Colorful trees and Pumpkins...

This time of the year is such a colorful time of year.

Here is a trio of pumpkins for the season.

Pear and Simple

I was going for simple with this project. I stamped the pear stamp using kaleidacolor cappuccino then again with kaleidacolor fruitcake. It is layered onto the plaid background with foam to raise it up.

Dom's

These little ditty's were made using tiles from a placement. Images were stamped then colored with markers. Crystal lacquer was then applied.

Dragonfly Charm Tile

This little tile is 2x2" in size. I first did the background (a combination of decorative napkin and stamping). Gold leafed the 4 sides. Inked the leaf charm and placed on tile. Coated entire tile and charm with 2 coats of diamond glaze. After that was dry I put a blob of diamond glaze down and set the dragonfly charm in it.

Summertime Muses

or lack thereof. It is summer time and on vacation, during this time I find my creative muse flows. It hasn't been so "musey" so far. I have managed to play with a new old stamp. Here are 2 different projects using the same color on the stamped image.

Floral Mode

With spring supposedly in the air and summer on the way, I felt the need for some color. I was playing around with a couple stamps that I hadn't used in quite some time.

ATC Duo

I was playing at the stamp table... the first time in a couple months. I decided to try something different, a opposites of sort type of project. I went with "Land and Water" using Asia as my inpsiration.

Paper scrap cards

Everyone always has that over flowing bin of paper scraps. Mine is no different. A while back, I decided to use as many of my paper scraps as I could on the next batch of cards I made. Here were some of my results. Some better than others.

L--Batik Rooster ............. R--Lantern

L--Joy Pocket .............. R--Koi Pocket

Koki resist

Waterfall cards

I had seen these before, but never tried them. I went searching for directions and found some at Splitcoast stampers site: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/waterfallcard.php Here are two that I did.
Oriental Waterfall card



Coffee Waterfall card

Color Wash projects

I was so amazed at what Zana did with these at a convention. I have one of her samples by my work table. I have never quite been able to completely re-create what she did, but I have adapted my own style with the sprays.

Daisy overlay then sprayed with washes.
Geisha stamped in purple with lightly sprayed color wash behind.
Musicians with color wash.

Lillies on color wash, then clear embossed over the top.