So Artful - Frame

This gorgeous frame was furnished as our "jumping off point" for the SoArtful challenge this week. The background seemed a natural. I had just gotten it from Art Creations Friday and it sure looked like it matched to me. finding the image for the focus was also pretty easy. I had just found this lovely lass in green as a freebie on Terri's blog and thought how great she'd look in the beautiful frame. 

Thanks, Jeanette, I am thrilled to be the March challenges winner of the prize.

4x4 Friday (Artisans) and ACF background

Using the background supplied by Art Creations Friday, I have made this digital piece also for 4x4 Friday whose theme was Artisans. 

I don't remember where this image came from. It was a black and white sketch. It shows a woman handling a basket of various yarns. I figure anyone who creates with yarn is an artisan.

Garden Pastels

This 2"x4" piece was done with 3 challenges in mind: 

In my garden I see... - Rainbow Lady

Pastels - Colour Create

2x4 size - Theme Thursday

My background was white cardstock that I sprayed and sponged with pastel mica mists. I stamped it with my favorite flower stamp. Then on another piece of white cardstock I stamped the two butterflies and the dragonfly. All three were treated with clear stamp pad and kaleidoscope embossing powder, giving them beautiful shimmery pastel wings. Their antenna are wire and all three are raised on foam dots (thus a few strange shadows).

Spring - Wednesday Stamper

Spring is the theme for Wednesday Stamper this week. I made this piece last night digitally, except for the large flower. So to conform to the Wednesday Stamper requirement of using at least one real stamp, I have printed it out onto glossy photo paper and stamped with my favorite flower stamp. I then colored the flower with my Marvy Le Plume markers.

The background started off with a single group of flowers, an image from Karen's Images. I doubled it, flipped it horizontally and vertically. I then made it into a digital pattern and used it all over for the background. The lovely girl was used for another earlier challenge, but I can't remember whose it was. Can anyone help me remember?

Tag Tuesday - Black and White only

Louise at Tag Tuesday has presented us with quite a challenge today, to use only black and white on our tags.

My tag started as a white watercolor paper onto which I stamped some of my new See D's clear stamps in archival black ink. I also used the same ink for the plastic mesh. The white rectangle with the letter F (for Fly or maybe Faye) was one of the lids (Friday) for my pills containers. Several lids broke so I saved them to see if I could use them. Does anyone else save these strange pieces of junk?

The results look more gray than white, due to the thickness of the lid, but I thought the scrap of lace turned out nicely. Louise, please give us an easier challenge next week. Black and white only is harder to do than I had imagined.

In a Row ATC - TMTA

In a Row is the theme for Think Monday Think ATC.

Millicent, Florence, and Agatha are on a world tour. They came across this magnificent castle where all the towers seemed to be in a row, so they asked one of the locals to snap their picture in front of it. Thank you, ladies, for providing me with material for this week's challenge.

Art Cards Challenge - Using Teykol

Art Cards Challenge this week is for us to use Teykol in our art. I had never heard of Teykol and was happy to see we could use napkin podge instead. However, I didn't even know napkin podge existed. I do have modge podge so that is what I used.

First I stamped in StaZon the flourishes, a stamp by Purple Onion Designs. Then I dipped a brush into the modge podge and painted around some of the swirls. Next I dabbed on a rich periwinkle blue dye ink and wiped off the excess. The tulips stamp is by D.O.T.S. and was colored with my Marvy markers.. The text is from a stamp sent to me by the amazing Rosie.

Tag it On! - Floral Bug

This week's theme for Tag it On is to use a bug and flowers in our tag design, making use of at least one real stamp. I have stamped my calla lilies and butterfly in clear embossing ink and embossed it in gold. The background is the very lovely freebie from Beth, which I learned about from Jacqueline.