Well thanks everyone! You are always so supportive. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and very therapeutic. :-) Saucy, I hope Sara does do one of Zeuss. It's a lot of fun and anyone can do it, ages 5 - 85! :-) PM2, yes, I did do most of the painting. Well, painting/drawing. I use watercolor pencils, which I think are a lot easier to work with than paints and brushes. For the trees in the one pic that you liked, I did have to use acrylic paint cause I wanted to give the leaves texture. Some things I didn't draw, for instance, the picture that Cynthia admires. I love the very Art Deco look of that...it's from an old postcard I saved. For that one I scanned the postcard, printed it out and changed the color of the dog to black and white so it would look like Scout. Cynthia, I'll try to get a closeup shot of that for you. I really like it too and wish I knew who the artist was. Unfortunately the print is old and wasn't signed. Marian - yes, all the photos of Scout were scanned or printed from my camera software, as I didn't want to use the originals. I use a product called Matt Medium to bond the pieces to the canvas. I don't know what the difference is between Matt Medium and Decoupage/glue, but that's what was recommended to me, so that's what I use :-) What kind of collages did you make for the Extension Fair? Did you save any of them? If so, I'd love to see them. How neat that you were involved in the Extension Fair exhibit. I love going to those types of fairs. It's so wonderful to see what everyone has created. I especially love to see the kids works of art. Some of them are so advanced, I'm just amazed. We go to the fair at my garden girlfriend's cottage every year and we always time it so that we come on the week-end of the fair.

I have garden Flags, Votives, coin envelopes( for seeds) , Vellum paper , permanent markers (for labeling your plant stakes), candle melts for tart burners, material swatches for crafts and quilting. All items are brand new with tags still on. Looking to trade for any bulbs, rooted roses, caladiums, verbena, malva, potentilla, butterfly bush, astilbe, monk's cap, goat's beard,mums, amsonia, pond plants or make me an offer.

TMG..I don't know if Grannyicu used vellum or not (BTW Granny..those blocks are beautiful, but you if just have to have it transparent, you might could try tracing paper. At least the ink would dry pretty quick on that. Do you plan on using the string lights or the nightlight type light? If you're going to use the string type, I can almost guarantee the jumbled up string of light will show through on anything transparent. I don't know about the nightlight kind..but I'm thinking it'd probably show through too.

Hi Angela ! I too am addicted to scrapbooking !! If you do a search under Yahoo, Excite, or any other search engine, you should find several listings for scrapbook conventions. I received a beautiful Christmas card last year from a relative that had vellum paper on it. I will do my best to describe it. It had a decorative cardstock sheet (6 x 8 1/2) as the background(it was white with large red polka dots all over it). In the center of that paper was a lime green sheet of cardstock cut to the size of 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 that had been pasted down. On top of that she had cut the same size from a sheet of ivory vellum paper. This vellum paper was not pasted down to the lime green.. instead, it was attached by a ribbon. To do this, you simpy lay the vellum paper down ontop of the lime green card, lining it up, and punch two holes (about 1" apart) at the top of the entire stack. She then threaded sheer red ribbon through it and that is how the vellum was attached. She had printed her Christmas greeting on the vellum paper prior to attaching it to the card and when you lift the vellum paper, you will find the photo of her children. Very beautiful and creative. Needless to say, I kept the card as a "template" for invitations, birthday cards or any other reason I can think of to make this card. Just an idea! Tracye Here is a link that might be useful: Tracye's Treasures