Lyre Player

The Make a Moo challenge is musical instruments - always a favourite of mine. Here's the lady who adorns the Peters edition sheet music covers.

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Stamps: DarkRoom Door Chorus; Stampington Antique Music

Inks: DI Scattered Straw, Aged Mahogany, Pink Lipstick, Black Soot and Antique Linen; Adirondack Cranberry; Archival Black

Extras: Perfect pearls 'Pearl'

Gargoyle couple

The SoArtful theme for this week is tongue twisters. This is the one I chose, and I cannot say it fast. It's provided a lot of amusement among the offspring today!

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Stamps: ISC ATC Elements set 2

Inks: DI Weathered Wood, Old paper and Frayed Burlap; Archival Black

Extras: Cling Film; Images from the 'Past Times' web site; Computer Generated Text

We're all individual

The Artarazzi challenge 25 is to use the given fingerprint image. Another chance for me to try out some new techniques in Photoshop.

Up to the surface

The Art Creations challenge #28 is to use a given background. I've selected part of it.

Flowers are bursts of colour

The ATC Wednesday theme for this week is flowers.

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Stamps: DarkRoom Door Full Bloom 2; Time to Stamp Oriental Splendor

Inks: DI Black Soot, Dried Marigold and Shabby Shutters; VersaFine Onyx Black

Extras: White brads

Learning the 3 Rs

In case you're wondering what the 3 Rs are - they are reading, writing and arithmetic. A concept remembered perhaps by the older British readers amongst us.

This is my contribution to the Small World of Inchies and Twinchies, whose theme is, of course, school. Unfortunately I wasn't able to post this due to my computer crashing whenever I went to the site, but the challenge for the beginning is June is ABC, and this is relevant, so I'll double up. I used the spraying-over-threads technique for the background.
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Stamps: Paper Artsy Frames 4 and Mini 23; Stampington Paris 1900

Inks: Sticky Fingers Sprays Pinks and Bluebell; DI Back Soot; Adirondack Sail Boat Blue and Watermelon

Extras: Thread; Prima Flower; Q&Co mini Crystal Gem

Toccata and Fugue

This week's image from Artarazzi really stumped me until my mind wandered in the service at church this morning, and I sat gazing at the organ pipes.

I've included a sort of work in progress tutorial, as I find these so helpful on other people's blogs.

Sparkling Dragonfly

The Saturday Workshop challenge this week is 'sparkling'. The entire card is lightly sprayed with homemade glimmer mist, and I added crystal gems.
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Stamps: Paper Artsy mini; Time to Stamp ATC set 1

Inks: Ecoline Light green, Magenta and Red Violet; DI Black Soot; Adirondack Cranberry and Wild Plum; VersaFine Onyx Black; Inkessentials White Gel Pen; VersaMagic Key Lime

Extras: Paper Cellar Crystal gems; Swirls template; Sequin Waste; perfect pearls 'Pearl'

In the depths dwell the seahorses

The SoArtful challenge this week is fish. Strictly speaking, a seahorse isn't a fish, but don't tell June!

The background uses yesterday's daily image from http://www.thesumofallcrafts.blogspot.com/. This particular one is now unavailable but you'll find equally stunning backgrounds new every day. I completely changed the hues to make it more suitable to the colours of the seahorse image.
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Seahorse from google
light Beam by redhead-stock at www.deviantart.com
Porcelain font and Recife2 brushes from http://www.misprintedtype.com/
Image from www.thesumofallcrafts.blogspot.com

Smile

The Make a Moo or 2 theme is the word 'happy'. This lady just wasn't happy until she had some bling!

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Stamps: DarkRoom Door Friendship Flowers; Simple Expressions people 2

Inks: Adirondack Lemonade and peach bellini; StazOn Hydrangea Blue

Extras: Flower gem; PP unknown

Royal Beauty

The Art Creations Friday challenge #27 is to use the image of this girl. Although the original background on the photo was beautiful in itself, it looked to me as if she should be sitting or leaning on something. I like the way the leaves from the bird image give the effect of wings.

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Girl image from acf
Bird and Music images from http://www.thevintagemoth.blogspot.com/
Light Beam Brushes from redhead-stock at www.deviantart.com
Recife Dirty2 Brushes from www.misprintedtype.com

Guardian Angel

The ATC Wednesday challenge is simply angels. I love the thought of having a guardian angel, watching over me and protecting me. And praying on my behalf.

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Stamps: Hero Arts Fabulous Flourishes; Invoke Arts Shrine Frames

Inks: VersaFine Onyx Black; Adirondack Purple Twilight and Silver Dabber

Extras: Angel image from www.digitalcollagesheets.com; Background from http://itkupilli.blogspot.com/ ; German scrap; Dymo Labeller