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A Darling Baby Mouse

Hello Crafty Friends, Popping in to join in the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #443 . The theme is Anything Goes with the option of water. I used this image because over at Splitcoaststampers.com the WT challenge for today is toys. I needed a tag for present I am giving this week and this worked perfectly. The image is from a coloring book I won several years ago in the HMFMC. I love the larger images. I cut out a piece of corrugated cardboard, peeled off the backing paper, painted it with liquid acrylic (white) and then sprayed with TH Distress Spray (tumbled glass). Next, I fussy cut the image and painted it with TH Distress Inks which I also used to sponge around the edges (rusty hinge and mermaid lagoon). The sentiment is from an old SU! set and the tag is an old SU! punch; after punching it, I tied on some silver cord. This came out soooooo cute. Come play in the HMFMC with me. Hugz, Nancy

T is for Treasure Hunting

Hello friends. Happy late T-day to my T-day buddies over at Elizabeth's blog where we celebrate anything related to drinks (anyone can join, your post has to have something related to drinks). This week, Elizabeth is showing us some really fun mugs she ran across at one of her favorite stores. I went treasure hunting last week and found a really fun mug. My grandson and I call visiting flea markets, garage sales and thrift stores Treasure Hunting. The mug was so cute I had to bring it home. The inside actually sold me: I also have a few cards related to drinks: This was my first pop-up box, and it was done for last week's WT challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com. This one was made using Stamperia Alice paper and was done for a patterned paper challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com. I left out a word in the sentiment that I will fix before sending it off. Hope you have a great rest of the week. Hugz, Nancy

T is for Drinks and Art

Happy T-day! I can't believe I actually am doing my T-day post on T-day this week. T-day is a big deal over at Elizabeth's Blog - Altered Book Lover where we share something having to do with a drink. It can be a drink or something representing a drink like a movie, artwork, book, etc. Today I have several drink related items. First, I have my card from yesterday's CAS challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com which was actually about drinks (alcoholic or nonalcoholic). I decided to focus on wine since I have been wanting to use this Rubbernecker phrase stamp. I added in some scoring, and embossed wine bottle (Rubbernecker wine bottle die), some Tim Holtz paper dolls, and some Stickles. Last week's F4A challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com was all about shadows. I stamped this coffee cup stamp from Stamping Up!, drew in some foliage and flowers, then water-colored everything with Daniel Smith Watercolors. The sentiment is from Close to My Heart. Lastly, I got...

Musical Themed Bible Journaling

Hello Friends, My sweet friend Vicki has been hosting this month's **ART*JOURNAL*JOURNEY* challenge, and her theme is music. Here is my Bible Journal page focusing on 2 Chronicles 5; the dedication of the temple where the people were singing and praising the Lord. The Lord's presence filled the temple, and the people sang while the priests played musical instruments. There were 120 priests just playing trumpets. I am sure it was amazing. I drew the images and then painted them with Daniel Smith watercolors and a handmade metallic watercolor set my daughter gave me for my birthday. I added some shadows to the instruments and flowers because I also did this for the Friday F4A challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com which I am hosting and just posted. It is all about shadows this week. Hugz, Nancy

Spring Where Are You?

Hello friends. It is cold, and I am ready for Spring. I have some pretty flowers to share with you. This one was made with the Spellbinders Geranium and Wooden Bucket dies. I water colored the background, the bucket and the flowers using watercolor paper and Daniel Smith watercolors. I was inspired by the Art Nudge 225C inspiration photo here: The challenge is open to all artists of any type - textile, paper, oil, watercolor, stamping, mixed media, sculpture, cookies, etc. I have more flowers after doing the watercolor and sketch challenges on Splitcoaststampers.com this week: The watercolor challenge was based on a tutorial video by MarenaArt which can be found HERE . The sketch card is the one on the right. Don't you love the Unity stamp on the left - so encouraging. I loved painting the loose poppies so much that I painted the boiled egg I made for my chicken salad - lol. I am late for T-day again over at Elizabeth's Blog - I am always the caboose lately (but at le...

Happy Mugs and Cards

Hello Friends, I am late again for T-day over at Elizabeth's blog where we share a drink related item in our post (actual drink, movie, art, etc). Elizabeth is sharing tons of fun cat mugs in her post this week. I am sharing the happy GIANT mug I bought a few months ago. I use it for days when I need a lot of coffee - lol. I needed a lot of coffee this past week. Hubby had his pacemaker battery replaced (it went well but he is hurting a bit from the incision), we had some bad news in the family, our washing machine died (they are delivering a new one today - yay), and we have been trying to get all our tax information together. Urgh! I have done some more art and cards, of course. This first one is the Valentine's Day card I made for a farmer friend who farms cotton and loves to watch sunsets. I painted it using Daniel Smith watercolors and I cased THIS card from Amy Zepeda (she was the Featured Stamper this week at Splitcoaststampers.com). This next one was sent to my son...