The Letter G

The Letter this time for The Craft Alpha/Challenge is G. I picked the word Gnome. I love Gnomes! When I was a teenager my mother bought me this beautiful book about Gnomes. It has the most beautiful pictures in it. I spent many a happy day drawing  pictures of the Gnomes. I believe my birthday cards that I made that year had these happy creatures on it.

After 40 years I attempted to recreate a Gnome. I  had fun doing it and it brought back memories I had forgotten. I also included a Gnome home which is  in a tree. This was all freehand and  maybe not the best but who cares. I was a kid again for a while.

I used Spectrum Noir markers, acrylic paints through a stencil, watercolor pencils, and stamps with inks.  Also some pencil, pens, gel pen and a paint pen.  Sheesh, I think I wanted to use everything I had!!!!!!!!!

This has been fun and I can't wait to find out what the next letter is!

Being Unique

The March Challenge on The Dylusions Challenge Facebook page is to use blue and swirls.
This is what I came up with:

Almost everything I used is Dylusions. I used the ink sprays, London Blue and Midnight Blue as well as assorted colors on the stamped swirls and creature. I used a waterbrush to color with the ink sprays. I put molding spray through a Dylusion stencil. I used the ghosting technique through  another Dylusion stencil. I used a stamp with white Dylusion white ink, but had to go over it with a white gel pen. I can never find a white ink that shows! I did use some assorted Sizzex diecuts along with dylusion stamps to make up the turtle/lobster/octopus guy.

The phrase I got off the internet.

Had fun with this and so glad I got it done early.

R is for Ruff

New  Craft Barn Challenge this week...the letter R. 

I decided to use the word Ruff; for collar, not the bird. I've always been interested in historical clothing and have sewn for collector dolls as well as people so this was  a natural selection for me.

I used Distress inks, a lace doily stencil and a baroque style stamp. I also used a stamp with French text on it for the background. I included a picture of a 16th century ruff collar as well as an image from a painting. My favorite is the cat! The dictionary meaning is on top of some antique lace I had lying around and the dots are actually my masks from the L challenge. I thought they really worked on this. This is probably why I have such a hard time throwing stuff out!  The sticker is from an old sticker set I have.

 

Thanks for looking and I love reading all of your comments.

Recently I joined an Art Journaling Facebook Group called Mission Inspiration.  Every month we receive 10 constraints  on creating a  canvas or Art Journal page. I like things like that so I dove right into it. 
 As usual I had a totally different vision then what it ended up to be.  I was playing around with a different collage picture when I spotted this one on the cover of some free magazine that I brought home. As soon as I changed my plans everything seemed to fall into place.