I Am So Excited!

I am so excited to be on Lunagirl's first Design Team.  Lunagirl Vintage Images are wonderfully unique and I love working with them.  Karen, the owner of Lunagirl has a blog called Lunagirl Moonbeams.  The blog is for lovers of vintage Edwardian Victorian Retro Antique stuff.

The first projects of the Design Team is "Birds".  She has loads of bird images to choose from and below are the projects I created.

This is the wall hanging I made with three of the images.  I used a canvass board for my base and put  as the background some sheet music which I distressed by applying a watered-down coat of yellow acrylic paint.

  

Next I took a piece of my art journal page which I had made with a Gelli Plate.  I wasn't sure how to use my paper at first.  I finally decided to make slide mounts with it.  Inside the three mounts I placed images of 3 Lunagirl birds.

 

 

 I think the colors of the slide mounts really bring out the coloring of the images.

 

I finished off the wall hanging with an array of flowers at the bottom in the same color scheme as the slide mounts and birds.  Completing the wall hanging is some lace I had in my stash.

 

Below is a card I made using another Lunagirl image.  This bird is surrounded by a Cherry Lynn die.  Flowers are from Petaloo and above them is the sentiment "True Bliss" as an additional embellishment.

 

I do hope you will drop over for a visit as there are lots of great things planned for the blog.

Wall Hanging

This is my last post for 2012.  It is a wall hanging using an image from Gecko Galz.  She is framed with a lacey diecut from Cheery Lynn Designs.  It is called French Flair Doilly.  This the first time I have used it and I like the way it framed my image  The background of the hanging is made with Clear Tar Gel, detress re-inker from  Tim Holtz, a stencil and acrylic paint and a napkin.  I haven't done very many wall hanging so this is still an experiment for me.

I made the wall hanging for Cheery Lynn Designs' challenge "Lace or Faux Lace".

 

Angel Wall Hanging

Here is another project I just finished.  It is a wall hanging using the newest image found on CS Stamps.  She is Angeline.  I thought she would be perfect as a snow angel.  I really like the way my background (that is where I always panic) turned out this time.  I used a mixture of gesso and acrylic  paint.  The picture doesn't show it, but the two colors are in slight swirls.  The snowflakes are a combination of different kinds  that I had.  Some have a slight pick irresdiscent color, some blue and some are made from glitter cardstock.  I like the combination of using different flakes.

Angeline was colored with Copic markers, and her wings have been Stickled.  Her body is dimensional as I layered one over top of the main image.  Cutting out her curls really took time, but she still has them all.  I felt Angeline had to be standing on something; therefore the cloud of  cotton.

 Completing the wall hanging is a silver rope hanger and a ruffle  on which the snowflakes have collected.  If you haven't had a chance to visit CS Design lately, you must take a peek at all the original designs Chris has created.

Garden Wall Hanging

Here is a wall hanging that I completed recently and had not gotten around to posting. The background to the wall hanging was created with a number of acrylic paints The faces in the flowers are from CS Designs as well as the bee and sentiment.  The dragonflies are diecuts.  An observant person will notice that the dragonflies were created in reverse of each other.  Below you will see close-up shots of the wall hanging.

I have entered this in Simon's Says Stamp and Show's "Anything Goes" challenge.  Also, I am entering "Use a Digital" in Card Making Mamas. and Creative Inspiration's "Anything Goes, Set 3"

Wall Hanging

I haven't previously made very many wall hangings, but I thought I would try one illustrating the sentiment "The Path to a Friend's House is Not Long".

This wall hanging is using  the unique digitals from CS Designs   On it I put two shrines (or houses) with each containing an image from Chris' Expressive Hearts group.  The sentiment is also from CS Designs.    Below you will see a full view of the wall hanging as well as close-up shots of different parts.