WEDNESDAY STAMPER

Wednesday Stamper Theme: Stripes

Background stamped with Hero Arts Stripe stamp, Flower stamps by Hero as well, and masked. Embellished with Hero black onyx glass gemstones.

CREATED BY HAND - CRAZY AMIGO

Themes: House & Home/Flowers

House...my own template

Flowers: Cricut die cuts w/brass brads

Window: vellum

Girl/Dog image: Unknown Freebie

ARTY GIRLZ

Theme: Open

Boy/Dog image: Lisa's Altered Art

Old car stamp: Stamping Ground

Other stamps: Time to Stamp

LISA'S ALTERED ART

I love this little guy image from Lisa's Altered Art. Their images are adorable and they now have a new website - Lisa's Altered Art

For these, and other wonderful images I hope you will stop by her website, it is like a candy store for those of us who love collage sheets.

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY

Theme: Playing Card

Card Deck: Canadian Dollars

Image: Attic Treasures

White gesso and black gesso based.

Crackle UM stamp unknown.

STEP OUTSIDE YOUR BOX

Part 1 of 2 images
Handmade book. Presents somewhat like a portfolio with wrapped skewer closures. Cover is an animal print specialty paper which is shimmery and foil-like. See next photo for inside of my book.

STEP OUTSIDE YOUR BOX

Part 2 of 2

Inside handmade book. Includes covered pencils and pencil box. Book lined with black.

MY LATEST JEWELRY DESIGN CREATION

I really enjoyed creating this design. The majority of the findings I created from double wire that I twisted using an electric drill. I bought a new coiling gizmo to save some of the hand strain from creating coils totally by hand wrapping wire around wire...the coiling gizmo is a great tool. I am looking forward to wearing this set of the earings, necklace and bracelet....casual and elegant at the same time I think. Hope you like it.

A SPECIAL AWARD

I feel so honored to be given the Arte Y Pico award by Debi Wind . Thank you so much...you have made my day.

From what I gather the origin of this award is a lady named Eseya from Uruguay, South America, and the title is something like "Art and a little of other things too". This is Eseya's site which is supposed to be posted each time the award is given by the person receiving it.

The idea is that you then pick five blogs that you believe deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and contribution to the blogging community. List the names of the people you chose to receive the award on your blog and link to their blogs. Then let your award winners know by posting a comment on their blog.

Each award winner is to show the award and put the name of the person who gave them the award with a link to her/his blog. You also need to show the link to the Arte Y Pico blog to honor the origin of this award.There are so many blogs and blog owners that I appreciate and admire. Not only for all of the art they share but, also, the wonderful techniques they share. It is hard to pick five but here are the ones I have chosen:

Inka Heaton

Lori Roberts

Wanda Hentges

Ursula Vonderling

Sandee Hyde

WEDNESDAY STAMPER

Theme: Insects

Fly stamp by: Magenta

ARTY GIRLZ

Polished Stone handmade background.

Stamp images: Quietfire

Image: Ten Two Studios

CREATED BY HAND

Cuttlebug background

Image: Retro Cafe

Clock stamp: Non Sequitur

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY

Theme: Hats

Image: Digital Collage

Stamps: Creating Keepsakes

GOTHIC ARCHES

Theme: My doll and me

Stamp Images:

Girl and doll - The Stamping Ground

Fence & sun: Inka Stamps

Flourishes: A Time to Stamp

BEAD AND WIRE JEWELRY CREATIONS

I loved making this set of glass bead and wire jewelry and it has become a favorite of mine. It was very time consuming to wrap all the beads and create all the findings to be used in the construction of the set but I feel it was worth my time and effort and I look forward to wearing it.

BOW COPPER JEWELRY

I created this pin using 16 ga. copper wire in a free form design. It has been pounded to flatten and strengthen the design. A great way to relieve frustrations. A fun jewelry-making project, to be sure.

BEAD AND WIRE JEWELRY CREATIONS

I am really enjoying my bead and wire jewelry work. It is very challenging when you create all your own findings, from the links to the closures. Wire wrapping beads is a fun challenge as well. I never, ever, thought I would be just taking a few beads and some wire and creating actual jewelry. It is very personally rewarding. I hope you enjoy some of the pieces I have created.

