2 end of year projects + 2 full year projects. Top: Brown paper art journal + small Art Journal advent + box with 52 cards for #AlteredIndex2025 Bottom: ring with 52 cards for #FullDeckChallenge3

#Art at the end of the year.

December:
Brown paper art journal made from packaging paper.
Small blue journal for Art Journal Advent.

Weekly:
Box of 52 cards for #AlteredIndex2025
Ring of 52 cards for #FullDeckChalleng3

I've done a LOT more, but these were completed today.

2 altered playing cards for weekly challenges. Left: for #FullDeckChalleng3; prompt: feathers Right: for #AlteredIndex2025; prompt: Love and Romance Left card background is collage from various scraps in multi colors. Focal image is 3 colorful feathers (from Art by Marlene) with 3 small children (b&w images from Tim Holtz). Right card background is collage from a vintage book of British ballads. This one in particular is Captain Wedderburn. I "aged" up the paper by adding some splashes of brownish ink & added some stamped images in the same color. The focal image is an actual vintage b&w photo of 2 men; one a sailor. They sit close together. I mounted the photo on a paint sample (color: amorous) & added a couple of hearts from an ephemera pack. There is a legend: "Romantic Ballads" also from the ballad book. The whole thing sits on top of some crumpled thread.

inscription on the back of the photo of the 2 men. "Norman Garrett and I the Sunday he came out to the ship at Guam."

This week in #art: weekly challenges.

2 altered playing cards.

Left: for #FullDeckChalleng3; prompt: feathers
Right: for #AlteredIndex2025; prompt: Love and Romance

Bonus: inscription from the back of the b&w photo in the right card.

square card for #FullDeckChallenge3; prompt: alphabet - background is a playing card glued to an index card & covered over with neutral, vintage paper stamped with letters of the alphabet & colored slightly with browns & blues. The focal image is a negative-cut letter J (originally metallic & painted over with black acrylic pain) + 3 postage stamps lying on top of a piece of tea-dyed cheesecloth. On its right is a vintage-style wooden button with hemp string. At the top right, the word (brown on beige) "reflections"

for #AlteredIndex2025; prompt: Fairy Tales An altered playing card covered with a page from Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti. It's from an old copy of a series of poems by the author with lovely yellowed paper. I added light coating of gesson & some patina-like colors (blues/greens/browns). Some torn, autumn leaf stickers + a ripped portion of a fabric "leaf" add to the texture. You can see a faint shadow of a troll/goblin figure + a bunch of pomegranates (mentioned in the poem) behind the black & white images of 2 young, white Victorian girls (die cuts from Tim Holtz). One girl holds a teddy bear. At the top left, a blue/green/pink butterfly with the words "Goblin Market" cut out from the old book on top of the butterfly.

This week in #art: weekly challenges!

1. for #FullDeckChalleng3; prompt: alphabet
2. for #AlteredIndex2025; prompt: fairies/fairy tales - I chose Goblin Market for this one, bc (a) I love the poem & (b) I have a very old paperback of Christina Rosetti poems & *had* to use it!

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2 altered playing cards for weekly challenges. Left: for #FullDeckChallenge3; prompt: 2 favorite colors Card is mounted on a piece of painted cardstock, now black, with a red & black stripe across the upper right corner. The playing card itself is 3 of diamonds & has a variety of red papers as a collage background, along with a red sticker showing the Yiling Wei logo. There is a cut out image of Wei Wuxian (from the drama) in his Yiling Laozu gear. The photo is from chest up & is a 3/4 view from his right side. The words "Yiling Laozu" in pinyin are across his chest. The Chinese characters for the same are shown on the left side of the card (top to bottom) along the left edge of the sect sticker. Right: for #AlteredIndex2025; prompt: questions. The playing card sits atop a grayish-blue card to give it a bit of a frame. Background is a sticker with the Lan Sect rules (in English) At the top left are the characters for "wèi shén me" (Why?) + a small set of question marks. Underneath that is a cutout image of a red ribbon & a jar of 天子笑, Tiānzǐ Xiào (Emperor's Smile) with a white ribbon below it. Bottom of the card is the question (in characters, pinyin & English): How can life be colorful?

Today in #art: the weekly card challenges. I decided to go all in on an overarching theme. 😆

Left: for #FullDeckChalleng3; prompt: 2 favorite colors
Right: for #AlteredIndex2025; prompt: questions

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2 altered playing cards. Left: for #FullDeckChallenge3. Prompt: Stack it Up Building up on the 9 of diamonds, I added some dyed paper (from a dried wet wipe) + vintage postage stamps (green) and 2 orange/pink flower die cuts (Art by Marlene). On top of each flower is a flower shaped button + a drop of Glossy Accents. Also (on the right edge) 2 parts of a vintage card for hook/loop closures + some dots of Glossy Accents. On the left, text (white on black) states: "it's all perspective." Right: for #AlteredIndex2025. Prompt: Words of Wisdom. Base is the 9 of diamonds (from a different deck than the other card) with the same dyed wet wipe material as the background. At the bottom edge, some rainbow stacked edges in oval loops (from Art by Marlene.) Above the loops, 2 die cut clock faces in peach/pale yellow (from AALL & Create) on top of which is a jumble of tea dyed thread & a wooden button with a clock face & the Eiffel Tower. Text (e.g. the "words of wisdom") are on the bottom on top of the edging (black on beige). "Let us imagine for a moment."

Today in #art: my weekly prompt challenges for #FullDeckChalleng3 (left); prompt: "stack it up" & #AlteredIndex2025 (right); prompt: "words of wisdom."

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