Theme Thursday

Theme Thursday's challenge is to use animals in our art this week. The first card has a picture of our granddaughter at about 3 years taking her first pony ride.

The second card has a picture of our granddaughter years later loving on our geriatric and now deceased labrador retriever.

Tag Tuesday and Tag it On

Yesterday at the nursing home where I volunteer, we made sailboat - sunset scenes using acrylic paints and cut out decorative papers. Below is my piece I did to show them what to do.  We try to keep the activities simple since several have some dementia and several have only one good hand to do crafts (or anything else) with.

I can't stand to let anything go to waste so I decided to cut up my sample scene and make a tag from the bits. First I cut out 8 inchies. Then I cut out a bit of background from the scene to use as the backdrop on my tag. I stamped that with a blue rose, which you can't see for the inchies. Next I distressed each inchie in SU blue. I stamped each inchie with something that reminds me of summertime. Then I glued them onto my background tag.

Stamps by Studio G and See D's and Stampin' Up.

This tag is for Tag Tuesday (summer) and for Tag It On (Inchies). My 3 colors are orange, blue, and black. I am probably stretching this requirement.

Edit: On closer inspection, I see that some of the orange and blue have run together forming a shade of green, so I guess my colors could be orange, blue and green.

Gone Fishing _ WS

A few years ago I gave this watercolor painting as part of a greetings card to an elderly friend. When she died, her daughter asked if I'd like to have it back. I am always so delighted when one of my paintings makes its way back to me to be reused.

However, I am only using the left quarter of the picture. The fisherlady is in the part I did not use. The 3 fish are from a photo I just made of my dh's wall trophies. I scanned both and put them together via Photoshop Elements.

Knowing I had to have a real rubber stamp in this work to use for the Wednesday Stamper challenge, I printed out what I had done on glossy photo paper. Then I stamped with Stazon and Stampendous stamp.

Fun with ATCs and Paper Minutes

My ATC is for two challenges: Paper Minutes (brown, yellow and pink) and Fun with ATCs  (flowers).
Background: Cardstock is sprayed with Moon Shadow mists.
"I love you a latte" - stamp from Swirly Stamps,  is heat embossed.
The flower is from a Martha Stewart punch.

Cup and saucer - Cuttlebug folder was used on Bazzill cardstock.

The ATC with yellow flowers is one of my watercolors I did last week.

Mona Lisa - TMTA

Here is my ATC for Think Monday Think ATCs.

So Artful and One Stop

The background image here was given to us by So Artful challenge this week to use in creating our art. It's entitled enchanting castle which seemed to call for medieval images. I found this delightful lady in my Dover freebies stash. I added a number of digital brushes of trees and bushes.

One Stop calls for distressing, so I did a brown distressing around the edges. I love the look of distressing and have started using it a lot. (Too much???)

This is a bookmark I've made for an upcoming fall bazaar sale. It has distressing around part of it. The wildflower has been heat embossed.

Art Cards

My entry for Art Cards using distress ink and water to soften the edges of my stamped butterfly.

Rainbow Lady - Art Deco

Art Deco is the theme over at Cynthia's Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog this week. I had this art deco background as a freebie from the Dover Publications people. I had trouble locating an image until I remembered the New York Public Library Digital Gallery. So I jumped right on over there and pulled up numerous images that were ok to use on a blog. This beautiful lady seems to fit pretty well.