Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Free Collage Image Sheets

Check out this page from Ten Two Studios. The Original Printables Holiday Countdown Lisa has created a Countdown to Christmas calender that reveals a new free image sheet each day. From Dec 1st through Christmas day she will reveal a new image sheet for you to download for free! Check it out! Thanks Lisa for the generous Christmas gift!!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Vintage Veranda Fun Pack Treasure!

I won this great treasure trove of goodies on the Vintage Veranda website!! Everyone who participated in the 2nd challenge for October was eligible to have their name drawn! I WON! Yahoo!! So here is a picture of all the goodies I received. Lots of options to make some great projects here. I'm particularly facinted by the little croched flowers on the right side of the photo! I think if you click on the image above it will enlarge so you can see the details in the phot better.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Vintage Veranda 2nd Challenge for October 2008

Here is my card for the 2nd challenge on the Vintage Veranda website. The challenge was to create a harvest piece. This scan looks much darker than the real card. If you double click on it, the close up is much more like the actual colors. I did a collaged background with many layers of bits and pieces of images layered with lots of gesso, acrylic paint and inks. The stamped images are from Stampin' Up (SU) Autumn Harvest and Lovely as a Tree; and a pear from unknown. The button is from Stampin' UP. The cardstock is SU's River Rock, Really Rust and a piece of Bazzill. I made the label with my label maker and added color to it with SU Pumpkin Pie and Really Rust. I did a lot of distressing on the edges, piercing on the photo corners and used some direct to paper ink on the outermost edge. I liked this piece much better than the previous one!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Vintage Veranda First Challenge

I made this for the first challenge on the new Vintage Veranda forum website. If you like paper crafts, mixed media, etc. in the vintage style, you will love it! Lots of nice friendly people. You can see the website here http://www.vintageveranda.com/.
The challenge was to create a piece using recipe as the inspiration. For the background I used a printed scan of an old recipe booklet from a waffle iron my inlaws received as a wedding gift in 1948. The man and woman eating is an image transfer over gesso and acrylic paint. I added some color to it with gel pens to try and bring it out a little more as it seemed kind of lost. The photo doesn't show it very well but I added silver glitter with a gel pen on the birds, the little flower edges and the star fish. If you click on it to see it really close up it shows much better.
I used Stmapin' Up Always, French Script background and Balmy Breezes stamp sets. It took me forever to get this one done. Just couldn't seem to get it to come together. I finally decided to just stop!! LOL