Dream Catcher

Dream Catchers, also known as Spider Web Charms, are believed to trap unimportant or bad dreams that float in the air, much the way a spider traps insects into their webb. Bad dreams are trapped and lost within the webb while the good dreams were permitted to slide down and enter your thoughts. The use of Owl, Hawk and Eagle feathers are no longer legally sold so this dream catcher is digitally made from stones and jewelry. I would hang this above my bed anytime. 

Oracles

I am in-between class homework so I am posting a couple Oracle style cards. I have not stopped making Tarot cards by any means. They are pouring out and on to the page but I am waiting to post as homework. There are hundreds of cards finished and hundreds more waiting to be created. I try to come up with five ideas everyday. Sometimes putting the idea in my head to a card does not project all that well. And sometimes when I just try something off the top of my head it comes out better than I had hoped. So there is no right way or wrong way. You just have to start.

Two of Coins

High Priestess

Designing between the Assignments

While waiting for some more Tarot homework assignments I thought I would share some more cards. My next tarot card assignment in Janet's class will be the High Priestess. I am looking forward to sharing new tarot card designs on her!

 But in the mean time I love this quote. I had to design a card for this quote. Sometimes I have no idea when I start a card where it will end up. Some cards come quickly and sometimes they are a struggle. I enjoyed working with these colors. This card took a while to put together but I enjoyed every minute. Hope you like it.

 

I obvious like the Fool card. It keeps popping up everywhere. Especially this fun little lady that keeps appearing in my cards. I am a huge Lori Davison fan and she is the one who designed her. Lori is an amazing artist. I am crazy about her work. I take her drawings and try to come up with cards.

In Tarot Gate

I was listening to a tarot podcast the other day and I heard some say the word Interrogate and for some reason I heard "In Tarot Gate" so I had to go home and design a card to go beyond the Tarot Gate. As time goes I am sure I will tweak and change the card but I had to get it out before I forgot about it.

Another Fool card I had been playing around with.

Ace of Cups

Ace of Wands

Tarot Class

I have been asked in my Tarot Class to come up with 5 online images that I feel encapsulate the series of tarot cards that I am currently studying. Unfortunately (or fortunately however you choose to look at it) I do not have unlimited access to Internet. The good part about this is not being distracted into a mind boggling oblivion of fantastic sites I discover every time I go out searching for my homework. And the bad is, well look at all the amazing sites I miss out on by not mindlessly searching for whatever suits my interpretation of the cards. So I had to come up with a solution to this dilemma and my solution was to invent or create my own tarot cards for my homework assignments. I have taken my obsession with digital scrapbooking and turned it into amateur tarot card designing. And please forgive me because it is amateur!! I love love love to digital scrapbook because first of all I can’t draw a stick figure, second there is never anything worth watching on TV and third it keeps me out of the bars (really though I don’t have piles and piles of scrap accessories from one end of my house to the other. When I am done with digital I just put the laptop to bed. Got to love that!!

So here it goes with my first series of 19 cards. ( I gipped you on a Sword card. I sort of lost my mojo and yet I loved designing this card best.) I can only hope I get better at this as I become more familiar with the cards meanings, more familiar with my truckloads of digital files and find some semblance of an imagination. I may look back at these cards and laugh. Only time and more discovery unleashed will tell the tale. Anyhow that is my story and I am sticking to it.

Ace of Swords

I have only made four of the Swords. I seemed to have run out of creativity at this point. I really enjoy trying to creat a card from digital images I have.

Ace of Pentacles

Five Samples of the Ace of Pentacles. My tarot class assignment.

Magician

I thought it would be fun to have the rabbit pull the Magician out of the hat for a change.

This has a Mardi Gras feel to it.

Fool's Journey

Somewhere over the rainbow this little gal is going. She didn't bring a little dog along, she brought her bunnie buddy, only he is having fun of his own. Wouldn't it be nice is everybody's Fool's Journey had only a rainbow path. Her optimisim believes this is what is ahead for her.

She seemed to have made her journey off the rainbow and back onto land. What is going on with the mask? Her bunny friend has disappeared and she found out her true friend was her bluebird. Maybe when you are being a Fool you find out who your true friends really are.

This little lady is back. Looks like her crazy bunny friend once again took the plunge before she did. What lies behind the door? She is about to find out.

This fairy fool seems to be a bit hesitant about starting her journey. She cant seem to step off her ledge. And yet there is beautiful music to be played. Her bunny friend is doesnt seem to understand her fear but realizes this is her journey.

I guess the Fool is long gone. Best Wishes.

She is my favorite Fool. Her life is a series of notes. Each key played a different note for her. She has left that to try her path of cards. It is a long long path that seems to go on for eternity. Will this unlock her new Fool's path? She will have to take the journey to find out.