Dreamer. Janice Darby. LYA Side Swap 2017
Don’t know why, but the Dr. Pepper song popped into my head, and the words morphed into the post title. In trying to get it out of my head, I watched the original commercial. I did not need to realize that it is nearly forty years old!
Janice Darby’s Dreamer opens the 2017 LYA video (by Kat Sloma). Each time I saw this image on the Facebook group page, I crossed my fingers that one would come my way. Love the layers in this! Janice and I have swapped before, I always look forward to her card. She lives in Santa Maria, California. Very inspiring city I think!
On the back:
Never let it be said that to DREAM is a waste of one’s time,
for DREAMS are our realities in waiting.
In dreams we plant the seeds of our future.
Love that thought Janice! So glad you agreed to a side swap. Thanks so much for sharing your awesome art with me!
Coneflower. Chandra Lynn. LYA Side Swap 2017
Chandra sent this digitally enhanced photo from Alabama. She shared her enhancement experiments in a recent blog post. Looks like fun to me! I need to find some fun photo apps. I really love the colors in this. Makes me think of watercolors flowing together. Beautiful! She included this:
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art
–we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
Anais Nin
Chandra’s blog posts are often filled with inspirational words. She teaches composition and literature, reading and writing are her passions. Thank you Chandra for sharing your passions with us!
Pink Flamingo, colored pencil. Diane McWhirter. Australia.
Diane’s work is always stunning. Take a look at her pet portraits. She also works in ink, and I just love her vivid, lively colors. Lot’s of happy in her work! Her floral pillows are gorgeous. So honored that you would swap with me Diane – had no idea your postcard postage is $2.95 (Australia)! If it helps, I think your work is priceless.
So blessed to count these talented women among my LYA friends! I find their work delightful and inspiring! Hope you enjoyed these cards as well.
I have no idea how I’ve missed some of your recent posts, Sheila. Went to respond to the one that showed up overnight and have now discovered two earlier ones I missed. Haven’t looked beyond that yet, although I know I missed a post sometime in the past 10 days or so. At the time I assumed I was moving too fast. Now I’m wondering about cyber snafus but, regardless, here I am!
Thank you for sharing all the postal play that is taking place via your mailbox. These cards delight and amaze!
There you are Dotty 🙂 And I am so grateful. I figured your lovely layering was captivating and mesmerizing your time 🙂
Yay! You received it! This is a beautiful post! I love Janice’s and Diane’s cards. Both very beautiful!
I love it Chandra, the colors are soooo cool! You all made a very pretty post indeed 🙂
So much inspiration in your posts! You must love when the mail arrives and I would think that your mail’person’ loves delilvering to you! Love seeing the different mediums artists use. Thanks for sharing Sheila. Have a great day.
So glad you enjoyed them Janet. Our mail person is a woman, and I have a feeling she is enjoying the cards too. Hope you have a great day as well, have fun creating!
Wow people go all out on these cards. Got to believe that the post office people enjoyed this swap as much as the artists. You never know who you are going to touch with visuals or words. Just super Sheila.
Very true Nelvia, you never know 🙂 Just think of how many may have seen it between Australia and arizona 🙂
The detail in Diane’s artwork using color pencils and the color saturation are wow! I checked out her website, and I could have sworn that pet portrait of the little Shih Tzu dog was Howie. Thank you for sharing.
I couldn’t get Chandra’s blog link to work, but I enjoyed seeing her digitally enhanced coneflower, I love those tough drought resistant flowers. That morphing effect does look like watercolor. So far, I have experimented with Adobe Photoshop artistic filters and the free Photofunia app. I give them both a thumbs up. Photofunia is the easiest.
I wasn’t kidding huh Teresa! Her work is awesome. I just fixed the link to Chandra’s page. Thanks for letting me know. Coneflowers are fun to paint. I found a great tutorial and pinned it to my art education board. One easy technique 🙂 I will check out that app. Thanks for sharing that with me 🙂 I love Photoshop, but I rarely think to alter images for fun like that…
Super cards Sheila. I hadn’t seen the last two before and they are super.
Glad they were new surprises for you Val. I hadn’t seen Diane’s either. And Chandra’s I saw smaller on her blog. So glad to see that your sides had started to arrive 🙂
Such beautiful and inspiring cards!
Thanks for visiting Carol 🙂