Art Impressions Card

I made this card for a friends Birthday.

I was playing around with some new paper pads I bought and used these as the backgrounds. The stamped image is from Arts Impression and I used my Spectrum Noir Markers to color it. I used some glitter glue for the icing.  I added a row of light blue rhinestones for some bling.

I'm entering this into the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge. They have an Anything Goes with the option of using an Arts Impression

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K for Kite

It's that time again to post my page for the The Craft Barn Alpha/Dictionary Challenge. This time it is K. I decided to do Kite.

With Distress Inks I made a hazy landscape in the background and stamped some trees on the bottom to help give the kite height. I used one of my gelli plate creations to cut out the kite. I loved how the color stands out with the subtle design in it. It reminds me of the wonder of seeing a kite up in the air!

  The definition is from the computer as the one from my dictionary is way too small and mostly about the bird.

I rushed on this as I had only 2 weeks to go before I moved and needed to pack everything up. I was very depressed as I still hadn't secured an apartment. My Landlord did call the other night and told us that my neighbor is moving out and he will be moving in there so we no longer had to move!!!!

So things turned out for the best. Now I'm unpacking and having the chance to rearrange things, etc. Now if only this heat would go away, things would be perfect!

Until next time.

T for Thread

A new Letter was announced on The Craft Barn Alpha/ Dictionary
the letter T.  Having been sewing since I was 10 and have had sold many of my Doll creations I came up with thread pretty quickly!

I noticed that the background on most of my pages have a lot of the same colors so I decided to shake it up a bit and  make it look a bit vintage by using some blue distress inks and stains.  I used vintage photo for the edges.

The card with the thread on it is one of Tim Holt's Salvage Stickers. The vintage spool of thread is from a collection of sewing theme collage pictures.

I used a few sewing stamps from Tim Holtz, the stitch  border stamp and the spool label stamp. I used a French script stamp with a tea dye ink. 

I thought an actual threaded needle would be fun and it does describe the second set of meaning for thread!

I appreciate all of the comments everyone leaves me. Still really busy packing and looking at places to live. Will try to comment when I can.