THE ARTISTIC AVENUES

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Just one of the cards for the ministry. I have been working on "sympathy" and "Get well" cards.

This is an easy card. I started with a neutral printed paper and then added the two side scallops in co-ordinating colors. The punch is a Martha Stewart punch, and the flowers are made with the Spellbinders 'bitty blossom' die. I used white paper and colored it Gold.

The stamp is from Printworks.

 

Another card, just different colors. The leaves are a 'leaf strip' die from Marianne dies.

     I did get the Bird image online, I am sorry to say I forgot where. If I remember I will post it. Loved this card, usually I work in bright or even earth tones, so soft and blue was really different for me! The layers are all stitched or distressed except for the Spellbinders decorative labels 8 and the co-ordinating labels 8 dies. Added a star die cut, leaves, and dyed silk ribbon. 

This is the last card for today.I used the Paper Wishes Medallion that I am so crazy about. The minty green doily in the background is a Spellbinder die called Exquisite circles. The background lattice is a Marianne die. The ribbon is Hug Snug linen and I dyed it with my distressed inks. Scattered straw.

I know I know......

I haven't posted in awhile as I can't seem to load pictures! Typepad is a constant thorn. In 2006 until (maybe last year), it was sooo easy and enjoyable. Now it is just a chore.

I have a new camera .. small panasonic, fits nicely in my purse. Try to load some of the random pictures we took this week. Nope re-edited pics from the camera and picts from photoshop and nothing is loading.

    Gracie makes everything better!

Catching Up....

I really have been busy making cards! Really. Lets start by celebrating Easter with my choice for this year. I used the same dies and just varied the lay out.

The paper is a off white pearl. Both the arch and the background are embossed using the new Reverance M Bossabilities. The reverse side of the cross are lillies on the top left and bottom right of the folder. It is really pretty. The Arch is a Tim Holtz die and the Cross Collection is Spellbinders.                                                                                                                                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My latest obsession! This is a medallion die set from Paper Wishes.  I borrowed it from a friend, but I still want it. I probably cut a ton of them! Oh, wait, I didn't cut Pink, or Orange or, or, or ... Yes, I probably still need it!

The diagonal strips are just scraps of co-ordinating paper embellished with a tape from Maya Road. 

 

Happy Valentines Day!

Look out! This is my second post in one day! These next four cards are in the same vertical or 4x9 size. I am hooked on this. Last year I made some birthday cards in this size too. This time I used the Nellie Snellen dies. There are multi-frames in the set. The smallest heart has the love doves in the center. Maybe I will use that on a smaller card.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

It is February and already halfway through the month! We moved in January... It doesn't get any easier. We always wonder,  where does all this 'stuff' come from??  Now where can I  put it all and still find it some day. This house has a nicer kitchen, smaller garage, bigger craft room, one less bedroom..sounds like kind of a trade-off. Hope this is the last move for a long time! I finally was having withdrawls from my crafts. Probably my dies. Love the dies... Here are the newest cards I made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All three of these cards are made in a 4x9 size and will fit in a legal size envelope. The oval die is the smallest from the Grand Calibur set called Grand Decorative ovals one. The regular size spellbinder, called Floral Ovals will work for this. It is (believe it or not), just a tad wider than the smallest of the GC set.  For the first card I used a stenciled image from Dreamweavers.  Most of the papers are from a 12x12 pad. The designs I used have a 'around the edge' design, and are usually too big for a card. I am not scrapbooking enough to use all the paper I have, so the 4x9 size is a nice size to show just parts of the papers. 

 

Happy 2013 for the third time!

So without any more introduction... These are cards made with the Authentique paper collection. I always like green and red. Okay, I know Christmas is over! Time to concentrate on red & white for valentines day! In just a bit, okay??

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Love the Christmas tree die from Mariannes Creatables. I just got it.

More red and green with just a little blue in the mix.

