Art Cards & So Artful Challenges

My colorful background for this entry to Art Cards was made by blowing air through a straw onto alcohol inks using glossy card stock. The image is from DezinaWorld. I don't know where the alphabet came from.





The second version is enhanced through Photoshop Elements to fit the colors for So Artful Challenge.

Paper Minutes - sketch

Paper Minutes gave us a complex sketch to make a card. I have used several newly acquired decorative papers to do mine. Also the blue background stamp is from one that I cut out from craft foam. I used a shiny blue acrylics paint.

Take a Word - Nature

Not a new photo, but one that fits this Take a Word challenge - Nature.

We have these blue tailed skinks running around on our deck all the time. I have learned that the adults are all brownish without the gorgeous blue tail.

This is staged. The skink is a fake one I bought at the botanical garden.

Gothic Arches - New Beginnings

I realize this is a super simple entry to the revamped Gothic Arches challenge, but nothing says new beginnings to me as much as babies. This is my mother and she was born in early 1909. I don't know where the background papers came from. Thanks to Lynn and Effie for starting GA challenge again. I have missed it.

Art Cards - Shave Cream Technique

Here is my entry for Artekarten challenge using the shaving cream technique.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Travel through Time to 2012

Time flies by, doesn't it? Here it is 2012 and so many things have changed in the last 100 years. My entry for Rainbow Lady's Challenge is this digital card I made using my dh's great grandmother feeding her chickens. Raising chickens was an important activity in her time. She probably got to keep any money she got from selling the eggs. Sunday dinner was often one of the flock she had fed on Saturday. (Sorry, vegetarians, but that was the fact of life in the countryside.) I have added a few things to this photo (originally in black and white) such as the cat and the weeds in the foreground.

Think Monday Think ATCs - Glückspilze

I'm not sure how this mushroom fits into New Year's wishes, but that seems to be what the topic is for Think Monday Think ATCs. I suspect it is my not knowing of some European tradition.  I think this translates to lucky mushroom. Anyway, I have used parts of two new scrapbook papers my dh gave me for Christmas as my background for the mushrooms to make my ATC. I think the colors go together very well.

Take a Word - the New Year

Here is my Take a Word entry celebrating the new year of 2012! Best wishes for a safe, peaceful, and happy new year to all my fellow bloggers.