My Journey Into Art

Gale at PW has a wonderful challenge going on, you can read about it here. Now I don’t know how whimsical I am, always thought I was a bit ‘toned down’ or ’straight laced’ I guess would be it, but Gale’s images are to die for and I love trying to loosen up using them. [...]

I so love this event, click on the button in my sidebar to learn more but in short it’s all about artists, of all kinds offering what they do best to meet other artists Now I’m not an rtist, a hack at worst, a crafter at best but I love looking and trying for a [...]

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 [...]

recently I was in a swap on “my” Byhandartist Yahoo group, using preferably Suzanne’s Quietfire stamps, the Dream with your eyes wide open and the check corner is hers from the mini compilation I believe, and the butterfly is from an Inque Boutique set I have. I used Distress inks for the colour and, um [...]

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a good Monday, probably an oxymoron, that,  but I  do wish it!
Ok, I have an announcement of sorts, I have opened an Etsy store, but right now it’s empty! I was making a piece to go list, but it ended up being my DH’s Father’s day gift [...]

this is what I did for the weekly challenge on the PID yahoo group. I used some of my favourite papers, trying to hurry the warm weather along, lol, and used an image from the Jade collage sheet from PID and a door from Above the Mark and a window from Kelly B.. It tuned [...]

with the image transfer. I like it so much, it’s going to a dear friend of mine as a just because and thank you for being my friend. I truly hope she likes it!
The images are from Paper Whimsey, the crown is a stamp from Inque Boutique, stamped in Encore Metallic Gold, the text on [...]

with all the Halloween art I’m seeing lately, I had to do something too. It’s like an itch you just have to scratch!! I had a lot of fun doing these tags bt I wonder why my creative juices always start running more freely on the last day of my weekend? LOL