ARTastic TYPOGRAPHY

Here is the card I made for the new ARTastic TYPOGRAPHY challenge..... I was inspired by the fading letter in the background of the inspiration art. I used my silhouette portrait to create a stencil that is now my background and sentiment for my card...my ideas always seem way better in my head, I have a really hard time getting them onto the paper LOL but all in all it turned out pretty well considering I did three different stencils with three different fonts...I liked this one the best!

CRITERIA is to use TYPOGRAPHY on your work

 Inspiration Art

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ARTastic march

Here is my take on the march challenge over at the ARTastic challenge blog, I was inspired by the bold colors and the feathers on the owl....I tried to incorporate them into my card...I also use a cute wood veneer heart.

CRITERIA - Wood Veneer

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Artastic July

I just wanted to share a quick card I made for the ARTastic challenge CRITERIA is to use water (liquid) in some way on your project...
I decided to create my card background using watercolors...I really love the colors in the painting so I tried to recreate them...it really didn't have the effect I saw in my head but it worked for a bit of a gloomy background so all wasn't lost!
I took inspiration from the umbrellas and the colors of the  painting!

 ARTastic challenge

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Artastic June

Did you ever have a picture in your mind of how you want your project to turn out but you just couldn't get it to fit on the paper? yeah well that's my card LOL -here is my take on this months challenger over at Artastic challenge blog
I took inspiration in the wood background and of course the white bird, I wanted to pull all the colors of the inspiration image into my card...I tried with the birdcage but it didn't quit turn out as I imagined..

wood veneer bird I used

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ARTastic

I saw the new inspiration image over at ARTastic challenge blog and I had a fabulous idea for a card! I have tons of Birthdays coming up so I decided to stick with a simple celebrate sentiment....the inspiration came from the colors and the paint drops...the criteria is the use of stars....

Here is what I came up with!

ARTastic challenge blog

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with love

Good morning my crafty friends, I just wanted to share a quick post....I decided to play along with a couple challenges...I used the sketch from  cardabilities  and the moodboard/colorboard from  artastic challenge blog the colors in the board reminded me of a romantic Valentine so between the the sketch and the colors that's just what I tried to create!

 cardabilities

 artastic challenge blog

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Enjoy the small stuff

So I've been thinking about the ARTastic challenge since it came out this month-inspiration this month comes from the Alice in Wonderland series of paintings by Charles Blackman. Criteria is anything goes but your photos must depict crazy antics, silliness or just having loads of fun. I was thinking something fun and very loud...I think I hit the nail on the head with this one LOL

 I was inspired by the yellow in the painting but couldn't resist the craziness that is Alice in wonderland..I used a picture of my daughter and her friend at the last Cosplay convention...look at them in all their silliness!

I also used the sketch from  Sketchabilities it just seemed to fit what I had in mind!

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Life is beautiful

Afternoon to all my scrappy friends...its a beautiful sunny Monday...can you tell I'm in a great mood..the sun is shining and the snow is melting! Woohoo I am so ready for spring!
anyway I wanted to share a layout I just finished I decided to combine the challenges from Artastic and the sketch from Scrap Africa.... when I saw the inspiration art from artastic I knew just which pictures I wanted to use....

 I used the birds in flight as my inspiration....plus used the extra criteria of texture molding paste with a stencil

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Believe in yourself

Good evening my scrappy friends, I thought I would share my latest layout...since I haven't been feeling very well lately this layout took me two days to finish lol I had this idea in my head but I just couldn't get what I wanted on the paper..finally it was to my liking..I decided to combine two challenges,the one from Once Upon a sketch with the journaling criteria of " lesson learned" and then the challenge over at ARTastic extra criteria use of diamonds/triangles.....

I like to keep my journaling personal so I will give you the edited version of the journaling.......there is hidden journaling behind the picture,I decided to journal about my daughter learning to believe in herself and her craft..she knows its okay to be different and she doesn't have to follow the norm...this past year she has taken up commission work on her sewing..she stuck to her gun and her style and this year paid off! haha now she has three costumes (3 different people) due in three months all for the same Convention.

 I was inspired by the eyes of the artwork...that's why I chose this picture of my daughter and of course all the diamonds!

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Christmas Cards

another fun challenger over at ARTastic challenge blog....A December Wordle inspiration...this was super fun and I got a couple Chirstmas cards done while playing along with this challenge...

 Words used for inspiration: Cards,snow,winter,red.tree,green Merry Christmas,pine,

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Talk to the hand

Lots and lots of pink and blue in this layout! lol I'm not really a pink kinda girl but I think it suits this picture and its a pretty silly layout! I used the the inspiration from Artastic...I loved the bright colors I tried to pull all the colors but I just couldn't manage the yellow LOL I also used the sketch from Scrap Africa! this is what I came up with....

challenges entered:
  Artastic
 Scrap Africa

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Love walks on the beach

Happy Monday...I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend...mine was a crafty weekend since I was all alone... Anyway ....even though its not my week I still decided to use (as inspiration only not to participate in their challenge) the new sketch that was revealed this morning over at Lets Get Sketchy.....make sure you head over there and check out what the wonderful design team has come up with!

now I had other inspiration for this layout...while I was looking through friends blogs I stumbled upon the ARTastic challenge blog and they had such a cool watercolor for inspiration...Criteria – Raid the kids craft cupboard or pull out those old watercolour pencils you have had forever - let’s try a little paint and water on our page!  If you don't have specific watercolour paints then by all means use the normal variety but please water these down so the look is more wishy washy.

and then over at the New 123 Get scrappy Challenge blog they have a tic tac toe board

 I used paint,free spot and brads

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