SoArtful Challenge

This gorgeous background was given us by Soartful Challenges this week. Here is how I used it.

ACF and 4x4 Friday

Spirit of Love

The challenge for 4x4 Friday is to create a 4x4 art piece using the theme: Spirit.

I took the image provided by Art Creations Friday, removed the wings so that she is a real girl, not an angel, and used one of the cards I made earlier in the week for a background.

Rainbow Lady and Colour Create

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog and Colour Create Challenge Blog inspired this card.

I used a background I had made a while back. It has the right colors for Colour Create (red, pink, chocolate, white, off white). I ran across this antique postcard that also has the right colors in it, so I have made my card with these elements and some red ribbon and pink heart and rose. In small letters at the upper right hand corner of the postcard are the words: St. Valentine's Day.

Theme Thursday - Flowers

Flowers, the theme for Theme Thursday's challenge this week, is one of my favorite things.

My background is one I made with acrylic paints and glimmer mists as I described in the post a couple of days ago. I scanned it to the computer and changed the colors a little. Next I took a digital stamp I had made of some stargazer lilies and stamped a huge white lily over the whole area. Next I stamped the Dover lilies in wine color. Lastly I chose one of Belinda's freebies, this adorable girl and put another lily in her hair.

Wednesday Stamper - Spoil Me

My ATC expresses several ways to "Spoil Me": flowers, love notes, and gemstones. Wednesday Stamper's theme is spoil me.

My background was created by placing on my craft sheet some acrylic paints and acrylic varnish misted with a hand-made glimmer mist. My stamps are clear See D's and are stamped with archival ink. The lace and bauble come from my stash.

Valentine and Arrow

My entry to Created by Hand (Valentines) and Crazy Amigos (Arrows) is shown here. Today with all the snow outside, I decided to just mess around in my art room. I put some acrylic paints and acrylic varnish down on freezer paper and dropped various pieces of paper and card stocks onto it. When the paints began to dry out I sprayed them with some home-made glimmer mists and kept making backgrounds. This is one of the backgrounds that resulted.

The stamps in the background are See D's Hearts and Love #50203. The stamp of the couple is from Hearts in Touch's Lovely Couples set.

Eternity ATC

Here is my simple digiATC made using one of my snow pictures and a Dover angel. I guess being in the last quarter of life gives me a different perspective of what the word "eternity" means.

Check out other eternity entries to the Think Monday Think ATCs challenge.

Gothic Arches - Crackle

I remembered that I had UTEE and could do the cracked glass technique so the top arch is not digital,  and is made with that technique and glazed with Omni-gel to hold all the cracked pieces together. The background was one of those papers used to protect the desk from sprays and mists of various alcohol inks, glimmer mists, etc. I stamped it with the feather and the bird stamps and embossed them in detail white EB.  It was at this point that I used the cracked glass technique.

The lower arch is one of my watercolors that I "crackled" via Photoshop Elements. The girl is one from ACF, I believe. See other crackle works at Gothic Arches.