Today's Crazy Amigo's Challenge is proverbs and sayings. I love this quotation from Anne Marrow Lindbergh's A Gift from the Sea. Interesting how the same chalk ink background works for beach and desert scenes. Stamps from Magenta (title), Time to Stamp (quotation), All Night Media, Rubbernecker and Time to Stamp (shells).
Today's Created By Hand Challenge is "colors blue and sand". Having just made a mermaid ATC yesterday and with the stamps still out on the worktable to be cleaned, an ocean theme was my first thought. However, today was the first day I turned my ceiling fan on after the furnace came on for the last time less than three days ago. Oh this Mojave Desert weather can be fickle. The title is a typical desert rat's response to people who ask "How can you stand to live there?" Stamps from Taylored Artwork (title), Stampin' Up (rocks), After Midnight (plants).
I felt like I cheated on today's Think Monday, Think ATC challenge because I didn't use text and aluminum foil in my background like the tutorial did. It's not that I didn't try both the first time around, but I think a background this bold needs a bolder stamp than the mermaid one I used earlier today. The Stamper's Anonymous Create worked much better and the aluminum foil under the alcohol ink gave it a copper look.
Today's Think Monday, Think ATC challenge was to use the alcohol inks on transparency technique. The video is in German, but the visuals are easy to follow. This week's Mixed Media Monday challenge is mermaids. The mermaid stamp is from the Altered Book Club, the wave stamp is from Rubbernecker and the dolphin eyelets are from The Eyelet Outlet.
Today's Saturday Surprise Challenge is songs and music. I chose Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit. Postcard and photo images from Wikimedia Commons of clockwise from top left: George Meadows, 1889, Pratt Mines, Alabama; Rubin Stacy, 1935, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Jesse
Washington, Waco, Texas, 1916; Laura Nelson, 1911, Okemah, Oklahoma; Michael Donald, 1981, Mobile Alabama. Stamps from Stampsmith (Holiday) and Funkadelic (tree). Photo corner source unknown. Sheet music from Musicnotes.
This week's Thank God It's Friday Challenge is umbrellas. In a kitschy mood, drink umbrellas and Tiki instead of protection from the rain came to mind. Drink umbrella, magazine clipping, Stampin' Up (batik borders) and All Night Media (alphabet).
This week's Theme Thursday Challenge is Glamor Girls. Image from Ten Two Studios Thelzeda's Photo Album CD, background script stamp from Stampington.
Today's ATC Wednesday theme was "modern". That's it. Just "modern". After reliving visions of avocado green and harvest gold, Nevada test site mannequins and atomic symbols, these angi-b dancer stamps with Judikins retro accents on a blow-pen background showed up.
Today's Crazy Amigo Challenge is Nature. Carmen's Veranda (quotation and large leaf) and Inkadinkado (leaves background) stamped on waste paper. The quotation reads "Each spring we have the chance to turn over a brand new leaf".
Today's Thank God It's Friday Challenge is Zettiology, which is where the quotation stamp is from. I made the background with Staz-on brushed through a Tamp-a-tile. The other stamps are from Sunday International (woman), Creative Chaos (Create), Inkadinkado (Dream) and Art Impressions (Play).
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition
Source of the Simplify APC quotation for 4/21/09.
Susan Pickering Rothamel: The Encyclopedia of Greeting Card Tools & Techniques
An exhaustive resource, including interviews with career cardmakers, a list of world holidays, quotations and sentiments for priming the creative pump
Julia Cameron: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]
Summer is the time for getting back to basics such as writing morning pages and taking artist dates as popularized in this now classic creativity guide.
Julie Morgenstern: When Organizing Isn't Enough: SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life
I'm only on the third chapter and I've cleared BOXES of books from the floor of my office, making space for what's next. Very informative and inspiring with great exercises and examples from her clients. Purchase price includes an online assessment.
Cathy A. Malchiodi: The Soul's Palette: Drawing on Art's Transformative Powers
Graham Rawle: Woman's World: A Novel
A funky gluebook-style novel that almost didn't make it past the 50 page mark, but then there was an interesting twist that's got me reading to the end. I bought it for the style, I'm reading it because the story gets interesting after those first few pages.
Eric Maisel: The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression
I avoided this book for so long UNTIL I saw Eric Maisel at Artella as part of his virtual book tour. The book accomplished its goal and I'm working on a new research project. Something I haven't done in way too long.