Love my Grand Calibur. Yeah to the point of obsession! So we made a great card, then we have to THINK of a saying for the inside of the card. Then we have to dig around and find the stamp. Some of my words are digital and trying to find some thing on the computer beyond fun. So with that thought in mind. I made a bunch of words and matching labels!



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy 2013 Again!

Looks like I have a little problem with typepad. Couldn't type or add a picture.... so bear with me, I am going to try again! This took alittle more paper! The card is a double easel. I just loved doing this. The stamp and die in the center of the card is from Just Rite stamps. I was going to show you the inside of the card, but again I can't add to this post. Sort of stuck right here.....ummmm.

Happy 2013!

I know, I know it is not Christmas! I am either really early or just late! The truth is I am so overwhelmed with paper.... Need I say more to all you crafty ones out there in paperland??                                                                                                                                   

The first set of cards are my rendition of the "one page, nine cards". Thats all fine, but ONE sheet of paper just isn't going to get me any where. Thrifty is good, but it doesn't solve the problem. I know it( the paper) is growing!

                          

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Two posts in one day and Christmas eve day.... Its really early here so I can share some of  the cards that the Friday girls made this year. And I will still have time to finish up my cookies this morning!  We really got busy when we made these little tree cards. They are so pretty and embellished with stickers, charms and glitter! Lots of glitter!      Okay, looks like typepad format is screwy again, I wanted to type under the card and tell you it is a teabag fold in 3 sizes. Really easy and especially nice with the embossed backgrounds!

 

Of course, we used our spellbinders ovals too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is one of the center step cards. We take cards to the nursing home every year. We set the cards up on the trays by the patients bed. Sometimes a 'regular' card falls over... and so we opted for center steps as they seem to display nicely.

We do alot of center steps like this one . The center is simply a label from the big pack of labels that you get at costco. Talk about a fast and easy card!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is another card using an embossing folder. Linda completed the card with a die cut ornament embellished with a bow and glitz! Wish the picture showed the card as beautiful as it was!  And I have a good camera. Oh oh!

 

 

 

 

Last one for the day! Another lovely embossed card. It is really a pale gold. Hard to tell in the picture. Emily did this one and embellished with glitter on the star, jewels and a matching bow at the base.

 

 

 

Have a great Christmas and remember the true meaning of the season isn't about what you get, it is what you give!!

 

 

Tribute to Cupcake

Again, I know it has been a long time, and so much has happened since the first of October. I wasn't going to do this, but we lost our dog Cupcake.  She deserves a tribute, as do all our furry friends. Cuppy is the girl in the middle. Gracie is on the left and Zoe is on the right. Cupcake,  and I will repeat this .... for the millionth time was eight years old when she was just 'left' at the SPCA. Eight years with

 

one family and they dumped her. Can't get my mind around that. They are family members. Any way we had her four more years. She was/is pretty unique. She "helped me vaccum", yup, she walked in front and around the vaccum. She is cattle dog, so she was 'working". She used that 'look' that the herding dogs use, only she used it when she wanted food. She could stare you down! She loved to swim and play with a tennis ball! I miss her.

More Life and Loves

This is our "life" part of the post. Linda & Linda & Emily at Friday girls a couple weeks ago.

 

 

 

We decided to do "Shabby Chic" cards that week as we had a special guest.

Lesley, my neice, was here for just a few hours. She hadn't stamped before. I think she enjoyed it. We really enjoyed her!! She made 4 cards !

That is my husband Al, in the background. He had just gotten home from work. I won't call him a Friday.... well guy, maybe,.... but without him I couldn't have gotten this house ready for the past four years!

Family is a 'love' part, of course! Another of Lesley, and one of me and my Gracie...

    This is the card I demoed for the class. I deconstructed the card from the bottom to the top. It makes it so much easier. Pick your image or focal point, so that you have an idea of color. Pick your base cardstock. I used a 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inch creme color. The next layer was white and I distressed the edges with ink and with a 'distresser'. Next layer was the creme with an ink distressed edge. The next layer is the yellow print, yes I did distress the edges here too. Next was ripped up bits of music. Then, last the angel print. Then the embellishments  .... I slid a cut square die cut along the edge over the music. Almost forgot that.  Embellishments included flowers, ribbon, lace and foliage! Can't have too much for Shabby Chic!

