Cards for challenges

 I found some time to make a few cards for this weeks Grungy Monday and Simon Says challenges. For Grungy Monday we were challenged to use Ranger Alcohol Inks. Well to be fair that's really not a challenge. I hadn't had mine out for ages and thoroughly enjoyed it. As you can see on yesterdays post I started with my alcohol ink backgrounds and stamped some of my favourite images on them. I kind of got stuck there and left them for a day or so. This seems to be happening a lot lately but I guess I just have to go where the creative flow takes me, or at least that's what I keep telling myself. So when I got back to the card making I wasn't feeling very inspired by what I had so far but I just started pulling scraps of paper and what not out of drawers and put stuff together. I wasn't terribly thrilled with my first attempt which you can see above but I was a little more happy with attempt #2 which is below.

The textured background is one I made a while back for another Grungy Monday challenge but the card never got finished. So there it was ready to be used.
The Simon Says challenge was to use a word which is something that has a lot of appeal to me lately. We can convey so much in just a word. I have some necklaces with just one word on that I love to wear depending on how I'm feeling that day or what direction I need reminding of that I'm trying to go in.

If you have a chance head over to Grungy Monday or Simon Says to check our what everyone else has created this week.

My bliss is back.

I didn't really realize it but I've been in a bit of a creative rut lately. I've worked on a few creative things but just couldn't seem to get anything done. So this afternoon I decided to give myself some free time just to work at what ever came to mind first. It seemed to work I think my bliss is back and I'm feeling a lot better.

This tag was on my desk from earlier this week when I started it for Grungy Monday. It also works for Simon Says Stamp and Show so I'll link it to both of them. Go check them out, they're both a lot of fun to join in or just see what everyone else has done with this weeks challenges.

Have a wonderful weekend. I'm off to have a mysterious dinner with my parents and the Tin man.

Distressing

No I'm not distressed, but I am distressing. In my art journal that is, because Simon Say stamp and show some distressing. How could I not step up to this challenge. I do so love to distress.

Now I'm heading over to Simon Says to see how everyone else is distressing. Are you distressing today?

I'm also entering this in the Artistic Stamper Layers challenge.

Enjoy the journey...

Yes some mornings I need to remind myself of this as I lay awake hours before the alarm goes off. Sleep is not my friend lately so this morning I decided to get up and make the most of it. I had my challenges tag finished before the Tin Man even got up for work!

I felt a little cheated with this one because I used some paper that already had the background collaging done for me. That's the part I quite like to do the best. Well it did make for a quick tag.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Kard Krazy- "postcards"

CCC- Pg. 56

Simon Says Stamp and Stripes

If you haven't checked out the Challenges on these blogs yet, get over there and enjoy some wonderful creative works.

Angel tag for challenges.

This tag is for the Compendium of Curiosity Challenge over at Studio L3. Another new technique for me on page 59. I don't do a lot of masking but this will certainly make me think about doing it more, it was so easy and reusable.

I'm also using this for the Simon Says challenge which was tag. Kind of a no brainer for me!

Tag challenges.

It's been a busy week visiting so many wonderfully talented OWOH participants. I've received so many lovely comments that I've added 2 more tags to win. If you haven't entered yet there is still time to do so here until Feb.17.

I did find a little time to make some tags for a few challenges this week.

The first is a Valentine's tag for Red/Romance Theme Thursday over at Sheila's blog. I'm loving the red theme for this month. I already have next weeks idea ready! Go share your link for something red/romantic.

My next tag I'm going to enter into 3 challenges. First is Compendium of Curiosities (CCC) at Studio L3 blog. This week we were to use the technique on page 41 called Rusted Enamel. This was a new one for me and I think I would use more ink on the top layer next time to give it more of a rusted look but it came out okay anyway.

The second challenge was Simon Says Stamps and show some embossing. Well the stamping is always easy but I just had to go look at it again to see if I did stamp although it's odd when I don't have some kind of stamping on whatever I'm working on but it was there in the background, just a few swirls added. I love to emboss and there is just so many different ways to do it that it was just a matter of deciding which way to go. Well obviously I chose the metal embossing. I used a new mold I got recently for Ten Second Studio for the zipper and dress form. I just love this one and have been waiting for the right thing to put it on.

The last challenge was for Tag Tuesday over at Kard Krazy with the theme "tag on your tag". I had this tag almost finished when I found out about tag Tuesday's theme and I had planned on using a Graphics 45 element so it worked out well to use one of their tags.

So once again I've managed to combine a few challenges into one tag. So much fun.