Digital Tuesday Challenge

This week's challenge is Things With Wings. I decided to make an ATC using dragonflies and butterfly.

Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge

I guess I'm on a bit of a roll this week! :) This is for another challenge site I discovered: Stampin' for the Weekend. This site uses good old-fashioned rubber stamps to create with. They post a new challenge every Friday. this week's challenge was 'masking'

Since most of my stamps are smaller images, I created an ATC for my submission. Every element was masked by the time I finished stamping. I colored everything in Prismacolor pencils.

ATC Challenge

I entered a challenge over at Authentic Artistry on my favorite art form - the ATC! I wanted to share my submissions. Both are digitally created and 2.5" x 3.5". They will be available on my Flickr pages for trade after the competition.

This ATC started out in color (using Paint Shop Pro) with the background and doodle supplied by Authentic Artistry in their freebie. I then added the period lady and quote. The shading was added on separate layers before converting the whole piece to sepia tone. I then curled the edge to add further age.

This ATC was made in Paint. NET. The background is from a digiscrapping page by DDiva. The images are Victorian images from Dover Publishing. Shadows were added in layers. I then used the paintbrush to make the scalloped edge.

Spring?

Despite what the calendar says - Spring is here! Today my provider (she helps me around the house with chores I can't do for myself) and I got the urge to start the annual ritual of Spring cleaning. It started with moving the bed around and who knows WHERE it will stop.

FOR THE ARTISTS:

If you have a Big Lots in your town, I recommend you check out their school supplies. I found a small memo book, about ATC-sized, that makes a perfect purse-sized sketchbook for $1. I highly suggest carrying a small sketchbook to capture ideas in and to use for doodles at odd bits and moments.