Flowers

As many know, I am in love with flowers! When I was little I would help my Grandma garden and care for all her beautiful flowers. As an adult, I don't have a garden other than some hostas that I don't have to do anything with. My dream would to have a beautiful garden with tons of flowers . . . and the time to care for them! Until that dream comes true, I go around Grand Rapids and appreciate others hard work and take photos for reference. Here are some that I found last weekend that I can't wait to use for painting/design inspiration.

These photos have not been color corrected yet, so my apologies for them being a little dark :)

Graduation Card

It's that time of year again! Schools are being let out for the summer and kids are walking across the stage while their families whoop and holler and Moms cry. We have multiple graduation parties to go to in the next couple weeks, which means I need to pull out my greeting cards boxes and pick the just right card. Here are a couple that I designed.

Little P

My sweet baby was being adorable so I thought I would post a picture :)

Paisley Perfection

Some new designs from my paisley collection.

All designs © Struthers Studios

 As always, it started with this sketch:

 

 

  

Holiday Fun

Another color way for some patterns.
All patterns © Struthers Studios

Holly Jolly

While I was working on the patterns in the previous post, I came up with this too.

Original Sketch

Vector Art

Lettering with colored glitter

Tall mug

Round Dinner Plate

Holiday Patterns

Here are some fun holiday seamless patterns that I had some fun with.
All of these designs are © Struthers Studios

 

NYC

I was very lucky last weekend to go to NYC for work. We participated in the New York Stationery Show and I went to help set up the booth. In my "spare time" (haha) I got to see some areas of NYC that I have only seen on TV.

30 Rock

Time Square

Complete Booth, it looked amazing!

Studio

We bought our house five years ago yesterday and I picked out which room I wanted to make my studio. Finally, I have finished it and it is a functioning art studio!

Here is the before photo, but to be honest, this is when I had already started cleaning out the closet and shelving units.

The walls were a yellow color which was absolutely horrible! I painted the walls and trim white to keep it really clean looking.  Of course I had my little helper with me the whole time.

After I finished painting, I bought a hollow closet door and put white formica board on the top to use as a desk top. My parents gave me an old gray two drawer file cabinet that I spray painted white and used that as the base for the desk on one side. To keep the desk top up on the other side I used L brackets on the wall.

 Finally I did some decorating and now I have a full on studio!

It's been too long!

Hello everyone! I know it has been a long time since I have posted on here, however I am back and ready to post! It seems like the year 2013 has flown by and I can't believe we are coming to the end of May!

Since my last post, I have created some new designs, traveled, completed my design studio and my glass studio. So, I suppose I should start at the beginning.

I have been working with stained glass since I was 15 and I LOVE it! However, to have all the tools and supplies you need quite a bit of room. When I was in Europe, my husband built me another bench and we took a whole weekend to clean and organize (one of my favorite things to do). Now all my saws, grinder, drill press and kiln are up and running, my glass is organized in rainbow order, my glass scraps are put away in drawers and I finally have a surface to create.

Enjoy some pictures of the space and hopefully soon I will get some new glass pictures on here. Seriously, there are not enough hours in a day to accomplish all the "To Do's" on my list.