Challenging myself more

 

 There is a lot of things that I want to learn and do. Being part of a wonderful art group has helped to push me in that direction. I belong to Paper Traders. This is a art journal we are doing with the group. We are given a monthly word prompt to create with. This is my Follow Your Heart for February.

 

This was a magazine collage swap with the group. I love to create and use new techniques. To make the shoreline and cliff. I used many magazine pages. Cut the pictures into slices and then reassembled them to create the page.

 

This was another swap to take an old photo and create "oddball Ancestors". I used stamped butterfly wings and embelished them with lots of stickle. The hat was from an stamp with the mad hatter. It was fun to think outside the normal way of using stamps. I created the background blending the background with paint and alcohol ink.

I want to create more, this was fun.

Still January

Here is another ATC that I finished. I had fun with the New Year's concept of 2012. The midnight clock fits for the year too. This will be my WTA January swap at Paper Traders. Also, I really like a new cricut cartridge I got this weekend. It is a calendar cartridge with fonts, numbers and images. I used the word "Mardi Gras" and the masks on my other ATC and the 20 and new years for this one. A friend gave me some great advice about cartridges... don't go by the title or the picture on the box, look on the back for the features! I would not have looked at this if I had not gotten such great advice. Thanks Raquel!!