Theme Thursday - Something New

Here is my submission to Theme Thursday . This first week of 2009 the challenge was "Something New".  I created this ATC, titled: "Waiting for the Season to Change".

This is the first time I made my own embellishment out of Polymer Clay.  It is also the first time I used a stamp in clay, and colored it with chalks; so a lot of new things to me.  To add a bit of sparkle I embedded glass beads in the branches as leaves.  And the background paper was also made by me - nothing fancy, just  black card stock that I wrote "waiting" repeatedly on.  

My inspiration was a friend of mine - her husband is leaving for Iraq today, she is pregnant and understandably scared.  All she can do now is wait, and pray.

Charmed, I'm sure!

Here is my creation for the Awfully Big Art Adventure 's first challenge for 2009.  It is  a charm titled "Create to Preserve a Moment".  

This is the first time I've actually attempted to create a charm.  Normally I am a strictly paper kind of gal.  So it was fun to try something new.  I used some old stamps I had laying around, a broken bit of necklace, a bit of paper with a clock on it, a brad and a small Hambly overlay.  I think it turned out very nicely,  just the way it was in my head!