Challenge #123. Tweet, chirrup and trill.

Birds, birdcages, birdhouses.

Gini here -  One of my favourite themes is all things Birdie so let rip with your Bird art this coming fortnight. 
I drew a birdhouse template and cut it out of chipboard and covered it with Tim Holtz papers. I then paper pieced a couple of adorable birds to live in the birdhouse. 
These birds are chipboard shapes from Twiddlebitz but when they arrived they were far smaller than I thought they would be so had to redraw them bigger to fit my grand plan (Ahem). 
Now I drew them freehand but if my brain cell had been around the front I would have realised that I could have scanned them and printed them out bigger and it would have been much easier. Hindsight is such a wonderful thing is it not? It always puts me in such a jolly mood...

Onto my baby birds, my dear little chickies... 
C'mon Ladies -enjoy the new poobahs!
 

Look at what amazing wonderful things the other poobahs have come up with for this challenge.

Rosemary here and I really like birds; they always bring a smile to my face and so creating with them in mind was pretty easy for this challenge.  I used my QuicKutz dies, an ever present doily, stamp, ribbon, and happy patterned cardstock to create a get well card.  (my feathered friend Gertie even stopped by to see what I was making)

 Jana here -   My wall hanging was inspired by Valentines Day and all of those wonderful pieces of Hoop art I keep seeing on Flickr.  You can find out a few more details on my blog.

Electra here -  I love birdcages, but all my fine feathered friends have flown the coop.
As they were flying away, however, I heard them calling each other by their given names...

'nuff said.

Kristen here - who loves you, who who, I do. I love the great owl movement that is going on right now. It so reminds me of the 70s and those candles, and macrame owls half our houses had hanging on the wall. I even made an owl out of Cheerios cereal once. They are such a fun icon, and bring back lots of happy memories for me! I stamped the owl and glazed his eyes with Crystal Effects. Then used my quickutz die for the alphabet. I hope this clean and simple card inspires...


Deena here - well, my OG peeps know how I feel about birds, but these bird related challenges keep coming up in some form or another...just in case you haven't followed along with me, I despise birds..they totally creep me out...they are not my friends and I am not theirs...but I can't pass up a challenge no matter what phobia might be affected, so I went totally birdie on this card:

I made the metal pieces in the corner with all my Christmas presents...so much fun...and that feather was randomly stuck to a piece of ribbon that I had in my bag of goodies...have no idea where it came from but I used it anyway...

You have until the end of Saturday 11 February to join in with your fabulous creation celebrating all things Birdie. Add your blog post address to Mr Linky below.
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Challenge #122. Take a picture, it will last longer.

Kristen here - Take a picture, it will last longer. You can interpret this in any way that you desire, but I took my picture (actually took a picture of myself)... and digitally altered it. I love playing in all the digital suite programs. This was done in Photoshop. I took and blurred and used layers and filters and had a lot of fun!

Let's see what all the other wonderful poobahs have come up with for this challenge. I cannot wait to see what everyone does!

Rosemary here - Hello everyone!  I felt like creating something romantic, and why not?  Valentine's Day is around the corner so why not some True Love.  A lovely free vintage photo, hearts and flowers, pearls and lace and presto!  (and it's kind of fun to have an eclectic mix of items)

  Jana here -

One of my goals for this year is to take a family picture every month. Not a family portrait, but just a picture that has ALL of us in it. So far, I am off to a wonderful start. I am 100% on track. So when Kristen presented the challenge for this go 'round, I KNEW that a layout of our first month picture was my project. This is all digital. Deets can be found on my blog.


Deena here -  this one had me stumped for a while...but when I think of that phrase, it is the rebuttal we used to use when people would stare at us as kids....then I thought of these pictures from DisneyWorld that were ridiculous...my girls were just begging to be stared at and I leapt to the conclusion that this page would work perfectly for a staring page...hence the phrase "take a picture, it will last longer", so I did and now it will last forever....

