Crazy Amigo Challenge - Mother's Day

I made this digital art just for the fun of it and then I saw that the challenge for Crazy Amigo is Mother's Day. This is not my mother or my grandmother, but she was an ancestor. I'm not sure which one. So I think it works for this challenge.

I used two beautiful pictures of the sky as my background. The photos were made by equine photographer Lorie Hull Elverd of Kentucky, who has graciously allowed me the use of some of her photos.

Crazy Amigo - tag

This is my entry for Crazy Amigo (tag). Earlier today,  Blogspot would not work for me so I have posted this on my non-challenge blog too.

Happy Birthday and Orange, Blue, Black

I hope this card is orange, blue and black enough for Paper Minutes challenge this week. With the Happy Birthday greetings, it should satisfy the requirements for Crazy Amigo challenge (Birthday). This is my Li'l Redhead, who usually wears a red and white shirt and has a tan straw hat.

Go Girl Arch Tag w/Swirls

This gothic arch-shaped tag was done for three challenges: Crazy Amigo Challenge (Swirls), Tag Tuesday (arch),, and Created by Hand (You Go Girl).

Tuesday Challenges

Louise at Tag Tuesday has us using brown and one other color for our tags this week. I used brown distress ink and one other brown ink around the edges. I stamped one of my new See D's stamps in the center and colored with water based markers. The tiny plastic lavender oval says "health". While the brown ink was still wet I rubbed in some Misty Lavender Pearl Ex powder and sprayed with hair spray.

Crazy Amigos Challenge has the theme of Tags.

Insects - Things with Wings

This looked like a perfect opportunity to create a 2-in-1 entry to challenges.

Crazy Amigo Challenge's theme is Insects; Created by Hand Challenge's theme is Things that Fly.

My background is a shirt board that I sprayed with some homemade mica mists and some of the Moon Glow mists. 

Valentine and Arrow

My entry to Created by Hand (Valentines) and Crazy Amigos (Arrows) is shown here. Today with all the snow outside, I decided to just mess around in my art room. I put some acrylic paints and acrylic varnish down on freezer paper and dropped various pieces of paper and card stocks onto it. When the paints began to dry out I sprayed them with some home-made glimmer mists and kept making backgrounds. This is one of the backgrounds that resulted.

The stamps in the background are See D's Hearts and Love #50203. The stamp of the couple is from Hearts in Touch's Lovely Couples set.

Crazy Amigo - Brand New Start

A Brand New Start is the theme for Crazy Amigo challenge this week. In this card that I made tonight is a teddy bear being patched up and given a brand new start.

The background started as a transfer from my large piece of  Sheer Heaven™ but the color was so pink I had to add some other colors to it. By the time I had added a few dulling colors, the poor background paper was getting really warped. At this point I just decided to wad it up and hit the ridges with gold wax. The little girl in the oval is a Stampin' Up  stamp my sister gave me. I painted the image with watercolor pencils.

See my other blog for explanation about Sheer Heaven paper.

Winter Snowflake Tag

Making snowflakes from a scratch is not easy. I see why every snowflake is an original. I had trouble just making each point look somewhat alike. Winter is the theme for Crazy Amigo Challenge; Snowflakes is the theme for Created by Hand Challenge; and Different Shaped Tag is the theme for Tag Tuesday. I used Stampin'Up Heat and Stick powder and Stampendous CrystalSnow.

Crazy Amigos - Happy Birthday Card

Here is a digital birthday card I have made for Crazy Amigos. The background and lady in the foreground came from Dover. The tree is from Brusheezy Brushes.

Stairs - Crazy Amigo Challenge

The theme for Crazy Amigo Challenge this week is: Stairs. I have used this photo from a magazine advertisement because I loved the way the stairs curve. I took photos of my friends and cut around them and placed them digitally in this gorgeous mansion.

Paper Minutes and Crazy Amigo

This is a double challenge entry. The layout design is the sketch provided by Paper Minutes. The theme for Crazy Amigo challenge is Nature. Using this cute, fuzzy bird  for my nature image, I have made a birthday card. The text says: "A little bird told me that it was your birthday."

Tuesday's Challenges

Four different challenges seemed like they just went together this week, so I have made this collage using a travel brochure (printed matter for Paper Minutes), postage stamps (Crazy Amigo Challenge), flowers (Artygirlz), and gold (Created by Hand).

The Belgian stamps were sent to me by Nathalie's mother. The Belgian brochure was a freebie in the mail. The flower came from a greetings card, and the gold/green background was made by me using various Moon Glow products. In addition I dropped a little gold embossing on the center of the flower, just in case, the gold in the background didn't show up.

Crazy Amigo - Shoes

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

Crazy Amigo Doors

Doors welcome us into new surroundings or into our old familiar places. Here is my digital skinny (3x5) using our front door and some butterflies from Dover Publications. Crazy Amigo challenge is featuring doors this week.

Three in One Valentine Card

Crazy Amigo Challenge's theme this week is Deer. I had this photo of several deer eating my azaleas in the front yard and decided to use it. 

Created by Hand Challenge's theme is Hearts. So I decided I'd do a Valentine card.

The sketch from Paper Minutes is the design layout that I used for my Valentine card.

Of course, I have used a play on words: "deer" for "dear". The text says: You are so deer to me. Happy Valentine's Day.

Digital Cozy

I decided to try a digital piece using the theme for Crazy Amigo, which was "cozy." Below is what I entered in the challenge. She was a sepia photo that I colored and gave a white fur stole and a fuzzy hat.

Four in One Challenges for Tuesday

Tuesdays are always busy since that is the day I do a volunteer craft class at the nursing home. But I found that I could combine Created by Hand (the word love), Arty Girlz (use of buttons), Crazy Amigo (idea of cozy), and the sketch given  in Paper Minutes' Tuesday Sketch.

The only one I was doubtful about was Cozy. Is holding hands and dressed for the weather cozy enough?

My image is from Graphics Fairy. The text is handwriten and taken from the love chapter of the Bible: I Corinthians 13.

Crazy Amigo - Leaving 2008

Crazy Amigo Challenge this week is to do an art work with this theme: leaving the year with a splash. Here is my digital ATC using an image from Dover Publications and the slo-mo photo of a raindrop.

Crazy Amigo - Christmas

One more, and maybe the last, Christmas-themed art challenge. Crazy Amigo has as its theme: Christmas. This is a simple piece, a 3x5 postcard size. I don't have time to do a lot, but I did want to enter one challenge. My background is a cardstock that has run through the pasta machine in a Cuttlebug folder. I then took Stickles on a Qtip and highlighted the embossed areas. The candy
 and cookies were a scrap of a decorative plastic bag used for wrapping a gift. The cute penguin is an advertisement. I wish the Stickles showed up better because it really is pretty.

Merry Christmas to all!