Melange Challenge

The challenge for the Melange Team is Chit Chat.  I'm thinking this couple has no time for chit chat!  I have created this hand embellished moleskine journal.  I created the original image digitally using several vintage images then I enhanced it with oil and watercolor pencils.  The journal is also embellished with vintage lace and a touch of bling.  

Altered Bottle Challenge

The January challenge for the Etsy Melange Team was to alter a glass jar or bottle. I've been quite busy this month so I am running in here

at the last minute.  But I found this art form to be quite fun and may even be addictive.  As I worked on this bottle I found my mind racing at all the possibilities for more bottles.  Oh no!  I see another junque shopping trip on

the horizon!

Melange Challenge

The challenge word this week for the Melange Team is Illuminating. I have chosen this Butterfly ACEO on stretched canvas. It is an abstract pondering the garden view of the butterfly. It may be found in my Etsy shop.

We have been covered with snow for a week at my house. It is unusual for snow to remain more than a couple of days here. So illuminating garden views are a refreshing sight.

Melange Challenge

The challenge for the Melange team this time is prayer. As a mother, this collage expresses my prayer. The children are a vintage image - not my own children. The quote, "I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth." was typed on a vintage typewriter. The collage is for sale in my WindandHoney shop.

Melange Challenges

The Melange Team is having 2 challenges right now. This week's word challenge is heavenly. Here is my entry. You have probably seen this one before. But it fits so well I decided to enter it anyway. The quote says "And on the 7th Day He rested... with a cat in His lap." I personally authored this quote and I am quite confident that this is true.

The second challenge is to use fabric in some way in your mixed media piece. The deadline is today. And true to form I am sliding in at the last minute. Here is my entry. It has felt and vintage tatted lace for fabric. It is also embellished with vintage buttons and a stamp. The quote says "The road to a friend's house is never long." Actually I use lace in lots of my work and I could have used many pieces. But I've been wanting to do something with these felt flowers and this challenge gave me the spark to make it happen.