Think Monday ATC

I'm just under the wire here with this weeks ATC.  The prompt was...ta-dah!  Coffee!!  Ah, a hot cup of inspiration in the morning or in some cases, a mug of help when I have a migraine headache.

I cheated a bit on this one I think.  What I did was re-arrange the packaging from coffee that I received as a gift.  My friend went to Holland and brought a "brick" of coffee back to me.  Well, that was a couple of years ago.  Bless the Dutch, this brick of coffee was vacuumed sealed and I am enjoying some as I type.  

I have an hour before I have to get ready for work, I will enjoy a quiet morning with a hot cup of coffee, watching the sun come up and listening for the birds to begin singing.

MM2 - Autumn

Yeah! I finally got another challenge done!  This one is for Make a Moo 2.  The challenge prompt was autumn.  I have this yummy fall colored leaf that I used to make the image. The image itself was stamped on the back of the leafed paper and then cut out and glued onto the base.  I cut the whole thing out again to make the Moo's and inked the edges. 

The colors are much more vivid than they are in the picture.  I really like how this one turned out. 

TMTATC - Dance

Phew!  I didn't think I could get something done before the deadline!  

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Sunday Postcard Art - Children

I realized after I put this together that it reminded me of the children's story "A Secret Garden"  one of my favorite books both as a child and adult.  The images are from Art Chix.  The "lock" I had to color with the help of alcohol inks.  The flowers, leaves, and butterfly were cut out from the background paper, edges inked to help them to stand out from the background and then glued to the postcard.  After I was done and looking though my view finder, I wasn't really happy that the images weren't really "popping".  So  I took one of my brush markers and went around the images to drop "shadows" around them. 

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Sunday Postcard Art - Doors

There are a few challenge sites that I like to visit.  My problem is that after I see them all (each one begins and ends on a different day), and jot down the prompt, it is almost too late for me to create something and post it.  This time I did the smart thing and read ahead!  Boy am I glad that I did.  Sunday Postcard Art posted the prompt "Doors"  and I was all over that one.  

The picture is an original that I took at the Mission San Juan Capistrano (yes, the same ones that the swallows have flown back to on St. Joseph's Day for decades.)  And for good measure, I printed it out on a transparency.  I wasn't sure if I was going to back it with faint writing.   Not sure about what I was going to do with the background, I decided to drag out my Adirondack alcohol inks and started playing on some glossy card stock I bought 5 years ago and forgot about.  Too my very pleasant surprise what I came up with almost matched the stucco on the walls in the picture.  The words "Waiting on You"  are also on a transparency, but I have to thank ArtChix for that.

I am very please with the way that it all turned out.  

TMTATC - Turquoise

I had just purchased my first bottle of Glimmer Mist in Patina when this challenge came up, I was glad to be able to use it.   I also layered watercolors over the top of that, although you may not be able to see it in this photo.  I made several ATC backgrounds at the same time after reading an article in the recent "Cloth, Paper, Scissors"  called "Art at the Speed of Life" by Pam Carriker.  (Except she does ATC's, canvas, and journal pages too!...I feel like such a slacker...sigh)