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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

for this week was Birthstones. I hate my birthstone, it’s the Blue Zircon and I just do not like it! I prefer red stones, my mother’s is ruby for July and my oldest son, whose birthday is today, Happy Birthday T.J.!!!!! is the Garnet. My engagement ring is rubies and diamonds as is my anniversary [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]