Reach for the Stars at Mixed Media Monthly

From the minute I heard this song about being a Lost Boy and playing with Peter Pan I have had journal pages and canvases dancing in my head and along comes the challenge "Reach for the Stars"!  Mixed Media Monthly Challenge has Seth Apter as a GDT and he has a fabulous project for you to see!  I just went with a journal spread with some words from the song ( need to Google it and see who sings it but kudos to them!) and added my own drawing of a Peter Panish character and some stamps from Lost Coast Designs that went with my idea.  I took the wings off of Butterfly Face and put them on the little guy even though he only needs some pixie dust a little backup plan just in case :)

Of course some die cut stars to meet the challenge theme!  One even got some wired and beads wrapped to make my floating head a body!

 

Dylusions blue, purple, and some green with some ink sprays through some stencils made up my background. And here is my little guy all colored up with Spectrum Noir markers.  Lots of blingy hearts because all Lost Boys love their fearless leader...including this Lost Boy!

  White lettering that sometimes wants to fade into the background...... The fabulous moon is from Sun and Moon;
 Those Lost Coast Designs stamps really got me started with this one!

I would like to enter this at Mixed Media Monthly Challenge "Reach for the Stars" and I have commented on at least 3 dt members blogs....loving the one with the second star from the right quote of course!

Some Grunge for the Lord of the Manor

I have been collecting the tarot cards that Lost Coast Designs has and this dapper Lord of the Non-Linear Thoughts became my focal point on an A4 sized card. I used the 3 inch Grunge Border using the parts to catch the tire treads since after all it is one for the men and boys so also their toys:)  Distress Inks watered down on glass made up my background with the number "3" mirrored from the card stenciled with a Dylusions stencil with inks.  I stamped the card portion separately and attached to the front after inking it down to go with the grunge look of the card.  Now what non-linear thoughts are I have no idea but in my mind linear translated to lines so on went 3 (of course) round eyelets.  I will Google it after writing this up so I will know next time....learning everyday still!

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January Anything Goes Poe!

I started the new year off with a shared win with the awesome Susan Renshaw at Quoth the Raven, Nevermore Challenge for December!  My poor humble offering paled in the light of Susan's awesome, super make but I was allowed to share the win of which I am grateful to the amazing Ike , of Ike's Art and Susan!  This month I kinda went in reverse for the new year a bit.  I was moving my crafting spot and decided to deconstruct some past projects as they were piling up fast!  One was an altered book for Quoth the Raven and had some actual dictionary pages from the old dictionary I used to make the book and I carefully removed them treasuring them too much to cover them up or throw them away.  Then a wonderful surprise from another win at Quoth the Raven, an altered puzzle piece by Black Dragon had inspired me so much and I found a huge puzzle piece during the move so this was what resulted!

The clay crow and background piece of page paper came from the altered book torn apart but now for a good purpose!  The dear man himself is a Rick St. Dennis image, Poe 2 and he was found cut out, uncolored and I left him that way.  However, all things I make concerning his face seem to humiliate him so much as did the tassel found on a box I had "altered" long before knowing what altering meant :) The tag is stamped with an awesome stamp from VivalasvegaStamps! and then edged with a Dylusions spider web border stamp. I sprayed it with gold shimmer spray from Lindy's Stamp Gang.  The odd thing sticking out is an egg carton rose/flower edged in black and some gold shimner spray also.  It looses its effect from this view but then maybe it comes from one of the Master's works? Hmmm, I will never tell, nor will he, even though that tassel is annoying him beyond even his words!  A little moon from a half used sticker kit and the backing is some gold and black patterned paper run through the embossing machine and edged with black soot Distress Ink.  So that altered book and little box of 20 something years live on now in this new piece until the time comes for it to give up its parts for a new beginning!  

Still lots of time to enter at Quoth the Raven and it is "Anything Goes" this month so don't delay go enter your make and get to put that awesome badge on your blog and win something fabulous!

Entering at Quoth the Raven January
Forever Dark 2 Anything Goes with an optional twist of steampunk