Gothic arch " Celebrate "

Here is my " Celebrate " gothic arch for this weeks challenge, it has a pale paper back ground that I stamped all over with a "cracked ice" stamp in sepia, I then painted the top and left hand side with 3 different metalic paints, this is over stamped with a flourish in Chestnut ink, the beautiful girl is from a free collage sheet at Digital Collage Sheets.com, I inked the word celebrate in black and then stamped into hot sealing wax, a little sheer ribbon and paper flower to finish !!!

Pretty paper hearts,

This weeks theme on pretty paper hearts is to use Christmas colours of cream and white, I used a deep cream and gold back ground, white lace , 2 prints of vintage Christmas girls, paper holly and flat backed crystals in place of the berries in their hair, white braid on the front edge and cream lace behind this, the music paper is " O Christmas Tree ", I loved making this one !!!!!!

Make a Moo, Pets

This weeks moo challenge is "Pets", I thought it would make a change to make my moo in black and white, I am not really a cat person, I prefer dogs but I just love this picture, from Pennywise Arts, I hope that you like it !!!!!

More Atc's arrive !!!!!!

More atc's have arrived from the wtax2 lottery on the atc world group that I belong to, I was lucky enough to win this month, its been fantastic to recieve all of these fabulous atc's, Many thanks to all of you that have made these atc's for

me !

Pretty Paper Heart

This weeks challenge is to make our hearts using our favorite Christmas colours, I love mauve and silver together so these are the colours that I chose, I don't know if it's the flash from the camera but the silver is not showing up as well as it should, I have used background paper with torn mulberry paper, the pansies are raised decoupage, the little girl is from Lisa's Altered Art, I gave her a pair of wings from my stash, stamped and silver embossed patterns with inked edges to finish ! It's been another great theme, I hope that you like the heart that have made !

This weeks inchie & twinchie is " Cute "

Over on Nancy's inchie & twinchie challenge site the theme for this week is " Cute ", what a lovely idea !

My twinchie is made with pale pink paper which I stamped with little stars, then added torn mulberry paper, lace, a metal open heart, printed words, 2 tiny flat backed pinhead crystals, and a waistband of silk ribbon on the babies dress, this baby is from Lisa's Altered Art, I hope that you like her !!!!

This weeks Moo challenge is " First Time"

The theme this week is "First Time ", the first time that you try something new, so for this weeks moo's I decided not to use any paper images for the first time. I used a canvas paper for the 1st time, which I painted black, I then used a selection of Duncans liquid pearl acrylics to dab colours onto the black canvas, (all of these colours have a hint of gold) this is the 1st time that I have used these in paper/canvas art, many years ago I cut and decorated real egg shells and this is what I used the paints for, I also laid a piece of sequin waste over the top of the paint and dabbed some more paint on to give some small circles, I then stamped over this with my new leaf stamps and embossed them with silver with silver edges to finish,

Sorry that the picture looks a bit gold I think its from the camera flash, this is the best picture that I can get, have tried about 14 times!!!!