Theme Thursday - Square Art

All of the images used to make this square digital art were from Dezinaworld. Theme Thursday has as its theme this week: square art.

Art Cards Challenge - faux marble

I absolutely love this technique that I tried for the first time today. It's called faux marble and is the theme for Art Cards Challenge this week. Here is where you can find the tutorial for doing this.

My backing paper and part of the "marble" are from a set of decorator papers I got from Michael's and I can't find any names on it.

This 4x4 is also being entered into the 4x4 Friday challenge. which is a free theme.

Created by Hand -Back to School

Back to School is the theme for CBH challenge this week. This 4x4 has a typewriter stamp (SU), a picture from an old magazine, and various words I wrote. The background was made by spraying mica mists onto my work surface and then laying the card stock face down onto it. I like this picture because the kids look like they are enjoying school.

A  posterized rendition of this can be seen on my Adventures in Art blog.

Colour Create and One Stop

This 4x4 card was done for Colour Create Challenge (pink, orange, and green) and One Stop (pearls and swirls).

I started out with a lime green card and tried unsuccessfully to do a vaseline resist on it. I wound up with the 3 colors for CCCC. So I then added 3 beads and the swirls along with my stamped flowers. The bandana effect and the pearlizing of the beads was done digitally. I thought it needed the white outline and I had no pearl beads to stick onto the card. Hope this is o.k.

TGIF - ACF

This charming little girl's face was given us by Art Creations Friday. TGIF has as a theme: Dream. So I have combined the two into this one digital 4x4, using a background, a body, and the butterflies from Dover Publications.

Art Creations Friday

The college I attended (now a university) is celebrating its 125th "birthday" this year. I found these wonderful vintage images on the university's brochure that came in the mail yesterday. I am using the Art Creations Friday design, which was green, as my background. The building in the background is dormitory row, still used for dorm rooms. This fits in with TGIF, whose theme is architecture.

The lady in front is one of Dover's images.

Art Creations Friday

I thought that was too much hat for a little girl so I changed it for my Art Creations Friday entry into a bow. All my images except the girl and the rope are from Dover Publications.

Artarazzi

I took one of the little girls from the image given us by Artarazzi challenge today and placed her here at the tea party. I think they will have to find another cup. The background with the windmill is Dover. The tea party is also a Dover image. I also had to fill in a few spots with color.

This is a 4x4 size.

Art Creation Friday

This is such a gorgeous background that I hope Wil won't mind my using it again sometime. I didn't want to cover it up so I just added a couple of Kabukis from Dover Publications to adorn the background. I changed the proportions a bit on the background. Art Creations Friday has more examples of art using this background.

Hats - TT

Hats is the theme over at Theme Thursday this week. I thought of my ancestor Sallie Rhea, who probably never left the state of Tennessee. She is shown here in her gorgeous hat.  I borrowed this lovely Monet painting from Dover Publications for a backdrop. This is a digital 4x4.

I just discovered some wonderful free clip art of Victorian Ladies in hats on Graphics Fairy. 

Art Creations Friday Challenge

Here is my entry for Art Creations Friday, using the lovely image provided. The background is a picture of a famous fisherman's inn on a chalk stream in England, established in 1540 A. D.

Art Creations Friday Challenge

For the Art Creations Friday Challenge, I took the entry from yesterdays' Borders, changed the colors of the curtain and window, and superimposed the ACF image on it.

Crazy Amigo - Shoes

See other entries for the Crazy Amigo challenge. All images are from Graphics Fairy.

Theme Thursday - 4x4

Theme Thursday challenges us this week to use the 4x4 format to make a piece of art. My background has been made with my new Caran d'Ache watercolor crayons. The flower is part of a greetings card that I painted for a friend.

Artarazzi

I took the photo provided us by Artarazzi challenge and changed it from black and white to sepia. I decided the background was too busy so I clouded around the edges and added the text: Forever friends. Since I'm close to these ladies in age, I know I appreciate my friends. Having lunch together in a park sounds like fun to me. I hope this entry isn't too simple for this challenge.

Sketch Saturday #18 - One Stop 3 is the Magic Number

Here is my entry for two challenges: Sketch Saturday and One Stop Craft (three is the magic number). Using the sketch provided for #18 (September 27), my favorite, I decided to go Asian. This sketch had three focus points along the line so this fits in with the requirement of One Stop to use three of something. The Chinese characters say longevity, strength, and wisdom. I am not certain that they are right side up or in the right order.

Gothic Arches - Snow

Here is my entry for "SNOW" for the Gothic Arches challenge this week. I am short of time this morning so it is not very complex, just a collage on printed paper.

Theme Thursday - Santa

Although today is a national holiday in America, Thanksgiving Day, I am displaying here on my blog a digital Christmas 4x4. This was made for the Theme Thursday challenge this week where the theme is Santa. My background is a pale green with a special effects, thanks to Photoshop Elements. I have added some freebie digital images, the Christmas tree and the Santa, that I got from Dover Publications.

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all my fellow Americans. We have much to be thankful for.

Cowboys/West

Theme Thursday's challenge this week is Cowboys or American West. I have chosen as my focal image a magazine picture of Teddy Roosevelt, whose 150th anniversary of his birth was October this year. The group of cowboys shown here are known as the "Rough Riders" led by Col. Roosevelt. An article on the Spanish American War Centennial Website refers to them as the "First United States Volunteer Cavalry, made up of an odd but effective assemblage of Western cowboys and Frontiersmen, and Eastern athletes and sons of prominent citizens."

My background is the bandana technique, where I stamped my design in Stazon over a Moon Shadow mist treated card stock, and outlined that design in white pen.

SaWo - Waxed Paper Technique

Today's challenge for Saturday's Workout was done by a fascinating resist technique using ordinary waxed paper. First I ran a piece of the waxed paper through my pasta machine with a cuttlebug folder for the background swirls. Then I took two glossy card stock pieces with the shiny sides towards the waxed paper, making a "sandwich". I dry ironed this leaving a wax impression on both the shiny sides of the glossy card stock. I applied Distress brick red ink with a brayer over the card stock.

The image is my grandmother.