Design Team Work

I've been busy doing more design team work for Retro Cafe Art Gallery today. I made these three cards with new collage images. I am just in love with this little girl! This first one I used a acrylic paint on the "adore" stamp. (Sorry, it's clear acrylic, and I don't remember who made it.) The parenthesis are from a punch that I bought a Archivers.
More Punches for the second card. The Happy is actually one big stamp by Hero Arts that I cut apart. The Swirls are by autumn leaves (Recognize these Bev??) and the text is by Stampington.
Can you tell I was in a mood to use my punches?? I made the buttons on the flowers with a little alcohol ink. The swirls are by inkadinkado, and the Italian text is by Hampton Art Stamps.

Laugh

I have this wonderful photo of my friend Kasia--who I wrote about here--and I just love it and wanted to do something fun with it. While unpacking I found this blank photo frame that's from the BE line by Creative Imaginations that I'd gotten a while back and did nothing with. So today I created this:

The letters are chipboard and are by Li'l Davis Designs. The flowers are a combination of punch-outs and pre-cut flowers by DCWV. The stamp on the tag is by Stampendous and the red flowers on the chipboard are eyelets by Making Memories. And the swirls on the brown paper are by Rhonna Ferrar.
Whew.
Everything but the kitchen sink!

Wednesday Stamper

The Wednesday stamper is having an open theme for the next couple of weeks--so I decided to submit this little card that I made. The robot stamp was something that I picked-up at a warehouse sale for a dollar and have never used, so I thought I'd give it a try. I painted him in with some twinkling h2os and then gave him a hat. I used one of my alphabet stamps for the text. The stamp has a lot of detail and if you click on the picture you'll get a better view of what it really looks like.

Take 10

I had time to sit down and create last night for the first time in weeks it seems. I decided to try my hand at one of the templates in the most recent Take Ten magazines. The text on this card translates to: the beautiful woman without regrets. Which is what the stamp of the lady (by Hampton Arts) always brings to my mind. When I was done, I liked it so much I decided to submit it. So of course I had to make an envelope to send it in and a postcard so that I would know when my submission arrived.

This is the postcard I made, it is a Tim Holtz stamp and a swirl stamp by Autumn Leaves. I colored in the stamp with some colored pencils. When I was done I wanted to make several more I was so happy with the finished product! I guess I really must have missed having time to just sit and create without the stress and worry of other things needing to get done.

Moving!

This will probably be my last post for the next couple of weeks. My hubby and I are getting ready to move and it's been all kinds of insanity here! We started packing this weekend and although we got a bunch done it's going to be 2 more weeks of grueling work. The card above is a little something I made to send out to family members with our new info on it. The stamp is by paperbag studios.
I will see you in a few weeks.

Miniature Shrine

One of my design team creations is a miniature shrine. Here are a couple of photos of the finished product!

Wednesday Stamper

The theme for this weeks Wednesday stamper is Eggs. I have a couple of little egg stamps by Invoke Arts which I used on this page--but I really wanted a nice big egg for my focal point, so I cut one out and colored it using ink and added the spots using a pencil's eraser. The wings on the girl is a stamp by stampington and company. The background swirls are by Autumn Leaves.

More Pages

I worked some more on my design team book this weekend. Here are a couple of my pages. I used the new Twinkling H2O daubers to make the little flowers and for the background of the second page.

The big wings are from a stampington and company butterfly stamp. The little butterflies are from River City Rubber Works.
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Wednesday Stamper

I promised myself that I would be good this week and try to get the Wednesday stamper challenge done sooner rather than later. I've been bad about it the last couple of weeks. So Tonight, I sat down and made this. The theme this week is flowers. I don't really own any flower stamps, so I opted to make this instead. The center of the flower is a plastic optical lens that I tinted with alcohol inks. I then stamped the woman--by Oxford Impressions--on card stock and put it into the lens. I hand drew the flower and cut it out. The stamp is by Hero Arts, I think it's called Italian Text, but I'm not positive. I used some sequin waste to apply some ink to give the green paper some texture and made the little tag and viola, a card was born.

Wednesday Stamper

The theme for this weeks Wednesday Stamper is doors. Since I don't own any stamps with doors on them I decided to make my own little door out of Popsicle sticks. The girl stamp is by Lost Cost Designs and the grass at the bottom is a swirl stamp by Autumn Leaves.
My other big accomplishment this weekend was baking these yummy cupcakes. They've got chunks of pineapple in them and the frosting is cream-cheese with coconut. I think I'm going to go and eat another one right now!

Wednesday Stamper

Here is my creation for this week's Wednesday Stamper, the theme of which is frames.
The frame stamp is by Orange Bus Studios and the lady in the window is by Oxford Impressions. The swirls are by Autumn Leaves.

A Card & Pancakes

If I have one weakness, it's breakfast food. And since I'm NEVER hungry first thing in the morning, I like my breakfast for dinner. Take a look at these yummy blueberry pancakes that I had for dinner. This photo really does not do them justice--they were filled to the brim with tart blueberries. I slathered them in blueberry syrup and went to town.
Now, I don't normally post pictures of plants--and for a very good reason. I grew-up in a house full of people obsessed with plants. We're talking Latin naming, pruning-sheer wielding, plant obsessives. While they spent hours outside tending soil, I spent hours inside practicing my music. The problem was, I didn't have anyone who shared my obsession, and was forced to listen to endless dinner conversations about root-rot and other such things. I actually used to interject musical bits into the conversation sometimes. It would go like this:
Mom: The hydrangeas are really coming along nicely. I'm glad we got the ph balance sorted out.
Andy: Yeah, and did you catch a load of that Atropa belladonna, it's really blooming!
Me: I find the dissonance in Shostakovitch to be more soothing than disruptive.
And so on.
Which is why, I hardly ever post any pictures of my own garden. But I had to post this, because the color was so lovely. I will not bore you with the Latin name, or tell you stories about what kind of plant food I used.


Lastly, I have this card that I made for my grandmother as a little get well present. I saw something similar in one of the stamping magazines and really liked it, so I modified it slightly, and made this. I think it's cute if I do say so myself!

Wednesday Stamper

The theme for this weeks Wednesday Stamper is grunge, I haven't really tried this technique before, so I thought I'd try it out on an ATC. I started with a base of Lumiere paint, and then layered a bunch of different stamp inks on top of it, using a brayer. The bird stamp is by Rhonna Ferrar and the stitching and lettering are rub-ons.

More ATCs

So here are the last of my ATCs for our meet-up tomorrow. I am going to try and remember to take my camera so that I can get some pictures of everyone and their lovely cards. Again, all the backs are alcohol inks. The last card has a Tim Holtz stamp embossed on it. All the fibers are Basic Grey.