My Journey Into Art

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

lol well not quite but I am very happy that I got another arch done for this weeks Boys challenge on Gothic Arches.
Even tho I have 2 boys they are not never have been nor never will be the typical ‘boy’, so I had a hard time with this one. Until I ran across this [...]

I finally go an arch made for the Gothic Arch site. I haven’t done one since January and have felt very bad that I haven’t particiapted for 2 reasons, I miss the friends I made over there and I miss doing the arches (and I feel I’m letting my dear friend Nancy down)!
So the theme [...]

is the theme on GA this week brought to us by the very talented Sandra Shoen. You should see her arch, it is stunning!!
I wish I could get myself together so I can get one of these done and up on the 1st day. But right now, I’m trying to get Christmas cards done and [...]

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.

is the theme on GA this week brought to us by the very talented Ilonka Scheider. Happy Birthday to Ilonka, yesterday, and to my youngest son today, he’s 19 which is legal age in Canada. I no longer have a baby in the house!!!! LOL
This is what I did in honor of his birthady but [...]

this is the arch I did for Nancy’s Yuletide arch contest on GA for the chance to win one of her marvelous stamp sheets, Yuletide Blessings, a sheet I really love but I just can’t get right now. I’d love to win it but all the entries in the contest are abolutely gorgeous! Good luck [...]

is the theme at GA this week hosted by the talented and busy,  Kelly Burton. I have thought recently that my backgrounds, while improving have been missing something. I fell in love with Patty’s Halloween art because i thought the backgrounds looked so rich. So now not only am I playing with Distress inks, Scattered [...]

is the theme on G.A. this week. I missed last week but honestly my brain just couldn’t come up with something for the theme. I’ll have fun checking out all the entries tho. LOL This weeks also, have fun that is. It’s my favourite subject right now but I need to get to work on [...]

is the theme at Gothic Arches this week, hosted by Sandrine. This theme brought back memories of my Mom who, when I was young, kept a small chest of her old clothes for me to play dress up in. There were about 5 dresses, if I remember right but 2 were my favourites. One was [...]

Gothic Arches has an open theme this week and for some reason I can’t get out of the Hallowe’en mode yet. So this is my arch for this week.
I picked up a set of Inque Boutique stamps last week and I just love the lace border and I guess not all witches have to be [...]

is the theme at G.A. this week brought to us by the talented Kristin Long.
I had such a hard time with this one, as I have a ton of favourite movies, most of them the golden oldies, and especially musicals. This is a tribute to 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, one movie I could watch, [...]

is the theme at Gothic arches this week brought to us by the very talented Dawn Bryson.
Whenever I here a theme of time I tend to think of the quote in the arch and the White Rabbit as he stares at his fob watch. I remember the quote too as I used to say it [...]

is the theme on G.A. this week and thank you to Susan Hart, the hostess this week. I don’t think I have much luck with pink, although 2 of my favourite colour combos are pink and mint green and pink and dark brown, weird but I think both are striking their own way.
I have a [...]