 

Electra here -  

I took this challenge literally.  I did a LO of my DD and her beau looking at (and laughing at)

at a picture on her phone.  Cus the picture will last long.  Get it?

Hah!  OK, small things amuse small minds. But it made me happy.

Gini here -   Oooohhya Electra has been very very clever with her interpretation! 

Now I don't use photographs much at all in my art but I often make pictures so I set out to make a picture that would fake the look of fabric in a photograph... even I can't follow the very convoluted way I have tried to meet this prompt.
When I was creating it all made perfect sense to me but in the cold light of day today who knows what I was thinking...my brain cell was not round the front but MIA.

So this fake fabric background that is made of paper but looks like a picture replica of a photograph of fabric..... is a very tenuous entry at best for this prompt!

 

You have until the end of Saturday 28 January to join in with your fabulous creation.  Add your blog post address to Mr Linky below.
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Challenge #121. Out with the old and in with the new.

Deena here -  I did a bit of a different take on out with the old and in with the new...I got rid of last year and brought in this year...sooo many of my peeps had a lousy 2011, so I say be off with you and let a good year come in...this year is the year of the dragon, so that is what my card represents...I won all of the embellishments on this card at one point in time or another, and I found the flowers while cleaning up my craft area...just spiced them up a little...

Let's see what all the other wonderful poobahs have come up with for this challenge.

Rosemary here and first of all - HAPPY NEW YEAR - may your 2012 be full of wonderful things!  I like this challenge a lot because I think it is going to lend itself to lots of interpretation and plenty of creativity.  I'm offering two projects - each created as new projects using product I already have in my room (the old part).

First is a card that speaks for itself, now if only it photographed well.  There are metallic blue dots on the paper that made me think of the ball dropping in Times Square and confetti and well...it just doesn't photograph well but it is a cute little clean and simple card to share.

My second project was inspired by Jana after a discussion of resolutions for the new year.  I go into it in more detail on my blog but I decided to make a visual reminder of some of my resolutions that I can put right next to the coffeemaker and see each morning.  I used a dollar store clipboard and some happy/confetti-esque paper.  This is going to be a year long project on my personal blog so there are more details there to see.

 Jana here - I think that Deena is brilliant with this theme. I am so very happy to be shedding the old (2011) and welcoming the new (2012).  I made an artsy-fartsy calendar page for January. Only January so far. I love the ones you see out in Bloglandia, but was too intimidated to make one. Until now. All of the materials I used are old. I just made something new out of them. I have all the details on my blog.

I wish you and yours a WONDERFUL 2012. I hope it is leaps and bounds better than 2011.
  
Gini here -  I love clever play on words so Deena is off to a roaring start in 2012 and I hope the same is true for you. Happy New Year!

I thought I would make something useful for this time of year so I made 6 identical Thank you cards and then I made another 3 identical general cards using a seahorse stamp from Chocolate Baroque.
My new stuff is the yellow sequins and the 3 and 3/4 inch square shaped blank cards from Craftworkcards, the rest is from my stash. (Full stash list on my blog.)

 

Electra here -  OK.  I had this old photo of my girl on a flying carousel ride when she was about 8 or so.  I loved this picture.  When I saw Deena's challenge, I decided to pull it out and do something with it.
AND to use up old items from my stash that have not seen the light of day for quite a while.
VOILA!

I really love this LO.

Now you go and make something you love for this challenge!

Kristen here -  I used some old ribbon, my watercolor crayons, and water pen. I used a background stamp I haven't used since the week I bought it. I also got out a Cuttlebug mini folder.

Kristen here still - I watercolor painted the paper and then used the background stamp to add some texture. It not only added a plaid look, but it made the cold pressed paper texture show through in areas. The sticker is new, but the rest was all from my stash. The embossing folder added a nice subtle accent to the bottom of the card. I hope you have a wonderful New Year!

You have until the end of Saturday 14 January to join in with your fabulous creation celebrating the new year. Add your blog post address to Mr Linky below.
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