secrets

do you have family members who have passed on, who died with their secrets?  our prompt at tag tuesday is "secrets" and being so close in time to dia de los muertos -- day of the dead, this prompt got me thinking of the secrets people take to the grave.

the digital image i used here is called "lady calavera" by artist concetta kilmer, sold by sweet pea stamps.  i colored it with pencils and cut it out for my tag.  the background papers here are from "song in my heart" and i used a flower stencil to decorate the background.  finally i added flowers and ribbon to finish.

i'm linking up to the "anything goes with a bonus" challenge at your scrapbook place -- getting extra points for using an image from sweet pea stamps.  the bad news is that sweet pea stamps is closing soon.  so it is your last chance to check out their amazing images this month.

love to all.

one last secret...

happy friday friends: you have until sunday evening to link up a creation on the theme of "secrets and hidden things" at the lunagirl moonbeams blog.  i've got one last DT piece to encourage you.

vintage image from lunagirl with other bits from my stash.
trying to blog every day this month is proving challenging.  i've made it to the midpoint of the month and i'm not sure if i'll make it to the end.  but it has been interesting trying to keep nice things coming.  i've got lots of challenge pieces to get done this coming weekend as well as ornaments due for a swap soon so i'll be making lots but not sure if i'll be posting.  in any event it is always lovely visiting with my blogging friends and I deeply appreciate your visits and kind comments here.

linking to pink saturday and 4 krafty girlz "anything goes" challenge.

love to all.

curiouser indeed!

for week two of the "secrets and hidden things" challenge at lunagirl moonbeams i wanted to do something kind of whimsical.  i was thinking that the alice in wonderland story includes secrets and hidden things so i turned to one of the alice collage sheets from lunagirl.  i colored the image of alice pulling aside the curtain with promarkers and cut it out. but i wanted her to find something a little more surprising than the queen's garden. so while the mysteriously smiling cheshire cat looks on, here is what happened in my alice scene...

whoa, what is rudolph the red-nosed reindeer doing behind that curtain? i guess he is telling me i'd better get going on making some christmas cards.

the alice, cheshire cat and "curiouser" all came from the lunagirl sheet.  the background was a freebie karen at lunagirl provided on her blog a month or so ago.  the rest are little things i had laying around.  i decided to link this card up to the "humour" challenge at dream valley challenges  and also to the "animal antics" challenge at the squirrel and the fox challenge blog.

happy week!  love to all.

from the pages of a book, secrets emerge

from the pages of a handwritten book, perhaps her own journal, secrets are hidden.  her private dreams are behind the shadows.  does our heroine dare unlock the door and enter her own fantasy?

here is a little something to encourage your participation in the lunagirl moonbeams "secrets and hidden things" challenge. prompts for this theme could include secrets, locks and keys, doors and windows opened or closed, secret gardens and hidden treasure, wrapped gifts and more.

vintage image here is from lunagirl, with other delights from my stash.  i'm linking this card to up to two different "anything goes" card challenges: at sister act card challenge and brown sugar challenge.

you can link up to the lunagirl challenge through the 17th!  love to all.

secrets, and hidden things

ooh, here is a very interesting challenge new this week at lunagirl moonbeams blog.  it is "secrets and hidden things!"

our challenge sponsor karen at lunagirl says this challenge could involve secrets, locks and keys, doors open or closed, windows, secret gardens, hidden treasure, treasure boxes, wrapped gifts, things hidden anywhere and even hiding children, fairies or peekaboo!  just a few ideas to get you started...  for my first DT creation i decided to decorate a box with a sweet lunagirl image, actually the same image karen used for her challenge badge.

this box will most likely hold a christmas present for my goddaughter.  the thing that is secret and hidden is the gift of course.  it is still a secret to me since i haven't bought it yet though the box seems to be inviting me to get her jewelry!  

for this piece i stamped a french script stamp (stampin' up) in brown on some pink designer paper.  i also tore some tissue paper to go under the vintage image from lunagirl, which was cut with patterned scissors.  i added holiday flowers, washi tape and pearls to finish.

have fun with these challenge ideas and i hope you will join!
love to all.