My Journey Into Art

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 [...]

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 [...]

to get a lot of art done while I was off with the broken elbow!!! Best laid plans, eh?
I’ve been off since April 6th when I did it, couldn’t use the arm for about 3 weeks, not even for housework, yay!!!!.. but then physio started, going 3x a week, while I’m out I do errands, [...]

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. [...]

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, lol or are new to the blog, I LOVE doing tags!!!! To me, they are a perfect size for my art. Luckily, Gale at Paper Whimsy seems to know this!!! lol  Well not really but I’m just lucky enough that she has some wonderful tag backgrounds for [...]

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 [...]

Gothic arches, who has changed to blogger, had a challenge for Hallowe’en and I just had to do it. I haven’t been doing challenges or much of anything, as I have earlier stated, but I had to do this. I did, but didn’t get it off the camera and edited til it was too late [...]

well if you’re me, it gets wasted on Facebook!!! LOL There is so much on there that you can just loose yourself in and that’s what I tend to do, stress free nonsense but I get nothing done!
Now having said that I actually have got some stuff dome since I last posted but I just [...]

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 [...]

Betty Miller!!!!!
And due to glitches that some ladies ran into getting to the blog, and never getting here, there will be 2 little extras going out to Elaine Bellomo and Terry Nicholson-Williams!!! And depending on what I get accomplished today, I may pull a couple of more names. fingers crossed!!! lol
Thank you everyone who left [...]

All you have to do is just tell me your favourite memory of this time of year … Autumn, Hallowe’en, Thanksgiving etc… . I will pick the winner on Sunday Oct. 4 so it leaves me enough time to get it to you before Hallowe’en!. Please feel free to spread the word, if I get [...]

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a good Monday, probably an oxymoron, that,  but I  do wish it!
Ok, I have an announcement of sorts, I have opened an Etsy store, but right now it’s empty! I was making a piece to go list, but it ended up being my DH’s Father’s day gift [...]

lol, it’s been an adventure with wordpress this past week! My DH, the computer guru of the house, updated my version of Wordpress this pastw eekend, just as I had finally downloaded those pics of the cmera, and wouldn’t you know it, the theme I loved so much was no longer available and was incompatible [...]

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 [...]

it is so cold here right now, I just want to crawl into bed and cuddle up under the covers til it warms up! My energy level is flagging, my joints are hurting, my spirit is a little low and I am pining for warmth and sunlight. It’s not unusual to have snow in the [...]

this is what I did for the weekly challenge on the PID yahoo group. I used some of my favourite papers, trying to hurry the warm weather along, lol, and used an image from the Jade collage sheet from PID and a door from Above the Mark and a window from Kelly B.. It tuned [...]

with the image transfer. I like it so much, it’s going to a dear friend of mine as a just because and thank you for being my friend. I truly hope she likes it!
The images are from Paper Whimsey, the crown is a stamp from Inque Boutique, stamped in Encore Metallic Gold, the text on [...]