TGIF - The 60's

Just thought I would share the ATC that I made for the TGIF mingle on Altered Designs. This was a struggle for me, either my memory is really bad or I slept through the 60's. I had a hard time thinking of things that were about or in that time period. Well other than hippies in the late 60's. I know when I was looking for images to use I kept looking at the fabric the clothes were made from thinking," people actually wore that stuff " Now the cars were a different matter I can remember lots of those with interesting thoughts to go with them hhmmm! maybe I didn't sleep all the way through the 60's but I'm not tellin. LOL

Out of Commission

One of the ladies on a Mixed Media art group I belong to was a victim of winter's black ice, took a fall and broke her wrist. The colours look good on the furniture but not on her thumb . So since I'm not there in person I have cyber signed her fabric covered cast. Hope she heals fast so she can get back to creating art.

1-2-3 Mingle

This is my interpretation of the 1-2-3- mingle on Altered Designs group. It had to be a 1 x 1 in., a 2 x2 in. and 3 x 3 in. pieces all in the same theme. I chose to create the three different sizes from the same image to meet the same theme idea. They are sort of like a puzzle that go together one on top of the other and are held together by magnets. When all three pieces are together you then have a complete fridge magnet.

Something to Share

I was just at Artist-How-To web site to make sure I had all the Valentine count down images that you could have for free and they had a post that if you took a short survey you could have all the images + one on a PDF file for FREE. Check it out at the link here.http://artist-how-to.com/ValentineCountdown.htm I will warn you though that there are a couple of Nudes on the PDF file so if that offends then maybe you don't want the file. Have agreat weekend everyone

TGIF Wings

Managed to get another piece of art done today. This is Wings ATC for TGIF Mingle on Altered Designs. It is done using Twinkling H2Os on Stardream white cardstock. The stamps are from Stampin Up except for the saying and I'm not even sure where I got that one, just thought it fit the theme.

Spring Flourishes

This ATC was one that I finished up today for a lottery on another yahoo group. The tulips were coloured partly with the magic pencil technique, which uses the oderless Mineral Spirits and a paper stump to move the colour, and plain coloured pencil technique. The flourish was stamped first in ColorBox chalk ink Lime Pastel and then shadow stamped with their Pink Pastel. The ribbon with the word spring on it was done with my computer and printer. I print out the word on a piece of paper so it looks the way I want it then I take a piece of ribbon and place it over the printed word, tape the leading edge with removeable scotch tape then run through the printer. Thought it might bleed a bit into the fabric of the ribbon but not a bit.

Mondays Challenge - Pioneers

This is an ATC I did for one of my groups. The challenge was to use the image provided and make art. I chose to go with the theme of the picture and use vintage as my style. The image was supplied by Jeanie from my yahoo group Altered Designs. The pieces that I used on the background are from Ice Coupons which is ephemera that was supplied by Lori Roberts and you can see her wonderful art work here http://alteredartexpressions.blogspot.com/