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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

recently I was in a swap on “my” Byhandartist Yahoo group, using preferably Suzanne’s Quietfire stamps, the Dream with your eyes wide open and the check corner is hers from the mini compilation I believe, and the butterfly is from an Inque Boutique set I have. I used Distress inks for the colour and, um [...]

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 [...]

with digital art for a challenge on Digimation yahoo group. This is a picture I took last year of some gorgeous day lilies that are outside or building, that I applied a couple of filters to and added text. This was fun and didn’t take that long to do, surprise, considering I hardly know what [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

my apologies for not being here as often as I would have liked over the Christmas holidays. I swamped myself doing extra stuff and the blog got set aside.
I now have the rest of the 12 Days of Christmas mingle ready if you’re interested in seeing it. But 1st, I found out that Joanne, the [...]

of the 12 Days of Christmas mingle Day 3 was created by Judy and we all thought how cool was this gift! And we are told to make sure we use her in something and to let Judy see the resulting artwork. I don’t know if I CAN use her. She’s perfect as she is. [...]

I organized a mingle on the Byhandartist Yahoo group this year for the 12 Days of Christmas, takin over from Pat G. who didn’t have the time or energy to do it this year. I was happy to take it over, it’s so fun!
We had sign-ups for 13 people, myself and 12 others, to make [...]

is the theme on GA this week thanks to Kersten. This what I came up with. The snow flakes are punched out of a fairly heavy piece of cardstock that had been stamped in silver with a snowflake stamp. And the cotours of the snow were roughly highlighted with the same silver ink.

something I’ve been working on for an exchange. I’ll show the whole thing in a few weeks! It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for ages but never had a reason to do it! heeheeee

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 [...]