Butterfly Thinking of You

Thought I would share a card I made up today for a Butterfly Mingle that I am doing on one of my Yahoo groups. Thought this one looked like spring. The butterfly is done with glittery embossing powder but it shows up much better in person. The background is done with a brayer and a rainbow ink pad and then that is mounted on a piece of paste paper that I made.

Tuesday's Created Byhand Challenge

For this tuesday's challenge we were given a bunny card template from Quietfire Designs http://www.quietfiredesign.com/bunnycard.htm which we could use as it was or resize and use for whatever art we chose. I chose to make the image small enough for an ATC. I then covered the bunny with a piece of fabric and stitched around it, added a pink jewel for his eye and half a white pompom for his tail. I then added a clipart image leaning on his back. This was all mounted on a piece of Basic Grey patterned paper from the Stella Ruby collection that I had distressed with Ranger Distress ink in Weathered Wood and stamped with Quietfire Designs http://www.quietfiredesign.ca/cart.php?target=category&category_id=579 Flourishes and the word Dream from another one of their stamps using ColorBox chalk ink in Prussion Blue as well as inking the edges with the same colour.

Mondays Challenge

This is the ATC I did for the Monday Challenge on Altered Designs group using the image that was generously provided by Outside The Margins http://www.outsidethemargins.com/photos.php?gallery=8 The words are part of a stamp from Quietfire Designs http://www.quietfiredesign.ca/cart.php?target=category&category_id=785 that I just inked up the first line. The mounting corners and the black layer were done from an envelope that was in my reject pile. In other words not quite the garbage can. I sealed the envelope closed then cut the 4 corners off to use as the mounting for the image, then cut a piece from the envelope to create the black mounting layer. There is a shimmery piece of Stardream paper in a coppery/brown colour between the image and the black but it doesn't show up very well. Then the whole was mounted to a layer of Bazzill textured cardstock in a deep red.

TGIF - Life's a Dance

Another ATC, this one is for the TGIF mingle on Altered Designs. The theme was Black, Red and White. The image I used on this one is one of the free printable collage sheet generously provided by Lisa Vollrath over at http://www.gomakesomething.com . The words are computer generated and the red fabric stuff is the netting they tie up Valentine Chocolate boxes with.

Yup got chocolate!! Bring me chocolate! Want more chocolate!! Oh sorry I got carried away there but I guess you get the drift that I like chocolate. Isn't it the four food groups they keep talking about? LOL Enough of the sillies and any comments are appreciated and encouraged. Have a great day

Monday Challenge for Feb. 18/08

Just a bit late here but better late than never I guess. This ATC was done for the Monday Challenge on Yahoo Group Altered Designs. It sat on my worktable for half the week because I wasn't sure how I wanted to finish it but this is what I came up with in the end. The grill work over the image is done on acetate using some of the Michael's $1.50 clear stamps and Memories Black ink. The Ivy is a stamp from PSX in Memories Hunter Green and then coloured with pencil crayonds. The ribbon started out as white gross grain which I coloured by swiping the ColorBox chalk ink in Bisque over it several times until it was the colour I wanted. Dried it and then ran it through my printer to get the word.

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.