It was my friend’s birthday on Tuesday so I got to make this sweet tag art card for her. I loved the Marie Antoinette image so much because of the big blue bonnet and it inspired me to do complimentary colors Blue and Orange! Yes Again! I know I am on some kind of crazy Orange color lately, but it really pops in so many ways. Especially paired with blue! I aged the tag with Colorbox pigment ink just swirled over the top with the ink pad. I used Close to My Heart ribbon and the Country Living card from Stampin’ Up. I stamped the Inkadinkado Dress stamp by Dawn Houser in black pigment ink on retired Rust colored paper from Creative Memories. The ladies and gentlemen image is from Somerset Studio magazine.

Here is my next submission for Helga’s online Twinchie Challenges that she has been hosting on Facebook and her blog. This time the theme is to choose between warm colors or cool colors. For my Twinchie I chose warm colors with Red, Pink and Brown. I had fun using up some stamped images and inked paper I had as well as using one of my new Brown German scrap wings for the girl. Happy Art-ing!

I just finished up my Marie Antoinette ATCs for the May online swap at CollageStuff. I met Lisa online looking for swaps and was so delighted when she told me her swap for May is Marie Antoinette. The Challenge is to use at least one Collage Stuff image and make 4 artist trading cards postmarked by May 31st. For my cards I used watercolor paper as the foundation and then painted, dye inked, collaged and chalked the background and images in shades of pink and blue. As well as using vintage paper and trim on the cards. I had so much fun I’m going to make more and definitely delve into Marie-mania!

Here is the third installment to Helga’s Twinchie Blog challenges. The first was monochromatic colors, the second complimentary colors and thirdly analogous colors. For this weeks 2" artwork challenge the analogous colors must be used, any 3 colors that are side by side on the colorwheel. I was inspired to continue in my red-orange color theme along with red and violet red. Hope you like it!

This week Art Chix Studio posted another Twinchie artwork challenge. This time instead of monochromatic this week’s theme is complimentary colors. For my 2" piece of artwork I used a glossy piece of cardstock and inked up the background with the blue and orange-red dye based inks. The colors made me think of red mountains so I used a vintage stamp as a house. If you want to see my Previous Twinchie entry check out my earlier post HERE. Next, is a quick sketch I did, I’m trying to work on more artwork lately and doodling is always great for getting the juices flowing. Hope you like them