Faye's Adventures in Art
The tree is stamped in green and embossed in clear powder.
Happiness or Happy (something) is the theme for today's Theme Thursday. I have chosen to make a Happy Christmas card using a background of Moon Shadow mist of fuchsia color. I stamped some flourishes in white and brown with a Purple Onion stamp. Since I have yet to own any Christmas stamps I used my pine tree stamp.
Tuesday's Challenge for Created by Hand is to use black and brown in our art this week. This 3"x5" Skinny was made by misting some off-white card stock with fuchsia Moon Glow Shadow. The Moon Shadow products have walnut ink in them. I then did a Sheer Heaven® transfer of my ancestor Sallie Rhea on the lower half. The top text was handwritten in black ink and is a quote from Charlotte Bronte: "The human heart has hidden treasures..."
Our challenge with Gothic Arches this week is to use Vintage Children. Here is an ATC I made from an advertising postcard I received in the mail. I get a lot of my clip art from Graphics Fairy and from Dover Publications. I'm not sure where this child came from but I love the image. Some of the flourishes are from a Purple Onion Designs stamp and some of them are hand-drawn.
The theme for the Craft-a-way a Sunday this week is stripes. I have this lovely Miss Elizabeth's Leaves paper by Chartwell Inc that I wanted to use. It is color coordinated so all the papers in the packet go together. I thought this looked like autumn when the summer birds fly away and the winter birds begin to drift in. This is a 3x5" (Skinny) collage. The bird stamp is Hampton Art and was a gift from my friend Judy in Illinois.
The second One Stop Craft Challenge is to use anything with wings in our art today. My favorite stamp is my PSX angel stamp, which I have used here. The background is a failed attempt to use the waxed paper technique. I used glossy photo paper instead of card stock, and it did not work. The waxed image didn't show up so I took a baby wipe and spread the color of the distress inks (lavendar and rose) around on the surface. The angel was stamped in brick red, but I didn't like the look. I didn't want it solid black, either, so I just embossed parts of the angel in black. It may look weird to some of you, but I like the look. "Joy" and the flourish are hand drawn. The size of this piece is 2" x 2".
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.