Perfume Challenge ATCs........

Well, This was

WAY WAY too much

fun.

Thank you, NINA T.

for your amazing

collage sheets.

I told her that the

ART Spirit came to

me and I just could not

stop!! I worked on these

ATCs ALL day!!!!!!

I had a blast

I had three bottle stamps

but I only used two of them

Nina's pictures are just

beautiful and I could not

stop myself. I even sprayed

a little perfume on some

of them and made the envelope

really pretty.

Ever since my grandma count

jumped from 7 to 11, I have

been visited by the ART

Spirit constantly. ( I made that

up about the ART spirit)

starting two art scrolls on canvas............

First I cut out a long strip of canvas. I cut two actually. One is about 5 inches wide and the other is about 7 inches wide and I think they are over a yard long. I layed them on my work table (above) and painted them some yummy colors. The wide one is a nice bluish color with violet and a baby-poop yellowish-orange on the other side. (not a yummy sounding color) BUT....The colors work well together.

I started painting faces with different colors of hair and made the hair and if there was a gust of wind. I am still in this stage and as I layer it more, I will update you with photos.

The scrolls are a heavy cardboard with paper mache ends. I layered pieces of paper over the paper mache for my first layer.

The tall scroll is rolled up. It is dried thoroughly and will wait patiently for my imagination to kick in. I think that I am leaning toward a sea/ocean/beach theme for it.

Enjoying making it. I take it out daily, giving it time to dry while I am thinking through the next layer.

Altered book Pages with faded photographs.....ME

I liked making these two altered book pages. The images are bad and yet I like them. You can still make out my face to some degree. I remember exactly where I was when this picture was taken. I was standing on the steps of an old house that we lived in on Green Street. I liked my hair and my two younger twin sisters were posing in the picture with me. I felt pretty.

In the picture below, with the cateye glasses, I was in the woods camping with my family. I did not really like camping because I did not like to get dirty. But I do remember how I loved my cateye glasses. I look sort of odd but it is still an interesting photograph.

More More More ATCs

Some of these may possibly

be a repeat but I am sure you

won't mind. I love to see eye

candy over and over. I used

paste on the top two. It is hard

to see the glossy texture. I like it

MOTHER NATURE AND THE FOUR SEASONS ATCs

Wanted to make four fairies called the FOUR SEASONS and it was only appropriate that I put them in MOTHER NATURE boxes. These are ATC art Doll fairies. Their little arms and legs swing out but you can fold them so they will fit the 3.5 x 2.5 size collector's plastic sleeves. They were very fun to make. The collage sheet is on my website.

Anyway, can not stop!! I have made about 50 ATCs this week. That is alot even for me.

More ATCs........Pretty Colors.........

Having more fun with warm colors. I really like teapots and the other is like a whimsy doily. Using my own hand painted papers and experimenting with textures too.