Among the Stars

The Fabulous Elisabeth of Sassy Stampin' Momma has set a fabulous theme of "Moon" over at One Powerful Hour.

This Thursday, it's all about....has selected "From the Heart" as their theme this week.

Once again with a combination of these two wonderful sites ideas i have come up with this piece...

The "From the Heart" portion is the frame I used. I am a custom framer who has opened a successful shop and then had to leave it when we moved., it was very hard and sad for me. But without the shop I am not sure where I would be artistically speaking. I can trace back all my art tendencies to that shop so it is very special and close to my heart.

I hope you enjoy and thanks for looking!

Fall Fellows

This week, This Thursday, it's all about, gave us a Round Tuit.

I had no idea what this was/is, not a phrase I am familiar with but boy do I love the concept...

we thought that this weeks challenge should be Get a round tuit.
So we want you to think about all those craft projects that you have been meaning to get a round to, choose one and do it. if you are the very odd person who always does everything as soon as they think of it, you can use a round tuit (small round pin dish) either make one, decorate or alter one. Or create a peice reflecting the reasons why you don’t get a round to it. LOL Or as per usual you can use the title in anyway it inspires you.

One Powerful Hour challenged it's participants to depict Fall.

With these challenges combined there was no way that I could put off re working my "Fall Fellows" any longer.

A few weeks ago I made the top card for Repeat Impressions and did not like how it turned out. I was worried I would not have time to re-do it so I turned it in, Thankfully Wendy did not publish it. Giving me time to come up with a new layout and much warmer, richer colors. I really like my new interpretation.

I used Pearl Ex powders on the little leaves in the background. The leaves around the men are all embossed using various shades of embossing powder and the crowning touch is my Dr. Pepper tab that I used like a belt buckle, painted it Gold with a Krylon pen.

Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking.

Join my Seance

This week at Theme Thursday the theme is: Halloween

Use this theme in your creation this week! Use collage images, photos, rubber stamps, fancy paper , embellishments or any other art supply to give your creation a “Halloween” look.

I have had this fabulous ghost ribbon for almost a year and just had to use it.

I headed over to This Thursday, it's all about...and they had Black as the challenge.

Mixing the two challenges together I came up with this, what I consider, fabulous card. My only issue with it is I am not pleased with the silver rays around her head. I was trying to obtain a ghostly halo...didn't quite work.

Never the less I think the overall impression is very nice and hopefully it gives a new feel to the theme of Halloween...

Thanks for looking and please check out One Powerful Hour...this week the theme is Gold

A child’s puzzling uniqueness

So I am killing three birds with this ATC.

Alpha Stamps Yahoo group does a bi-monthly Lot-o-rama with ATC's. The person who wins the ATC the previous time gets to select a theme and this time it is "Unique" I had a very hard time with that b/c I just couldn't think of what made something Unique.

here is what I came up with.

1. Handwriting, each person's handwriting is different. So on the base of the ATC there is handwritten script, I know it is hard to see but I promise, it is there.

2. Puzzle pieces are each cut in a unique way, I am sure that there are tons that are the same but to me they each look different. Over at This Thursday, they have asked us to use Puzzle pieces in are work. So this worked perfectly for me.

3. No one is more unique to me right now than my little girl. But I imagine that all mother's feel that way so children overall have to be the most unique of individuals out there. They have not been molded by society yet and are free to be themselves. One Powerful Hour asked us to use children and things that remind us of childhood in our art this week.

4. And lastly I thought of sand. For some reason I can hear in my mind a saying that goes something like this "each grain of sand is unique" I could be totally wrong but hey it works. But instead of using sand I decided to use Glitter...after all they seem the same to me...both grainy but glitter is just such a happier color.

The background papers that I covered the puzzle pieces with are cut out of a brown paper bag that I had layed some fabric strips on to dry after dying them. There is no way I would ever obtain that pattern again so they are unique. And the background that everything is built on was made using Tim Holtz distressing inks. I am sure no matter how hard I tried I could never perfectly reproduce that either.

So in conclusion...to my extremely long winded explanation...everything on this ATC in my opinion is "Unique"

I hope you enjoy!

Eat Your Veggie's

Over at This Thursday the challenge is to:

The challenge this week is Blings the thing so we want to see loads of shine, sparkle, glitter and glimmer with some added pow and pizzazz. Or as usual you can interpret the title however it inspires you.

I had a Journal for COF to work on. And as most of you know I can't to anything without "Bling" so I decided to use my tag from Elisabeth's fabulous Round Robin Journal for the challenge.

Elisabeth's journal is all about "Mother's sayings" phrases you heard over and over as a child. I selected the tried and true phrase "Eat your Vegetables"

A lot of the Bling can't be seen...as usual. There is some pearl ex powder mixed all over the tag. I used silver pearl ex powder in an attempt to highlight the silver tray of veggies my "mom" is carrying. The words "Eat Your Vegetables" are surrounded with a silver paint pen that is really really shimmery. My "Moms" dress is painted with sparkeling H2O's and last but definitely not least the entire tag has been edged with bright orange glitter to match the carrots in the ribbon.

There are two charms hanging off of the ribbon, both silver, one is a corn cob and the other a pepper.

Hope you enjoy my homage to Elisabeth's tag journal and to This Thursday's challenge. I had a great time making my shimmery piece.