This is Linda Freita's card. We had gesso, chipboard, cheesecloth, charms and tons of  paper with textures to use. Fun day

                                                                                                               

Our Media

Usually I don’t post anything that wouldn’t be politically correct, however that is just about to change. I am so disgusted with the media bias. The hypocrisy is so obvious.

Last night our local news channel 3 which obviously has a very prejudiced bias was reporting on the Romneys visit to Las Vegas.

Dana Wagner turned over the interview to a gal that was on scene locally where the event was held. I don’t know her name.

Her first comment in regard to attendance was this:

the attendees were (and I quote) ABOUT THE KIND OF PEOPLE YOU WOULD EXPECT…..

WHAT ‘KIND’ OF PEOPLE IS THAT? WHAT ‘KIND’ DID OR DO YOU EXPECT.

I find that offensive whether I am a democrat or republican. What  ‘kind was she inferring? Maybe someone with guns, or maybe a bible, wow maybe they were drooling. What was she inferring?

For anyone interested please do what you can to stop this bais for the good of the country. I thought journalism was NEWS not commentaries from the so-called reporters.  I would love to take the media and put it in the hands of the people with the truth.

 

Friday Girls Challenge

These two cards are from one of our Friday Girls challenges… Its been awhile but the theme was to do a ‘vertical’ card.  We had no specifics like theme or color, so we felt, should I say, ‘really challenged! These two cards are from Linda Elliott. Love the little tags in the pockets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is Emilys card. She embossed the patterned paper which is pretty cool..  We had a guest that day, Linda F’s friend Kaaren. So we wanted a project that was easy and would allow us to visit. Even though it was early in the season we decided on  a ‘halloween’  theme’. So Diana and I both did our vertical challenge with Halloween in mind’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then these are a few more that we did that day….

Tooooo fun!

September Play

Happy Happy, thats what I hope the kids feel when they see these cards!

My best friend colored these for me and I put them together Sunday .  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too cute!

                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another plus for me is  playing with my new spellbinder dies. This is the Polka dot frame

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 These are digital stamps from http://www.digistampboutique.co.uk/catalog/

 

 

 

 

New Cards ^

Wow! I didn't realize how long it has been since I was here! I have been so caught up in "pinning" that everything gets left in the dust. Even so the Friday girls are still doing great projects weekly!

This explosion box is one of the prettiest ones! Linda Elliott is the only one that actually fiinished hers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Showing the inside of the box.  In the center is a gift card holder. Notice how Linda punched all the edges on the tags. The are two layers of tags and the box really does explode!

 

 

 

 

 

Nice close up. It shows the butterfly sticker  behind the tag. And I see a dragonfly on the card holder.  There were balloon stickers ( you know, the dimensional and glittery kind), and I did see a lighthouse on one tag.

 

 

 

 

She punched the edges of the second tag layer with a different punch. The last picture shows the  ribbon trimmed lid with a tissue flower embellishment!   Lovely!

Playing around

I was busy pining tonight and happened across some Photoshop actions from Deviant Art. Havent played around with these for a long time... Take a look if you like ... This is the original. Please, if I don't give proper credit let me know and I will gladly correct it.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is using a vintage action from Caffeshop. I wrote that I ommited the last step and ( since it was like 2 hours ago), I can't remember why!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two "Sepia types" in a row, yet entirely different. This one is slievebeerbeetje (also from Deviant art) I used #5 action.

 

Usually there is more than one action in a set.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one is from ZummerfishKind of interesting.... This is from Caffeshop and it is called Blueberry Lemon. Okay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                       from Deviant art. It is called Twilight.

