Fun Mail Day

I ordered some "Metallic Myst" from my pal Ank at Stampinback

and it arrived today! I just ordered it like a week ago and its already here, clear from the Netherlands! Anyway, being a sucker for anything metallic I HAD to give these a try.

I just tested these out on a scrap piece of linen textured paper for fun.

The scan does not show their shimmer-but its gorgeous! I can tell I am going to have fun with these :) And, Ank also included a card-isn't that little girl image so cute? that image is from

Time To Stamp and the wonderful backgrounds are from Stampinback!

Thanks Ank!!

Blog Candy! Help me name this fella!

Help me! I need to name one of my newest pieces but I am just no good at naming them! I would really like him to have an old fashioned type name! Comment to this with your suggestion and if I pick the name you suggest you will win a manilla envelope of collage fodder from my own collection :)

Sharing a favorite blog

I just have to share one of my favorite blogs!
If you haven't checked out "The Altered Page" then rush right over! GREAT blog, and Seth is just too cool. He has some great stuff there that is sure to inspire!

prepping for a juried art show

I MAY be a little quite over the next week or so.........I am frantically preparing for a juried art show. I have one piece done, actually two, but I have two pieces I am working on at this very moment. I need to have these all done, sealed and ready to hang by the 9th. My muse is just soaring high right now, so I am going with it! I am giving ya a little glimpse of one of them I am currently working on. Just a little peek is all :)

Last year I did GREAT in this show-I am hoping this year I will be just as lucky :)

Think Monday-Think ATC: Africa!

This was a hard one.......I really didn't have any African related images at all! I then remembered I had some from years back that I handcarved myself for a group I belonged to for a challenge or something.

It was really fun revisiting alot of my old carved stamps! I will have to bring more out and use them-I have alot of them! I LOVE the look of handcarved images!

Step Outside your box Saturdays-Fabric

This was a hard one! But, since I recently did a inkjet transfer to fabric I thought I would do another one and incorporate it into a collage. The brown piece behind the collage is one of those frame thingies that old photos come in-I cut it into two pieces, to use another for later :) I handstitched the image transfer to the substrate-which is a piece of canvas with old text adhered to it.

The little girls are from a favorite photo from my own collection. I very often use photos from my very large collection and add color to them ,etc :)

4x4 Friday:Watercolors

I used Twinkling h20's for the background on this, and got out my bottle of white india ink and splotched in some areas . Cemetary Angel is from Collagestuff and text background stamp is from Time To Stamp

Wednesday Stamper: Bookmarks

I was in the Frida mood today, so that was my theme :)

Stamps are by Vickie Enkoff (RIP) available through Alluring Impressions

The phrase, however, is from her daughter, Melanie Sage.

Theme Thursday: Warm Colors

The Theme Thursday Challenge is Warm colors!

This is a n atc made using oil pastels and gesso, and black gesso around the edges

Text stamp by Time To Stamp-my favorite text stamp on the planet :)

Circle by Inkastamps

little girl by Stampinback

More Copper ATCs

I am having just way too much fun with this copper. I have some more ideas-I will definitely have to play around more with this wonderful stuff! I did a couple more ATC's :)

The one on the top is done with images from ISC

and the one on the bottom is done with Time To Stamp images. I used a ball peen hammer to them after I mounted them to matboard for stability. I used Mica behind the focal image on the one on the top-its hard to get a good scan that shows that.