A dear friend recently lost her husband.....difficult times are so hard to create for... This week at Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps the challenge is wood or stone, I used the Never Give Up set, the Grunge Cross Background and the Grunge Cross die to create my card. To simulate wood, I embossed the blue panel with the wood texture embossing folder and distressed further with inks. The inside of the card is stamped with the Lift Up Our Hands set.
This month, the Artistic Outpost Design Team is doing a masculine blog hop. Be sure to scroll down and see what everyone else is doing this month.
I used the Charles and Amelia set this month, and have some bad allergies and an eye infection thingie going on.......vision is limited, so I'm using this as an excuse to use the very masculine Amelia stamp instead of sweet Charles, lm-o! I didn't realize this until my son looked at what I was working on and said something to me.....so.............laugh and enjoy, it's just to late to start over!!
I decided to do pink and blue Steampunk for the hop, the bg paper is a piece of junk mail, stenciled, embossed and inked. Wings are a piece of stenciled scrap that I embossed.
I was trying to be funny Steampunk when I started, but now the laughs on ME!
Wishing us all a wonderful day! I wanted to play in Lisa's Blogger Challenge this week and make a tag using some of the stencil tech's I've been seeing. I used some lightweight spackle on the dress and colored it with distress inks. The little octagons are made using white paint and then brushed lightly with pink distress ink. Humidity is high today, so it took a while to dry...even using my heat gun, but worth the wait. If you look close, you can see a feather in her hat.
I made this for a swap (1/1) on a FB group I belong to, and am so happy how it turned out that I'm going to make one for myself.
I started with a 4 x 12 canvas, painted it with distress and regular paints, added a vinyl cut from my Cricut, and stamped the birds and the palm fronds on the sides.
This month the Artistic Outpost Design Team is featuring women and/or flowers for the hop. I'm using the Picture Star sheet a rubba'...Everything with red is parts of a Gelli Plate paper which I took out of my stash of papers. She is a STAR!
Be sure to stop by the other Designers Blogs to see what they created!
Lisa * Suzanne * Tracy * Linda *Alison * Terry * Kate
It's time for some monthly Artistic Outpost fun, stop by and check out what the team is playing with. This month it's Backgrounds, Typography and Sentiments.
The Stock Market Crash of 1929................................The Paperboy's face tells it all, as he sells his papers in front of the New Your Stock Exchange, watching what is happening all around him.....but.....lucky guy..... he still had a job!
I read that most people that were invested never recouped what they lost in their lifetime. Sure gives one something to think about.