Some actions are more for scenery than people and yet it still makes a new perspective.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not a Food Blog #3or #4

Starting the day off right!  Having a great little cookie spice with ginger and cinnamon. I have been making these for years. They come from a B&B called Foothill House. I checked the internet and am sorry to see that  it is closed. Happy to have the recipie for the yummy cookie!  FOOTHILL HOUSE SWEET DREAM COOKIES

 

1 cups (2 sticks) butter, room
temperature

1 1/2 cups firmly packed light brown
sugar

1 egg, room temperature

1 tsp. vanilla                                                         

2 cups  flour
1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. ground ginger

1/2 tsp. salt

1 12-ounce package semi-sweet chocolate
chips    I only used about 8 oz. !

1 cup chopped walnuts

1 cup powdered sugar

Cream butter using electric mixer. Beat
in brown sugar, egg and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda, spices and salt in
bowl. Blend into butter mixture. Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Break off tablespoon ( or use cookie scoop),
sized pieces of dough; roll between palms into 1 inch balls. Dredge in powdered
sugar and arrange on cookie sheet. Bake ~10 minutes until edges are golden
brown. Remove cookies from sheet and place on cooling racks. Makes about 3 dozen
cookies.

 

Not sure where I left off....

I do want to show some cards that I missed when we made cards from our 'grab' bag of goodies!  The first one is Linda E.'s pretty bird card. She embossed  both the music background and the blue framed cover. She used Spellbinders labels 11 for the frame. She also distressed the music paper. Then she added an entire piece of fun foam, also cut with labels 11, and raised the entire front of the card. I am pretty sure the bird is a K&Co sticker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one is Lindas lavendar card. The 'lavender' are really dried flowers encased in a veil of lovely handmade paper (with sparkles). I can't think of the name of the paper! She embossed paper then embossed the background with a glitter powder. looks nice.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next two cards are the ones Emily did from the bag I made. Think maybe she was alittle stiffled by the colors. It was hard not to 'over think' the bags. Em actually embossed the edges of the card and the butterfly. Both the butterfly and the doily were cuts from the Cameo library.

 

  

Playing with clay #3

The paragraph thing is getting to me..... so I will hurry this up. This is one of Linda Elliotts beautiful finished mosiacs. I want to get this up now!                                                                                                                   

Playing with Clay #2

Again I am having fun with typepad. I couldn't add any type to the last post. I wanted the type to be "above or  below" the picture and it still doesn't work .

I wanted to give you an idea of some of the supplies you saw in the last photo. Besides the pasta machine and toaster oven, (dedicated to only clay), you need some ceramic tiles to bake your clay. You need other things like a clay blade, rubber stamps, pearl ex or perfect pearls. There are some options on the table too like an acrylic roller, molds, glasses (?),  and an exacto knife. Oh and not shown is maybe some gold leafing.  Lots of clay. Check out the differences in the various clay brands.   I did forget glue to glue the tiles to the boards or frame of your choice, and I see on the far right of the picture are my little containers of seed beads. They make a good fill.

Playing with Clay!

How exciting! Friday girls are starting our clay projects again for the first time in two years! I can't belive how time flies! We've done our challenges, our nursing home card projects, we made explosion boxes the week before! We always manage breaks for food and shopping. Still where does the time  go??                                                                                 

Friday girls last two Fridays!

     For the last two fridays, friday girls has been Linda E, Emily and myself. At first I thought I might cancel, but then I got inspired!!  I have the "In My little Korner" website bookmarked and happened to look. Kathy is soo talented. What I found was a lovely card made from a bag of  'stuff'! Here is her site... http://inmylittlekorner.blogspot.com/   Who doesn't have a bunch of 'stuff' that is too wonderful to throw away or 'stuff' that you 'might' use someday?? So Linda, Emily and I went home the first week with thoughts of planning our bags. Then we presented the bags and  last week we brought the finished cards that we made from 'stuff'!   

 

Oops.... Gracie was helping. Ribbon is a favorite... 

 

 

 

 This is my bag from Linda I got a holographic paper heart, lots of gold foil frames, embossed heart, red glitter paper, ribbons and so much more. I did 4 cards and could have done 2 more easily!  

