Just finished this week's piece of Found Art! It is a lucky charm, I've had an idea of making charms for a while but I couldn't think of something interesting to make, until I found this small mint tin box lying around and then the "aha!" moment came.

I took off the lid and made a small collage with different papers, letter rub-ons and a little drawing with black india ink. I also used a date stamp of May 20 2008 (this last Tuesday's date). I added a ribbon and a tag with the Found Art Tuesday flick group address (just in case someone tries to find out more about it) and that little cameo thing is a button.

I sealed the collage with epoxy resin and since it looked so shiny and I wanted a more aged look, I tried to "age it" by scratching and poking it with a wire when it was just about set, then I added brown acrylic paint.

I have to say that the thing I like the most about it is the picture above. I used a "cinemascope" effect I found at an online photo editor called Picnik, (thanks to sk8ordiehard for the link!) that effcts makes anything look cool.

Here are a few more not so cool pictures. I am leaving this today at Starbucks! 

Come take a look!

 There is a family of blue birds that live in the forest across the street from my house and it warms my heart every time I hear them and see them flying around. Welcome little guys! my daughter made a bird feeder with a cardboard tube and we put it up in one of our trees in the front yard, all the birdseed was gone just a few hours later!

I started this painting yesterday, it's pastel crayons and water in gesso prepared cardboard. I still want to add black india ink and just a few more details. it's still a work in progress on my desk.