http://www.myjourneyintoart.com Lots of bits and pieces. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:18:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=849 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 ... http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=844 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 ... http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=840 If you're a T!m Holtz fan like me, run, not walk over to Scrap with Stacy for a chance to win her great giveaway celebrating her more than 1000 hits and her birthday month! Happy Birthday Stacy and congratulations!!!! I'm so hoping I win this, she has lots of neat ... http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=838 Sneak Peak 3!!! How did I miss the 1st 2???? http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=836 just because Nancy Maxwell James inspired me! I made my own 'glimmer mist' with alcohol inks and Perfect pearls, stamped with new distress inks, Pumice Stone,  and stamps from Quietfire Designs. http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=832 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 ... http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=822 anything it seems now! When I was a kid, my mom taught me to knit in 1 lunch hour  ... can't read a pattern, can only knit and purl etc .. etc .. but I can knit!!! lol Later she taught me how to crochet ... I can make chains, ... http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=812 a couple of weeks ago, we had  a couple of days and nights with really bad storms, so bad we had basements flooding in our area, an almost unheard of occurrence.  Luckily, we're in a condo with no basement so we didn't have a problem. I was lucky enough to ... http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=808 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 ... http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/?p=799