My Journey Into Art

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.

to Sally and Judy for giving me this wonderful award which comes with the following post:

“This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY – nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. I hope you have a wonderful day full of good food, good company and great football! LOL

this is the card I made for my son’s 19th birthday yesterday. I used a background created by my very talented friend Gillian that she offered on her blog last year. I loved it but til now, I didn’t really know how to use it. I stamped one of Tim’s atc stamps, cut it out, [...]

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 [...]

I joined a swap of Christmas stockings that we made from a template provided on the PID group and this is what I came up with. The star angels are from PID.

something I’ve been working on for an exchange. I’ll show the whole thing in a few weeks! It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for ages but never had a reason to do it! heeheeee

is the theme on GA this week brought to us by the lovely Chriss Rollins. I wish I had time right now to say something but I’m so far behind I can see my behind!! I’m just glad I was able to get this arch, plus another, plus 2 swaps done this weekend.
I hope [...]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
“For the Fallen”
Laurence Binyon, 1869 – 1943

Christmas cards I made for a commission! The stamps are a cube from Stampendous and while I was doing the stamping and embossing etc…. I thought they were all square. NOT!! The holly image is off square so in order for it too look O.K., I had to turn it on a peak. Easy, simple, [...]

I just joined a great new (to me) yahoo group for the Paper Imagery Designs site. Already it’s a ton of fun with lots of perks and great ladies to boot. I joined because i needed to be stimulated with great challenges and I had just won 6 of their wonderful collage sheets in a [...]

I was remarking to Patty about how much I love the backgrounds she made for some of her  Halloween art and I asked her how she did it. I just found them to be so interesting.
So not only did she patiently and coherently tell me how she did it, she sent me the wonderful piece [...]

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 [...]