Me and Myself on the Dark...: September 2012

Monday, September 10, 2012

Little Lavinia...

Hi everyone!!!
Welcome to our new challenge at Poisoned Peas Please, an alternative art challenge blog.
The theme for the third challenge is :

Steampunk!

I'm sure we each have a different way of looking at this theme, and thats the fun part, be creative and feel free to express your artistic ideas.

You can use any image for this challenge and we would LOVE to see all types of creations (ex. cards, scrap layouts, fat book pages, artist trading cards, tags, boxes, bags, 3D ~ Altered Art or any other crafting projects that have some form of paper on them). This is a month long challenge.
Here is inspiration piece:

I used Little Lavinia image from Simply Betty Stamps, our sponsor.

I want to share some details from my Mixed Media Canvas:

For the background I used Portfolio Water Soluble Oil Pastels and Faber Castell Metallic Gel Sticks.
Added some details with black acrylic paint and used red and silver acrylic paint with my punchinella to create some contrast.
Distress the borders with Distress Ink (Vintage Photo and Broken China).
Stamped the border with Recollections and Tim Holtz stamps and Archival Ink (Jet Black).
The image was colored with Copics and Prisma Coloring Pencils.
The eye balloon was coated with Glossy Accent.
Used some embellishment from Tim Holtz Idea-ology line: Sprocket Gears, Game Spinners and Bookplates.
Hope you like it! I had lots of fun creating it.
Be sure to visit Poisoned Peas Please, you will find lots of inspiration and all the details and rules for this challenge.

Can't wait to see your creations.

Note: I will also use this piece as inspiration for a challenge called Mixed Media Monday (see Weekly Challenges at Forum) over at Crafting By Designs, be sure to visit.
I would like to enter the following Challenges:

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Happy Birthday Blog Hop for Aletha!

This is a very special hop, we are celebrating ....

Aletha's Birthday,

With a surprise Blog Hop!!!

If you have hopped over from Ike, then you are in the right place. If you just happened to stop by and would like to join our hop from the beginning, please go to Kristy and follow the line up.

Aletha you are the most kind, sweet, talented and giving person I know.Thanks for being the best friend and mentor any one can hope for.Big hug my friend!

Here is the card I made for Aletha featuring The Fairy Aletha from The Stamping Boutique.

The background was added digitally (digi paper set - Sugarplum Paperie) and the image was colored with Copics and Prisma Coloring Pencils.

Added Perfect Pearls to the flower and wings, love how shiny they are.

The final touch some ribbon and of course bling.

We have a special gift for those that hop with us. Tracey Malnofski, owner/artist of The Stamping Boutique donated this gorgeous image (one of Aletha’s favorite digi stamps), as “Thank You” for been part of this celebration, just remember it will be a freebie for the duration of this hop (September 8-9).
Sorry Freebie has been removed, but you can find it HERE!

Thanks Tracey for your generosity!

Now please hop to Rhonda’s blog, you have to see her beautiful creation.
Remember to leave some love for Aletha!

Here is the line up in case you get lost:

Aletha’s Birthday blog roll:

Julia *** You are HERE

Rhonda

Tracey
Suzi

Aletha

Thanks!

Love

Julia

Tic- Tac-Toe 3 in a Row!

Here is my creation for this weeks challenge at Smudgy Antics: Tic- Tac-Toe 3 in a Row.
We were asked to pick any three items in a row going across, down, or diagonally from the grid below and make a project with it.