My Journey Into Art

that’s how many years my husband Chris and I have been married today! And today is exactly the same as it was that day … extremely bright and more than a little cool but oh so beautiful!
Here’s the card I made him, maybe a little girly!!!! LOL

I’ve had occasion to make  a few cards lately and even tho that is what started me in this craft, I don’t make them well. I have a really hard time designing them but in these cases I was really lucky and I think thy turned out well. The 1st is a thank you card [...]

my husband’s birthday was almost right after my accident! I had big plans to get him a gorgeous steampunk style pocket watch from a seller on ebay but because I’m off work, we both thought we’d put that expense off for a while. So I thought I’d try to make him a steampunk style card. [...]

I really do not enjoy making cards as I feel I don’t do a good job on them! So when Birthdays come up, or any other occasion that requires a card, I get a little frustrated. My son’s girlfriend’s birthday is tomorrow so I had to make a card of course.
Got the base folded, pawed [...]

along with all (um … some of) the neglected housework done, I’ve been getting some commitments taken care of.
Here are some of the results.

this is a hanging I did for a challenge on the PID Yahoo group I belong to. The flowers are print outs of a box I scanned and the lovely girl image [...]

lol another post so soon???? what’s going on. I think that with the warm weather, the passing of the depression, knowing I’m on vacation next week and getting myself behind on some projects, my energy level has picked up and I can finally do some art! YAY!!!!
This is a Mother’s Day card I made for [...]

is the letter I picked for the last Yalpha page of the year. I had so much fun doing the grunge arch, I did grunge for the page too. The b/g is a pic I downloaded from the net, one of Chrysti Hydeck’s Flickr accounts, I printed it out and used one of Tim’s masks [...]

3 of these were the cards I sent out for an exchange on one of my groups, the card with the bells on it is the one i did for my oldest son who wanted a card with jingle balls on it, the image I used is from Paper Imagery Designs, the tag with the [...]

this is the card I made for my son’s 19th birthday yesterday. I used a background created by my very talented friend Gillian that she offered on her blog last year. I loved it but til now, I didn’t really know how to use it. I stamped one of Tim’s atc stamps, cut it out, [...]

Christmas cards I made for a commission! The stamps are a cube from Stampendous and while I was doing the stamping and embossing etc…. I thought they were all square. NOT!! The holly image is off square so in order for it too look O.K., I had to turn it on a peak. Easy, simple, [...]

In honour of October being Breast Cancer Awareness month, one of the wonderful ladies on my Byhandartist group proposed a pink swap done on rolodex cards. These cards are so fun to alter and my 9 came together so easily. I can’t wait to see everyone’s IRL
All Images I used are from Lisa’s Altered Arts [...]

The cards for the swap showed up today. But as I slowly panicked this was the replacement I made for the originals. Now I’ll use them for Christmas cards!! The ribbons on the side are a silver layered over a gold. Neither shows well. The green frame is so the white base card doesn’t disappear. [...]