altered card deck week 8 (+alphastamps giveaway)

week 8 at the altered card deck challenge at claudine's art corner was love.  in my effort to get caught up (i think the main group is at about week 15!) i made these two cards,  as with all of them i started with a card deck and a liberal dose of gesso.  on both of these i then used daniel smith watercolor sticks for the backgrounds.  on the first all the rest is done with promarkers except the stamped "je t'aime" which is a rogue redhead designs stamp stamped on tissue paper, and also my silver molotow pen.  for the second card i used die cuts, more pro markers, a butterfly brad and black beads, both from eyelet outlet.

now, please pop over to the alphastamps blog and comment on the blog post today for a chance to win fabulous prizes at the alphastamps annual after christmas giveaway!

love to all.

more mixed media -- winged lovelies

last week the talented Cindy Adkins posted amazing creations for faerie wishes week with a lot of wonderful faeries hidden in garden settings and she got me inspired to make this creation.  sometimes when i get downloads i print them and just look at them for a long time.  well, i had these faces from dezinaworld and these wing sets from moonlightjourney and it suddenly became clear to me that the wings really wanted to be placed in a creation with the faces.  cindy's inspiration plus these special items led to this piece.

so meanwhile i bought canvases on sale awhile back and i've been giving myself the pep talk for quite some time to go ahead and set aside my fears and use one!  so here is what i did.  i painted the canvas with gold gesso (i'm told the only place to get such a thing is from daniel smith) and i made a collage background using random stash items such as papers, lace, etc. and also some vintage images from twisted papers. 

i glued my faces and wings together and placed them carefully then added a dragonfly and a bee from k and company.  i also did some white dots with a sharpie poster paint pen.

i struggled with capturing the image but got some help from DH and his photographic skills.  so here it is.  i am so excited to have made my first-ever canvas and am also thrilled to be trying new techniques.  i also want to give a shout out to the amazing Liesel Lund. taking her transformational art journaling and mixed media classes has really helped to move me to a new freedom and joy in creating!
thanks for looking dear friends.

love to all