Cards for Cancer Fundrasier

I have a friend that I send cards to for the New Mexico Cancer Society fundraiser .... just thought you might like to see them ... the square cards as a series of 5 children and they have been hand tinted, even though you don't see the tinting on the children believe me it's there .... the rectangle cards are all the same you are seeing the front of those and the inside ....

Wine Altered Book Slide Show

You have been watching the construction and now it's time to see the finished book .... enjoy ... I have taken the post down where I was constructing the book and therefore the wonderful comments have been lost (I forgot that would happen) but thank each of you for encouraging me while it was in progress .....

I have been nominated for

the "You Make Me Smile Award" by my good friend Susan Tidwell you really must see what she is up to on her blog she does such great work ...... now I must nominate 2 blogs that make me smile ... and the nominees are .....

1. Autumn Simmons Clark of Autumn's Antics
2. Jo Capper-Sandon of Jo Blogs

both are talented artist and their work makes me smile .....

Tim Holtz Grunge Board

This will be fabulous when it hits the stores .... on Tim's website it says it should be available at stores by end of November ....

Sharing

I have gotten off schedule as for Sharing Saturday so I will just post a sharing image no matter what day of the week it is ...... OH I forgot to mention that this is a fabric sample that I thought made a pretty good background ......

A little Halloween

I made a couple of things (actually started them at the Cabin Retreat this past Sept.) and they will be going to my daughter as her favorite holiday is Halloween ......

Just a little tag card work

took a little break from the Wine AB and did some of these tag cards ... now I need to get back to the AB ....

Circus Elements

well I put my Tim Holtz Tonic scissors to a good work out today .... and my hand is ready for a rest .... these are 34 of each element ..... I only got 1/2 or the ribbons on the tags but they are all cut and ready to go .... maybe tomorrow I can get the rest of the ribbons on and start assembling them ..... yesterdays post shows what they will look like ..... ready to go veg in front of the TV with my darling hubby

Circus 4x4

just got my prototype finished and now to make 33 more ..... I love the Circus theme so much I finally joined in a Fat Book swap, which I had been avoiding till now ... lol .... the photo doesn't show the fact that the clown collars are painted with Twinkling H2O's which gives lots more sparkle to the look .... the back ground is card stock that was inked in several colors then gessoed over and put into the printer using rubber stamp font to print some of the history of the circus ... then I stamped the gold velum border and embossed it ... the clown tag is done on Sheer Heaven paper so I could use the water based Twinkling H2O paint because it would buckle vellum ....

Halloween Faux Postage is now on sale

ARTchix has been very sweet to me again and used one of my designs for there new Halloween Faux Postage .... mine has the black arrow circle around it .... to get your own great sheet of Faux Postage click on ARTchix ......

I will be gone until Sept. 25th

Just wanted to leave you with a little something ..... hope you can use one of them in your art .... they are all copy wright free and the 3 little boys are family (the middle one is my father) ... Linda

In Your Mind

Today I finished a paper fabric piece and have it listed in my Etsy store ... the in progress post will have the link as to how to make the paper fabric ... this was very interesting to do and stretched my muse some .... the bottle hangs at the end of the piece and is a recycled medical vial

ATC challenge

I have been challenged to create an ATC with the theme of a stripper by the name of "Sugar Velvet Hips" so here she is .... I chose a Silver Screen Trivia card as my back ground and used one of those great pin-up girl images from the 1940's used a little accent flourish stamping and a fancy font from the computer for her name

Thanks to All of You

This is a Thank You to all of you who have been kind enough to leave comments on my blog or view my work ...... I do appreciate you coming by and look forward to more of your visits .... Linda Manning Findley

Work in Progress

well I am not so sure about progress but at least I am working on it ..... lol .... this is a technique making paper fabric I learned about on ABC Altered Books Yahoo group (there is a post on Elizabeth's blog showing the steps to get to this point) so naturally I had to try it out ... now I am working on doing something with it .... so I cut it into strips and did a paper weaving and cutting fringe .... sewed the edges so they would stay together ... now I have collaged some thing on top of it and I will post more progress later ...

