Martha Stewart craft

We have lots of sparkly things going on here at my home, inside and out. For starters I thought I would share some of the crafts I’ve been working on the past few months. We also got a surprise snow storm here in Texas! What a thrill. Hope your season is shiny and bright!

My wire Basket Ornaments

Hobby Lobby ornaments

My tinsel Basket Ornament

Gerri Plummer Sugar Plum Wreath

Snow Fall Texas 2008

Tons of flakes falling

My lens frosted over!

I weeded through my colossal stash of artchix goodies and was inspired to make some cards in traditional red and green for Christmas, but with a non-traditional twist! Like the bathing beauty and the girl with the Easter sheep. I just went with the flow and the Pearl Ex salmon pink Pigment and the Heidi Swapp Sea acrylic paint along with my Art Chix Bubble Chixies collage images. I had some of my bubble images featured on the pink bubble chixies collage sheet! So Fun! I hope you get some good ideas for the coming holiday!

one of the Chixies Bubble collage sheets

I was so excited to find out that the International Quilt Festival in Houston Texas Oct 30th-Nov 2nd 2008 will be host to a Make It University with Cloth Paper Scissors magazine! Make it U is an open studio area for collage arts and crafts with demonstrations and participation in the art process. Also, what really excited me is a large Artist Trading card swap, ATCs, that will be going on at the show so I cracked open my Atc goodies and got to work making some Holiday inspired cards. My mom and I go every year and hope to see some of you Pinkdilla fans there!

After playing around with all of my alice in wonderland images and stickers I turned them into some cute cards. I had the most fun with my Stampington’s Angel of music stamp, I just cut the wings out of the image and dabbed some alice blue ink on her gown. Voila! She is a really good alice impersonator! I adored her sitting on the edge of the windows, I painted and inked a silver german dresden arch and cut out a window from a playing card and placed them over a stamped tree image. What’s really fun is sticking her with all of the different characters and sticking some teacups and teapots in there too.

I was so honored and delighted to be asked to add a page for the Somerset Studio Thank you collaborative book as a thank you to the editor of Holidays and Celebrations 2008 for including our artwork in that issue. The theme was “you as a child” and so I added one of my favorite photos and decked me out in Alice in wonderland gear! The project was headed up and put together by Candace Martens, a fellow artist and blogger. You can check out her blog Here.

My alice-inspired page

Page in the book