Musical Father's Day Greeting Cards

F.A.T.H.E.R.S.

"F" aithful.
"A" lways there.
"T" rustworthy.
"H" onoring.
"E" ver-loving.
"R" ighteous.
"S" upportive.

Author Unknown

Happy Easter - Celebrate by sending Greeting Cards

It means so much at Easter time To keep in touch with friends To wish them happiness and cheer And joy that never ends. This brings heartfelt greetings Especially for you Together with best wishes For a happy Springtime too.

Celebrate Family this New Year 2012

A Happy New Year! Grant that I bring no tear to any eye.
When this New Year in time shall end Let It be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year

-"Edgar Guest"

New to Our Collection - Holiday Gift Box Greeting Card

New to our collection is a beautiful Holiday Gift Box that sends a message to family and friends.   "May Your Holidays be Merry and Bright!"

One Person Can Save Trees

Together We Can Save Forests

Do Your Part Today -  Send An Ecard!

Happy Haunting - New Halloween Greeting Cards

New - Halloween Ecard

Happy Halloween Greeting Ecard - Send fun musical animated halloween ecards this October 31!

You can send this new Halloween Ecard this October 31st for only $1.50.   Send for 1 month hundreds of musical animated greetings created by our family of artists.

No Ads - No Spam will be sent with your ecards.  Only your card and personal message will be sent to your familly and friends.   All our ecards are created by our family of artists.   All fun, family friendly greeting cards.   Enjoy sending all year from home or office.

June Birthday Flowers

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June Birth Flower

The rose is the June birthflower. Rose is known as the flower of passion as the ancient Greeks believed that Aphrodite the goddess of love gave a rose to Eros the god of love. Roses have many flower meanings according to their color and number of roses in a bouquet. All roses symbolize love and appreciation though.

No other flower is as recognizable as the rose. No other flower conveys love and passion like the rose either. In Victorian times each flower had its own secret meaning. Red roses meant you love the receiver. Pink roses mean you have not the passion of red, but still have feelings of love. Dark pink roses mean you have gratitude. Light pink roses mean admiration or sympathy. White roses mean innocence, purity, secrecy and friendship. Yellow roses mean dying love or platonic love. In German speaking countries though yellow roses mean jealousy and infidelity. Yellow roses with red tips mean friendship or falling in love. Burgandy roses mean beauty. Blue roses mean mystery. Green roses mean calm. Purple roses mean protection and maternal or paternal love.

Tulips Are My Favorite Flower

Tulip Setup



Tulips have to be my favorite flower, if it is even possible to pick only one! They are so curvaceous and so baroque when they are finally opened to the point of the petals falling off of the stem. I have always been inspired by the Dutch floral painters of the 17th and 18th centuries, and fascinated by the "Tulip mania" that took place at that time. Imagine one tulip bulb more expensive than a house at that time!



Tulip Sketch



I like planting tulips with two varieties that are close in color range; for example: a pink next to a deep magenta. The one color plays off against the other and makes the color "dance" when viewed at a distance. Another nice combination are a striped variety with a solid. In my garden they usually forget-me-knots at their feet. The small blue and pink flowerettes are a nice compliment to the grand stately tulip. I plant a variety of species so that I can extend the blooming (and viewing and painting!) time as long as possible. I'm going to go and collect some now!

Spring Daffodils

"Finally, finally SPRING!



The beginning sketches of Daffodils

 The daffodils are in full bloom in my garden here in Pennsylvania. The bright yellow color is so welcoming.  I love to pick a bouquet of daffies and bring them into the house. It's a sign that the garden season has really started! I took the vase into my studio and enjoyed drawing them and adding the color - yellows, greens and creams.

 

Spring Daffodils



They are  blooming at the same time as the grape hyacinths, primroses, forget-me-knots, and early tulips. The combination of the classic blue and yellow is stunning in the garden, especially when planted "en masse". Many of these different daffodil varieties were gifts from other gardeners. It is a nice reminder of them. It is always fun to share plants." 

Artist of the Month - April

Doll Barnes

Doll Barnes began creating her paper sculpture designs after being introduced to the medium as a student in 2000.  She found the medium to be a perfect marriage betwen art and craft.  Each piece is created out of heavy weight art paper using various shaping techniques.  Foam core spacers are used for added dimension. 
A step-by-step demonstration showing how one of her pieces was created was filmed by HGTV - Home and Garden Television - and will be shown in and upcoming episode of their show,  "Thats Clever!"

Two of her pieces were shown at the Society of Illustrators in New York City as well as "ICON3", the Illustrators Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Doll lives in Wallingford, Connecticut surrounded by her menagerie of paper sculpture friends who are slowly, quietly taking over the house!Doll joined us to become one of our "Friends of Pamela" artists and has provided us with the pleasure of creating ecards from her exclusive line of paper sculptures. Her designs give new meaning to the word "whimsy".  With animation and music added to her collection of paper scultures, you now can send both her paper sculptures and electronic greeting cards (ecards) to your friends and family. 


We will be adding more of Doll Barnes' paper sculptures to our collection of ecards during the year. To learn more of Doll Barnes' paper sculpture, visit her website at http://www.dollbarnes.com/


Come back again to view more of Doll's ecards through the year.

Father's Day ecard	Belated Birthday Ecard	Cool Guy Birthday ecard	Christmas Snow Dancers ecard	Easter Bunny ecard

March Birthday Flower

March Birthday
Greeting ecards

March: Jonquil
Alternate: Daffodil

The Jonquil is another name for the Daffodil which has the botanic name of Narcissus, however referring to these flowers as Jonquils is normally only done in North America. Technically speaking, the name Jonquil should only refer to the variation called Narcissus jonquilla and cultivars derived directly from that variation.

The traditional Jonquil is a ring of light golden petals with a trumpet shaped center of a darker contrasting shade of gold/yellow. Cultivators have changed the flower for some nurseries giving it several layers of petals, instead of the original one, sometimes making the flower look like a little golden ball.

The Jonquil is used prominently for decorating during the Chinese New Year in both China and festivals celebrating this holiday around the world. The Jonquil, is referred to as the Daffodil in Wales and is considered to be the flower of Wales, where a small area of Tenby grows their own, unique variation. St. David's Day is celebrated in Wales on March 1st and Daffodils are often worn for that holiday.