Helga's Weekly Challenge

Yay! I'm finally caught up enough with everything else that I get to play in one of Helga's Challenges. I always love her challenges. It makes me stretch my thinking.

This week's Challenge is to "play with your scraps". First thing I did was go through my trash. I usually don't have a large amount of scraps. Then I went over the top of my desk and found the two pieces on the left. The one on the right I had thrown away. I also had a piece of copper German Scrap that I had cut down. Then there is the FROM strip. I used the rest of it on my lottery piece this week.

The tag came from a friend and the zipper pull is recycled. It's one of my favorite additions to my art. I've used many this year, and have a hard time finding them. I usually look while I'm at garage sales. The new ones aren't as nice looking and vintage. This is a newer version...but it was the right color.

I laid my ATC down inside a copper bowl and took this picture. The additional things I used was a poinsettia sticker and some copper Stickles. The colors are very rich.

50 Posts & Counting

Well I finally made it to 50 posts...and to celebrate my 50 posts, I decided to have a little contest and see if I can get some more viewers to my Blog.

I've got 4 pieces of art that I'm going to give away on December 18th. You have until 4pm Indiana time to leave me a post and I will randomly pick 4 winners to receive the goodies that I'm posting here. I have two items that were made from beautiful items from ARTchix and 2 items that were made with lovely things from Paper Whimsy.

Hope you'll enjoy your visit enough to sign up as a follower of my Blog.

Hugs!

Christy

Jackie's Heart Page

While I was working on Belinda's heart page, I decided to get a jump start on Jackie's and kill two birds with one stone. AND, I am way ahead as this one was not due until January 15th. But, happy early Christmas to you Jackie!!

Jackie's theme was Artist's Choice...so that left my pallet and ideas all to myself. Lots of layers on the front side and one of the beautiful transparency arches. The copper just makes this look so rich. What you can't see is the copper colored Stickles enhancing the edges....

The 2nd side is less worked, but simple and vintage. I really like how the colors and theme all came together on it. Hope she likes it!

Belinda's Heart Page

Today I got busy and worked on several projects. This was one of them that I started and finished. Belinda's theme was Artist's Choice and a color theme of True Colors. I tried to stick to the turquoise I love so much and added the blacks as a contrast. The backgrounds on both sides of the heart were many layers. I started out by gessoing the heart, then painted them turquoise. On the side with the skeleton I used a beautiful piece of mulberry paper I have and adhered it with gel medium. I then stamped it and used H2O's to paint in the stamped area. The edges are inked and the bird is tinted with H2O's. I like the dark side of this Heart. Side two started out int he same way and was stamped with a couple of different stamps and then the birds were stamped on. The color doesn't come out well in the pictures...it looks much richer in person. I may look at it again today and see if any new ideas come to mind, but I think I'm pretty happy with it.

Art of My Dad

I've had this photo of my dad and his brother for several years. Many years ago I made a pillow out of the image. I think it is so sweet and when I look at it, I see how much I looked like my dad when I was that age.

This helps me stay grounded. Reminding me of when life was more simple as a kid. I wanted to make each creation unique, so they're all different.

I've used images from Paper Whimsy and Artchix to enhance each of my creations. It's always fun to create with both of their lines. They both offer unique items and are different from each other's products.

Thank you for sharing with me.