One Stop - Food and Drink

Food and drink is the theme for this week's One Stop Craft Challenge. I have stamped the apples onto white paper and glued them to the golden cardstock. The girls having a tea party are a freebie from Dover Publications that I printed out.

Back to School - Primary Colors

My bookmark was made for the One Stop Challenge using red, yellow, and blue. My girl stamp is one I got from Stubby Stampers. Not sure where the apple came from.

One Stop - Fairy Tales

For One Stop challenge (Fairy Tales) I borrowed this beautiful illustration of Little Red Riding Hood from Graphics Fairy. The background paper is a page from an old  gardening book. The flower is 3 medium-sized circles and 1 small circle, crumpled to look like a rose. All of this is mounted on white cardstock.

Marie and Ice Cream

A lovely picture of Marie Antoinette was given us as an inspiration for the So Artful challenge. The One Stop challenge is to use ice cream in our work. I have borrowed a hand with ice cream from Wikipedia to replace the lovely flowers that were in Marie's right hand.

One Stop Challenge - Monochromatic

Maybe this is a little over the top on Green, but this is my monochromatic entry for One Stop this week. The background was originally done with sprays and mists, mostly from Lindy's Stamp Gang. I now have the background image on my computer so I can keep using it.

One Stop - Spring Flowers

This was done for One Stop challenge (spring flowers). The bright green paper is two different decorative papers. The lavender background is a part of a Christmas card. I stamped the flowers and colored them with Prismacolor pencils and Marvy Le Plume markers. The lace is some I got from Michaels.

Art Cards and One Stop

Art Cards' theme is colorful background.
One Stop's theme is ATCs.

My background is gold metallic gift wrap that I sprinkled with 4 colors of alcohol ink and let dry. I then embossed it in a cuttlebug folder. The flowers are from some designer paper. The 8 petal punched flower is also from gold wrapping paper. The dragonfly was stamped in StaZon onto gold wrapping paper and cut out. Only his body is glued down.

Edit: I have added this to the Catch the Bug challenge.

OSCC and SoArtful

One Stop Craft Challenge - embossing
SoArtful Challenges - fall background

My Japanese friend copied 1 Corinthians 13:4-6 for me in Japanese. This says "Love is patient". Patience is not one of my best qualities so it is good to be reminded of this verse every now and then.

The embossing is done with a Cuttlebug folder. The image is one of those that Dover Publications has offered as a freebie.

These two bookmark tags are some I have done previously, but they are embossed and sort of match the card I did for today.

One Stop Craft Challenge - Congratulations

My entry for One Stop Craft Challenge was made using glossy card stock, which I sponged with inks and then embossed in a cuttlebug folder. The paisley ribbon is from K&Company.

Montana Molly longs for Haute Couture

When Moe brought his bride to the wild west, any chances of her ever seeing Paris disappeared. However, Molly could dream and dream she did. She could see herself decked out in the finest peach colored silk gown in the latest fashion, not the homespun muslin dress and apron of a rancher's wife.

This is my entry for One Stop Craft Challenge (fashion through the years) and for So Artful Challenges (the given image -Isn't she lovely?).

The background is one of my watercolor paintings. The trees are brushes by Annika von Holdt. This is a digital ATC.

OSCC and SoArtful

This is a digital combination entry for One Stop Craft Challenge and So Artful Challenges.

The clock face was given for the time theme in So Artful. The gorgeous Monarch butterflies and larva were given for One Stop.

I used the colorful zebra in Nicecrane's Colorful Jungle images for the background because I noticed that the zebra's stripes were similar to the caterpillar's.

For the framing I used the catterpillar, enlarged it to super size and made a square to go behind the main part of my "card".

Time marches on is appropriate for both challenges, I think.

One Stop Craft Challenge - Sentiments

Using a sentiment as the focus is the theme for One Stop Craft Challenge.

Background is from Dezinaworld.

One Stop Challenge - not a card

I'm really embarrassed to post this because the photo turned out so bad. I have tried and tried but I can't get the ribbon less blue without changing the color of the flower. Aargh!!!

Anyway, what we have here is a mints tin, gessoed and colored with sprays, finished with acrylic sealer. The ribbon is much more yellow in real life and the contrast of the gesso designs is greater. 

The flower started out as a rectangle of tyvek, which I misted with various mica mists. Then I started to dry it with the heat gun. As it dried, it also began to change shape. When I saw the flower emerge I stopped heating it and shaped up the petals a bit.

One Stop Craft Challenge has as its theme: not a card.

One Stop Challenge - Summer Fun

Summer Fun is the theme for One Stop Craft Challenge this week. My summer has been very ordinary except for the extreme heat we've had. I haven't been out of town, but I did go see the Tiffany exhibit at the Fine Arts Museum.

This digital card was made using one of my watercolor, which I posterized using Photoshop Elements. The little girl, a freebie from another challenge, was also altered using PSE.

One Stop - Patterns

This is a digital card I have made for the One Stop Craft Challenge this week where the theme is patterns. My pattern was made using one of the single squares, which I multiplied into a pattern using the Photoshop Elements feature on my computer. The sweet missy is my granddaughter, now a grown young woman.

The wonderful thing about digital is that if I want to send this, I can just run it off onto glossy cardstock and have a nice card. Or I can just post it and enjoy it on my blog.

Whispers, Splash of Color, Paper Napkin

Today there were 3 challenges that I worked my entry into - Art Cards (use a paper napkin), One Stop (colors pink, blue, green and red), and So Artful (image provided for Whispers). The true friends stamp is  Stampin' Up. The ink is Stampin' Up Ballet Blue.

So Artful - One Stop

Beautiful Men from the Movies, the theme for the So Artful challenge, inspired this card. Using Alan Ladd's photo it was easy to make this monochromatic card for a relative's birthday. Using monochromatic colors is the theme for One Stop Craft Challenge this week.

The background is one I made some time ago using various Moon Shadow mists. I stamped it with numerous stamps, mostly See-D's, in brown ink and outlined with my white ink pen so that it would look sort of like bandana art. The bow is made from rope-like cord to look Western. The text was done on the computer using the font Giddyup.

So Artful and One Stop

The background image here was given to us by So Artful challenge this week to use in creating our art. It's entitled enchanting castle which seemed to call for medieval images. I found this delightful lady in my Dover freebies stash. I added a number of digital brushes of trees and bushes.

One Stop calls for distressing, so I did a brown distressing around the edges. I love the look of distressing and have started using it a lot. (Too much???)

This is a bookmark I've made for an upcoming fall bazaar sale. It has distressing around part of it. The wildflower has been heat embossed.

Make Your Own Designer Paper

My background was made using tissue paper and gesso on card stock, and then colored by pouncing with alcohol inks. This method (except using deli papers) is found HERE.

My flower is the same one that I used for a card two days ago but I have bent  the petals and leaves more. All parts of this flower were made with hearts and flowers punches.

This week's theme for the One Stop challenge is Make Your Own Designer Paper.

One Stop Craft Challenge - Birthstone

My entry for One Stop uses some interesting background paper from Dover Publications. The birthstone is a picture of my opal necklace. No, I'm not sending out a card with my actual gemstone on it!