Tags, Tickets & Tokens AB

This is a friends book she did the theme I had been saving stuff for to make one for me so I had things to hand and go this knocked out in 2 days ..... my husband had an old Dymo lable maker that has metal tape in it so I used that and did alcohol ink treatments on them ... this friend LOVES metal

Sharing Saturday again

yes again I am late with my image I am sharing with all of you but it is still Saturday, this is an ancestor of mine ..... I also want to thank all of you for leaving such kind comments on my work .... Linda

Hanging ATC's

today I made some more of those lovely Hanging ATC's using ARTchix German scrap and some images and scraps I had on my art table ....

Sharing Saturday

almost forgot to share an image today ..... have fun go make some art .......

My daughter and I were talking the other day about keeping a journal of medical problem/test results/history on family and I decided to do her up something to keep all of this in ... so this is the results I altered a spiral book I found in the $2 bin at a local store ....

Acrylic and Transparencys

I was looking thru a Somerset Memories August/September 2007 magazine not long ago and saw where Shirley McCutcheon had take acrylic frames and transparency's and put them together and thought what a cool idea .... so this is my version just a little tweak and then I kicked the frame up a notch, I also couldn't find the white lined acetate frame that use to be everywhere so I made my own with a sheet of acetate and white rub-ons ..... this is a 31/2"x5" magnetic frame from Bed Bath and Beyond .....

What can you do with Formica samples

Juliette was wondering what you could do with Formica samples so this is to show what I have done with them .... the first one is just covered with paper then add a small bulldog clip so it looks like a clip board then the smaller sample size is covered with paper and along with a dog tag is added for embellishment .... the second, third & fourth are from a small book I made using the samples as the covers then drilled holes to stitch the leather for the spine ....

Sharing Saturday

It seem like there are lots of blogs that share images and lots that do it on Fridays but I think I will do mine on Saturdays .... I want to thank everyone that has left comment on my blog it give me a way to gauge my art and I appreciate it .... hope you enjoy using this one I took this photo on a trip to New Orleans BK (before Katrina)

AB pages

Just tried a new technique on book pages and thought I would show you what I ended up with ... I have been wanting to find a quick way to get the effect of paint and gesso over words with images ... this is what I did ink pad direct to paper in 2 colors then let that dry painted white gesso over it heat set it and added stamping and images and I am happy with the results and only took 10 minutes from ink to images where with paint it was taking 45 minutes or more .......

Apronista

http://www.apronista.blogspot.com/ and http://www.janesapron.typepad.com/ these are 2 blogs that are from a group of crafty homemakers and I love looking thru their sites at all the lovely artsy crafty things and lovely aprons check them out it is worth the look ....

You Are 6: The Loyalist

You have strong relationships and are intensely loyal. People find you easy to love and care for. You like your world to be stable and secure, no surprises. You're cautious. You prefer your inner circle to the outside world. At Your Best: You are courageous, a positive thinker, and expressive. You can take on the world. At Your Worst: You are secretly insecure - which makes you sarcastic, cold, and argumentative. Your Fixation: Doubt Your Primary Fear: Abandonment Your Primary Desire: Security and support Other Number 6's: Mel Gibson, Woody Allen, Jay Leno, Marilyn Monroe, and Julia Roberts.

if you want to try this out go to Blogthings

Paint Chip backs

there has been questions as to what we are doing with backs of our paint chips ... this is what I am doing with mine .... each color or word that inspired me I am putting into a stamp circle then stamping other flourishes around and I just realized I forgot to sign this one and date it ... must check all of them .... Linda

Ah yes here are more of those Paint Chips

OK go some more done and think that leaves me 6 to embellish but may rework some of the other also got time to do that .......

Two more Paint Chip art

Well today I got 2 more of my Paint Chip art completed for this swap .... still have 8 to complete

Some ATC's

they are just a mixed bunch .... love to use scraps .... the Chinese beetle looking one doesn't even show up the fact that it has opalescent colors (h2O) in green. yellow and electric blue .... click for larger image

Finally got something done

I have been re-organizing my studio for most of the week ... Ok maybe not re-organizing but putting stuff back where it really belongs ... but today I am about 90% thru and I needed to create something so I at least knocked out a card .... I just can't go very long with out creating something

1 page - Music Tip-in

The song is "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves" by Cher sung in 1971 ... artist depiction on front and song lyrics on back ....