Winter Snow

It's 10 PM on the Jan. 26th and we are finally getting a good snow...this is out side my front door...love it!

Altered Gypsy Round Robin Book Swap

Finally, art du jour...these are pages for our Altered Gypsy RR Raven's Book Swap...they belong in Linn's book...and the other is an envelope for All Things Tim RAK program..
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Altered Gypsy Christmas Swap 2010

Here is my swap items going out to my secret Altered Gypsy...

Meet David Matthew Jason, my first grandchild

David Matthew Jason arrived this morning at 1:05 am California time... 7 lbs. 9 oz. - 20" long and healthy....Mom, Dad and baby are doing fine...just a bit tired...long labor for all...

Altered Gypsy birthday card

today's experiment - my first attempt at printing digital art on printed papers....the women, child, and top border are digital...the rest is rubber stamped and dimensional/layered...

Halloween for Queen's Ink in Savage MD

Here are a few samples I made for Queen's Ink in Savage MD...a really great paper arts store..the Alice tag is a layering of an embossed acetate tag from Hero Arts combined with Graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland images...the card is also Graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland and both projects were designed to show the Ranger Enamel Accents, a dimensional feature...plus a splash of Tim Holtz in there...

Tim Holtz Calendar Organizer

Tim Holtz Calendar Organizer con't

I designed a book that organizes your special occasion cards...each month has a pocket to hold your store bought or handmade cards for birthdays, anniversaries and whatever....the pages are all Tim Holtz papers and embellishments....

Altered Gypsy 6x6 Halloween Swap

Altered Gypsy is putting together a Halloween book...these are some of my pages for the project...the "Party" is digital art and the vampire is paper art...most made from the new Halloween paper from no other than Martha Stewart - Martha has jumped out of the box...these are a fresh and freaky look for her...

Altered Gypsy Raven Round Robin Book 2010

Another page for Kersten's book....there is more dimension in these pages than shows in the photo...the ravens are raised and the copper key hole piece is embossed metal...and a few other things are dimensional...

7 Gypsies - Archievers Contest

Just returned from Wright City MO near St. Louis...while I was there visiting my dear friend, Jan we went to Archievers Scrap/Stamp Store...Archievers was having a 7 Gypsies contest using the 7 Gypsies wooden trays...thanks to Jan I was able to complete this project in a bit of a day or so and submit it to Archievers...she had lots of the Tim Holtz metals and papers that she gave me to use...what a sweetheart Jan is...so here is the results...enjoy!...you can't tell it by the photo but each cubby is a different height...one way I achieved that was by using mounting tape or cardboard as a backing...there are lots of different layers on here...the large image of the car w/ the two gentlemen in the center has 4 layers...I sure did have a great time cdesigning this project...

Altered Gypsy Kersten's Raven Book Pages

Altered Gypsy Palma's Pages

Another fun swap with the Altered Gypsy group...this is my work in Palma's Raven Round Robin book...on the right page is a pull up with Poe's photo hidden inside...

ATT canvas swap

Grandbaby Jason Book due Oct 17

First Grandbaby....his last name is Jason and we don't know the first name yet...this is my photo album that I will be sharing with all my friends...there are additional insert pages under each of these...when they are decorated I will post them...enjoy!

Digi Art

Since I am on the road with no art supplies I decided to play with DigiArt.....here is the result...this will probably be used for our Round Robin Raven Book swap...

All Things Tim - A Compendium of Curiosities Challenge

All Things Tim Yahoo group is doing a challenge using Tim Holtz's new book - A Compendium of Curiosities...the first challenge is using the technique on page 35 Water Stamping...here is my result...very cool technique...the lighter background stamped is the technique...

Altered Gypsy RR Raven Book

This is the whole layout....the right and left pages are the back of the popup....and the last pages of Suzanne's book...

Altered Gypsy RR Raven Book

Another page down and one more to go for this Round Robin Raven Book...I used one of the transfer techniques that I learned in the Claudine Hellmuth class...the raven that is wearing the crown is a transfer using the Sticky Back Canvas...the large Ravens are painted with Adirondack Acrylic Paints...they have a shimmer to them....

Altered Gypsy RR Raven Book

Another page completed....