Vintage children - Theme Thursday

Vintage children is this week's theme at Theme Thursday. I actually enjoyed my MMM skinny so much that I decided to make some more... :) 

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Skinny - Mixed Media Monday

At MMM this month we're supposed to create a piece of artwork in a size that is outside our comfort zone. I decided to give skinnies a try. Because they're larger than ATCs, 3x5s rectangles have always seemed to difficult to be totally "filled in" with art in a harmonic way. Well, maybe it wasn't a question of size, but a question of lack of creativity and some laziness on my part. Anyway, I used a large stamp, which had been waiting for "employment" for ages due to its size and all in all I was quite happy with the way the skinny turned out.

Three things

Three things is the theme at Theme Thursday. I used a bird, a pearl and seashells: 3 seashells. Thanks for looking!

Feathers

Here's my "feathers" twinchy for this week's challenge at Rainbow Lady. Thanks for looking!

Wings ATC

At Something Completely Different the challenge is to make an ATC with wings.

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Me and my pet - Small World of Inchies

At Small World of Inchies the theme is me and my pet. Here's my twinchy. I think thefreebie is by Nancy Dooren, but I'm not sure. Thanks for looking!

Peacock - TMTA

Peacock is the theme at TMTA.

This was the only peacock image I had among my scraps...

It wasn't easy photographing this ATC  because none of the pictures I took managed to show both the Egyptian stamp, the stamped feathers and the blue glitter on the body of the peacock. 

B is for bird and for beautiful (girl)

Although the theme at Rainbow Lady's Challenge is four-legged friends I'm including a two-legged friend as well in my ATC. :-) The little girl is by Inka.

Secret garden

Secret garden is the them at TGiF. Here's my ATC. (It was the first time I used the bandana technique.)

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Birds ATC - Theme Thursday

Here's my contribution for Theme Thursday whose theme is birds, nests and eggs. I made this ATC using mostly scraps of paper. The girl image is a freebie by Graphicsfairy and the bird stamp is Hero Arts.

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Christmas ornament

I loved creating this Christmas ornament. I bought a few styrofoam hearts last year before Christmas and I planned to do some découpage with them so that I could hang them on the Christmas tree, but I guess I was too busy with other things last year or maybe I didn't have enough motivation... (I found blogland in January 2008, right after Christmas...)

I used two images from graphicsfairy and a serviette from "Ihr" (It's a German brand although I bought the serviette in Portugal). Then it was all about sticking everything in place with Alkyl, a glue that is also a varnish. I've also used my flake punch and some gold thread around the heart and I've tied the ribbon in such a way that I can turn it the way I want. The "front" image was supposed to be the girl, but then I realised I liked the bird image better although I damaged it a bit when I was gluing it in place. Finally I added two little bells, so that even if the ribbon is facing the other side it still looks interesting enough on the backside.

Just a remark: by the time I took the pictures (with my lousy camera, well, it's actually quite good for a mobile camera), I hadn't stuck the flakes properly yet. I had glued them with UHU glue, but they obviously couldn't go without Alkyl for a glossy finish.

Check out all the other Christmas ornaments at Mixed Media Monday.

"Birds" is also the challenge at Theme Thursday, so I'm combining the challenges.

Wings - Make a moo

The theme at Make a Moo or Two is wings. Here's my contribution. I'm sorry the pictures aren't very clear but I didn't have my camera nearby. I had to used my Sony K800i mobile.

(The angel picture is a decoupage picture by Stamperia.)

Green and silver - Inching Artists

I wanted very much to take part in this week's challenge at inching artists because the theme (green and silver) sounded like an easy one and inchies are always lots of fun to do. However, due to lack of time, I ended up putting two challenges together, as this inchie will also be part of the set of bird inchies I'm making for this month's inchie swap organised by Joanne.