Don't forget!

Make some cool art - win some awesome stuff!
See the attached blog post for all the halloween goodies.

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=2122

Another Great AlphaStamps Giveaway

Check out the awesome giveaway from AlphaStamps! That prize pack is full of spooky goodness!

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=2122

Contest!

The advent calendar I made for AlphaStamps is in a contest. Please go vote if you've got the Twitter thing. (I have to admit I don't know how Twitter works with the @ and # things. Yes, its kind of embarrassing)

http://www.craftster.org/blog/the-craft-hobby-association-and-craftster-tweet-off/

Thanks!

Circus Swaps on Alpha Stamps

The gang at Alpha Stamps is hosting a couple of circus themed swaps. (the link http://www.alphastamps.com/index.html ) Here are some pieces I put together for them.

Garden Fairy Swap on Alphastamps.com

These were created for the Garden Fairy swap on AlphaStamps.com. Pretty much everything I used can be found there.

Tiny Little Tin

My pal Kristin & I like to do little weekend swaps every now and then. We come up with an idea on Friday and have to have the finished item in the mail on Monday. This is our most recent one. It started as a mint tin, not unlike an altoid tin, but smaller. Much smaller. The overall size is 2 3/8 by about 1 5/8.






All of the paper I used came from the Graphic45 "Le Cirque" line.

VIP Swap

As usual, I made these items for a swap on Craftster. Most of my work is created either for swaps or for Alpha Stamps design team. I tend to have trouble with creating without a specific reason why.

Anyway...the point of this swap was to create items for the recipient to know how oh, so very important they are.

A VIP bunting to so everyone can see how important she is.


A close up of one of the pennants


An important party hat.


A little bird to do her bidding.


The papers used are all by Graphic45 and the glitter is Distress Stickles. Pretty much everything I used can be found on AlphaStamps.com

AlphaStamps Giveaway

Check out the great giveaway at AlphaStamps.

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=1086

Steampunk Advent Calendar

This is the steampunk advent calendar I came up with for the AlphaStamps Design Team, using Graphic45 "Steampunk Debutante" paper and a billion bits and pieces from Alpha (including a bunch of Tim Holtz products). I have to say this was the most labor intensive thing I've done to day and I think its my favorite as well.

In the second picture you can see the side of the box. I used a dimensional paint to create the soldered seams and rivets to beef up the steampunkiness of it. The overall size is about 12 inches by 12 inches and each little drawer is right around 2x2.

Steampunk Debutante

I made some items for the AlphaStamps Design Team using Graphic45's Steampunk Debutante paper and a ton of metal bit and pieces from AlphaStamps.

The roses on the first piece were made with the G45 paper. They were a blast make and I really love out they turned out.

Angel Slide Mailer

This is a slide mailer I made for the Alpha Stamps Design team. I love how the gold leaf covered the mailer. It gave it a great antique look.




Products used:
Angel Collage Sheets
Gold Leaf (scroll to the bottom of the page)
Slide Mailer

Altered Canvas

This is an altered canvas I made as a birthday gift. Its 6x6 and about 1.5 inches deep so it will stand upright by itself.

Alpha Stamps Warm, Spicy “Autumn Colors” Giveaway

I love fall! (even though its supposed to get close to 90 degrees here today. Blech)

Check out this great giveaway from Alpha Stamps.


http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=659

AlphaStamps.com Halloween Slide Mailer Swap

I joined a swap on Alphastamps.com for Halloween Slide Mailers. I managed to take some spectacularly bad photos of these for some reason, but here's what I came up with.

I really like the one with the devil skelly peaking thru the window on the outside and the little skellies on the inside. You can't tell from the photo but there is a sheet of mica between the window frame and the picture of the skelly on the front.
(I wasn't able to get a good picture of the inside of the 3rd one so I didn't bother to put it up)











Most of the supplies I used can be found on these pages:
Halloween Collage Sheets
Paper Theatre Collage Sheets
Slide Mailers
Black Dresden Trim
BEWARE and black fence stickers
Poison Rubber Stamp Set

Alpha Stamps Giveaway!

Alpha Stamps is having a great giveaway. Read more about it here.

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=630

Catching up

Some miscellaneous projects from the past few months...

A Tim Holtz inspired ATC sized canvas


12x12 canvas for a swap on Craftster


4x4 Page


3x4 canvas

Steampunk ATCs

These are for a swap on AlphaStamps' Yahoo group.

Heart canvas

Heart canvas 008, originally uploaded by amaryllisroze.

This piece started as a plain artist canvas. I mounted a paper mache box on the back of the canvas, inside the wood frame then cut a whole in the canvas itself to create the niche.

I covered the whole thing with molding paste, a texture paste and several kind of paint.

The heart is made from celluclay and the corners are some Tim Holtz pieces that I nailed on and banged the heck out of with a hammer.

I really love how it turned and and I'm really glad that I get to keep this one.

(this is the first post I've created using Flickr's "blog this" feature. My image is apparently too big so the edge is cut off. If you click on it, it will take you to the whole image on Flickr.)

Creative Time & Space

This book looks really amazing.
You can enter to win it here.

http://www.blueskysunburn.com/2010/02/win-free-copy-of-creative-time-and.html

Valentine Matchbox Challenge on Craftster