Week 13 Clue...

This week at Art Amusement the prompt is 'Clue'. So straight away I thought question mark???  ok so what next I need a riddle to solve so I googled Riddles and what a perfect one popped up there for me to do... So used one of my Deli paper bags and made a little hidden pocket. So the answer to the riddle is in the pocket, just follow the arrow... Click to make it bigger if you cant see the riddle...

Now 

I 

deliberately

popped

the 

answer

down 

further 

so 

that 

it 

didn't

pop

straight 

up 

on 

the

screen

at 

you.. 

so 

scroll

for 

the 

inside

Did you get it without the answer? 

So some details here about the facebook group called art aMUSEment, it is run by Kelly Hoernig.  Its a fun group and this year Kelly came up with the idea of picking 52 cards of the same size and doing a card with a theme every week so thought this would be a fun thing to do so I am going to join in. Well as many times as I can.
Here is a Link to the video that Kelly popped up on the facebook page. Take a look and maybe you might like to join in too.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :)

Week 10... Intermingle

Well as I am hooked on these doodle girls at the moment when the prompt for this week's Art aMUSEment was 'Intermingle' I thought well what could be a better card for this than all those lines intermingling.. 
I cut my card out in the watercolour paper the same size as the cards I have been using.. I was not sure if I was going to colour her in and then decided that I would just do a few splashes here and there as she is a lot smaller than the other ones that I have been doing.. I used a finer pen for this one to add the tinier lines and details.. It was great practice to do the face smaller.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :) 

Card 8... Key...

I know, I know, where is week 6 and 7 well I am a bit behind and will get to them but this key one insisted to be done before them.  As soon as the prompt for key came up I knew I wanted to use my lock and key movers and shapers die from Tim Holtz, so cut it out.. Then it has sat on my desk getting shifted around.. So today I made it a card to sit on.. The stamp is from Kaszazz and the houses are a stencil from crafters workshop called Mini Sweet Home...  So just a quick little card but that's what I like about these cards, they just slot into a bit of crafting time here and there.. 

Here is a Link to the video that Kelly popped up on the facebook page if you are interested in joining in. Take a look at the prompts something might just jump out at you and give you a little inspiration to make something.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :)

Card 5... Quote...

Was thinking about this, what quote to use? There are just so many great ones? Then I remembered I had this terrific stamp from the Tim Holtz Warehouse district stamp set.. I had not used cardboard with the paper pealed back before, was fun trying to add dimension to it with layers of paint and Gesso.. Used some bubble wrap with Gesso, isn't that the best stuff to add a little something. Sewed around it all with my sewing machine and added some brads.  I am finding these little cards are great for trying out new techniques. 

So some details here about the facebook group called art aMUSEment, it is run by Kelly Hoernig.  Its a fun group and this year Kelly came up with the idea of picking 52 cards of the same size and doing a card with a theme every week so thought this would be a fun thing to do so I am going to join in. Well as many times as I can.
Here is a Link to the video that Kelly popped up on the facebook page. Take a look and maybe you might like to join in too.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :)

Card 4... Journey...

So I had a bit of a play around with a wonderful free collage paper download from Free Vintage Digitals. Have a look at it its a great one.  I love the digi's you can get from there I always find something to use.. So that was my background sorted, then thought I wanted another balloon on there. So I found some tickets in a Kaisercraft paper pack and cut them out, added a little touch of blue here and there with them. Some little gears from a punch grunged up with walnut stain and a couple of Tim Holtz alterations gears on top. I stamped the word journey on top of a stamped compass image. Liked adding all the layers with this.. 

So some details here about the facebook group called art aMUSEment, it is run by Kelly Hoernig.  Its a fun group and this year Kelly came up with the idea of picking 52 cards of the same size and doing a card with a theme every week so thought this would be a fun thing to do so I am going to join in. Well as many times as I can.
Here is a Link to the video that Kelly popped up on the facebook page. Take a look and maybe you might like to join in too.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :)

Card 3... Artist...

I was a bit stuck with this one until my daughter said Mum the artist is you.  So I thought well I will do all the things I love to do.. So the little birds with buttons, doodled borders and a few little tangles in the corner.  Of course my favorite stencil mini well rounded with Gesso for the finishing touches.
So some details here about the facebook group called art aMUSEment, it is run by Kelly Hoernig.  Its a fun group and this year Kelly came up with the idea of picking 52 cards of the same size and doing a card with a theme every week so thought this would be a fun thing to do so I am going to join in. Well as many times as I can.
Here is a Link to the video that Kelly popped up on the facebook page. Take a look and maybe you might like to join in too.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :)

Card 2... Postage...

This week the prompt was 'Postage' So I had this wonderful paper with a postcard design from Kaisercraft. So I modpodged that down tore the edges and aged it with walnut stain. I used a stencil with some Gesso from The Crafters workshop design by Ronda Palazzari called Mini Sweet Home for the houses.  The Journey stamp from Kaisercraft.. The real stamp is one that I saved from a letter I really liked how it was black and white.. Was another fun one to do and like this size card to work on..   

So details here about the facebook group called art aMUSEment, it is run by Kelly Hoernig.  Its a fun group and this year Kelly came up with the idea of picking 52 cards of the same size and doing a card with a theme every week so thought this would be a fun thing to do so I am going to join in. Well as many times as I can.
Here is a Link to the video that Kelly popped up on the facebook page. Take a look and maybe you might like to join in too.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :)

Card 1... Box...

So I am in a facebook group called art aMUSEment, it is run by Kelly Hoernig.  Its a fun group and this year Kelly came up with the idea of picking 52 cards of the same size and doing a card with a theme every week so thought this would be a fun thing to do so I am going to join in. Well as many times as I can.

This week the word is box so I brought some cards from the second hand shop some quite big 140 mm x 85 mm or 5.5 inch x 3.34 inch so a good size they are a game of learning times tables..
I then painted some Gesso on the card as the cards are quite glossy... Then grabbed a baby wipe and painted with blue and yellow.  Then stenciled with some black.   I got to it making a little box and painted it and stuck that on with dimension foam.. Well Tracy from Mixed Media Monday was talking about choosing a word for the year and mine is explore.  I chose explore as I am on this journey to explore Mixed Media and art Journaling and its a whole new world to explore for me.  So I popped that word in the little box.. I just picked up this set of stamps just last week and had not chosen my word at that time.. When I picked up the set its called 'pack your bags collection' from Kaisercraft all I saw on this set was the word journey and thought I could use that a bit in my art journal pages.  So had a closer look today and wow it had my word on it Explore so how great is that.. All the stamps I used today came from this same set so that worked on this really well.. I added the date from my date stamp as it had date written on the stamp.  It was all meant to be hey. 
Here is a Link to the video that Kelly popped up on the facebook page. Take a look and maybe you might like to join in too.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :)