Star light, star bright...

I thought before I head to bed I would create a quick inchie for this weeks Challenge theme on Inching Artists... This is what I came up with. I made the background using a painting technique called Crayon Batik. I then just drew on some stars in black and traced and colored in with a silver glitter pen :) Its simple but I thought it would be a good embellishment for something :D Check out http://inchingartists.blogspot.com for challenges and inspiration :)
There's a new theme added every Tuesday!

Sisterly Love Inchie

I created this Inchie for the weekly challenge at Inching Artists... Im not very happy with the photo, its very blurry (thats what I get for not having a scanner *sighs*) This weeks new theme is Stars but last weeks was Love.... If you like a challenge or need some inspiration head over http://inchingartists.blogspot.com/ :)

More new Inchies....

Created a few new inchies for Artistic-Creations that I thought I would share. The one to the left is my favorite of the batch :) I loved the vintage rose, it was a really beautiful yellow with the dark green and brown in the leaves.... So I took some beige paper and crinkled it up... flattened it.. then crinkled it again, and flattened it as much as I could. Then I took my stamp pad in Christmas green and lightly dragged it over the paper, and did the same with my chocolate brown stamp pad. :) That was the background of the inchie. I didnt want to do too much to take away from the rose and the background because it has such a cool texture... so I left it simple. I edged the inchie with a similar coor as the darker part of the rose and wha-la, there you have it!

Then you have the snowman set that I put together, with these wicked vintage images I found! :) For the first one I did a similar background as the rose but I used a light blue colored paper and my indigo stamp pad. I added the cute little boy and snowman graphic and a shiny red brad for the top of his hat, then I took my icicle glitter paint pen and added little shiny dots randomly. You cant see them very well in the photo but in person they sparkle really well :) The middle Inchie is my favorite of this set. I used a neat background fiber paper that already had a swirly texture to it and I used my true red stamp pad to lightly add color, and a tiny bit of chocolate brown. I used the cute angel boy and snowman image, a red spangle snowflake from my little stash and a little piece of gold mesh, then I just edged the inchie with a black marker :) And the final Inchie was a simple red striped background paper from my stash of scraps, the lovely vintage image, and I have a mini snowflake stamp that came in handy for this one. I just randomly stamped snowflakes in black and used the icicle paint pen to add sparkles to the centers :)

Ten Two Studios Holiday countdown

Im sure everyone already knows about Ten Two Studio's countdown by now but I wanted to blog about it.... If you visit http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/ each day, there are free collage images and more there being shared! Its such a nice thing to do and I am loving what has been shared so far. But remember these are linkware, and are not free... so be fair and blog or share the link above before using any of the shares :) Enjoy!

Silhouette Inchies

I'm working on my first Inchie swap in Artistic-Creations. The swap is for 10 free expression inchies. So I thought it would be neat to make a few of them similar. Im a big fan of silhouette's can you tell? LOL! I got to use 3 stamps that I havent used yet too :) The base of the inchies are handpainted using a scrapping technique w/ various colors and a mix with some metallic watercolor as well. (Thats why the hibiscus one has a glitter to it) The others do too but you cant really see it in the photo. :) Then I just stamped using black ink and did the edges in black as well. Simple, quick, and fun :) I still have 7 more to create but I think that is going to wait until tomorrow, its almost 3 am and Im plum tuckered out *lol*

My Spirit Animal.. altered art postcard

Today I created an Altered art postcard for an exchange in Artistic-Creations.

The theme was 'Your Spirit Animal'

For mine I chose to do the Rabbit. On the back of the postcard I included my reason for choosing the rabbit... this is what I said:

"I chose the Rabbit because they stand for:
Guile, Perodox and contradiction, quick thinking, receiving hidden teachings and intuitive messages, living by one's own wits, strengthening intuition, moving through fear, and humility. "

Turkey's & Pumpkin's ATC

I happily created this ATC this evening for a swap in the group AlteredArtBliss. :) The theme was Turkey's and Pumpkins. I actually used a striped base paper, then found this cellophane plastic w/ turkeys and pumpkins on it that I had saved in my stash (I knew it would come in handy some day! lol) I attached this to the top of the striped background paper. I then created 2 inchies using pumpkin stamps and fiber paper and attached rafia and a rafia bow as an accent. Thought it turned out kind of cute, and I like the 3-d effect of it. :)

More to come... stay tuned!