Cards, Contests and Magazines

Here's the first new art post in awhile. On the Brag group I'm on we had a card challenge contest. Lois sent us all out matching kits with the same items and we were to create a card and send it back for voting. Well they all voted me the winner so I got all the cards created and let me tell you there was an amazing variety of designs from the same materials. This is my winning card entry. I painted the stamped image with twinkling H2O's, I was trying to match the color of the ribbon in the kit that you see on the side of the card. Also Nancie from Vamp Stamp News liked my tip of making mini clipboards from gift cards and published my tip in the Sept issue of Vamp Stamp News with a picture of the geisha clipboard shown in an earlier post. My name was also drawn to win 8 back issues of VSN. See I told you things were looking brighter around here. Great artwork does that.