Sunday Postcard Art - Double Take

I'm happy to be hosting this week's challenge at Sunday Postcard Art.  I chose the theme “Double Take"  when I found the stamp I had of this little girl's face matched the face in this round stamp I had.  So you can repeat an image as I did or take the theme in any creative direction you choose.

You can find all the other postcard entries here:  http://sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com/.

Tag Tuesday -- Two Week Challenge

Today's theme is "Postcards."   Create a tag that uses postcards, has the word postcard, etc.

For my tag I used a postcard stamp from All Night Media.  I stamped it out several times, cut the images out and then layered them across my tag.  I stamped a postmark on the bottom and then added a couple postage stamps and some vintage images from Tim Holtz.   I created my flower by punching out a flower from some postage stamp paper and adding a vintage chipboard button in the center.

{Please Note:  This is a two-week challenge.  I have committed to hosting another challenge this Sunday so feel it will be better to have Tag Tuesday run two weeks.}

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Waiting For Spring

I just couldn't help myself -- I had to use this Rabbit from the Wonderland Collage set from Artistic Outpost to express my anticipation for spring!  Our 24 plus inches of snow has been rapidly melting this week and it just makes one long for spring.

I colored my stamped image with Copics and then cut it into quarters.  I applied Glossy Accents to the squres although it's kind of hard to see that from my picture.



Tag Tuesday -- Friends

Today is the 85th Challenge at Tag Tuesday.  For some reason my mind was blank this week and I could not easily come up with a theme.  I decided on "Friends" early this morning as that was just what seemed to settle onto my tag in front of me.   Yes, that's how the themes sometimes get picked!  I chose to illustrate friendship of the four-legged variety.   Please feel free to interpret the theme of Friends any way you'd like.

{If it seems I'm creating a lot in pink, I am.  The reason is I am decorating some journals that are different shades of pink and tags are the perfect thing to place on the front of them.}

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This Week's Sampler for A Tag on a Tag

I was just blown away by the submissions for this past weeks tags.  Check out the slideshow on the left to see some of the amazing tags that were created using the Tag on a Tag challenge.  I think it's the best group of tags we have ever had.  And as far as I know it was also the highest number -- with a total of 48 tags!  I was hoping we'd hit 50, but we didn't.

For those of you who participate in this challenge, I know sometimes it is hard to get to everyone's blog and comment, but I do hope that if you are creating a link and posting a tag that you'll consider it part of the challenge to visit the other participants' blogs and maybe leave a comment.    I know it's time consuming and sometimes I don't get to it right off the bat, but I do my best to visit each link and leave a comment sometime during the week.

(If I don't leave a comment it's probably because I forget to scroll down for that word verification and just figured my comment was posted.)

Another Tag on a Tag

I guess I liked my own theme this week because when I started this Alice In Wonderland inspired tag, I found myself gravitating back to this week's Tag Tuesday challenge, A Tag on a Tag.

The sentiment I stamped on my smaller tag (from Studio G) just went so well with my Artistic Outpost Wonderland Collage stamps (background stamps and main image).  I added a little playing card border at the bottom as well.

We all know somebody this tag would suit perfectly, don't you think?

Tag Tuesday -- A Tag on a Tag

This is a challenge I've had on my "list" for a while.  I've also seen a lot of you taggers doing this.  The challenge is simply to create a tag and include another tag on it.

***It took me quite a while to get around to everyone's tags  last week.   Our blizzard here really threw me for a loop.   But I really enjoyed seeing all the ways you taggers incorporated circles onto your tags.  We really do have an amazingly talented bunch of artists here!***

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Vintage Valentines

Being snowbound this week -- we had 21 inches of snow here -- gave me some time to create some Vintage Valentines using some of my Artistic Outpost stamps.
I used this little football player (very appropriate for this Superbowl Sunday) from the Cutie Pie stamp set for this Valentine.  I used the word Valentine
from this set, too, and then used a variety of alphabet stamps to create my greeting.

This beauty pageant winner also came from the Cutie Pie set.  I had fun creating a Miss Valentine scene for her.

For this Valentine I used the Tin Man stamp from the Oz Collage set.  I thought this worked very well as a Valentine.  I created a movable part by place a heart over the clock face and then writing "You Are Loved" on it.