Celebrate 200 - Rainbow Lady's Challenge

For her 200th challenge, Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog host Cynthia is celebrating vintage style. Here is my entry.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Easter

Eggs really have nothing to do with Easter. However, I wanted to show off an egg-shaped Easter card made by my great-grandmother's half sister, close to 100 years ago (more or less, not sure). This is my entry for Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Easter.

Now for the real story as taken from Matthew 28 in The Message, a modern version of the Bible:

The angel spoke to the women: "There is nothing to fear here. I know you're looking for Jesus, the One they nailed to the cross. He is not here. He was raised, just as he said. Come and look at the place where he was placed. Now, get on your way quickly and tell his disciples, 'He is risen from the dead...'"

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Butterflies

Here is my card I made  using sprays and stamps for the background and a butterfly stamp from Frankie for my image. I am entering this in this week's Rainbow Lady's Challenge.

Rainbow Lady - House and Home

I'm a little late with this challenge. Life has been a bit hectic for this old lady. Here is my entry for Rainbow Lady's Challenge of House and Home. If I had time to do it over, I'd curve the word sweet. I don't why I did it this way.      : - <

Rainbow Lady 196 - St. Patrick's Day

Here is my card for Rainbow Lady's Challenge - St Patrick's Day and Happy Birthday, Cynthia.

Rainbow Lady - Dogs

This digital collage is a tribute to our awesome, lovable labrador retriever who is waiting at the rainbow bridge for us. She stole our hearts and after 6 years we still miss her so much.

The lower right corner she is sitting tall and strong at age 2. In the background she is middle aged and beginning to have some aches and pains. In the foreground she is in her older years and is either singing or talking - not sure which. She was good at both. She knew she was a dog. She loved to play with other dogs and got so excited when she saw them. She was wonderful with people too, both old and young.

This is my Rainbow Lady's Challenge entry for this week - Dogs.

(I hope I can get through all the entries and comments without crying too much.)

Have a Heart - Rainbow Lady's Challenge

Here is a valentine I am sending my granddaughter. The part that looks purple is really Stickles and it is sort of holographic, but definitely not purple. This is my entry for Rainbow Lady's Challenge.

It also works for So Artful challenge - red, pink, and white.

Scottish Themed - Rainbow Lady's Challenge

When I was very young I remember my great-grandmother's half sister whom we called Auntie Belle. She was married to John Reid, a Scotsman. At this point in her life she was a mite strange. However, in her heyday, she was an artist and made invitations to her Robbie Burns teas. I don't know how often she had them but it seems that it was more often than once a year. I think it was like a book club, except it was all Robert Burns.

I am using one of her invitations for my entry to Rainbow Lady's Challenge today. Normally, she did a handwritten invitation, but she had this one professionally printed.

The upper right page is the program. In it we can see that they closed by having Auld Lang Syne read by Mrs. Lancaster.

(To all Scottish lassies, please forgive my Auntie Belle for saying Scotch. Scottish would have fit just as well in the last stanza.)

I'll decorate with flowers and ferns
My drawing room for Robbie Burns;
Akin to all, God's noble man,
Show me his equal if you can.

His faults were many, but his worth,
His big kind heart embraced the earth;
And that is why all Scotchmen pray
That God will ever bless the day
That gave to Scotland Burns.

So come and join our Scottish clan,
Sing Robbie's love songs, if you can,
And see how every Scotch heart yearns
In homage sweet to Scotland's Burns.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - faces of women

This is a work in progress for Paint Party Friday but I am entering it here for Rainbow Lady's Challenge  - many faces of women. I saw a mother and daughter in a catalog and copied their positions. I didn't try to get the same images, only how there were standing there together, and yet not together. Notice that they are leaning away from each other with their heads. Children begin quite young to try to pull away from their mothers. Mothers try to hold onto their young but eventually know that separation is a part of life.

