Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Home Sweet Home

My entry for Rainbow Lady's Challenge (home sweet home) started out as a watercolor painting, which I put in my "things for the blog" folder on my computer. I used with it a photo of my Uncle Robert and his baby brother Leslie in front of their home (and Uncle Robert's new car). These combined photos were printed out and stamped with one of my new Stampin' Up stamps.

I'm forever getting Dragons Dream and Rainbow Lady mixed up. That's why this is a tag. I thought I was doing TIO! LOL!!! Oh, the joys of old age.

Think Monday Think ATCs - Fairy Tales

I cut my teeth on fairy tales. My mother read them to me when I was just a toddler. When I learned to read, I just couldn't get enough of the Brothers Grimm and other fairy tale writers.

Here is my Fairytale ATC for TMTA. I used Karen's images for the illustrations of Jack and the Beanstalk. The brown and yellow background is something I made on cardstock last night.

Gothic Arches Challenge - Openings

It's been a long time since I've been able to enter something for this challenge. Openings is the topic for Gothic Arches this week. Frankie supplied us with a beautiful inspiration piece. I thought of the picture Patty had taken of the gothic window (a sort of openings) so I used that along with some things with real openings like the key and the ironwork gate. Thanks, Patty, for allowing me to use your gorgeous picture. And thanks to Dover Publications for their freebies.

3-way challenge entry

My digital card started out with the crinkle distress background (Art Cards Challenge). Art Creations Friday provided the image of a girl in the sailor dress. So when I saw that Jeanette at So Artful Challenge wanted us to do something depicting: I am Woman, I decided to make a family. The images of mother and children are from Jamie. The girl on the right is from Art Creations Friday.

Tag It On - 40

Tag it On challenges us to use what is on our desks for this week's challenge. Well, I am so lucky. Today my desk is a complete mess. I have been working on several projects so I have just about everything out on my desk. Everything on this tag was at my arms reach on top of the desk. I used a piece of watercolor paper I had previously sprayed with homemade glimmer mists. I stamped all over with my new SU stamp with my new SU ink pad. The mouse was the only other stamp on the desk so I had to use him. The flowers had already been punched out so I triple layered them.

Theme Thursday - Beauty

The theme for Theme Thursday this week is Beauty. I chose to use this gorgeous image from a former Art Creations Friday challenge. My tag's background is various alcohol inks.

CQC34 Tag Tuesday Fun with ATCs

Whenever I try to do more than one challenge with one art piece, I find that I haven't done justice to any of the challenges.

Anyway, here is my 3-way challenge entry: CQC34 (colors certainly celery, ballet blue, pumpkin pie, chocolate chip, kraft, and white), Tag Tuesday (your own hand), and Fun with ATCs (using a postage stamp).

TMTA - Ships, Boats

My ATC for the TMTA challenge contains various Dover Publications freebies. The ship is the American clipper "Lightning" from 1854.