Gothic Arch Tip-in

I'm in a tip-in Gothic Arch collaborative project. These pages are for Carol whose theme is Carousel. What a challenge this was for me!!!!! I sure hope she likes them!

Gothic Arch~Celtic

Happy St. Patrick's Day! The theme for the Gothic Arch Challenge is Celtic. The images are from Lisa's Altered Art. Enjoy!!!

1-2-3 Mingle

I hosted a 1-2-3 Mingle in Altered Art Swap. These are the pieces I made for my recipient. Hope she likes them!

4x4 Friday

The theme this week is Fairies. The image can be found at Lisa's Altered Art.

A very late Gothic Arch!

The theme for this week is Transitions. Mine is very late, but better than never!!!

4x4 Friday

The theme this week is Pets. There's something about this dog that I just love!!!

Lisa Vollrath Freebies

http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/

I believe this is a 30 day freebie countown to Easter. Make sure you check it out!

Journal Pages for Jen!!!

I'm in a wonderful Round Robin with some terrific artists! The theme of Jen's journal is Songs From My Childhood. I had to really think on this one. I do remember my gramma and I singing "Sing a Song of Sixpence" in her Brooklyn highrise appartment. I must have been very young, between the age of 3-5. We would sit on the recliner by the window and I would sit on her lap. What a wonderful time I had with that song...what a fond memory...

Had a little down time this morning...

For the Monday Image Challenge at Altered Designs.
For the TGIF ATC Mingle. The theme this week is Stamped Background.

Who doesn't love a freebie???

Here is a site for freebies...fun, fun St. Patrick's Day images:

Artist How-to Countdown

Have fun with them!

Two New Arches

I'm a designteam member for Altered Pages and I made these pieces today using Jackie's collage sheets. What a peaceful way to spend the morning...

Gothic Arch

The theme this week is TRASH. What a great theme this is!!! I have so many recyclables in my house...this was a breeze! The arch itself is made from a cereal box. The checkered paper is a bag from a gift shop. The inked paper is the wrapping from Scott toilet tissue. I also use an old cigar label, an old button and some gold wiry, springy stuff that I have no idea where it came from! The wording is from an old coat claim check (even though it says it's not!)~

Theme Thursday

Letters of the Alphabet is the theme for Theme Thursday this week. This is my rendition!

Fun with Lisa's Altered Art Images

Her images are just darling. Please visit her site: Lisa's Altered Art

4x4 Friday

The theme for 4x4 Friday this week is Alice in Wonderland. I LOVE THIS BOOK!

RAK for a friend!

I have a friend that is doing something very nice for another friend of ours. I wanted to let her know how "tweet" I thought she was for doing this. Bird image is compliments of Lisa's Altered Art.

Monday Challenge Image

I absolutely loved the image Kelly used for the Monday Challenge on Altered Designs this week. I don't know what it is about the photo, but I felt compelled to do something with it.

Gothic Arch

The theme for Gothic Arch Sunday is History. I LOVE history since my own family has a pretty illustrious history of its own. My family and my mother-in-law came through Ellis Island. They had all escaped Hitler's Germany... Baruch Hashem (thank G_d).

Skinny Saturday

The theme this week is Sitting Pretty. This little lady is in deep reflection...

SOYB~Fabric

You know how you've always wanted to try something, but just needed the kick in the rear to do it? I always wanted to try sewing an ATC, but I needed that kick! AND I'M A QUILTER!!! I just never sewed paper or anything this small freehand.

Lisa's Step Outside Your Box challenge this week is The Fabric of Our Lives. I decided to do what my friend Martha suggested and just layered all sorts of stuff on to the fabric base. I have paper and fabric and gauzy stuff (I forgot what it's called!) and I used an old photo. The result is what you see here. And, it was fun!!!

TGIF ATC

I do so few ATCs nowadays: I forgot how much I enjoy doing them. This is for a TGIF ATC Mingle in Altered Designs. The challenge is Black, White and Red. Here's my Music in Red.

4x4 Friday

Here's another piece I want to chuck right out that snowy window!!! I ruined it with the "1"stamp. But I had to share with you something really cool. You know how we all buy Twinkling H2O paints? My friend Jen told me that the PRANG kiddie water colors come in glitter and metallics. SO I went to Dick Blick and found them and ordered them. Holy smoke!!! Just like the real mcCoy and for pennies!!! I wish you could see the glitter in the paint. Of course, scans can't do that. But trust me...it really is like the expensive stuff!

Theme Thursday

Theme Thursday this week is warm colors. I always love working in warm colors,but I'm afraid I missed my mark this week. Can you tell that my 2 oldest teen sons are making me insane? They had a fist fight last night!!! and it totally affected my mood. This has NEVER happened before (the fist fight). It totally affected my ability to concentrate. So I'm donating this piece to them. (Picture me making a raspberry with my lips!)

Skinny Saturday

The theme for Skinny Saturday this week is Age. The image I used is the Monday challenge image in my Altered Designs group this week. I just love her ageless beauty.

You Make My Day!

Kristy over at Kristy's Musings awarded me with the "You Make My Day Award! The rules for the “You Make My Day” award are to re-present it to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blog land. Let them know through email or by posting a comment on their blog so they can pass it on. Beware you may get the award several times, and if you do, consider yourself really, really loved.So to pass it on and keep the love going ~ here are 10 of the 100's of blogs that keep me inspired and bring a smile to my face. Check them out when you have a few minutes... perhaps there are some new friends to be made!
Here are my 10:
peggy

Kelly B.

Barb B.

Tamara C.

Heather R.

