The Playdate Cafe

This is my late entry for the Play Date Cafe where the colors this week are coral, petal pink and antique gold. The colors are actually in the background. I used distress inks and some of the Moonglow products. To be sure the pink showed I am using part of the watercolor I did at the end of the week for Paint Party Friday..

So Artful - Gloria Swanson

Sorry, Jeanette, the picture with the veil was unsettling to me. It looked like tattoos all over that pretty face. So I have gone to Wikipedia and gotten a pose of Ms Swanson, which I colored with Photoshop Elements. The background is one I acquired from Dezinaworld. I think this works for the SoArtful challenge.

Rainbow Lady - Caroline's Flower

The Rainbow Lady's challenge is to use hand made flowers and particularly one of Caroline's templates. I have used the provided template and literally the colors provided. I love the vibrant sunny look. My cardstock is a metallic gold.

For those looking for my PPF entry it's here.

Tag it On - Embossing

Today is busy so I did a simple tag for Tag it On, where the theme is embossing. I used a brass template and stylus to dry emboss the three butterflies onto this patterned paper. The heat embossing was done with Stampendous Pearl Lustre Garnet embossing powder. The "believe" stamp came from Michael's and has no brand name on it.

Edited:
I loved some of the entries that had been embossed by machine, so I did another one using my cuttlebug folder. The butterfly is by Stampin' Up and is embossed in white on brown cardstock. The cuttlebug folder was used to emboss a piece of vellum.

Tag Tuesday - 10 minute tag

My tag was made in ten minutes, but it took longer to scan it and to put it on my blog!

My background is one I made last night with alcohol inks. The flower is also one I had experimented with last night. The stamps are Stampin' Up.

This is my Tag Tuesday entry.

TMTA - Shells

My ATC for TMTA started out as a photo of the beautiful shell framed mirror my now deceased daughter-in-law gave me years ago. I printed the photo and cut out the mirror part. (I had not noticed before that the shape is a heart. DUH!) My background is alcohol inks on glossy cardstock and stamped with Rubber Stampede stamps. The text was added by computer.

ACC - Postage Stamps

My entry for Art Cards Challenge is simple. I used decorative paper that has handwriting on it and 2 postage stamps I got on a package from Germany. The swirl stamps are from Purple Onion designs. I don't know where I got the postage stamp stamp, but I have written I Brake for Stamps on the back of it.

Tag it On - Look to the Skies

This is my entry to Tag it On. I  did a watercolor sky on white cardstock. The stamp of the sun (barcode 25729, distributed by Greenbrier Int. - no brand given) was stamped on some yellow cardboard. The stamp of the balloons (PSX) was stamped on decorative paper made by Me and My Big Ideas. The collaged mountains were also made of that decorative paper.