ms. peregrine's yearbook

for my soul's dark imagination: peculiar children 

what a delight to play on the idea of the school for peculiar children!

images and elements from craft and cherish, gecko galz, and retired mischief circus.

love to all.

school days 2024

at this time of year most children are returning to school after summer break, if they have not already! i'm hosting the school days challenge at tag tuesday and am indulging my nostalgic feelings about returning to school! while i confess i am perfectly happy not having a little one to get ready for school any more, i very much enjoyed it when my own child was school aged. 

here are some tags i made to get this started! 

i have images here from gecko galz, tim holtz, arthouse whimsy, retired mischief circus, and random bits from my stash. i'll share a couple more tags next week as a reminder to play along! i hope you'll join this theme.

love to all.

book pages; round two

this is week two of our latest challenge at tag tuesday as hosted by our lovely DT sister Pinky: book pages. use book pages on your tag to meet this challenge. 

for this tag i started with a book page i had in my stash, spritzed it with water color inks, added a clock and dominoes from a sticker set, and featured some little girls from a tim holtz paper doll set. i have a butterfly brad from eyelet outlet as well.

one week left to play!

love to all.

children's wonderland

 for sunday postcard art: children

images from itKuPiLLi (team pierrot, primavera papers, celeste 2) and holliewood studios (chrysalis), mostly from mischief circus.

sweet child

for take a word, "childhood days"

the sweet child is from the lunagirl african american CD; the background paper is from gecko galz "butterfly garden" and the other pieces are from the holliewood studios "grateful" digital set (the "grateful" set is a freebie, grab it while you can).

may all children be loved and protected.
love to all.

a little one's dinosaur fantasy

for take a word: childhood

little boy by dezinaworld; background by miles beyond the moon tanglewood; all other images from rucola designs paleopsychedelic period.

wishing you a new year of happy fantasies coming true.
love to all.

that's what little boys are made of....

for the challenge formerly known as cheeky: "boys"

the little boy is by dezinaworld. the papers are all from song in my heart.  check out what deann at whimsy asylum has done with this challenge as well.

want to play along?  here are the remaining challenge prompts. 

there's no linky and no prize, just having fun.  if you play, comment on my blog and i'll come visit yours.

love to all.

christmas greetings ATC

for week two of the "holiday children" challenge at lunagirl moonbeams i've made another ATC.   this time i've used vintage images from the lunagirl "victorian christmas" collage sheet.

i used some designer paper from my stash for the background and distressed it.  the tree and angel child are from the lunagirl collage sheet as is the sentiment at the top.  i added some vintage lace to finish this ATC.

i'm linking this to the vintage christmas challenge at eclectic ellapu.

this is also the first piece i'll be linking up for the unruly paper arts 12 days of christmas link up party! 12days, 12 christmas creations (you don't have to play every day thank goodness)!

i hope you enjoy and also find time to join the challenge.
love to all.

digital backgrounds and holiday children

happy new week!  today's tag is a two-fer: my DT duties for the cheerful stamp pad's new challenge this week is to use a digital background or image and for lunagirl moonbeams it is to create on the theme of holiday children. for both challenges a randomly selected winner will win shopping credit -- for the cheerful stamp pad prize it will be a shopping credit with stitchy bear stamps digital outlet and for the lunagirl prize it will be shopping at the lunagirl store.

the beautiful background digital poinsettia paper is by designer coosty creations of stitchy bear.  the lovely vintage images -- the girl and the birds are by lunagirl.  the rest is simple, a border, hole reinforcement, ribbon and some distressing.

i hope you will join both challenges!
love to all.

sweet child tag

children and music make a lovely combination.  i decided to take a few moment to join the latest challenge at tag along challenges; the theme there this past week is "children."  i used a vintage child image as well as some vintage sheet music from lunagirl.

i added other bits to complete the theme.  enjoy.
love to all.

vintage child card

for week two of the cheerful stamp pad challenge to make something using vintage images of children, i chose to make a card with the "butterfly child" vintage image from our challenge sponsor twisted papers.

i started with card stock and cut an oval using a stencil from fiskars which i've had tucked away for years.  i lost the cutting tool long ago so after tracing the oval i hand cut with scissors and was grateful i didn't ruin it! this inspires me to use the stencil again though.  i "framed" the oval with a pro marker.  behind the oval i attached designer paper with a dreamy cloudy sky and balloons flying upwards.  the balloons don't show so well in the scan though in the card you can really see what the child is gazing at.  the vellum sticker quote was a lucky find in my stash -- perfectly fits this card!  the sticker dots are called "raindrops" and are lovely little translucent bits.

have a wonderful week and i hope you'll consider joining this challenge.
love to all.

vintage children challenge

"vintage children" is the new challenge at the cheerful stamp pad.  make any sort of creation you choose featuring vintage child images.  our challenge sponsor is twisted papers.

the central image in this creation was a free download from twisted papers.  if you subscribe to their newsletter you'll have access to the downloads they provide for free periodically.  i chose to make a gothic arch because i wanted to evoke the feeling that she was jumping rope in her own peaceful garden arbor at home.  i chose flowery designer papers to extend the garden feel and embellished the arch with lace and creatures from the vintage childhood garden.  as she jumps she is gazing off into the distance.  what is she looking at?

this challenge opened today so you have two weeks to play along!

love to all.