February Vintage Collage

Here's an Artist Trading Card I made for the Vintage Collage swap I belong to:

I cut strips of various vintage papers and attached them in horizontal strips, then stamped on top and finished with a Dymo strip.

Watercolours for the Stamp Club Swap

Today is stamp club day and here is the card I made for our swap.  It is watercoloured, and the image is raised on foam tape.

Colouring, Rubbermoon Style

Several years ago, an article in RubberStampMadness described Debra Valoff's method of colouring with pencil crayons.  My sister, Dianne,  recently sent me some Rubbermoon images and I got some stamps for Christmas.  I decided to play along:

Spritzed Envies

One of the things I love about the GPP Street Team challenges is that I discover all kinds of new blogs by wonderful, talented artists.   Recently I found Natalie at des couleurs, du piment et quatre bras and saw a wonderful array of her mail art.  She inspired me to make these today:

Bird Life

Last month, the Richmond Art Gallery held an Artist Trading Card session in conjunction with their ATC exhibition.  We were invited to meet before the session and make ATC's using supplies provided by them.  It is fun to use supplies and collage materials from someone else's stash, and here is what I made:

Spring is Coming

Spring is my favourite season.  And living in Vancouver, I enjoy that it comes earlier here than in some places.  But it can't come too soon for me, and I get impatient at this time of the year.

But it is coming.  I know it is.  I took these last week:

Witch Hazel

Snowdrops

Happy Valentine's Day!