made of wood I painted.  Note the beads I made from polymer clay to match the color scheme and the lace at the bottom I also dyed.  I painted the doily and dyed the lavender flowers.

Now let's switch gears

and head to my front Flower Bed.
This one shows both my front Flower Bed and my herb garden in the rain.

I purchased this Kalanchoe one autumn because I've never seen a multi-colored one before.

A friend went to Hawaii and brought me this beautiful flower tea mug.

I had tea one T Tuesday in my Flower Bed.

At one time, I had a lot of tulips

in my front garden.

This is one of several Rose of Sharon plants I have.

The flowers are lovely, but they attract ants.  They don't press well, though.

This is a close up of blackberry flowers

located in my herb garden.

In late summer, I have wild sunflowers.

It's how I know autumn will soon be here.

And finally, here are this year's hyacinths in my Flower Bed garden.

I'm afraid I got a little (OK, a LOT) carried away this week.  As you can see, I could go on practically forever using this theme.  All art created by me, all photos taken by me.  Bleubeard supervised (and got bored about half way through).

Thanks for stopping by.  I probably don't say it often enough, but I am truly grateful to you, my friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join me at Rain's Thursday Art Date.