House Moo

These are the latest fad in art swaps. Sometime in the recent past business/calling cards went to an approximate 1"x 2.75" called a MOO. Like Rolodex cards they have now made it into art swaps. 

These are for a swap at ATCsforall.com, house moo swap. I used the images are from Ten Two Studios "Little Yellow" collage sheet.

Snowman Swap

Here are my Snowman Swap cards. They are ink, watercolor and markers.

Wine Cork Ornaments

I came across some lovely Christmas ornaments made form wine corks. I used images from Ten Two Studios "Little Christmas" collage sheets for mine

Day of the Dead My Artwork

If you are not familiar with this celebration you can read about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead . Living in Texas I have seen some beautiful art. Here is some artist trading cards I have made in the past.

Halloween Pumpkins

Here is some Halloween art - mostly pumpkins I made for a couple of swaps. One for an ATC swap and the other was for a secret Halloween swap

Halloween MOO

These are little works of art, 1.1 x 2.75 patterned after MOO MiniCards. There has been some remarkable swaps at ATCs for all. A friend showed me hers and I had to try my hand. 

These MOOs are made from collage sheets at Ten Two Studios.com. They are also up for trade. Contact me at http://www.atcsforall.com/.

Watercolor Landscapes

I have been experimenting in lighter shades of color backgrounds

Art Nouveau Women Swap

These cards were made for an artist trading card swap at  http://www.atcsforall.com/

The top two cards are inspired by Georges De Feure and the bottom two are inspired by Mucha.

Day of the Dead Artist Trading Cards

These are my cards from a Day of Dead swap I hosted at Illustrated ATCs . You can view the whole swap at my flickr account.  It will only be there for a couple of weeks. The artwork is always great.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liviahajovsky/

Longhorns and Cowboy

I made these artist trading cards from a larger watercolor that I did not like. I cut the size traded them out. The city of Fort Worth has a herd or long horns they take out everyday for a stroll in the stockyards. They are beautiful creatures. Here is a link http://www.fortworth.com/cowboys-culture/herd/

The Two Mona's

The two Mona's are an experiment with medium and paper. This green Mona is a rubber stamp sprayed with green ink and applied to mix media paper. Since I used too much ink the fine details of the stamp was blurred. I filled in around the face with micron and sharpie fine ink pens.

 This is the same rubber stamp, this time I used a flat watercolor brush and applied the watercolor directly to the stamp. I laid a non bleed specialty paper on the stamp, lifting it carefully. It has some better details on the face. I colored in the face and made swirly hair with watercolor and a fine brush.

Handmade Journals/Art Journals

I love to make books, but I am not authority nor that great at it. I am always interested in different ways to make books. Ten Two Studio has an online (at your leisure) class, One Pad Art Journals. I highly recommend this class because it so easy and you make a very lovely book. Here are mine.

I found some deckle watercolor paper at my local paper store a made the book that has the charm on the cover.  I also colored the cover paper with ink to make it blue. I am planning on taking it on vacation in Galveston, Tx this August.

Dawns or Sunsets Watercolor Artist Trading Cards

I am still trying my way through watercolors. These are artist trading cards for a swap - Dawns and Sunsets.

Green Grids

Still fascinated with doing little drawings in a grid. I had some green watercolor out and made these grids and inked in garden musings

Artsty Fish

I am in a swap at Illustratedatcs.com called Artsty Fish Madness. Here are my submissions. They are some in watercolor with ink , the others are ink and markers. 

The backs are "April Fish" collage sheets from Ten Two Studios with fish labels and other paper elements on handmade paper or scrapbook papers.