Theme Thursday

I got the Winter edition of Take Ten in the mail yesterday and found a sheet of free artists quads contained in it. The pink patterns just jumped out at me, and I immediately set about making this Christmas card with the pink sheet music quad.. I love pink and brown ..... and it seems to work well for Christmas, too.

I've just put this up in my Etsy shop, but am submitting it for the patterned paper challenge this week at Theme Thursday.

You can see all the patterned paper submissions at http://themethursday.wordpress.com/.

Tag Challenge #25

If you've been wondering how I come up with the themes for each week's challenge and are imagining a spreadsheet upon which I've laid out several week's themes at a time, you would be absolutely.......wrong.

The unscientific method I use is to create a tag that I like and then pick out something from that tag that would constitute a theme.

And even though I'm gripped with an awful cold right now, "cold" is not what led me to this winter tag which is the sample for this week's challenge. This theme -- oh, I didn't mention that yet, did I? Well, the theme is to use a picture. It can be a personal one, family one, whatever, just include one on your tag. And what led me to this week's theme was this picture I found in my mother's photo album that I just love! I don't even know everyone in the picture, but I'm pretty sure it's some of her siblings and some neighborhood buddies making a snowman. I love the bucket on his head, too.

So use a picture you'll love -- and your tag will be fabulous. Can't wait to see your photos this week!

Tag Challenge Winners

First off, due to illness on the part of the Tag Tuesday hostess (that's me....and I have quite the cold) there will be no sampler for last week's challenge.

However, I can recap quickly by saying that the No Paper Challenge brought us tags created from the following materials to name a few:

Aluminum can

Plastic

Canvas

Wood Veneer

Fabric

Packing Foam

Birchwood

And a tomato puree tube.

It was even a bigger thrill this week to check out all of your tags, because there were some very imaginative creations!

We also had a record number of participants -- which was very cool!

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I promised some fabulous ephemera to two random people who displayed the Tag Tuesday challenge banner on their blogs, so congrats to Nancy (from Ohio) and Jean (from North Carolina).

If both of you would e-mail me your address, I'll get these out to you.

Think Monday, Think ATC

I honestly haven't thought about ATC's on Monday since making all the ATC's for the cruise. But just the other I had been thinking about my fruit stamps from Art Impresssions which I had not used in forever, even as a possible challenge for Tag Tuesday. But since that was the theme today at TMTA I created this ATC using one of my very oldest stamps from Art Impressions.

The background is created with alcohol inks.

Art Creations Friday

I didn't have a lot of time before work this morning, but I couldn't resist this darling image offered up by Art Creations Friday for this week's challenge. So I made this simple card using some of the scraps on my desk from some scrapbook pages I've been working on.

Tag Challenge #24

Last week was all about paper -- piecing, that is. Today's challenge (and I think it will be) is to create a tag without using ANY paper ANYWHERE! That means you have to create your tag out of something other than paper. For example, I used grungeboard to make mine. You may use chipboard or cardboard if you'd like. But no background papers, no paper ephemera, no paper embellies of any kind!

My tag: I added distress inks to my grungeboard background. I stamped on it with stamps from Oxford Impressions. I then dry embossed it with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. Filed the grungeboard to let the dots show.

After that I added the ruler piece, the metal flower and some of the Tim Holtz film ribbon at the bottom (that stuff is too cool).

I'll have to throw some of that into next week's give-away. To see how to become eligible for that read the following post!

A Tag of Our Own

Thanks to Pam, Tag Tuesday now has its own tag which you can add to your blog if you'd like.

Simply right click on the image to save it and then add it on to your own blog.

If you want to make it a clickable link, you can link it back to http://kardkrazy.blogspot.com.

I appreciate it, Pam:)

Note: There's going to be a cool give-away (think great big assortment of paper ephemera) to two people who put up the challenge tag on their blog. I'll announce the winners at next week's challenge.

(Yes, Sarah and Pam you can get it on this, too!)

Challenge #23 Sampler -- Paper Piecing

It was cool to see the different methods of paper piecing in last week's challenge. Thanks to all who joined in the challenge.

Thanks, too, for those who attempted to follow my directions to include a direct link. I've added that to the right sidebar. If you scroll all the way down you'll see the directions written out.

Gothic Arches

Gothic Arches has a new home -- you can find the weekly challenge at http://gothicarches.blogspot.com. Personally, I'm glad to see it back on blogger:)

The challenge this week it to be inspired by the work of Lord Frederick Leighton. Not to be intimidated -- there's a link on Flickr to some of his fabulous works.