A chance to receive some free supplies

Maggie over at Magpie's Nest is working on a special project that could mean free collage sheets for your artwork. Hope on over to check it out. I will do it, if chosen. It looks like a lot of fun and her stuff is so great! You'll see. She has all sorts of goodies in her shop to get the creative juices flowing. Go have a look for yourself. Her shop is full of wonderful goodies!

FREE Vintage Image Thursday plus Amaryliis

This is a vintage photo of my Grandfather. I'm going to guess this is from around the 50's.  Wish I knew for sure. Anyway, this image is Free for you to use in your artwork, that you sell or not,  but please do not sell the image, itself. Have fun with it and if you'd like to share what you created with any of my images, leave a link so we can ooh and aah over it.

This is the amaryllis my mother-in-law gave to me at Christmas. It was a stalk in the soil and then each day it got bigger and bigger until pop all the beauty came out and greeted me in one morning. I had to snap it quick before the lighting changed or someone knocked off a flower or something.

Winter Wonderland ATC for Inspiration Avenue's Weekly Challenge

For the Weekly Art Challenge on Inspiration Avenue, the word was "Wonderland". So with it being so cold and snowy here, this January what other than Winter Wonderland popped into my mind. So I created this ATC (Artist Trading Card) for the New Year. It says Happy New Year 2010 under the snowflaked vellum. The under layer is a silver paper and the back of this ATC is a white handmade paper that has been printed with silver vines and flowers. So pretty. If you would like to see all of the other submissions and possibly join us in the future for some artistic fun, than stop over to the Inspiration Avenue blog. Each month there is a giveaway to one lucky participant of the weekly challenges in that month. Some really great stuff is given away.

Blog Makeover, Free blog backgrounds, tags, etc. Plumrose Lane

A very sweet lady I know and fellow etsy teammate just opened up a second etsy shop called Plumrose Lane selling some gorgeous graphics that go along with the free blog backgrounds she offers. She also does custom work and that too is listed in her shop.  She will be adding some other goodies in the near future.  Her new blog, named the same, Plumrose Lane is gorgeous and full of all sorts of goodies, so if you have a moment go check it out. The background you see here on my blog was a freebie and I purchased the header from her for $7. What a deal, right? I love it. So colorful and with such beautiful elements. She has tutorials on how to add each of the elements she offers, so it is really user friendly.

Go give her some blog love. She is a really sweet lady! You will certainly find some inspiration there.

Free Vintage Image and The 12 Days of Christmas ATC Swap

This is how busy life has been for me lately. I am just now posting a swap from December and my last post was from December too. I had the pleasure of participating in The Twelve Days of Christmas ATC Swap with some wonderfully talented artists. The lovely hostess, Christine Edwards sent us each a ribbon and 12 little clothes pins to hang them as banners. Mine is still hanging on my living room curtain, above. I love it! It was so much fun to get the bundle and unwrap the treasures. Aren't they fun?

The artists are as follows:

• A partridge in a pear tree, by Leslie Patton
• Two turtledoves, by Sophia
• Three French hens, by Hope Malott
• Four calling birds, by Tammy Sprinkle (you're here) ;D
  
• Five golden rings, by Jane Palmer
• Six geese a-laying, by Angie Blasingame
• Seven swans a-swimming, by Sarah Huckman
• Eight maids a-milking, by Tina Schiefer
• Nine ladies dancing, by Christine Edwards
  
• Ten lords a-leaping, by Stephanie Mealor Corder
• Eleven pipers piping, by Molly P
• Twelve drummers drumming, by Carol McGarva
  

Here is a Free Vintage image of my husband's aunt for you to use in your artwork for sale or not. I only ask that you do not sell this image, itself. Please feel free to share any artwork you create, using it, so we can ooh and aah over it.  Enjoy!

Paper Swap Tags

These tags were sent to me by Eliza.My very favorite is the three little girls.  I was involved in a Paper swap hosted by Lawendula of Woven Letters and partnered with a lovely lady from Poland. Her name is Eliza and she has a very creative blog called druga szenascie 2:I6. Her blog is always full of art and wonderful quotes. You should check it out.

These last three are three of the tags I sent to Eliza.

Giveaway!! Homage to a Loved One

In celebration of the New Year, I am giving away this Homage to a Loved One mixed-media piece I created for Artist Class.
For a chance to win:
1. Become a follower.
2. Leave a comment letting me know.
3. Double your chances by blogging about this giveaway and come back and leave me the link. 
I will pick out the winner Saturday, the 16th of January. Good Luck!

It's Complicated

Jack and I went to see this the day after Christmas. It was really good. Full of laughs and situations you can imagine yourself in. Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin all had parts perfect for them. Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin have been divorced for 10 years. He left Meryl for a younger woman that he had been courting and it took Meryl several years to get over it and to move on. Now he sees her at a friends anniversary and after reminiscing a bit he sees her for the beautiful woman that she has always been. The fun starts there. Meanwhile Meryl is having an addition built onto her home and her new architect is going through a divorce, as well and so they hit it off. Meryl comes through as a fun loving, sensible beauty in this film. I highly recommend this movie if you want something lighthearted and fun.

Popcorn, anyone?