Sorry this is not finished. If I can't get the features better, it may just wind up in the "round" filing cabinet on the floor.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Travel through Time to 2012

Time flies by, doesn't it? Here it is 2012 and so many things have changed in the last 100 years. My entry for Rainbow Lady's Challenge is this digital card I made using my dh's great grandmother feeding her chickens. Raising chickens was an important activity in her time. She probably got to keep any money she got from selling the eggs. Sunday dinner was often one of the flock she had fed on Saturday. (Sorry, vegetarians, but that was the fact of life in the countryside.) I have added a few things to this photo (originally in black and white) such as the cat and the weeds in the foreground.

Rainbow Lady - Your Choice

I did this painting last night in front of the TV using my set of Distress Ink pads and a cup of water and a brush. I was amazed at how the ink acted with the paper. Not good. Anyway, I made the painting for Paint Party Friday, but I have made it into a New Year's greeting card for Rainbow Lady's Challenge.

Christmas Greetings - Rainbow Lady

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL!

This is my entry to Rainbow Lady's Challenge. The theme is White Christmas/Happy Christmas.

Here is our house in the snow. Christmas this year will be warmer than usual, so no snow.

The lovely corners are a gift from June.

Rainbow Lady - angels

Rainbow Lady's theme this week is angels. This beautiful angel stamp was given to me by Laura, my friend who does crafts with me at the nursing home. I have embossed it in copper e.p., also a gift from Laura. The background is paper that I have sprayed with several colors of Moon Shadow mists.

Rainbow Lady - Trees and Baubles

Here is my digital card made using an image from Dover Publications (tree) and a watercolor painting of an ornament that I made and have on my computer to use. (The card with the original painting was sent to someone.)

This is my entry for Cynthia's challenge, Trees and baubles, for Rainbow Lady's Challenge.

Rainbow Lady - Christmas Carols

For Rainbow Lady's challenge this week (Christmas carols) I have made this card with a photo of my hand-painted crèche. My sister did the woodworking and I did the painting.

This is "Away in a Manger."






My second card is also a photo of a crèche. This one is also hand made but came from Germany in the 1970s. It was the first one the artist, a young teenager, had ever made. I wish I knew her name. If anyone recognizes the work, please let me know. The little metal horse is an antique and not part of the original set.

This is "O Holy Night".

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Card for Men

 

Happy Thanksgiving to All!

Here is my masculine card for the Rainbow Lady's Challenge this week. The old car came from Dover Publications. The backing paper is from Old World Stack.

Rainbow Lady #178 - Princettia

The theme this week for Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog is to use pink or green and the inspiration picture is of a pink hybrid called Princettia.

I have had pink poincettias before. This, however, is a "horse of a different color," a newly developed flower to raise awareness for the breast cancer cure  cause.

This is a digital card. I have used Dezinaworld backgrounds as well as part of the photo of the Princettia.

Poppies for Remembrance - Rainbow Lady's Challenge

Some of you may have seen my watercolor painting of the single poppy. I gave away the card it was on but I have the image on my computer so I am able to keep using it.

Rainbow Lady's challenge this week is to use  poppies in our work. Check out all the entries to this challenge HERE.

Tonight I finished off another poppy watercolor that I started this afternoon. It is on a 9x12" watercolor paper.  I think I need to add a background to it. You can see the new one HERE.

Rainbow Lady's Silver

Cynthia and her husband are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary so she has chosen silver as the theme for Rainbow Lady's Challenge.

The silver rectangle that says: on your special day and the square which has a swirly design are an RAK from Frankie. The butterfly is actually a silver filigree pin.  Silver does not show up well on my camera. I really wish the swirly pattern showed up. It's really neat.

Rainbow Lady - falling leaves

It is almost time for the leaves to start falling here on the east coast of the US. We have new grass planted. We don't want the leaves to fall for a few more weeks so the grass can be well established before we have to rake leaves.

The theme for Rainbow Lady's Challenge is Falling Leaves. I used these leaves a few days ago on my other blog. I didn't like that card so I cut the leaves off to use for this card.