Julie M.

Martha B.

Lisa G.

Jodi VDH

Jillian Mc

Theme Thursday

The theme this week for Theme Thursday is By the Sea. I can't wait for the warm weather!!!

4x4 Friday

The theme for 4x4 Friday is Doorways. Here's my sweet entry. The image is compliments of Lisa's Altered Art.

Step Outside Your Box

The theme for SOYB this week is Art Doll. I hadn't made one in such a long time; I had so much fun doing this! I had no pattern, so I just winged it. The legs are wrapped in wire with beads just to make her feel beautiful!

Altered Art Swap Tip-in

I made these pages for Tanya today. This is for a Round Robin Tip-In and her theme is Stone Angels. I've met Tanya several times; she's a very spiritual person and a LOT of fun to hang out with. She said we should include a psalm if the spirit (no pun intended) moved us. I chose the Psalm of David because it is used in all Judeo-Christian Faiths.

One World, One Heart

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Today was the OWOH blog giveaway. I had made the promise that if my name got selected one time, I would donate $100 to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in memory of my brother. Here's the post I put on the participants blogs:

This is a great idea! However, I just moved across country and have most of my stuff in storage. What I would like to do, is go into as many of the blogs as I can and sign in. If my name gets pulled by anyone as a winner, I will donate $100 to AIDS Foundation in memory of my brother. If my name gets selected more than once, I will up the ante an additional $10 every time it gets pulled (greedy I know, but one can dream!!!) If my name is not pulled by anyone, I will still make a $50 donation. This way, everyone is a winner.I hope to get my name drawn at least once.

I was selected at least once that I know of. I was notified on my blog and this is what Ketutar posted on hers:

And the winner is... SANDEE
From Sandee's Sanity and USA My husband chose a number between 1 and 111, without knowing what he was choosing. I was counting and when I got to the number my hubby had chosen, and I read the comment, I cried. (Sure, it's "that time of the month; I'm really happy that Fortuna chose her to win my socks and I hope my socks will fit her perfectly and warm her feet and good heart for a very long time :-)

Thanks to Ketutar, AIDS Foundation will have $100 more to go towards ending this horrific disease.

4x4 Friday

It's a western theme for 4x4 Friday this week. I love this cowboy; There aren't many photos around of black cowboys, yet they played a huge part in settling the wild west.

1-2-3 Mingle

I'm in a 1-2-3 Mingle. That means we make 3 theme related pieces of art: 1x1, 2x2, 3x3 inches. How fun is that!!! My theme is "Flight in Green". The images are all compliments of Lisa's Altered Art. She has great images!!!

Gothic Arch

Don't you just love Valentine's Day? It's the only time I get to use pink and do something girlie!!! This is my Valentine for the Gothic Arch Sunday challenge!

Skinny Saturday

Love is the Skinny Saturday theme this week. I'm giving this to my Valentine on Thursday!

Little Winged Cutie

This piece is for a "Wings" themed mingle in my Altered Designs group. The image is from Lisa's Altered Art.

A VERY busy weekend.

For the fist time since I've moved to Connecticut, I actually had a busy weekend! In between the events in my life, I managed to squeeze in a fabric RR page for a very dear friend of mine. Her theme is Home is Where the heART is. I hope she likes them.

Theme Thursday

The theme for this week is SPRING. I was a little stuck on this one because I don't have the materials here that I wanted to use.

Sweet Baby Jane

This is the image for the Monday Image Challenge at Altered Designs this week. She's such a cutie; I just had to put a hat on her!

Mixed Media Mondays

The theme for Mixed Media Mondays was FLOURISHES this week. Here's mine...

Gothic Arch Sunday

The Gothic Arch Sunday challenge theme is PURPLE this week. This is my addition to the challenge.

One World, One Heart

You have to go and check this out! It is a WONDERFUL idea...and so many people are participating.
http://oneworldevent.blogspot.com/

This is what I have been posting on people's blogs:

This is a great idea! However, I just moved across country and have most of my stuff in storage. What I would like to do, is go into as many of the blogs as I can and sign in. If my name gets pulled by anyone as a winner, I will donate $100 to AIDS Foundation in memory of my brother. If my name gets selected more than once, I will up the ante an additional $10 every time it gets pulled (greedy I know, but one can dream!!!) If my name is not pulled by anyone, I will still make a $50 donation. This way, everyone is a winner.

I hope to get my name drawn at least once.

4x4 Friday

The theme for 4x4 Friday is Houses. I like these little 4x4 houses...teenie tiny little families!

Theme Thursday

Here's my contribution for Theme Thursday. The challenge was Triangle. For some reason it scanned with a bluish hue. Her face really is skin toned!

For the Birds

These 2 pieces are for a friend's round robin journal called For the Birds. The pages are back to back. Good thing because if they were side by side, people would think that I'm schizophrenic. The pieces are completely different in mood and style.
I hope she likes them!

Mixed Media Monday Challenge

The theme this week is House. I also used the image from my Altered Designs group Monday Challenge Image. Killing 2 birds with one stone!

Gothic Arches Sunday

The theme this week is Dogs. I miss mine...she is curently on a long term "vacation" with my in-laws until I buy I house here in CT. They love her...I don't know if I'll be able to take her back...sigh..

4x4 Friday

It was free choice at 4x4 Friday today. I think this piece represents what I'm doing right now... "Contemplating the Universe"...

Gothic Arch Challenge (on a Friday...sheesh!)

The theme for this past Sunday's Gothic Arches challenge was Music and Lyrics. I've always loved Let it Be by the Beatles. That's the song I chose for this piece.