My Journey Into Art

Blended Batik

Mary-Beth — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:05:13 +0000

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 and Shabby Shutters all cane together for this!! Hope you like it!!

I’m excited

Mary-Beth — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:30:29 +0000

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 weeks ago but haven’t been able to join in the fun til today!! YAY!! Distress Stickles!! Hope you like what I did. I used Distress inks, grungeboard, Tim’s concerto mask, Distress Stickles (using Peeled Paint and Milled Lavender) and a manila tag I had all prepped by soaking it in walnut ink and let dry. Sorry, had an issue with glue!!!

I had so much fun with this challenge I did another tag! I loves me tags!!! Pic’s a little blurry due to the pearls I used on the body! I used DS on the wings of the metal dragonfly to add a little colour and texture.

just a wee bit upset with myself

Mary-Beth — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:57:43 +0000

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 to start all over again with my links. I don’t know if any of my visitors use them but I sure do. lol

1st one to add is the blog of a wonderful artist who is having challenges to go along with the pages of Tim Holtz’s Compendium of Curiosities….. Studio L3!!!

fabulous T!m blog candy

Mary-Beth — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:31:13 +0000

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 stuff like Grunge Paper which I don’t own, yet!!! lol

Maya Road @ CHA

Mary-Beth — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:05:16 +0000

Sneak Peak 3!!! How did I miss the 1st 2????

a new piece

Mary-Beth — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:02:32 +0000

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.

some digital art

Mary-Beth — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:29:41 +0000

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 was for using celtic images but I misread, tired as I am, and I was to use images from the photo albums on the group. This however is what I came up with. I used an image from www.aon-celtic.com who has a ton of gorgeous freeware to use!

Don’t know if you can tell but I am very proud of my Irish heritage!

I love creating

Mary-Beth — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:18:14 +0000

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, and shells, dc and tc, but I can’t follow a pattern. Still I can crochet!!! lol In high school, I took Home Ec and learned how to sew among other things (cooking, you know….). When I was pregnant for my 1st son, I taught myself how to do xstitch on printed pattern. I didn’t like the look so I moved onto counted xstitch. And I’ve done country crafts and so on and so on. So long story, not so short, my main love is paper arts.

BUT this past 2 weeks I have gone back to sewing. I have a ton of denim from cast off jeans to use up and I have started making purses. But not only that, caps. My DH bought a cap that just got my imagination going. So I did some measurements and this is what I came up with ….

I can sew without a pattern!!! Only trouble is it doesn’t fit any one who lives here!!! LOL Having fun anyways and you never know this might end up in my etsy store!

storms

Mary-Beth — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:46:32 +0000

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 be able to get a fairly good shot of one of the lightening bolts but this was only a baby compared to some of bolt flashing. I was thrilled to get this shot as I have always wanted to get one!!! lol

This was about 7 or 8 o clock at night and it was about as dark as midnight!

challenge

Mary-Beth — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:31:04 +0000

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 dear friend who is doing an altered book with the nature theme. I was flattered she wanted one of mine! I received mine from my partner, who happened to be aforementioned dear friend, lol, but haven’t done my page yet, this weekend!!!!!

This is the atc from my friend…..

the leaf is hinged to reveal

it’s lovely, I love it!