Anyone for tennis?

The Art Creations image this week is of this pretty girl longing to play tennis with someone.

Stepping out of the page

The ACF challenge #34 is to use a given background. Here's my version of it.

Exiled

Here's my version of the image given to us for Art Creations Friday #33. Another beautiful lady!

Vintage Mademoiselle

The ACF image this week is a beautiful French lady. I concentrated on giving her a vintage background, but nothing too complicated as the image is so beautiful in its own right.

Balancing Act

The Art Creations challenge 31 is to use this pink background. It seems a shame to cover up all the fabulous work someone has created, so I've kept this piece quite simple, and enjoyed the geometric shapes in it.

Guardian Angel

The ACF challenge this week is to use a given background. It's wonderfully textural as you can see in the close up (unfortunately you can see my errors too!). The angel is from DaGobliN at www.sxc.hu/, not google as stated in the tutorial.

Little Red Riding Hood

The Art Creations image for this week is this little girl. I turned her into a fairy tale character.

I sent a letter to my love...

I've been meaning to set aside some time to get the hang of adobe photoshop. After what seemed like several hours, this is what I achieved today. I have a lot to learn... Can anyone tell me how to make the background to text or stamped images invisible? These letters were typed on.

The background is the image given in this week's Art Creations challenge.
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Stamps: Paper Artsy

Inks: Adirondack Eggplant

Extras: ACF Background; Woman from Tuscan Rose CD 3

Living among the ruins

The Art Creations Friday challenge #18 is to use this given background.

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Stamps: Stampington Facade; Paper Artsy Backgrounds 2

Inks: Adirondack Slate and Currant; DI Spiced Marmalade

Extras: Prima Flowers; Gutermann Beads; BB pink card; Vintage image from chicks57

Dolce

This is my contribution for Art Creations Friday #17.

I'm so disappointed that the scanner has bleached the colour of the flowers - irl they match the green in her dress perfectly. Here they look so awful I was tempted to pull them off!

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Stamps: Paper Artsy Backgrounds 2, Travel 4 and Travel 2

Inks: Adirondack Slate, Pink Sherbert and Watermelon; Archival Black

Extras: Vintage Image; Ribbon, Lace; Prima Flowers; Antique Music; Gesso

Smelling the flowers

The Art Creations friday challenge is a photo, which I've just used the image from and tinted.

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Stamps: Paper Artsy Man of Numbers 2; DarkRoom Door Full Bloom Vol 2

Inks: Ecoline Pastel Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chartreuse and Magenta; Adirondack Slate; DI Worn Lipstick; Watercolour pencils

Extras: Cling Film; Vintage Image; Tracing paper

Oh to be 70 again!

When I saw this image on Art Creations Friday I immediately converted her into black and white to see what she looked like - I think I prefer her like this. I then thought she needed an amusing caption.

All my grandmother's sisters were called by nicknames such as Ruby or Chick. In fact I don't know their real names - so I imagine this lady to be called 'Button'. Isn't it funny how what you wear can influence your art work - I realised I'm wearing a cardigan decorated with buttons!

The faux buttons are punched from dyed pelmet vilene.

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Stamps: Paper Artsy Buttons 4; Time to Stamp Vintage Sewing

Inks: DI Aged Mahogany, Scattered Straw and Tattered Rose; Black Pen

Extras: Pelmet Vilene; Dymo Labeller; Black paper

Little darling

This little darling is the picture challenge from Art Creations Friday.

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Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Mosaic and Flourish

Inks: StazOn Black; Gold Gel Pen; Alcohol Inks Raisin, Terracotta, Butterscotch and Pearl Mixative

Extras: Vintage Image; Prima Flowers; Gold Brads

Elegance

This is my first attempt at a digital layout - you can see I have HUGE amount to learn! The kit was a freebie from shabby princess, and both the lady and her immediate background were this and last weeks' images from Art Creations Friday.
I had terrible trouble getting the image onto this blog, and ended printing it out and scanning it to get it here. It's lost quite a bit in translation! If anyone can advise me on this I'd be very grateful!

Dream a little Dream

The Art Creations Friday image is this beautiful lady. I have been so impressed by some of the backgrounds created by the design team that I decided to have a go at making one of my own, which I turned into an ATC. It's very textural - like molten rock.

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Stamps: DarkRoom Door Little Dreams; Paper Artsy Backgrounds 2

Inks: Adirondack Dabbers Silver, Shell Pink and Snow Cap; VersaFine Onyx Black; DI Black Soot

Extras: Vintage Image

Day Dreaming

The Art Creations Friday site has given us another girl image to create with. Here's my version - I wasn't sure whether to use these words, or 'feeling blue', as I felt she looked a bit sad! The colours say it instead.
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Stamps: Elusive Images Delightful Damask; SugarLump Studios Heartfelt Collection

Inks: Adirondack Denim, Stream, Wild Plum and Purple Twilight; Versamark; DI Black Soot

Extras: Computer generated text; Detail Gold EP; Black paper; Prima Flower; Grey Brad; Vintage Image

Life Journey

The Art Creations challenge this week is to use this vintage image. I added a challenge from Inkurable Stampers to use a puzzle piece, which I cut out from Grungeboard.

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Stamps: Invoke Arts Pens and Nibs; Stampington Venezia Correspondence and Loose Leaves

Inks: VersaMagic Key Lime, Hint of Pesto and Sea Breeze; Versamark; DI Antique Linen, Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo

Extras: Detail Gold EP; Vintage Image; DarkRoom Door Wordstrip Venetian; Grungeboard

Artista

This is my version of the background given by Art Creations this weekend.

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Stamps: ISC ATC Elements 2; HA Old French Handwriting

Inks: DI Walnut Stain, Frayed Burlap. Scattered Straw and Pine Needles

Extras: Rick rack; Image from The Lady's Closet; Green card

The new Christmas Carol

The Art Creations on Friday challenge is to use this vintage image. Lovely colours to work with on this atc.

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Stamps : Paper Artsy xmas 4

Inks: DI Aged Mahogany, Peeled Paint and Walnut Stain; StazOn Olive Green

Extras: Prima Flowers; Green Brads; Vintage Image; Perfect Pearls Gold

Learning Plainsong

The Art Creations on Friday challenge is to use a given background. I've used an image from Graphic Fairy which I shaded in with distress inks and watercolour pencils. I slightly distressed the edges of the 'parchment'.

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Stamps: Stampington Latin Parchment

Inks: DI Dried Marigold and Peeled Paint; Versafine Black Onyx; Watercolour Pencils; VersaMagic Night Sky

Extras: Prima Flower; Cream Brad; Lace; DCWV blue card; Given background and vintage image