Stripes Wednesday Stamper

Wednesday Stamper's challenge for this week is the theme "Stripes." The background of this piece is pastels on watercolor paper. The rubber stamp is a cutesy one I picked up at Dollar Tree. Go visit the other entries in the WS "Stripes."

House and Home Created by Hand Challenge

This is a digital art piece I did using a photo of an oil painting I did of the house I was born in and grew up in. I overlaid the photo with a photo of my grandmother, for whom the house was built in 1908. The little girl in the painting is my mother who was also born in this house. Other entries in the challenge can be found at Created by Hand.

Simplicity

In May Art Techniques ATCs group is having a swap, entitled simply "Blue." The ATC must be mostly blue. This very rainy afternoon I have been working on this swap. The maple leaf is a homemade stamp. The quote is by Einstein.

"Out of clutter find simplicity."

Sunday Gothic Arches Garden Fairies

This is my entry for the Sunday Gothic Arches challenge this week. The theme is Garden Fairies. I don't have any stamps that fit that description so I used a butterfly and a sticker. The background is Adirondack alcohol inks of butterscotch and stream. The flowers are a stamp I got at Michael's.

Wednesday Stamper - Insects

This ATC began as a watercolor project in an art class, a painting of a sunset on the water with a few reeds in the water. I cut it up into pieces I could use in greetings cards. The dragonfly is stamped with clear embossing pad and fine gold embossing powder. Insects is the theme this week for Wednesday Stamper.

Earth Day ATC - Created by Hand

Here is my entry for the Created by Hand challenge for this week. The theme in honor of Earth Day is Green. The background of this ATC is various alcohol inks overstamped with green leaves. The punchinella image at the bottom is embossed with pearl blue and holographic powders. The dragonfly is embossed with holographic and gold powders. I plan to use this ATC as part of a greetings card I will send to a friend.

My Doll and Me Gothic Arch

Actually, my favorite doll as a very young child was my real-life baby sister, so I have included her in my entry for "My Doll and Me" challenge. The rag doll was a first grade project I did. The teacher provided the pattern, which we took home and used to make a doll. All the sewing including the lovely embroidery work (LOL) was hand done by me as a 6 year old. Unfortunately, I have no photographs at all of me and a doll together. Here I am (blond hair) shown with my little sister.

My background is done with alcohol inks on cheapo glossy photo paper. Some of the inks are homemade and some are Adirondack.

Other entries into the Gothic Arch challenge for this week can be seen here.

Wednesday Stamper - Alter Me

 I did a digital alteration on the image provided. I printed it out and then stamped small gold flowers onto the background. The text says: "Miss Pettigrew applies for a teaching position." Wednesday stamper can be found here.

Zentangle - TMTA

Here is my entry for the Think Monday, Think ATC challenge. The theme today is Zentangles. On my blog at http://360.yahoo.com/hastingshall2 I have more zentangles posted from a swap in another group on February 2 posting . The one posted here is this morning's creation using a Sharpie pen. I really like the Pilot pens for doing zentangles. You can find this challenge at

http://tmta.wordpress.com/

New Stamps

This gorgeous image is done on gold pearlized card stock using one of the stamps Judy sent me from Hearts in Touch (http://www.heartsintouch.com/). Thanks to this wonderful RAK I have a whole lot more variety in my meager stamp collection. This sheet of stamps has vintage couples and women. I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of cards and ATCs with them.

By the Sea

This was made for the Gothic Arches Sunday challenge. The background is gesso covered by acrylic paints of gold and green. The shell is a Stazon ink stamp covered with Winsor and Newton Iridescent Medium. The arch is embossed with gold. The Gothic Arches website is:
http://gothicarches.wordpress.com

Pauline

Pauline
Originally uploaded by hastingshall2

Actually, this is Pearl, who I believe was my great-grandmother's half sister. I made this ATC using an acrylics paint transfer (metallic gold) on alcohol ink background. I used the white pen that Judy sent to me.

Mammy and Mama

Mammy and Mama
Originally uploaded by hastingshall2

This ATC of my great-grandmother and my mother was made by transferring the photo with Omni-Gel.