Door decor

I'm going to the Black and Bling Infusion this weekend, and one of the activities  is a door decorating contest.  I don't care about winning so much as participating, so my roommate and I decided to make a door poster, using some of the ideas in Julie Nutting's Collage Couture, which is an excellent book of its type - you can follow her lead exactly and make a replica of one of her works, or change as much or as little as you like.  For example, she gives you detailed instructions for how to draw your own dolls, but also gives you patterns to copy if you want to go that way.

But, I digress.  Joyce and I had a fabulous time making and dressing our paper dolls:

to give you some idea of scale, the black backing is a full size poster board.  The theme this year is 1920's masquerade, if you were wondering about the masks and fashion choices.  These are really pretty close to what we are actually going to wear, and yes, Joyce is really that much smaller than I am.

Mirror

I bought a cheap Ikea mirror at the thrift store.  I thought that it would be fun to alter.  However, after I applied the paint, I liked the color so much I didn't want to hide it.  I just stamped it a couple of times with a damask stamp, and it is now hanging in my foyer.

Yes, that is my hand holding my cell phone.  I like my phone, but it has a lousy camera.

Challenges:
Gingersnap Creations - ginger, copper, rust
Crafts and Me - anything goes
Instyle Stamps - inspiration challenge
Ladybug Crafts Ink - monochrome
Tuesday Throwdown - anything but a card
Sew Many Cards - sketch