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.

Paper Minutes - at least 3 inchies

Paper Minutes' theme is to use at least 3 inchies in our art work. I've been getting cards ready for Valentine's Day and had some of these scraps lying around. The red background was some paper spread out on my desk to protect it. The two end inchies are red ink stamped on cardstock. The center one is a Hearts in Touch stamp.

Paper Minutes

The penguin ATC was used for another challenge yesterday. I thought it would make a cute greetings card, so I am using it for the image in my collage for a Paper Moments entry today. 

The second entry is a very different kind for me and for this challenge. Since it is the beginning of the Chinese New Year, the year of the ox. I am using the Paper Minutes sketch to make an Asian-looking Happy New Year card. The butterfly and swirl were used in a recent Artarazzi challenge. The postcard (6x4) is entirely done with Photoshop.

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.

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.

Paper Minutes Sketch

This is my Paper Minutes Sketch Challenge entry for this week. I started with one of the Duo Twists Pyramage sheets I had won from One Stop and completed the construction. Then I glued this to a background I had made using lots of different Moon Glow mists and alcohol inks. This was stuck to some dark green card stock that I had made flourishes on. Lastly the text Noel and the ribbon were added.

Sketch Challenge 38

A sketch challenge is following a set design and creating one's own piece of art using this pattern. This week's challenge for Tuesday Sketch was fairly simple but filled with wonderful possibilities. Here is my entry. The ivory background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. The dark background is misting of Moon Glow Shadow mists.

The photo is of my grandmother. It is ok to rotate the design.

Tuesday Four in One 4x4 card

My 4x4 was made with four challenges in mind. I used a piece of background paper I had made with leaves pounded onto cardstock. Onto that I glued a circle of iridescent colors that I got by misting Moon Glow Shadow colors onto paper. The smaller circle is from some upholstery fabric. I added ribbons in two corners and then attached 5 buttons. 

The Arty Girlz Challenge has as its theme: cloth

Crazy Amigo Challenge has as its theme: buttons

Created by Hand Challenge has as its theme: ribbon or trim

Sketch Challenge is to use the sketch they have provided.

Please click on image to enlarge so you can see the tapestry.

Sketch Challenge

Here are my first efforts at following a pattern to make a card for Sketch Challenge. It was more difficult that I thought it would be.  The flamingos card has Moon Glow shadow mists and spritz glitz in the background. It's done on paper towel.