Happy Birthday Party. Wednesday Stamper

We are partying as you read this because today is my daughter Emma's 16th birthday! A very special day for me, since she is my firstborn, and it marks the day I became a mother.

This artist trading card (ATC) is my entry for this week's theme of "party" at
Wednesday Stamper.

It uses a beautiful swirly stamp from the Michelle Ward series, just like ribbon party streamers. I've added stamped circles using a handmade stamp, made from foam pieces. I've also stitched and embellished with transparent flower confetti, sequins and glitter.

Spring. Wednesday Stamper

These tags are my offering for the Wednesday Stamper challenge blog, where the theme this week is "Spring".  Luckily for me, I had been playing with some vintage French seed packet labels and stamps and last Sunday I made a few tags that fit the theme!  I also used these seed packet labels in a Spring-y tag for Art Creations Friday, and you can see that tag on my blog here.

These are tea stained tags, stamped with script and flower stamps. Copies of the seed packet labels were stitched on top, then the cards were stitched and embellished with vintage goodies: lace, mother of pearl, enamel flowers, and some of my hand dyed fabric.

Women. Wednesday Stamper

This is a creation for the Wednesday Stamper challenge blog, where the theme this week is "women" in honor of Women's History Month in the United States.  This is an artist trading card (ATC) created in memory of my maternal grandmother.  She is the one in the center, in the lovely flapper dress. You probably can't see it, but her outfit is complete with a long strand of pearls and rolled down stocking.  Her family was British and her father served in WWI.  His pet name for her was Poppy (after the Flanders Fields poem). I have a couple of beautiful fabric post cards of his correspondence to her during WWI (see below).  I am so inspired by women I see around me, creating inspiration and history every day, whether or not we hear of them.

The background of this card was a photo of poppies from our garden that I digitally altered.  The photo of her family is placed over the background and I've used stamps in 2 places: for the words and along the side, where I stamped into modeling paste with a swirling stamp, then inked over the top.  Embellished with vintage beads.

Below are two of my great grandfather's post cards to my grandmother from WWI. My mother had these framed some years ago, so there is reflection from the glass over the card, but their beauty can still be seen.

Doodling. Wednesday Stamper

My first ever posting for the Wednesday Stamper challenge blog, where the theme this week is "doodling".  For this ATC, I stained some water color paper, stamped with paint and ink, embellished with flowers and vintage topaz rhinestones.  And of course, I doodled - outlining the flowers with a white pen and doodling with a glue pen over the script, then applying gold foil.

It's hard to see the foiling, you can get a sense of it in the photo below: