Tag it On - sideways, paper, paint, real stamp

This is my entry for Frankie's Tag it On.  The paint is Ceramcoat's Antique Rose acrylic. The typewriter stamp is from Stampin' Up. Not sure who made the papers.

Tag Tuesday - Vintage Sewing

This week Rebecca has chosen the theme of Vintage Sewing for the Tag Tuesday challenge. I grew up with dotted swiss, hand basting, and homemade dresses. My mother even owned one of these treadle machines for a while. Each summer my sister and I had to make a dress. She started when she was 8 and made her first dress entirely with a sewing needle and thread. Since I was almost 10 I was allowed to use the new sewing machine. To make the machine go, I had to push against a lever with my knee. My sister got a prize for her red and white dress. Of course we did the best job we could since we had to wear the dresses to school in the fall.

This is not really dotted swiss; it is paper. The stamps are from Stampin' Up.

Switching Over

We are in the process of changing from Verizon DSL to Comcast. Things are not running smoothly so I may be offline for a while. Sorry.

Take a Word - Blooms

This is a card I made for my friend Dale, who is in a nursing home. I am entering it in Take a Word (Blooms).

The background is alcohol inks, my favorite plaything at the moment. The flowers came from an old discarded book.

So Artful

Jeanette gave us a lovely lime painting to use for our entries to her So Artful challenge this week. I love the colors in it and have made a sympathy card from part of the painting. I'm not too sure I have the balance right. Maybe the text should have been in a different position.

Art Cards - Chalk Lines

Here is my example of the chalk line technique based on Dawn's video. The theme for Artekarten challenge is Chalk Lines. I decided to do chalk lines on my focal square too.

Spring's Bright Colors on a Tag

I am entering this colorful abstract tag in the Wednesday Stamper (Fabulously Colorful) and in the Tag Tuesday (Think Spring) challenges.

Louise, so faithful in creating wonderful challenges for Tag Tuesday, is "hanging up the towel." Rebecca has decided to pick up the mantel and have Tag Tuesday on her blog.

This tag is a wild array of alcohol inks that I dropped onto shiny cardstock and then blew through a drinking straw to disperse the colors. The one 3-D flower was made from my heart punch and a daisy punch. The flower stamp is by Stampin' Up

Take a Word - TMTA

Here is my double duty ATC for Take a Word (Architecture) and Think Monday Think ATCs (Blue).

Most of this ATC is a collage of images from Travel and Leisure Magazine, including the igloo on the left. The birdhouse, stamped in blue and embossed in clear ep, was given to me. I don't know who made it.