Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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

Monday, April 28, 2008

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.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

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.

Friday, April 25, 2008

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.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

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:

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

WEDNESDAY STAMPER


Theme: Insects
Fly stamp by: Magenta

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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

Monday, April 21, 2008

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

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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


Sunday, April 13, 2008

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

Friday, April 11, 2008

Thursday, April 10, 2008

INKA STAMPS


All stamps from Inka Stamps
Embellished with glass gemstones.

ALTERED PAGES


Beautiful Winged Lady image from:
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.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

THEME THURSDAY


Theme: Word Cherish
Stamps: Hero Arts

WEDNESDAY STAMPER


Theme: Arrows
Arrow Stamp and collage image from:
Embellished with rub-ons.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

INKA STAMPS


All Stamp images from:

INKA STAMPS


All stamp images from:

INKA STAMPS


All stamp images from:

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

Sunday, April 6, 2008

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


Saturday, April 5, 2008

SKINNY SATURDAY


Theme: Open
All stamp images from: Inka Stamps
Color: Chalks

Friday, April 4, 2008

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.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

THEME THURSDAY


Theme: Color - Orange & Black.
Stamps: Quietfire
Embellishments: Gel Brads.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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