Black and White Affair - Photo Album

For Sale in my Etsy Shop

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All About Me - Photo Album

For Sale in my Etsy Shop

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Collages Done with PaperImagery Designs

Playing around with some images from PaperImagery Designs.

This is a 4 x 4 deep canvas collage.

The 2 collages above were done on canvas board.

Beeswax Collage ATC Swap

These cards were done for an ATC swap on the Yahoo PaperTraders Group that I belong to. I have the most fun creating backgrounds for my ATCs. The background was created by adding gold tissue paper to some card stock, then I stamped some circle stamps with a red stamp pad, then I stamped with a "marble" stamp with brown stamp pad to give it the veins. I applied the images and words then used an encaustic technique. Next I applied my 3D elements while the wax was still melted. After everything was dry, I buffed the wax and gave it a little shine.

HalloQween Shrine

This is an entry I have done for Somerset Studios Vintage Halloween contest. I used a cigar box as the shrine body and the rest was all about fun.

Southwest "Textures"

Theme this week on Mixed Media Monday is "Textures". I created this on a 5x7 stretch canvas using acrylic ink, light modeling paste and natural sand texture gel. I used Michael Stong's pottery vase stamp and put some 3D elements in the vase. Had a blast!

“Old School” - Sunday Gothic Arches Challenge

The them this week is "Old School". I do remember Dick and Jane. I'm probably dating myself by owning that and it's the truth. I also think about old red school houses, and no I'm not that old, when I hear Old School.

That's Risque

These are cards I did for a swap on a yahoo group I belong to. ATC World.

Way Out West Swap

A swap I did for the Yahoo Group I belong to - papertraders. These were a lot of fun to create.

Theme Thursday - Spring

Love is in the air!

I couldn't resist and I created 2 entries for this week.

Stamp is "Lovesick Moon" by Sandra Evertson purchased at Stampington.com
The woman stamp is by Rubber Stampede, the Eiffel Tower stamp is by B Line Designs and the postage stamp is by Hero Arts.

Gothic Arches - Sunday Challenge

Today's Theme is Purple

It reminds me of this poem:

Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
By Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Gothic Arches - Sunday

Here Comes The Bride

The theme this week for Gothic Arches is "Music and Lyrics".

This is my entry for this week. Can't say where the subject came from, it was the first thing that popped into my head.

Love Is... Swap

Love Is... Eternal

This is for a swap I have done on ARTchix yahoo group.

Mixed Media Monday

The theme this week is Whimsy. Not too sure if my idea of whimsy is the same as everyone's. If nothing else, I'm thinking you'll at least get a chuckle.

4 x 4 Friday

Today's theme is textured paper. For this technique I crumpled water color paper. Brushed on twinkling h2os and then ran the paper across a brown stamp pad to high light the raised creases. I then stamped leaves with green ink and embellished with words and a wire swirl. The "nest" is made with melted paper bag and string. The image is a combination of ARTchix studios faux stamp collections cut out to create the bird.

Bohemian Altered Book

I've always wanted to do something with a gypsy theme. There is romance, music, fortune telling, travel to distant lands, theater, something a little naughty, and art in a gypsy's life. I had a blast making this book. So here's a little something from an artist with a little gypsy in her soul!

Cover

Pages 1 and 2

All About Music

Pages 3 and 4

A little fortune telling

Pages 5 and 6
Travel the World

Pages 7 and 8

Theater

Pages 9 and 10

Something a little naughty

Pages 11 and 12

Always time for creating art

Pages 13 and 14
Love and Romance

Back Pages

I had created some faces with Polymer Clay and incorporated them in playing cards. I created a nitch in the last page to put these in.

3 x 3 Collage Entry for Artchixstudios

Here are some cards I have created to send into ARTchix. The requirements were to use at least 1 piece of art from their Faux Postage Collection.

Encaustic Collage - Music Muse

Here is my first try at encaustic collage. I enjoyed working on this piece so much I will be doing more of them and selling them in my esty store.

I first painted the canvas with acrylic paints in the colors of the paper I used. I collage the paper pieces to the canvas then added dyed gauze to a few places. I waxed the whole piece then placed the gold string throughout the collage. I waxed again.

4 x 4 Friday

This week it is all about Santa. Here is my "Old World Santa" collage.

Theme Thursday

The theme this week is wings.