I haven't been on in so long...

I have done some coloring and stamping, so I'll include a couple pieces that I've finished, but I haven't been on in so long, I hardly know what to say... well, not really, but almost the whole month has slipped by without a peep from me. I colored Slide Uvend, which was a sketch off a web site I will have to locate again and then an ATC that I wanted to have the colors of Autumn come alive.

I was surfing the Hero Arts site and saw some wonderful flowers and had to follow them to their source at Endless Possibilities with Wendy Smedley. I'm not putting them on sticks, but love this simple and wonderful idea for making great dimensional flowers.

I first viewed Rosemary D's card on Flickr and admired her flower, as well as the great card she'd posted. I was intrigued with the flower which she said she snagged from Dawn McVey's site. From there, it was straight to Wendy Smedley's site.

I will have to try it after the holidays. My third son is in from Denver and we've had a lot of catching up to do. My granddaughter, Angelina, is having a ball. She also had a birthday, turning 10 years. She was very happy... such fun!

And I'm back out to sit with the family. Have a great Thanksgiving.

SOS partner card - - October challenge

SOS partner card October challenge,
originally uploaded by Clarian's Hawk * Arlene.

I received the cutest card yesterday. I just love it. It is sitting right on top of my computer hutch. Love the colors and coloring... this is such a wonderful challenge that Deborah is running over at Society of Stamp & Scrapaholics! YAY

Thank you Judith.

I'm addicted. Love receiving a card - so wonderful to open something snailmail :))

Fingerpainting.... A challenge on ATC Beginners

I've never wanted to fingerpaint - well, the closest I came to fingerpainting was making mud pies when I was a little girl... that's my homemaking experience... no... not that bad, really.

But a challenge is a challenge and I got all messy and had a GREAT time.... I really made little trees - I thought fingernails counted too... not one brush touched the ATC... I thought I would take the challenge to heart. My ocean became a mound of hills - last ATC.

Autumn card

Autumn card,
originally uploaded by Clarian's Hawk * Arlene.

Time to submit a card for Deborah's October Card Chain Challenge. I was a bit leary at first, but found a background that Monika sent me before I got my own Dots and Flowers stamp from Hero Arts. I cut the cardstock into four panels, got some ribbon that I liked with the card and found an old flower that I first cut out with a Nestability die, but then decided I wanted to cut the flower shape out. It really does look much prettier in person. I dotted the middle of each of the dots with a color from the flower. I really liked the way it turned out and hope my partner will too.

Hugs from Arlene!

Her Arts ATC Trading

I thought a Hero Arts Trade was a wonderful way to end the Hero Arts ATC week. Making 10 of them, however was a challenge. I made some extras just in case. I have already traded an extra one out and have one on hold, so it's really a good thing I made a couple extras.

I cut most of my backings from a thinner cardboard (an old Root Beer 12 pack package) and had them ready to put the finished ATC front on them in an assembly line. The very last thing I did last night was put the gold Stickles on the trees and the Liquid Pearls on the trees and background stamping. My fingers were going numb from holding the Stickles because it's getting down to the dregs, but lasted long enough to make 13 ATCs.... YAY!

I printed out the information for the ATC, cut and glued to the cardboard backs and voila... done.. This was great fun... now I'll see if I can get a card or two done for this week's contest.

Dreamin' ATC

Dreamin' ATC,
originally uploaded by Clarian's Hawk * Arlene.

FIRST TIME COLORING WITH COPICS... wow - they are sweet.

I picked up a couple of skin tones, some reds, which I use most, 3 in the blue tones, an orange, a yellow, 2 brown tones so that I could color most anything. I can make a green from mixing yellow on the bottom and blue on the top, but wish I had purchased a couple greens. The green I used in this ATC was a marker which I then took some yellow and blue to highlight the leaves. Where there's a will, there's a way. I haven't used thiscute House Mouse stamp in 10 years and it just seemed the perfect stamp to test my new Copic Markers with.

I distressed the cardstock with Distressed inks: Worn Lipstick, Concord Grape, Shabby Shutters, & Broken China for the background. I stamped the cardstock, stamped again on white cardstock & cut out the image, then colored the image. I cut two different sets of grapes and a large grape & glued them back onto the grapes after coloring. I thought he looked like he was dreaming. I took a Hero Arts stamp and stamped the hearts so it looks like he's dreaming hearts, Hero Arts hearts.



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Entry for Society of Scrap and Stampaholics

I chose to go with the sketch and a Halloween theme. I'm not real happy with this, but I like the sketch... I may color the BOO bones in with orange. I wanted to try the sketch. I like the way it overlaps the top and bottom outsides.