Fun In the Sun

Over At Wednesday Stamper the theme is

I know that Summer is here with a vengeance in the Northern Hemisphere and I hope it is an enjoyable time for all. Let us see your SUNSHINE related submissions this week.

I am diligently trying to get my next set of Castles ready for Alpha Stamp so this crown is not a new piece. Some of you may recognize it as it was published a few months ago in Stampers Sampler.

Hope you enjoy...and that you are the Queen of your Sunny Day!
Rubber Hugs
Caro

The Mercy of Thin Air…Bookmark

Today’s Wednesday Stamper challenge is…

... to come out from behind your book and make a bookmark. So that after having had a relaxing read you can put a gorgeous piece of artwork in there to enjoy it even more.

This was perfect for me. For those of you that do not know I am a member of the Columbus Book Markers. This coming up Monday I am hosting our meeting, because the February books were my selection. As the hostess my one duty is that I have a book mark as a door prize. I had completely forgotten until reading the challenge that I need to make one.

The book for Book club this past month was Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue. I really enjoyed this historical fiction/ghost/love story and highly recommend it. Portraying the story on a bookmark proved to be a bit difficult…after all how do you portray the idea that sometimes stuff happens?

I decided to take a blithe approach starting with a beautiful, free image, of flying horses from tartx and printed it out on transparency. The background is a cloud stamped in versa mark and chalked then over stamped with writing that I off stamped first in order not to get it too dark.(wow, that is a mouthful) The book page is died using Tim Holtz distressing ink.

Unfortunately the scan is not very good. The colors or light blues, pinks, yellows and greens…think heavenly shades with silver along the edges and used in all the ribbons. If you click on it a larger image will pop up showing more detail

I hope you enjoy…I am open to any and all types of critiques.
Caro

2 Cherish

Today’s Challenge from Wednesday Stamper is…

Love is in the air!! Share the love and let us see your VALENTINE inspired creations this week.

I actually made this card a few days ago when I was trying to figure out what to give DH for Valentines day. We no longer celebrate the Hallmark Holiday…mainly because we have been married for going on eight years and we have found many other special days.

When I saw this collage image from Alpha Stamps laying next to a new tool, my Coluzzle cutting system, I just put two and two together. And what is more important in marriage and Valentines Day then cherishing the one you love?

The Red Heart in the upper left hand corner is a stamp from Alpha Stamps that I stamped into polymer clay and painted with sparkling H2O’s. I had to blow up the collage image to make it fit properly into the puzzle piece heart…I am disappointed in the quality of the image but then again the original was not meant to be distorted in such a manner.

I hope you enjoy!

Wednesday Stamper Challenge...Asia

I thought I would combine the Theme of Asia with a little bit of Romance, since it is February after all, and this is what I came up with...Thanks for looking