My Journey Into Art

is the CCC on Linda’s blog this week! Check page 36 in T!m’s Compendium of Curiosities for the details to this fun technique.
I’m not really a green person but I kinda challenged myself to use it and I wanted to see where it would go! I love how this turned out! Bundled Sage, Crushed Olive [...]

to create again. I have been in such a rut, feeling sorry for myself etc!! Trying my darndest to get back on track with my art  so I joined Linda Ledbetter’s challenge blog for Tim Holtz’s Compendium of Curiosities! (I find joining challenge blogs helps me to focus) I got my book a couple of [...]

well maybe even more than a wee bit!!!!!!! I was here the other day trying to add links and badges and all kinds of new stuff, but……. after I had added a new link and I was going to close the widget, I accidentally hit REMOVE! how freakin’ idiotic of me! so now I have [...]

I belong to another Yahoo group, we_love_digital_art, that has challenges for us to take pat in. One I did was making a name tag for signatures.  This is what I came up with. I’m still struggling with getting perfect outlines when I try for transparent backgrounds. gonna have to learn how to use masks!

Another challenge [...]

Also managed to do a challenge on one of my Yahoo groups in the theme of nature, right up my alley!!!! Make an atc, 2.5″x3.5″, send it to your assigned partner and they make an altered book page including your atc. I made 2, one for my partner and another just like it for a [...]

Gale at PW has a wonderful challenge going on, you can read about it here. Now I don’t know how whimsical I am, always thought I was a bit ‘toned down’ or ’straight laced’ I guess would be it, but Gale’s images are to die for and I love trying to loosen up using them. [...]

on PID Yahoo group for April was cages. I love anything to do with nature, birds, butterflies, eggs, …. you get the picture so while I’ve been getting art done, I wanted to do this challenge. Unfortunately, I left it too long and didn’t get it done before the end of the month, fortunately, Eileen, [...]

wow!! Ok this is the big thing that I’ve been working on, I love it but I have no idea what I’ll do with it! And my DH just shakes his head at me when he sees me do stuff like this, he just doesn’t get it! Last year or probably earlier a friend of [...]

Over at the Byhandartist group, one of our lovely artists came up with the idea that we’d have a challenge with no commitment to sending. It has the theme of Queen of Hearts (hence the title of the post lol) Check out the challenge and entries here. Here is my entry for this challenge

It’s about [...]

I so love this event, click on the button in my sidebar to learn more but in short it’s all about artists, of all kinds offering what they do best to meet other artists Now I’m not an rtist, a hack at worst, a crafter at best but I love looking and trying for a [...]

on GA this week. I always thought of shabby chic as well worn white country  furniture, soft blues, softer pinks and greens, but then I saw a couple of arches that were done in reds and burgundies and I had to do it too!!! eeek, I think I even used the same papers as Nancy [...]

there was a call for art on the Paper Imagery Design Yahoo group I belong to to alter a household item. Well, I had seen a few altered spoons along my blogging journeys and I fell in love with the idea of altering falware.  I put off doing any until I had talked to DH [...]

wow! And Nancy does such a wonderful job running it! Gothic Arches is my favourite challenge to participate in and although I took a hiatus from it, I hope I can truthfully say that I am back (for good) .
So GA is 2 and Nancy has a whole whack of challenges  going on, I hope [...]

is the theme this week on G.A.. This was a bit of a challenge for me as I haven’t traveled and the cities I have been to are sooooo not known …. So I picked the one city that I have ALWAYS wanted to see IRL … Paris. I used a patterned paper I likesand [...]