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 ....