Day 167 World Beauties #6

Yes, they keep coming 

Day 166 World Beauties #5

Day 165 World Beauties #4

Day 164 World Beauties #3

Day 163 World Beauties #2

I am going to post 8 of these daily. I have some long term projects I am working on. 

Day 162 - All's Whale

Here is another rock. :)  It's pretty small so it might be hard for someone to find.

Day 161 More layered cards - Worldwide beauties #1

I got another package of printed sheets to do layered cards from my favorite store, the Craft Outlet.  The funnest part is you never know what the store will have. In this case, there was only one package. I could only see the top sheet and had to gamble on the other sheets. It was worth the $3 gamble.  I got pages and pages of different girls like this.  Here is the first.  What do you think it should say inside?

Day 160 Puppy love - Painted Rocks

I went to Art Prize yesterday and I had already joined a rock painted group for western Michigan.  I want to have rocks to hide in the cite for Art Prize before I go back. Here is the first one.

Day 159 Old Men

This is another one of the cards with layers.  I got the layered sheets and just had to pop out the images and layer them.  The verse is inside. 

Day 158 - Enjoy the ride

This is a layered design The pieces were kind of a kit.  Inside it says, "On your Birthday...I see no good reason to act your age". 

Day 157 Hidden Peace

Here is a small canvas I worked on last night. I played with pigment powders and Gel mediums. I also had some metallic paints. I used some of the translucent Golden paints too.  The black was Dylusions acrylic paint.  This is my last challenge for the AALL & Create challenges.  I did them all! 

Since it is so metallic, the pictures don't do it justice. 

Then I added flowers to the picture. 

The word peace in several languages can be found on the flowers. 

Last I doodled on the black but it wasn't a pen or marker. It was done with a small paint brush. 

Day 156 Leaves are starting to fall.

Still making really big cards for work. Here is one from this week. I wish the metallic papers showed up on camera.

Day 155 Americana Entry for AALL & Create

Here is my Americana entry.  should include at least one of the following elements;

• Shades of green
• Something transparent or sharp, like ice
• A large format feature, XXL size
• An element suggestive of money and currency
• One or more elements inspired by music and/or Samba
• Decorations made of feathers, metal, leather…

I included green, an couple icy beads, music paper, and metal wire. The background paper is a 1930 engineering article on buildings in New York City. 

Day 154 Elephant

I got this DCWV kit from Hobby Lobby. It is a DIY Wall Art kit. I have wanted to do one of these heads and this one was a bargain. I will probably paint it grey later.

This is hanging at the cottages and so the like isn't very good. 

Day 153 Cupcakes for birthday

Still working on those big birthday cards for work. I did this one this morning. The cupcake is a laser cut wood piece.

Day 152 Another Baby card

One more card using my Silhouette to cut out the bottle and words. I am making a group of cards for my mother to give a friend for Christmas and this will be one of them.

Day 151 Pop Up Baby Card

This is a baby card I did with the Silhouette. I altered the front of it. I didn't like the rattle design that came with it 

Here is the inside of the card. 

Day 150 - Baby cards

Here are a couple cute baby cards I did with the silhouette this last weekend. 

Day 149 Ready to Pop -

Thursday I am helping with a baby shower for one of my employees. These will be the centerpieces. I will fill them with popcorn and add balloons. 

The containers came from the dollar store.  The designed were cut with the Silhouette.  

I used Beacon 3-in-1 Glue. This is my favorite glue. It has the constancy of thin rubber cement. It doesn't make your paper wavy.  It gives you a bit to adjust the paper. It doesn't seem to come loos later like tape runners. It's clear and you can "rub off" the glue outside that comes out the edges, at first before it drys.  It is also Acid free and waterproof.  Oh, and wait, works good on plastic too. 

Day 148 African Visions

This is for the AALL& Create Challenges.  It is the Africa Challenge.  These are the iteam they asked to be included. 

• Warm, bright colors 
• Repeated ethnic patterns
• Charms, pearls, metallic wire…
• Words or text
• Textures, cracks, rust effect...

It says you don't have to include all. I started with this canvas I collaged.  I used an old wallpaper book I had. The wallpaper have the monkey, zebra, and elephant. 

Then I added the people.  The faces and bodies are paper that I painted on after they were glued on.  

The faces are cooper paper. 

The earrings are metal rings glued on. 

I used these in the piece. 

• Warm, bright colors 
• metallic wire…
• Textures, cracks, rust effect...

Have a Creative Day. 

Day 147 - By the Sea

I am trying to finish up the birthday cards for the year.  These are the big ones I have been doing for work.  Only 5 more to do after this one.

This one is simple but I thought the paper was beautiful. The yellow paper is a metallic gold which of course does not show up on the photo. The claim shell is a dimensional sticker. I think it was from K& Company.  Happy birthday is cut from a die from Stampin Up.

Day 146 - Thinking of Halloween

I know I am pretty early but while I had the Silhouette out, I wanted to cut some more files. This is a Zombie treat holder.

Day 145 - Lighthouse wishes

I have been playing a lot this week with my Silhouette. I stretched this design a little taller for the design I was doing and like it with the change.  The lighthouse was cut with the Silhouette and then there is pattern paper behind. the birthday stamp is from Unity.

Day 144- Gecko Birthday

I cut the Gecko and flowers with my Silhouette.  This is another of those big 8.5 by 5.5 inch cards. The background is just patterned paper.

Day 143 Motorcycle

Here is another large card for work birthdays. It was cut with the Silhouette. The birthday stamp is Unity.  Some of the paper is metallic. Looks cooler in person. 

Day 142 Happy Birthday!

I needed some cards for men for work.  The words are cut with the Silhouette. The balloons are punched with a Stampin Up punch. This is a big 8.5 by 5.5 card.