Theme Thursday - Vintage Valentine

Vintage Valentine is the theme for Theme Thursday. My background image is one from Dover Publications. The foreground figure with the heart is from Graphics Fairy. This is a digital skinny (3" x 5").

Flourishes

Created by Hand challenge is featuring flourishes this week. Flourishes are really popular now and there are lots of wonderful stamps on the market. Here is my great-grandmother sporting a flourishy butterfly hat. There is also a flourish below her stamped in StaZon brown.

Gothic Arches - New Year

The Gothic Arches challenge theme this week is : New Year.

Here is my digital attempt at a gothic arch in ATC size.

Saturdays Workout - salt background

This colorful background was made by misting a glossy cardstock with water and dropping some of the inks onto it. When the surface was covered by dilute inks, I sprinkled large crystal salt on. To speed the drying I used the heat gun. Probably it is better to let it air dry. Then I brushed off all the salt and had a gorgeous tropical background. I decided to make a vacation type ATC from it. The salt technique was the theme this week for SaWo.

Artarazzi - Marilyn

Here is my entry to Artarazzi. It is a very simple alteration using numerous filters.  Other digital renditions of Marilyn can be seen on Artarazzi.

One Stop Craft Challenge Buttons or Brads

For this One Stop challenge I have used one of my butterfly brads. It seemed to fit well with the picture I had concocted digitally and printed out. The green background was from a swap, and I stamped and embossed it.

Sketch Saturday #32

This is for the Sketch Saturday for this week. My corners are from paper I sprayed and brushed with mica mixtures. The round backgrounds for the small butterflies is from a background swap from another group and was made by Nancy Lynn.

Theme Thursday - Something New!

Happy New Year 2009! Just a turn of a page and we have a brand new start of a year! Theme Thursday's theme for this week's challenge is "Something New." We are to use something new, either a new technique, a new stamp, anything new for us. I have chosen my new Stampendous butterfly stamp that my sister gave me along with my new Caran d'ache water-soluble crayons. The blue and purple background is by Mary Gilmour. It is a double stamped background I received in a swap. I can see I need more practice using the crayons, but I anticipate many hours of fun trying to perfect a technique.