MIXED MEDIA - AND - CRAZY AMIGO

Theme: Girls and Dolls

Image Stamp from: The Stamping Ground

Trust word stamp: Quietfire

Mesh Stamp: Inka Stamps

Button embellishments.

CREATED BY HAND

Theme: Quotes

COURAGE:

Courage is not the towering oak

that sees storms come and go;

it is the fragile blossom

that opens in the snow.

Snowflake background: Dry Embossed with Cuttlebug

Tulip Image: Magenta

Quote stamps: Digital Princess Designs.

ARTY GIRLZ

FRIENDSHIP CHALLENGE

A good friend and I challenge each other each month to work on a mixed media art piece. This month was a 6x6 background challenge. I elected to use the masking tape technique, applied gesso and navy acrylic paint for the background, then applied a Paris themed collage using images from Digital Collage.

GOTHIC ARCHES

Theme: Paris

Background stamp: Hero Arts

Images: Digital Collage

INKA STAMPS

All stamps and collage image from:

Inka Stamps

4x4 FRIDAY

Theme: Family

INKA STAMPS

All stamps from Inka Stamps

Embellished with glass gemstones.

ALTERED PAGES

Beautiful Winged Lady image from:

Altered Pages

Embellished with Pearls.

In addition to the large number of regular collage sheets offered at Altered Pages they are now offering digital collage sheets as well. Be sure to check them out.

THEME THURSDAY

Theme: Word Cherish

Image: Lisa's Altered Art

Stamps: Hero Arts

WEDNESDAY STAMPER

Theme: Arrows

Arrow Stamp and collage image from:

Inka Stamps

Embellished with rub-ons.

INKA STAMPS

All Stamp images from:

Inka Stamps

INKA STAMPS

All stamp images from:

Inka Stamps

INKA STAMPS

All stamp images from:

Inka Stamps

TGIF - CRAZY AMIGO

Theme: Blue Green New Stamps

Background stamps arrived this past week from The Stamping Ground.

Image: Lisa's Altered Art

CREATED BY HAND

Theme: Watercolor Background

Image: Digital Collage

Stamps: Hero Arts

ARTY GIRLZ

Theme: Black & White

Image: Digital Collage

TMTA

Theme: Middle Ages

Image: Digital Collage

GOTHIC ARCHES CHALLENGE

Theme: By the Sea

Wave Background:

Cuttlebug dry embossed

Bathing Beauty Image:

Digital Design

Fish Image: Unknown freebie

Embellishment: Star Gem

ALTERED DESIGN CHALLENGE

SKINNY SATURDAY

Theme: Open

All stamp images from: Inka Stamps

Color: Chalks

TGIF

Theme: Faces

Image stamped on vintage stock with Face image of Gibson Girl from Non Sequitur Stamps, toned with distress inks.

Background: Digital Collage, distressed.

4x4 FRIDAY

Theme: Oriental

Image: Swing Shift Pennywise

Embellishments: Asian Coins

Background: Painted specialty paper trimmed with crimped cs.

THEME THURSDAY

Theme: Color - Orange & Black.

Image: Lisa's Altered Art

Stamps: Quietfire

Embellishments: Gel Brads.

WEDNESDAY STAMPER - ARTY GIRLZ

Theme: Triangles and Trees

Image: Ten Two Studios

Background: Photo image of a flowering apple tree in my garden.

Flowers and crystal flower centers from Hero Arts.

CREATED BY HAND

Theme: Stencil

Technique:

Rather than just stencil paint this Anna Griffin Brass stencil I decided to dry emboss it first using my Sizzix die cutting system. I folded a piece of transparency to create an envelope, placed a piece of gasket rubber the same size as the stencil in the center of the transparency, then placed the actual brass stencil opposite the rubber gasket, taped it to the transparency. I then used the converter on the Sizzix to dry embossed the cardstock. When finished I removed the stencil from the hand folded transparency, placed the stencil over top of the embossed image, and then stencilled the piece. I then adhered the stencil to a Cuttlebug embossed background that was placed over matte cardstock. I love the texture of pre-embossing the stencil prior to the stencil painting....hope you do as well.

CRAZY AMIGO CHALLENGE

Theme: Open

Image: Lisa's Altered Art