Second Week of "Anything Goes" Challenge

Wow!  We have a week to go and we already have 75 entered to win the $10.00 gift certificate from Classy Cards and Such.  You can find all your crafting needs at Bev's  online store.  And you receive your purchase from her FAST.  Drop by and check her site out as she has some great buys.
The Design Team has really been hard at work this week trying to inspire you to enter.  Remember, there is only one restriction on this challenge.  What you have entered must be something you have not posted or entered into a challenge previously.  There is a shortcut to my challenges at the top of my sidebar.

Vicki

My little bit of inspiration is an ATC.  The background is alcohol ink and the sentiment is very thick cardstock.  The rabbit and baby ducks are stickers.  Mr. Rabbit believes in himself that he can jump over the three little ducklings.  I think he can do it.

I am also entring my ATC in Wicked Wednesday's Challenge "Easter and Chicks"

                                                 

Cindy      

"Bejeweled Bird"

I had lots of jewelry bits and pieces I'd been saving. When I found a bag of metal clip candle holders, I got to thinking of what I could do to combine them. The result was this blingy bird! The body is the candle holder base. I cut off the clip (which half of became the tail) and bent down the "petals" of the holder. I attached a gold earring as the wing. The head is a washer with an earring attached for the eye. The beak is the earring back. Wires, beads and feather charms finish off the bird details. The base is a wooden block covered with designer paper and distressed.

Sharon

I've made this Steampunk Themed card with a fantastic new image from Strange Skins Digis, I've embossed the background with a "Clockworks" Cuttlebug folder, added some "screw" brads and a great sentiment printed with a really funky "Steampunk Font"!!

Petra

Easter Baskets

I am still in Easter mode and need a few more Easter baskets for some chocolatey treats. These ones were so much fun and so easy to make. I stamped some Waltzing Mouse Easter eggs on white paper using distress inks in different colours and cut the images and the handle with Nestabilities egg dies. The sides and bottom of the basket are a paperstrip in matching colours to the eggs . On both sides of the strip I made little cuts so that it is easier to shape the paper. And then starts the fun with decorating. I kept it simple with a stamped sentiment from Waltzing Mouse.

Valerie

For the second week of the challengeI have made a painted postcard. The background has been painted with several layers of acrylic paint, using punchinella for effects. I sponged through the waste from a TH branch tree die-cut to make the shadowy tree. The bird is from Prima.

  

Michele

This week I made an ATC for Easter featuring an image from Twisted Papers and silver stencil stick ons  from Classy Cards and Such. It comes on a sheet with all kinds of neat shapes.  Some lucky chick is going to win that gift certificate!  I wish you all good luck.

 Jenn

I used some DP from 7Gypsies and attached a large "Gluber" (glue dot) to it, then pressed and folded my ribbon to create a flower with a button center.  Simple but effective, I think.  Added a few black pearl stickers and I was done!  Good luck with the challenge, friends!

Baby ATC

It has been a while since I made an ATC.  Here is one that I made for Wicked Wednesday's ATC challenge "Babies".  I picked an older baby to put on my ATC.  It mainly has scrap papers and little digitals of babies.  I can't remember where I got the digitals.  They were in my stash.  The word "Toddler" is from the newspaper.  This was fun to make.

Happy New Year

Here is a little ATC I put together for Wicked Wednesday's ATC challenge Happy New Year.  The brass hands on my old "clock" show wear as they have been around a lot.  The olive in my drink is a green bead that was the  perfect size.  I printed out my tiny calendar and  used a Bingo marker to mark the day.  Happy New Year!

A Steampunk Christmas

Here is a little Steampunk Christmas ATC I made using a Christmas tree image from Octopode Factory.  I put it on a wild background that I had gotten off the net a couple of years ago.  The little reindeer is a piece of balsa wood which has been twisted into various shapes and curves.  The 25 is for Christmas Day and it is  two Bingo tokens.

I am entering this in Wicked Wednesday's Steampunk ATC challenge.

Stamping on Transparencies

Here is one of the ATCs I made for Gingersnap Creationns  Challenge Transparencies.  It  uses alcohol ink on a transparency.  This is the first time I have tried this technique.  I really enjoyed this one.

Going Funky

From time to time I make ATC's (Artist Trading Cards)  I haven't make any lately so I took a piece of Gesso Resist that I had made and intended to make one.  However, my hubby had cut a 2 x 4 recerntly and had a couple of pieces left.  I decided to cover it with my Gesso Resist paper for a dimensional ATC.  Then it began.  I just kept adding "stuff"  All the stamps are Artistic Outpost with the exception of the body which is Paula Best.

A side view shows the use of a eye screw as the pedal on the unicycle.                  An old coathanger was the very thing for a crank.  This was a fun project.  In fact I made my hubby cut me another piece of wood.  The only thing he has asked is that I don't mail it.  He doesn't want to boost the income of the post office.

This was created  also for Gingersnap Creations'  "Frosting" Challenge and for Sir Stampalot's "Fantasy" Challenge.

Self Portrait

I haven't posted any of the many ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) I have made,  I thought I would try to post some of them the next couple of days.  This particular one has a reverse side as well as a front side.

I call this ATC "Self Portrait".  It is a littke on the funky side, but it was fun to make.  The front is the way I look at myself and the neat thing on the back is that it has a door when open has a girl looking out.  It was a little difficult to scan because of the door.  In any case, I hope it has inspired you to do something different and not feel confined by set rules or boundaries.  To me art is freedom to create your feelings.