back to the drawing board

it's time that i start participating in the moxie fab world challenges again. so today i have for you my take on the tissue paper magic challenge. when i first saw this challenge a week or so ago all i had was some small pieces of green tissue paper. then my bday/easter rolled around and i ended up with a present wrapped in blue tissue paper. btw - it was a totally awesome old globe that we had found in a local antique store. so anyway, i stamped the tree top a few times and then layered the images - i like how you can kind of see the branches through the green tree top. and then i did the same with the bird - i think i stamped him 7 or 8 times and used 3 images for the body and cut out his wing from the rest. oh, and the bird - he is actually backwards. when you stamp him he is facing the other way. but the stamped image can be seen perfectly on the back side of the tissue paper. that just kind of happened on accident.


supplies
cardstock: neenah [classic solar white]
stamps: ranger [nature foam & clear stamps/claudine hellmuth studio], unity stamp co. [gbird/giggle grove set]
ink: ranger [brushed corduroy tim holtz distress ink, jet black archival]
accent:making memories [red heart brad]
fiber: dmc [yellow embroidery floss]
other: [green & blue tissue paper]
size: 4"x5"

a bunch of quick cards from scraps - these here will soon be making their way to operation write home.

my very first project published was a mini-album way back in january of 2006. and now 5 1/2 years later my first cover - that was a bit of a wait :)

given the weather this week i figured it was appropriate to share this project i made quite a while back. just playing around with stamping on sticky-back canvas.


supplies
canvas: ranger [sticky-back canvas/claudine hellmuth studio], art alternatives [4x6 stretched canvas]
stamps: unity stamp co. [rainy days & happy play]
ink: tsukineko [jet black stazon]
paint: ranger [altered orange, charcoal black, modern red, painterly pink, sky blue, yellow pastel/claudine hellmuth studio], making memories [green, gray]
steel die: sizzix [scallops/tim holtz collection]
liquid accent: ranger [glossy accents]
size: 4"x6"

just a bunch of random bits and pieces thrown together on this one. the linen wrapped frame was supposed to be for another project that totally didn't work out. i got tired of looking at the thing so i decided to throw a few flowers on it which then turned into one flower and an owl. what to use for the stem of the flower took me a few minutes to come up with - it is a mini dowel that i colored with copic markers. the plastic leaf i found at a bead shop in the garment district.


supplies
fabric: [denim, linen]
paper: cosmo cricket [6x6 mini deck material girl collection]
chipboard: sassasfras [owl]
accents: kaisercraft [chocolate pearl], [button, plastic leaf]
fiber: dmc [yellow & green embroidery floss]
markers: copic [yg25, g05/sketch]
steel die: papertrey ink [flower fusion #2], a muse studio [scallop border]
size: 5"x4"