Apple Green, Chocolate, Clotted Cream - One Stop Craft Challenge

Apple green, chocolate, and clotted cream sound so good together. As a food. And as a color combination. Here is my entry to One Stop Craft Challenge, which has these colors as its challenge this week.

My background was made by stamping my hand-carved leaf stamp with a variety of stamp inks. The rabbit stamp was given to me by my son and has no markings on it.  The bunnies were colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Art Creations Friday

I decided to give the image from Art Creations Friday more hair and another hat. She has just been to kiss the Blarney Stone and found a garden filled with beautiful Dahlias. She stopped to pick one of the blossoms and that's where I found her. The new hat came from Nan's freebies. The dahlia came from Dover freebies. The background is from Graphics Fairy. The original image comes from Rein's freebies.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Four Seasons

Here is my entry for Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog this week. The theme is the four seasons. We can either do a season or all seasons. I chose to represent by color the four seasons. Clockwise: starting in the upper left is spring, summer, winter, fall.

This technique is called Tamp-a-Tile and the tutorial can be found  on Anja's blog. 

Pink and Black - Theme Thursday

Jennifer is so tickled to find this gorgeous pink hat because it just exactly fits over her beehive hair style and doesn't muss up a single lock of hair.

I was browsing through my collected Dover images for something that said poodle skirt era and I came across a number of images called: fashions. True this young woman sported white where the pink is now, but it does seem that back in those days we did see pink and black together a lot.

The background started off as a photo of some flowers in a bouquet that I was given. I took the photo and made it into a tiled pattern, via Photoshop Elements. Then to conform to the theme of Theme Thursday which is pink and black, I converted the photo to black and white

The Three Muses Challenge - Birds of a Feather

My background for this piece was a wax resist that I made some time ago and scanned to the computer. The birds are from Dover freebies. The Three Muses Challenge this week is to use the theme of "birds of a feather."

Gingersnap Creations - embossing powder

My entry for Gingersnap Creations using embossing powder started with a glossy card stock. I used the fantastic brayer technique as shown in the newsletter from Technique Junkie. The white swirls are embossed in white ep and the text is stamped in a cranberry color ink and embossed with clear ep.

Tag Tuesday - A Touch of Red

Tag Tuesday's theme this week is "A Touch of Red." I'm not sure that I don't have more than a "touch". I hope this is ok for the challenge. I've been wanting to use the little mouse stamp someone gave me. (I don't do "cute" very well.) It looks to me like he's singing his little heart out to some lady mouse.

Paper Minutes & Created by Hand

With all this snow on the ground, I am ready for spring to come. So I decided to do a springlike entry for Paper Minutes (triangle) and Created by Hand Challenge (anything but square or rectangle). 

I started with a dark green Bazzill card stock and randomly placed two-sided green floral foil over the surface. I placed 3 ribbons on that. Next I colored with watercolor pencils a bunch of tulips I had stamped. I finished the tulips by clear embossing them.