My Creative Niche

At last, I found my creative niche!  My husband introduced me to some software that he uses for his work.  It's called OmniGraffle.  He does computational drug discovery work, and I'm not exactly sure what he does with this software, but I like to use it to make cards.  I am not an artistic person at all.  I struggle to draw a straight line with a ruler.  But, I do get algebra and geometry and could spend all my "free" time playing with OmniGraffle.  At this point, I think David is wishing he never introduced me to OmniGraffle!

Here's a sampling of my creations:

This one was for Mother's Day.

This one was for my nephew's high school graduation.

This one was for our dads for Father's Day.

This one was for David for Father's Day.

I made these cards for each of the girls to give to their friends before we move.  This one is for the girls.

And this one is for the boys.

Paper Plate Wreaths

This Fall, our church formed Life Groups, which are each focused on a particular ministry area.  Our Life Group ministers to the elderly and widows.  We gather on Sunday evenings to share prayer requests with one another, discuss the sermon, and plan how we can minister in our church and city.  Today we went to a local nursing home to sing Christmas carols and hand out some wreaths that we made at last week's meeting.  Inspired by the idea, the girls and I made these wreaths to give as Christmas gifts to the senior adults in our church.

These are just made of tissue paper.  Cut or tear the paper, scrunch it up and glue.

These are made of ribbon and lots of glue!  We also used glittery red felt for the berries and bow.

The commonality in this group is the foam leaf shapes.  For the top wreath, I painted the plate circle green, then attached some foam leaves with rubber cement.  Then, I added the berries with school glue.  For the bottom left wreath, I painted the paper plate circle green and attached the leaf shapes with double stick adhesive and added the berries with school glue.  Then, I cut around the leaf shapes.  For the bottom right wreath, I attached the leaves with double stick adhesive and glued tissue paper to cover up the exposed paper plate.  Then, I cut around the leaf shapes.