PDCC - #62

This Play Date Cafe theme was a fun challenge. I got to use one of the new Whimsey digi-stamps I recently acquired (mouse in the cupcake). I colored this with my watercolor pencils. Behind the mouse is one of my watercolors. The lace background comes from June.

Theme Thursday - Pattern

Theme Thursday's theme is pattern. Zentangle was mentioned in the description of the challenge. It just happens that last night I made this zentangle while watching TV so I'm entering it for Theme Thursday. I used white gel pen on black cardstock.

The Three Muses - Books

Reading books was my favorite childhood pastime and until I started blogging it continued to be a favorite activity. I have gotten rather lazy in the reading department, unfortunately. Some day children will probably be as fascinated by the old way of reading (books) as we are by the old way of reading (scrolls).

The theme for the Three Muses Challenge this week is Books. I borrowed this book plate from some Dover Publications clip art. The books were googled. The little girl is a stamp of mine from Stubby Stampers.

Tag Tuesday - Christmas Leftovers

My tag for Tag Tuesday started out as a scrap of wrapping paper, which I turned over and used the back side. I stamped with my new rose stamp from my granddaughter. then I dabbed with a sponge some of the Moonshadow mica mists. The angel was cut out from a piece of used wrapping paper. The rose she is holding is again the stamp from my granddaughter which I have colored with Prismacolor pencils. The ribbon is also a leftover.

Artekarten - Recycled Gift Wrap

Art Cards (Artekarten) has as its theme: recycling gift wrapping paper and also using a stamp we just got.

The wrapping paper is from a gift from Akiko, my Japanese friend.The delightful stamp is one my granddaughter gave me for Christmas. I have colored the image with Prismacolor pencils. The text is handwritten.

Calm and Bright

Calm and bright is the theme for 4x4 Friday. We had a White Christmas! Between yesterday evening and now we've gotten about 4" snow with more coming, and the temperature is 30 °F. A snowy scene would be calm and bright, but I think I'll go Asian for this challenge. This is a peaceful piece I worked up a while back. I hope altering it a little and posting for this challenge is ok

From Hazel, I learned of a site where some beautiful watermarks are available. Shown is the one I ordered. I also got some lovely texts. One of the texts from Doodle Pantry is shown in my sidebar.

Merry Christmas, Blogger Friends

This was made using my new digi stamps from Whimsy Stamps.

Rainbow Lady - Favorite Topic in 2010

Rainbow Lady is challenging us this and next week to make art using our favorite theme(s) she had during 2010. Cynthia has furnished us with some of the best challenges in Blogland. I wish I had time to enter all of them. One of my favorites was Make your own Background. Another favorite was Make a Picture.

In this post I am using a background I made with various stamps and ink pads. The straight lines are where I stamped with tiny ink pads, bypassing a stamp. My great-grandfather is a Sheer Heaven® transfer. If you've never used this fantastic material, you must try it. Perfect transfers almost every time.