Stamping Mad

March 28th, 2008

Friday Challenge - Family

Today’s challenge word is family. I think of home when I hear that word, so here’s my piece. Please note that I was able to coax this letter to show some green!

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March 21st, 2008

Friday Challenge - Sacrifice

I was thinking about the reason for the Easter season and it reminded me of a story about my great grandmother and how she’d always eat the worst piece of chicken so her kids and husband could have a nice big piece on holidays.
So, the word on my mind today is Sacrifice. A soldier […]

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March 14th, 2008

Miracle of the Egg - My Friday Challenge Piece

Here’s my version of the egg challenge. I didn’t think about my scanner size when I was making it, so I had to crop off a bit of the bottom and the top of the piece, but it was just spacing around the bird to make the composition balanced.
The fern leaf is a home […]

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March 14th, 2008

Friday Challenge - The Egg

Eggs. They’re good to eat. They are a major part of Easter. They are a miracle. They’re a fragile protector of growing life. They’re eggs-traordinary. (Sorry. That was corny.) So, today’s challenge is an ode to the egg. If you make a piece of art, are moved to make a poem, or just want to […]

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March 7th, 2008

Friday Challenge - One Part of a Bigger Stamp

You know those scene stamps? The ones that have a few elements and a phrase on them? Well, I hardly ever use them because they’re basically coloring sheets. So, today’s challenge is to use just a part of one of those stamps to make a piece of art.
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February 22nd, 2008

Friday Challenge - Wings

Today’s challenge was going to be wings and I saw that Illustration Friday has a theme of multiple, so I actually combined the two. It isn’t done because my day has just been insane, but this is what I have so far. I have to stop working on cardboard bits just because they are there, […]

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February 15th, 2008

Friday Challenge - The Sea

Today’s challenge is to make a piece of art, an ATC, a greeting card, etc. that reminds you of the sea. Here’s the background that inspired the challenge. It is actually very shimmery in person, but the scanner never picks up stuff like that. If you participate in the challenge, please leave a comment with […]

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February 1st, 2008

Friday Challenge - Use Something in Your Someday Stash

I know you’ve got one, too. A stash of things that will make a good project someday. Well, for these little tiles, someday is officially here. I bought them from Target’s dollar spot about a year ago and couldn’t decide what to do with them, so I tucked them away. As I was organizing the […]

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January 18th, 2008

Friday Challenge - Make a Background Stamp

I was watching the Tracey Bautista class again and she mentioned making background stamps from cardboard. It sounded like the perfect project to entertain sick kids and adults who are sick of being stuck inside with sick kids and Scooby Doo playing for the zillionth time in the background, so that is today’s challenge. Make […]

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January 4th, 2008

Friday Challenge - Simple Tools

I was reading Drawing from Within by Nick Meglin this week and one of the chapters was really thought provoking. Mr. Meglin talked about how so many of his students purchased tools used by great painters as if it would make them better artists. He pointed out that the great tennis stars could outplay us […]

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