Lime and Lemon and New

This entry is for two challenges: Rainbow Lady's Challenge (new) and Colour Create Challenge (the colors of lime and lemon).

The two origami cranes are new gifts from a Japanese friend. I set them on a black lacquered tray to take the picture. The tray has numerous gorgeous flowers on it, but I chose to use only this one.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Paper Minutes - many colors

Paper Minutes is bursting with colors this week as we celebrate the beginning of the new year of 2010. We are to use more than 3 colors. I have used several (at least 5 different colors) inks and glimmer mists to make this background. The stars were stamped onto yellow card stock and cut out. The purple stars are cut slightly larger.

MMM - least favorite color

I love most colors so this was hard for me. I finally chose to do a tag for Mixed Media Monday using this olive green that has a lot of red tone to it. I'm not sure that the screen can portray the color correctly. Another less favorite color would be what Beth chose, a vivid hot fuchsia.

Greetings to my Blog Friends...

This is early and probably not the last Happy New Year art I will do. In an effort to ease down out of Christmas mode, I decided to fiddle around with Photoshop Elements this afternoon.

Theme Thursday - Fun

Fun is the theme for this week's Theme Thursday. I used a darling skating couple image from Graphics Fairy and some digital brushes from Brusheezy over my shiny wintry looking background to make this postcard.. 

The background started as a piece of plain paper on which I crumpled waxed paper and ironed. Then I took various homemade Pearl Ex and reinkers mists. I left this background to dry naturally overnight. This is difficult for me because I always want to go right into the next step of creating. Anyway, the background looked like a winter scene so I decided to go with that and find an image of winter fun.

Wednesday Stamper

Today I used my 50% off coupon at Michaels to get this Sepia Archival ink pad. I'm not sure trees is the best use for sepia color, but here it is. Around the edges is pink-gold Lumiere. Bedecking the trees is Ranger Crystal Ice Stickles. The Crystal Ice looks so good in person that I am appalled to see how the scan came out. Everything that looks like gray is really sparkles. Wednesday Stamper has given us an open theme, meaning we can choose whatever we want as long as it has at least one rubber stamp.

Winter Snowflake Tag

Making snowflakes from a scratch is not easy. I see why every snowflake is an original. I had trouble just making each point look somewhat alike. Winter is the theme for Crazy Amigo Challenge; Snowflakes is the theme for Created by Hand Challenge; and Different Shaped Tag is the theme for Tag Tuesday. I used Stampin'Up Heat and Stick powder and Stampendous CrystalSnow.

TMTA - Christmas Figures

Think Monday Think ATCs'  theme this week is figures of Christmas. What could be more basic than the manger scene? Here is a creche I made a few years ago. My sister did the wood carving and I did the painting. (Some of you saw this picture on my other blog. I have used that to make this digital ATC.)