Digital Two for Tuesday 55 - Join the Party

Well today is the last day of the Alice in Wonderland images and to celebrate all things Alice, our guest host Julia has created 2 amazing projects.  I hope you join the celebration and create something amazing too. I have also found another amazing site with lots of digital images from antique books including Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Check it out Lenny's Alice in Wonderland Site.The images are a nice size. So if you haven't had enough Alice. This is your site.

 Here is Julia's bio in her own words.

"When I was a little girl a liked crafting and drawing/coloring a lot. I think most children like it. Then I grow up…and there was a big gap in my crafting… until September 2009 when I decided to learn how to work with Adobe Photoshop. I discovered for myself the world of digital scrap and loved to play with all kinds of brushes and textures. I also came across blogs of people which did “real scrapbooking”, and I admired it but I thought that it’s not for me… J But the little girl that still lived inside of my soul and loved crafting woke up and said that should try it! I tried… and felt in love with it! Probably it was time for me to get back to what I really am, to myself real…

So I am quite new to this world. I like scrapbooking, cardmaking, ATC, mixed media and altered art and I also like to try something new. As for styles, now I feel that I prefer vintage and shabby chic. I’ m glad that my hobby let me meet a lot of interesting and talented people.

Here is my card and set of tags. They turned out to be a kind of shabby J.

As for the card, I colored the picture with watercolor pencils, distressed them with Tattered Rose and Old Paper. Then I stitched the picture and wordings to a piece of scrap paper, added Prima flower, vintage button, punched Marta Stewart branches and 3D glitter.

On the tags I outlined watercolored pictures with 3D glitter, added wording, ribbons and bead." 

You can see more of Julia's beautiful and inspirational artwork work on her blog Astra-Scrap.

Madhatter Monday

I am just loving these images.  They bring back so many childhood memories.  Remember these images are from the first book so no Alice with a crown images.  Have fun!

More Alice

Here are a few more images from the book.  Be sure to check back every day through Tuesday for more Alice images.  On Tuesday there will be another guest hostesses with a beautiful Alice project.

I'm Late, I'm Late for a Very Important Date

Here are three more of the Alice images.  All of these are from the first book Alice in Wonderland.  Have a great Saturday and create something great.

Go Ask Alice

Here are two more Alice images from the book I found at the flea market.  There are at least dozen illustrations in this early version of Alice in Wonderland.  The book is so old the pages are brown and brittle.  It has been difficult to clean these up.

Digital Two for Tuesday 54

This week we have two images from a very old version of Alice In Wonderland from the turn of the 19th century.  When I saw the book filled with the images we all know and love I knew I had to buy it and post them here.  So this week and next we will be celebrating Alice. This week's guest designer is Susan from Southern New Jersey.  She has an amazing sense of color and design.  You can see more of her work on her blog.  Here is her bio in her own words.

"I have been an artist in one form or another since I was old enough to wield a crayon! I have done all forms of needlework except for knitting. My husband and I have done wood working, he does most of the cutting and putting together I do the painting, I used to oil paint all the time...landscapes. I have done many, many folk art and other crafts, candle making, working with pinecones and sea shells and driftwood etc. I took one semester of "ceramics' in college and found I was better with slab clay than the potter's wheel, LOL...they picked a large Salad bowl of mine to display on site and then it was part of a traveling show.

Over the years since doing Paper crafts and mixed media, I have had a handful of my creations published by ARTchix studios to become part of her collage sheets etc. I have never taken the time to submit anything to magazines, but my friends urge me to all the time. I have won several Scrap book Layout contests. I do go to craft shows with my cards and other paper crafts...stationery sets, etc. I also do a lot of rubber stamping and I make tumbled stone coasters.

I started making ATCs about 5-6 years ago, and then graduating to 4 x 4 chunky pages also. I am an active card maker for "Operation Write Home" which is an awesome organization that the participants make home made greeting cards and they get send in big boxes over seas to our enlisted, so that they have cards to use to send home for loved ones etc. This has become quite a passion of mine.

Some of my work is splattered here and there throughout my blog, and there is a slide show down at the bottom.

Here is a finished ALICE ATC, and an ALICE TAG BOOK (in progress) this is going to be a favorite drink recipe book, that will be gifted to Cora at Two for Tuesday when I am finished with it.

