Fairies

These images are from a 1902 A Child's Garden of Verses.

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This week we have the amazingly talented artist Sue Berker as our guest designer.  We have been so lucky to have artist each week with such different styles and I just love how Sue has used this week's images.  I gave Sue two very different images and she took the challenge and used both in her cards.   I just love Sue's color combinations and her coloring details.   You can see more of her work on her beautiful blog Sharing What I Love.

Sue's bio in her own words.

"My name is Sue Berker.  I live in central Illinois in the USA.  I've been married to my husband for 10 and a half years and together we have 5 kids and 3 grandkids.  We are senior citizens, retired but still quite active with a number of things.  Since our family members live elsewhere, we do a bit of traveling so that we can spend time with them.

I began stamping about 10 years ago, became a Stampin'Up! demo for 4 years and then needed to help support the economy of the rest of the stamping vendors in this craft, so I quit being a demo.  I have done a little bit of scrapbooking but my real passion is stamping.  I lean towards a more clean look in my stamping.  I also like to create 3-D papercrafts.  I have had the pleasure and privilege of meeting several on my online friends in real life.  It's a great craft world - don't you agree?

I thank Cora for all of  the work she does to make these lovely, vintage images available to us and also for allowing me to participate as a Guest Designer on her blog."

Here are this week's images.

Mermaids

Two mermaid images from the 1928 Buddy magazines.

Dreaming

The two images today came from an August 1915 magazine called Something to do.  I love the girl reading.  She has that far away look. 
I just put more of my photopolymer stamps in my Etsy shop so be sure to follow the link in the sidebar to see some of my favorite images as photopolymer stamps.  They are priced to sell. 

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A few more images from my favorite storybook.

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Here are two more images from the Tick Tock book for you to enjoy.  This book is a treasure full of beautiful line images.  This weekend I picked up four new books at the flea market from the early 1900's chock full of images for us to play with in our art.  I can't wait to share them.  Also if you are looking for a certain type of image let me know and I will keep an eye out at the flea market.  I love a good hunt.  They need to be out of copyright or I can't share them on the blog, thus the vintage theme.

This week our guest hostess is Yolanda.  She has created two beautiful cards for us today.  I love her rich use of color and the words she has added to her cards.   Her unique coloring has brought the images to life.  I hope you are inspired to take the challenge and create something amazing with this week's images.

Fairy card: The easel card base is a 4.5” x 12” piece of DCWV Autumn Splendor cardstock, purple and bright green Color Box Petal Point ink and colored with Prisma colored pencils, purple DriMark Metallic marker and Copic E50. It’s embellished with tiny Mark Richards crystal star stickers. My fairy card is much more spectacular in real life, alas. My photo didn’t capture the metallic in the purple fairy dresses or the shine of the stars on their wands and above the sentiment as nicely as I would have liked. I am craving some Stampin’ Up Crystal Effects, which would have been very nice for the wings.

Couple card: The card base is the same paper from DCBW Autumn Splendor inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen and colored with Prisma colored pencils and Copic E50. I found an affordable set of Copics called Manga Skin Colors at Amazon.com and have been very pleased with it. I like my card people to be able to be multi-ethnic and this set offers a nice range of skin tones.

Bio: Here is Yolanda's Bio in her own words. " I am an editor for a non-profit and married with three adult sons. I used to scrapbook a lot and dabbled in card making, but I didn’t become a serious card crafter until this May when I discovered Operation Write Home (operationwritehome.org) while on Facebook. My youngest son was about to deploy with the Army and it was the perfect thing for me to be doing. Now I have another enlisted son who is in Basic Training. I’ve enjoyed getting to know people and being a blessing to troops and their families through this great organization. Card making has become a wonderful creative outlet for me. " Check out Yolanda's blog at
http://yolanda-imaginemakeshare.blogspot.com/

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This week's exciting guest designer Debbi Harris is from South Africa. She has an amazing use of color and texture in her work. I love all the accents she adds to her cards. Here is her bio in her own words."This is my first guest appearance which I am thrilled about. I am a proud wife and Mom to 2 gorgeous children. My son Nic is 13 years old and daughter, Sasha is 11 years. I live in fabulous, sunny Cape Town in South Africa. Rubber Stamping has been a passion of mine for the past 14 years and I have hosted many swaps on our South African Internet group. I enjoy making cards, ATC's, Inchies, Twinchies, Moo's and chunky books. My blog is http://dkhdesigns.blogspot.com/ if you would like to see more of my artwork, please leave a comment if you visit."

I have coloured the image with Aquarelle pencils blended with a Dove blender and embellished with flock and Stickles glitter glue. The background has been sponged with Distress Ink Antique Linen using Inkssentials Ink blending tool. All the edges of the layers of card have been sponged with Brilliance Pearlescent chocolate. The image is mounted onto brown card and then onto 2 layers of scrapbook paper and then matted onto another layer of the brown and finally onto a cream folded card. The card is finished off with a cellphone sticker.

I have coloured the image with Aquarelle pencils blended with a Dove blender and the fairy's crown is embellished with self adhesive pearls. The background and the edges of all the layers have been sponged with Distress Ink Antique Linen using Inkssentials Ink blending tool. The image is mounted onto dark turquoise card and then onto a layer of scrapbook paper and then matted onto another layer of the dark turquoise and finally onto a beige folded card. The card is finished off with turquoise lace and a paper flower that I have embellished with pearls as shown in the photo.

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Secret Friends

Digital Image: Fairies 3 from Digital Tuesday (Colored image with Prisma color pencils and OMS).
Card Stock: Olive (TAC), Cranberry Tart (Gina K Designs) and 3 Christmas prints (DCWV-Holiday Collection).
Ink: Sakura Stardust Gelly Pen (flowers and collar on green dress, hat and collar on little boy fairy and rosettes on shoes).
Embellishments: White Fun Flock (collar, cuffs and bottom of red petticoat), Diamond Stickles (Fairies' wings), Inkssentials Glossy Accents (moon), 5 cranberry rhinestones and cranberry grosgrain ribbon.Fairies
Digital Image: Fairies 5 from Digital Tuesday (Colored image with Prisma color pencils and OMS, cut image out and popped up with 3D foam circles).
Card Stock: Dark blue, medium blue and pink (TAC) and 2 prints (TAC-Gentle Beginnings).
Nestabilities: Large Deckled Rectangles.
Embossing: Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder.
Inks: Memento Summer Sky and Angel Pink (sponged around clouds).
Embellishments: White Fun Flock (clouds), Star Dust Stickles (Fairies' wings), 6 blue rhinestones and blue/pink satin ribbon.

Our guest host this week Kym has created the two beautiful cards above. She is a talented paper artist with a diverse style from whimsical to sophisticated. I decided to keep on with the theme of Fairies from last week and assigned her the two images above. Kym took the challenge. Won't you take the challenge too? Make a card or project with one or both of the images and post it below in the comments section for us all to be inspired.

At Kym's blog Nana's Keepsakes you can see more of her wonderful creations. Here is Kym's bio in her own words. "I am a proud mom of 2 children (Karissa - 21 who is attending school for her medical assistant degree and Travis - 19 who is a US Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, California deploying for Afghanistan in February) and a grandma of 3 precious grandchildren from my daughter (Aiden - 3 yrs. and Logan & Mitchell - 9 mos). I have been an avid crafter for many years cross-stitching, crocheting, knitting or sewing. But last year in November my best friend got me started creating cards for family and friends for the holidays and birthdays. Since that moment I have been hooked. I try to spend as much time in my craft room creating cards for my family and friends."