Queen of Hearts 2012

Happy Valentines Day!!!!

Here is my 2012 Queen of Hearts collage. I made it 8X8 again as that is my album size for challenges I started years ago. The base for it all is some 7 Gypsies paper. then the lovely lady is from a very old book I have of Fashion, her dress is embellished with Broken China Distress Stickle. I also used packing tape to transfer the ferris wheel and the lovely lady on the lower left. Other embellishments are Tim Holtz tissue tape and of course our lovely hostess Suzanne from Quietfire's lovely Flourishing Hearts! Thanks for the challenge Suzanne.

Judy

Queen of Hearts 2012

Once again this year Quietfire design is sponsoring a theme of Queen of Hearts for Feb 14th. Here is the site with all of the info

http://quietfirestyle.blogspot.com/2012/01/queen-of-hearts-2012-challenge.html

I hope that some of you will join us in this challenge. I have a couple of posts on my blog with the Queen of hearts that I have done in previous years if you would like to see them

http://rubysoldestdaughter.blogspot.com/2011/02/queen-of-hearts-challenge.html

http://rubysoldestdaughter.blogspot.com/2010/02/queen-of-hearts-blog-challenge.html

I am still thinking about what I am going to do this year. Hope you will play with us this year too! Sorry I cannot seem to get my blog challenge sites to be clickable? So copy and paste them please if you want to see my other posts from 2010 and 2011.

Judy

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

I have made some little felted trees this year as gifts and hope to make some for myself in the new year. They are needle felted on to cheese cloth and I have used a touch light inside of them to illuminate them. I am pleased with the outcome of them . I had thought of adding beads but the people who will be receiving these two are very talented artist themselves so they can decorate them as they would like. No more felting now till after Christmas. Must clean the house for Santa.

Merry Christmas

Judy

12 days of Christmas

Day Three is My Day! This is a tradition for me the last few years to swap with online friends from the Byhand Artists group . This year I felted rope necklaces all fall and now today my friends are opening their gifts. I crocheted a rope and then needle felted them rather that using the wet felt method. I am pleased with them and need to finish my own. I did another one for a friend and made some of it very thick and she "loves it" and has already adorned it with some worry dolls. I hope that those who got theirs today will share with me how they embellished them.

Seasons Greetings

Judy

Miniature tile projects

Wow December 2nd already!! I have been busy with the making of several gifts again the past month. Today I gave away a couple gifts away so I can post my projects. The table is one of the Dollar store tables that I will be using for my Day of the Dead display. I may do some more grouting on it yet. I am very pleased with the tiled mirror and picture that I made for a friend's dollhouse that she just started to work on. It is to be spanish/southwest themed Bed and Breakfast house. She was very happy with them both! Now I need to make one of the mirrors for myself.

My felting for Christmas gifts is almost done too so will post some photos after Christmas of them. I need to get started on Christmas cards too. Always something happening in my crafting life. I do not have too many days of boredom.

Happy December and I will check in soon .

Judy

Lest We Forget

I did this page in an ATC swap a couple of years ago. Daphne made the ATC which does not photograph well but the embellishment on the tile is maple leaf . Heck the photo is terrible I will try another one in better light and less blurry soon. The theme I used was Lest we forget for my page using rubber stamps , figures from the newspaper. punched leaves and distressed inks. I should have written on the back how I made it so shiny. Looks great in person though. I really need to work more in this format. 4"x4" page and I do have lots of ATCs to work with from swaps over the years . Maybe a 2012 project? Maybe.

Judy

new photo but not much better than the first one. Maybe Santa will bring me a new camera??Thanks for looking

Minis

My miniature club made their lettuce salads on Thursday and I finished mine. Every salad looked different but I think they all enjoyed making them . I am going to make a couple more of them myself. Remember they are made from green grocery bags so it is interesting to see what you can make out of them One of the group did not stretch the plastic much and it looked great. If you need to know more let me know and I will send you off some instructions. This is not an original thought of mine but a collective of things I have read in magazines and online.

I am very happy with my results though.

Thanks for looking.

Judy