The ATC is colored with Prismacolor pencils and blending pencil, then I used Tea Stain distress ink and Black Soot distress inks to antique it. I then added some Prima flowers and a black rhinestone. I love how it came out, and I hope you all of also.

The tag book pages are made of mica flake card stock I am using Rubber stamps, and Distress inks, printed images and Prismacolor pencils I also intend on adding buttons and flowers and ribbons to this when completed. The front of each tag will be decorated and the back will be a favorite drink recipe."

Three Images From a Friend

One of the greatest thing about having a blog is all the great people you get to meet from all over the country and the world.  Today I have a special group of images from Melisa Waldorf, who has been one of our guest host's several times.  She was generous enough in the midst of a move to a new home to send me a snip of paper in the mail with beautiful graphics from an old The Etude magazine from 1920.  So with a little scanning and a lot of digital manipulation I was able to make us 3 digital stamps out of the paper.  Thank you Melisa.  They are adorable!

Digital Two for Tuesday 53

The digital stamps this week are from a sewing course from the 1920's.  "You too could become and excellant seamstress and hat maker."

This week's guest designer is Claudine.  She has created for us two cards with amazing flower elements. I just love her style and sense of color. 

Here is her bio in her own words.

"My name is Claudine Poch and I live in Southwestern Ohio. I have been crafting almost my whole life and making cards for the past five years. I am an avid cat lover and I often incorporate cats into my cards and ATC’s. Additionally, I enjoy many things vintage, especially items and designs from the 1950’s. I enjoy making cards with the vintage images available through the Two for Tuesday blog, and appreciate the opportunity to be the guest designer for this week.

For this first card, I used a vintage pattern paper from Graphic 45. I decided to keep the image simple by printing it out and using Tim Holtz distress ink around the edge of the image. I used a vintage-feel edge punch, and added a flower and black half pearls.

For this second card, I wanted to incorporate several vintage-looking elements. I used a vintage patterned paper from Graphic 45, a lacey edge punch, eyelet lace, and embossing on the brown panel. I printed the hat image and colored it with Copic markers. I made the satin flower by twisting ribbons and gluing them with a hot glue gun. I completed the flower arrangement by adding eyelet ribbon and a beaded stick pin. "

You can see more of Claudine's beautiful artwork on her blog http://www.cardsbyclaudine.blogspot.com/.

 

Saturday Bonus

Well over at Saturday Image Bonus I posted six vintage ads from a 1918 magazine.  While I was scanning those I came across some great digital stamps.  So a bonus for you. 

Some More Cards

Well I have been really having fun with the Father's Day images.  Here are more cards I made for last week.   They are great for any occassion.  So I only put greetings in a few.  Thank you to all of you who have been posting your cards in the comments section.  It is so much fun to see how everyone uses the images.

Three Cards

Here are three cards I made with last week's Father's Day images.  The background stamp on the Ride There card is from my Stamp line Clearly Vintage.  The embossing folder on that card is one of the new Tim Hotz texture fades. 

Digital Two for Tuesday 52

We have two adorable mouse images to play with this week.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to clean up one of the images.  Everytime I have it looking perfect the distortion seems to show up again when I save it.  Anyway, it is still a cute image.  

This week's guest designer is Dani. She has created two beautiful cards using these fun mouse images. I love the vintage touches she has added to her cards. Here is her bio in her own words.

"My name is Dani C. from Texas. I am married to the sweetest hubby in the world and we have 6 kids (ages 3 -15) and two huge labs. I work from home homeschooling my kids. In my free time I love to make cards, read and cross stitch.

It was sew mice to see you card: I colored this sweet mouse using Copics. The ribbon is Vintage Rayon Ribbon and the dp is by DCWV ‘The Crafty Stack’. I typed up and printed the saying using the Be Safe font.

Field Mouse card: I love this image! I thought it looked like it came out of a children’s book. So I tore a piece of paper out of an old book and used some old scrap cardstock. I distressed the card stock by using PTI’s Linen and Canvas Impressions plate and Tim Holtz Distress inks. I colored the image using Copics."

You can see more of Dani's work at her blog Count Your Beautiful Blessings.