CC3Challege.... Soar with the Angels

Today is the first challenge of Compendium of Curiosities 3... and I was very excited to hear about this challenge, as I love using all my Tim Holtz 'toys' and goodies... and also I love doing nice challenges... also I finally was able to obtain HIGH SPEED INTERNET...  So I am so very excited about that...  it use to take me over 2 hours to get 5-6 pictures up on my blog... and towards the end I couldn't even get onto my blog... so my life was becoming very limited on line... but NOW.. wow... what a new world has opened up before my eyes... It would take hours to download a new blog or website... and most were impossible to do, as there were too many pictures on them... so I am so very happy in many ways to be able to join in on this challenge... and others too I might add... 

Well this challenge is unique.... you can find all the answers to all your questions... HERE     Linda is so very GREAT to do this challenge and this year she has added a whole crew of talented and great people from all over the world to help with this challenge...  what a great person she is... Yeah for Linda and the CREW...  I am really looking forward to this challenge every other week... 

Okay... so here is my piece using this weeks challenge... 

 

 

This is my finished piece... but I will go into each section with as many details as I can remember...  you see when I start to create I create.. and not too much stands in my way...  as far as color names, products etc... I PLAY and have FUN...  main goal.. 

 

 

 

I started off with my marbleized paper as per Tim's directions oh how to make marbleized paper... that was so very much fun, and I had to use up all the 'stuff' on my sheet that I made over 10 pieces of paper...  oh wow... not to worry I will use them all... but this was my very favorite one...  so I went over to my other table to proceed with the creation..... mind you.. each table is totally covered in debris at this time... what a lovely mess I made... 

 

I have to tell you that this piece will be put into a scrapbook that I am making of my mother growing up...  there are so very many cute and wonderful pictures of her... I need to do that for her...

 

My mother just passed into the next experience on February 8th of this year...  she was 94 years young... she had some physical problems... but was full of life in so many ways... she wanted to create more of her art every day... it became a huge frustration for her as the days went by... she was almost blind, (macular degeneration) and yet wanted to make flowers, and make cards for friends and others...  but just couldn't see at all.. 

I should tell you that her name was Vivian Prince Riley Nelson  and her mom was Eva Mae Prince Riley...  who was a very loved woman in many places all over the east coast of the USA...  she grew up in Maine, went to college in Boston, and then got married and off to Florida where she opened a music school to teach others how to play the piano.... she had made her debut in Carnegie Hall NYC when she was first out of college...  a very proud, Victorian woman.  I loved her dearly as my Nana and mentor in life in so many ways. 

 

This tag represents so much of what I am writing about...  for those who are actually reading this... 

The ANGEL is looking over them all the time...  (to create the angel, I used Picket fence distress stain on my stamp and then stamped over it with Gathered twigs... )   love the look I got doing this...

 

The chicken wire is a stamp... 

 (of course it is TIMS...  what do you think ??? )  

and it represents the fact that they were both able to learn a lot in life and move onto the next experience.. where they are hopefully very happy and creating again...  My Nana was a wiz in the kitchen... making a cake with a pinch of this and a handful of that... and then would go out and work on a handmade dress with a lace collar that she had made too...  so very talented... 

 

 

This little bird is not just a simple little bird.. 

First off I put some frosted film onto a piece of recycled plastic from something... and on the back after it was cut out with the bird and cage die set...  I used my alcohol inks to color it...  I have a palette and used my solution pen to get the stroke marks on the birds body...love it...  how cute is that saucy little one... 

 

The bird stands for my Mom and Nana's love of birds... pretty colored birds that they would love to look at...  both were fascinated with the colors, flying ability of the bird and also loved to feed them. 

I used a Cabinet die cut to make the 'frame' and then used an embossing folder to create the design on it... one of TIM's folders.. but the name sort of escapes me at the moment... LOL... I think it is about 8 years old or sooooooo .... 

 

I put some butterfly wings in the back of my Mom who was about 2 years old at this time... so this picture is about 92 years old... and my Nana was about 28 years old...  but I am not really sure about that age.. would have to look it up... ??? 

 

Anyway... I put the butterflies behind them to show that they were part of the angles who protect me in my everyday life here on the Earth Mother...  and they do soar quite a lot... as they are kept busy in so many ways... 

The flowers I made with some of the marbleized papers that I had created... YEAH... you see I already have used some of it...  and then I attached some Rock Candy Distress Glitter to the flowers... had to show the glittery side of my Mom and Nana...  and the little pink bow... one of their favorite colors...  My Mom also loved Green... but really loved all colors.. my Nana loved Navy and blues the best of all... 

 

The little lace at the bottom of the frame... is only about 60 years old...  LOL... I have a small bolt of it left.. from my Nana's sewing... 

 

But I made the flowers yellow and pink... I have to tell you that the colors I chose to use on this piece were Squeezed Lemonade, Peeled Paint and worn Lipstick... as they were the only distress paints that I had...  I had loaned a bunch of my other paints to a friend for the week-end... not thinking that I would be using them for this challenge...  LOL...  so it was a tough one... not my favorite colors together... but I do love the green and pink... 

 

The hand... is pointing to the word SENTIMENTAL... as this is sentimental for me...

 

 

So looking at the whole piece again... you will see two large wings... I love these wings and don't get to use them that often... but LOVE them...  a Tim Die Cut... 

 

And they are for the whole memory to be lifted high into the heavens to send love to My Mom and Nana whom I miss and love VERY VERY MUCH.... 

 

So that is the general idea of my ART for this challenge... I will be adding this piece to a page that will have other art on it...  I will post that when I do it... but it will be a while... that is for sure...

 

Hope you have enjoyed all of this... and that you join in on this wonderful challenge... 

 

Thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit... and hope you have a WONDERFUL CREATIVE DAY....

 

Love, Light and Peace.... Bonnie