Marie... a real doll

I joined a swap where we have to make a paper doll with 3 outfits, and

this is what I came up with! This is Marie - she loves to go to market. Marie loves to dance - anytime, anywhere!
And of coarse, Marie is the queen of the ball!
And I had to make a book to put Marie and all of her outfits in!

I love my new stamp!

These were done for the first swap for our new group on Swap-bot. Like I said, this is my new most favorite stamp. FUN!!!

Triple Crown was triple fun!

Went to the Triple Crown hosted by Paper-potomus last week and had such a fabulous time! We had 3 artists - Robin Beam and Jen Starr and Lance from Rusty Pickle.

I fell in love with my newest stamp (a bird of coarse), got to play with distress inks, stamps, the new ranger white pen, paper, and much more!

Thanks guys!

Happy Valentines Day

Here is the card I made for my mom for Valentines Day - yesterday. I thought she would get a kick out of it (she did). So when I got home from work this is what she had done for me. She always said she couldn't draw a straight line - but I think she did very well. Oh by the way, she's almost 90. Another Grandma Moses? This is certainly going in my memory box!

Postcard swap for Letterheads

I had a hard time coming up with something. I have several old yearbooks and kept looking at them asking for a sign. So this is what I came up with.

Another Etsy Listing

Here's an altered book I just listed on Etsy. The metal front was embossed and distressed and attached to the cover with eyelets. The inside has a niche for hiding secrets! Interested?

100 inchies in 100 days

A swap that I am hosting is due in March, but I'm done! So here it is. There is a piece of vellum in front of each page telling a little bit about the inchies following. The cover inchies are ink and webbing sprays.
These are copper and have been distressed, embossed and inked. Nice dimensional inchies. These were done for a christmas inchie swap - black, gold and white webbing spray, gold paint, christmas stamps.
I had an old calendar book that I scrapped paint on, then embossed stamp.
This was a painting I had done on watercolor paper, then cut up. As you can tell, I was having a problem with my sewing machine.
These were done for a collaborative project that 8 others worked on - it was for 100 inches.

I use a calendar blotter on my desk and this is where I usually wipe off stamps, and inks and such. It always looks cool when they're cut down. I use it alot for ATC backgrounds.
This was a test I had done on cotton towel with inks and stamps.
This was distressed inked paper, embossed stamp.
I hope my partner enjoys this little book!

New collages on Etsy

Here are the newest collages I have listed on Etsy. This one is called a "It's a Thin Line". It's 5"x7" and is mounted on canvas board and ready to hang.


This one is called "the King of all he sees". The king's face is made from paper clay and is mounted on a canvas board. It is 5"x7" and ready to hang.

Interested? Click on the Etsy link to the right.

Cleaning up

Started unmounting my stamps, and I found these keys that I had bought a year or so ago. Decided to put them on etsy. Interested?

I love ATCs

ATCs are the most fun to do. When I first started making collage stuff, I had a real problem making it small. Now I prefer it. I purchased the Seven Gypsies ATC Holder to hold my ATCs in a place that I can see them as opposed to a binder. It really helps when creativity takes a day off! As you can tell, I used book pages in each one.

Spirit House, Frida and Collage

Spent the day just making all kinds of things. Started out with ATCs, then moved to the ones shown here. This collage is for Vintage People with Wings. Going to New Zealand!

These two are for a 4"x4" Frida swap, partners to be chosen soon. These were fun!

This was probably the hardest swap to do - not sure what a spirit house is, but I hope my partner likes it. The front and back pieces are aged copper (both real and fake).

Things with Wings Swap

Lastest for this very fun swap! This one is called "bird in hand" -it's a mix of 5 different things: A postcard I received from someone, sticker clouds, a piece of paint technique chip, one of the photos I had taken in a cemetary and a piece of vintage scrap.

This one (called "watching the nest" ) has a handpainted background, a tape transfer, rubons and another vintage scrap.

A "distant sky" is a paint chip, tape transfer and butterflys.
"R is for Rooster" is just different papers and a little marker here and there.
"big bird little tree" are all stamps on a sticker background (the green hills). The bird and tree "leaves" are filled in by gel pens.
"Prim and proper" done on watercolor paper, sticker roses, the flowers along the side are from a vintage flower sticker that I trimmed and the vine at the top is hand done. Of coarse the butterfly wing is from Dollar Tree. Love that store!

Latest Swaps!

I've been busy - off of work and playing like crazy! These are all for Swap-bot swaps, partners haven't been selected yet. This is for an Inchies swap... includes my photos (printed on vellum), stamps, stickers and embossed stamps. This is 1 of 2 in the series.

This for a inchies postcard swap. Each inchie was done by hand, photographed then rearranged in Word and printed. I used a laminate to cover the postcard to make it travel well.

This is for a B/W inchie swap. These are all my photos. There are 3 in this series.

This is for a recycled ATC swap. I used a Coach catalog for all my ATCs. This is just 1 set of 3 that I did for this swap.

This is for a Xmas Recyled swap. I used wrappin and tissue paper, along with some vintage images. This 1 of 3 in the series.
I also signed up for a mini notebook swap - each book is 2"x3" and the pages are either mulberry or handmade paper. This was fun!

2 New ATCs

This one was fun to play with. Although not much of it showed, the bottom of the atc has a autumn photo of mine. And of coarse the background is a vintage bingo card.

This one is 3-d - although you can't tell it. It's called Queen Bee. The flowers are my photos too. The background has texture (ran through my sizzix). I hope the recipient enjoys these!

Gothic Arch ATC

This is a two-fold post! This is one of 9 ATCs I have to put together for a Gothic Arch ATC swap at Swap-bot. And the hat tag is from Green Paper Packages - she wanted to see what I was gonna do with the tag, so here it is! PS - she has wonderful things - take a look if you get a chance!