My Journey Into Art

This weeks dare is entitled:
HEAVY METAL
..no I don’t mean rock music! I would like you to make a card on any theme you like with the rule that it must include something metallic…thats all!You could use wire, charms, foil or even metallic pens.
I love this image and I rarely use it as I have a [...]

I love stamping on patterned paper but when this challenge came up on ink-stains.com, it took me a week to come up with something (that and the fact that I’m STILL sick). I actually had to go through my stash to come up with an idea.
Plus I’ve developed, with DH’s help (thanks honey! LOL), [...]

It’s a good thing for challenges, otherwise I’d not be doing anything right now! LOL
DCM’s dare for today
We have a recipe for you this time; your challenge is to make a card using the following ingredients:
7 brads or eyelets
6 flowers
5 letters
Now this was a toughie for me and I think it’s a bit silly but [...]

This didn’t turn out anything like I wanted and thought out, but I’m creating with a heck of a cold so I get what I get. LOL
Paper – Bazill and unknown although I’m pretty sure it’s BGStamps – Stampendous Clear Acrylic Flower Power (I think is the name)Inks – Colour Box Hordes of [...]

That’s your Little Extra challenge for this week – make a card inspired by this one little word
IMAGINE

How you do it and what you use is up to you. From Daring Cardmakers
This is what I came up with. When I was a kid, I always imagined what it would be like to travel [...]

This is another ‘bling’ challenge card for another forum I’m on, http://ink-stains.com. I think she deserves the crown!

And this is a very late Thank You card for my mil for Christmas gifts. Like she should have worried! I used the same scanned paper that I used for the DCM challenge. I wanted to show off [...]

I raided my wardrobe for DCM!!! LOL I took an idea from Jane and another art friend and scanned in my favourite piece of clothing. It’s a jacket and mini skirt set in a gorgeous flowered denim. The bottom pic is the skirt.
I can no longer fit in the skirt and even if I [...]

This was a real challenge as I don’t do Valentines well. I kinda like it tho’!
Bling – tiny HA crystal gemsBeads – 2 ‘ruby’ hearts and 1 flowerPaper – 7 Gypsies, Bazzill, B.G.Fibres – unknownAlpha stamps – PSX pixie lower case Celtic alphaBlack pen for scribble

Made this card to give to the staff of the CCU at Met Hospital to thank them for the fantastic care they gave my fil during his brief illness. Apparently they were incredible with him and the family that got to visit.
I got the idea from a gorgeous collage by Carolyn Quartermaine that I saw [...]

1 rak and another sympathy. I hope I don’t have to make any more of them for a long time!!!!
Now I have a mess to clean up and Christmas decorations to take down. If I don’t do it today, it’ll probably be another week. LOL hate it tho’. The place looks so bare without all [...]

Here’s to a brand new Year!!!!! 2007!!!! Wow where has the time gone?
Hope this is the happiest, safest, most prosperous year ever!!!
{{{{Hugs}}}}
I had this drafted to post before my fil passed and I was debating whether to post it or not. It doesn’t matter what’s going on in my life, everyone else’s [...]