ARTFUL BAG AND TAG TUESDAY CHALLENGES

Well while we were having thunderstorms this morning, I had my trusty glue sticks out working on the Tag Tuesday and Artful Bag challenges.  Here they are:
http://bellesouth-blogchallengegarden.blogspot.com/

The theme at Tag Tuesday was

"school memories". Since I was in grammer school in the middle to late 1950's, that took more than memories.  It took some imagination too.  I have to admit I would have used some of the Dick and Jane books, but since my ink in colors was low (read nearly non existant) in my printer I couldn't print the pics.  I did find some interesting black and white line drawings when I Googled 'flash cards'. At Crayola.com, they have some nifty coloring sheets on all kinds of subjects. Worked like a charm.  I needed black and white flash cards because my mother made us a set of add, subtraction, multiply and divide flash cards from the boxes that chicken pot pies came in. Yes we did eat a lot of them. There were five of us and you could get 4 cards out of each box. The boxes were white cardboard with a paper wrapper around it. Mother would wash them off and cut them up. Good thing we loved chicken pot pies (Banquet is my favorite brand) and all of us still do 60 yrs later.Swanson was good buy Banquet had double crust!!  Wow, 60 yrs. ~ how time does fly!!!!!  Anyhoo if you need any black and white drawings, check out

http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/disney/

Now for the ART BAG CHALLENGE ~ I have only had a whole month to do this and as usual I am tail end charlie again. This was supposed to be paper bags with an autumn theme and  Anna talked about some Alice in Wonderland theme too. I just went with the Autumn theme. 

http://frostedpetunias.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-artful-bag-challenge.html

I really didn't have any 'Alice' stuff (although I LOVE the 'Alice' stuff I have seen in stamps and paper etc. Out of most colors of ink on my printer so I couldn't print anything although I have collected some pretty good clipart in vintage Alice (which is the one I am more familiar with anyway, I never saw the new movie). Anyway maybe do some Alice later on.

Once again I hit the church bulletins and cut leaves out of a pic of a pile of leaves and the rake came with it.  Used brown construction paper for the purse and chiffon ribbon for the strap.  (PS I have already bought an evening bag for the embellished bag in Nov. Just wait til you see it!!!!)

Well, that's about it for these two challenges, I am working on some more 'card' challenges, so we will see how they come out. Til later on this week, have a blessed day and take care.

Mary

ARTFUL BAG CHALLENGE AND LOTS OF FUN

Once again I have gotten myself involved with a monthly challenge. For several years I participated in the monthly challenge at 'MindWideOpen'. But, alas, Gail closed the challenge.  Now I have found a new one to try my luck in.  Over at Frosted Petunia's, Anna has a challenge to make a handbag or purse out of anything except a purse. Here is a link to Anna's site:  http://frostedpetunias.blogspot.com/2011/06/june-artful-bag-challenge.html  
 DVD cases, paper sacks, etc, etc.  I decided to use a Nestle's Quick Chocolate container for my entry. 

I covered it with some batting and cotton fabric, made a lining, hinged the lid with ribbon, added a bead tassel, ribbon rose and bow on top. 

I added a ribbon strap. The lid is padded also.  It made an interesting little bag.  (I carry tote bags all the time, too much stuff for little bags.) I really had fun with this.  The other ladies that have entered bags so far have some really cute bags and ideas.  I can't wait for next month.  Thank you Anna for hosting this challenge.