Insects - TMTA

When I saw that the challenge for this week at TMTA was insects I thought "Bah! I'll definitely skip this one." Then I remembered that butterflies and dragonflies are insects too... :-)

I think "Moth(er) nature waking up" might be a suitable title for the vintage-looking ATC (the one with the watch).

Love is still in the air...

I wanted to make these for the first Make a moo challenge, which was about romance, but I never got the time. Then I thought I might finish them for the Valentine challenge at Wednesday stamper, but then again my professional life got in the way (sigh)... so I didn't finish them on time for the Valentine challenge either. :-(

Love is in the (h)air... ;-) - Wednesday Stamper

This week's theme on Wednesday stamper is Valentine. Well, I got the stamp of the lady last week and when I tried it on scrap paper to check its accuracy, I realized I might use it in an inchie (although the stamp is bigger, as you can see in the moo I posted previously).

My very first moo - Romance

Nellie Sterksel from the Netherlands has just created a fantastic challenge site: Make a moo or two. The theme for this first challenge was romance.
I wish I had had more time... I wanted to make at least one more... Well, maybe next time...

Happy St Valentine's Day!

Cats - Think Monday, think ATC

My entries to this week's theme on Think Monday, think ATC: CATS.

Hello! - inching artists

The last time I checked inching artists, the theme was "Hello!"It wasn't an easy theme, so it took me a while to figure out what to do till I came up with these two inchies. (You should start by reading the lines of the doll, so that the lines of the parrot make sense.)

In the beginning of his career as a primary school teacher, my father bought lots of stamps to use with his pupils. The ones you can see in the "Hello!" inchies are part of two different sets. The beautiful doll belongs to the "objects" set and the naughty parrot is part of a set named "bonecos" (something like "puppets") -that's my favourite set. Anyway, they're all great stamps considering their age. They're about 30 years old and are still in very good shape. All right, I admit they've spent most of their lives closed in the boxes they originally came in. But if in the past they didn't have much use, that's about to change... ;-)

My 2nd ATC

I've only made a few ATCs so far, but this is my favourite.

The roaring 20s - inching artists

Here are my inchies for the current inching artists theme - the roaring20s.

The inchie on the left is made of wrapping paper and transparent beads (meant to symbolize diamonds). The one in the middle consists of an overlapped stamp and wrapping paper cuttings and the one on the right is a magazine cutting with tule and beads.

Please post a comment.

Thanks in advance!

Celestial 4x4 and ATC for Theme Thursday

I'm basically a beginner as far as mixed media projects are concerned because most of my A4 collages only have paper elements. I know that these won't be in the Theme Thursday sampler because it's Thursday already and another theme will be posted today, but I still find it worth to post them. I spent the week thinking about the angel ATC, but no sooner than today did I find some time to make it. As for the 4x4, I realised there's no one more celestial than Mother Mary, so I've decided to pay Her a kind of tribute. To prevent the 4x4 from looking kitsch (due to some gaudy colours in Our Lady's picture), I photocopied the picture and coloured some parts of it with softer colours and only coloured the clouds of the "frame". Nevertheless, I might still post the first version I'd thought of (with the original picture in its original size and the photocopy more substantially coloured.)

Sorry I didn't crop the pictures, but right now I don't have photoshop installed.

Comments are welcome. Thank in advance!

My first ATC

Collages have been one of my favourite pastimes for years, but this is my very first Artist Trading Card.

Love inchies

I guess I got a bit carried away... I was supposed to make nine inchies but I ended up making 24! :-) I obviously have some favourite ones, but making a choice won't be easy when time comes to mail 8 for the inchie swap... I suppose it would be easier to send 16 instead of 8. ;-)

My first inchie

My very first inchie for my very first inchie swap. ("Love" was the chosen theme.)

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