  

Diana came over and we did the 'Don't postpone Joy as a joint effort. It is funky.Next one is the marbled paper and the heart on the holographic paper. Pretty easy, pretty paper.

This is really kind or garish, but I like it! The pearl paper is embossed. Everything but the music paper was in the bag!

 

Linda E really did some lovely cards. She came up with 7! The doily on this one was added extra, and she cut white foam  out to match the doily, which makes it nice and evenly raised.  Most of the rest was in the bag.

 Go figure typepad again.my font change



Here is the bag from Emily to Linda. Lots of little punched goodies. Strips of punched borders.  Hard to tell, but check out the rest of her cards!



This is about to drive me nuts. Typepad that is, my font changes and the margins change.. Yes, I did a help ticket and nothing helps...

 So Emily, tomorrow I will try this again and get your cards up. Linda has another pretty one too!









Another Friday Girl Challenge...

Happy Friday girls. Yes, we had another challenge last week. We needed a jumpstart! We've been bringing 'whatever' we want to do. Sometimes we get alot done sometimes we just visit.  The challenges make us 'think', or make us use our supplies. So this time we spontaneously said  just green and yellow! We all agreed and this is what we made.

 Emily did this card with punches. See the pretty swirls interlaced? She used more than one punch, notice the swirls, the corners, and the layered butterflys..

 

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Linda Freitas card. This is called a Double Dutch fold. She colored the teacup with twinkling H2 0's. It is really pearlescent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Elliotts card. This starts with an embossed background, then she used the new Spellbinder Romantic Rectangles set off with a piece of black inbetween the layers. The bird in the cage is a cute sticker. The cage is attaced to a chain & a brad at the top. At the base is another spellbinder tag. This is really sweet! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is my green and yellow card. This time I used a square card embellished with MS punched borders, Spellbinders lacy circle and an embossed circle. The butterfly is from Our Daily Bread stamps and it was colored with copics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I got carried away and did more! Hope you have fun looking!

                                                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cards and such....

Title nearly always confuse me!! So we have 'Cards and such...' Such what??? I am not sure, I guess whatever I feel like putting in here! Maybe Such... Art??   

 

 

 

 

 This one got BIG.. This is the Grand Calibur Labels 6 card base. Then I added the Scallop circles and two sizes of the Butterfly motif. The flowers are the Spiral blossom and Spiral blossom two. All of the dies are Spellbinders. Butterflies are from Mariannes.  

  

Two more cards made with the Just Rite Medallion die cut. The butterfliy circle is a Just Rite stamp. Love this set. The beautiful die cut behind is the Fluer di lis from Spellbinders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is she tooo cute... Loli and Poppi from Susannas custom art and card design.. Hope I got that right!  The banner is digital and the lacy circle is from Spellbinders.

 

  

This is Lolli (If I remember right), isn't she cute?

I colored with copics and  raised the wings and some of the flowers. Of course there is lots of glitter! I used Spellbinders 23 in red and a smaller size in lime. Lolli is on the Fluer di lis die cut.

 

 

 

  Go have some fun!! Think I will take some pictures!

                    

A couple minor changes...

I couldn't think of anything else for the heading this morning so here I go with a big long post and probably (if I follow the ideas in my head), nothing will match up! I have pictures of cards first, then a book, then my first page in project life.   I really did make

Easter cards, although they were not stamped this year. 
What prompted me to make changes to my blog is everytime I post a card, I will try to tell you what I used. I was trying to find information on a lovely card this morning and it was posted from etsy, google, tumbler or flicker, and there wasn't anything available. How disappointing.. So if you go to my pinterest boards from now on, if there is no info, I won't pin. Yes, I pin alot!  A blurry picture of my screen!

So.. the card above was stamped with one of the Scripture stamp sets from Our Daily Bread. The flowers were made with the Bitty Blossom die from Spellbinder & the blue frame is a cricut cut from fancy frames.  Oops, nearly forgot the new M'bossibilities folder named elite.  The paper is an older paper from my minds eye.  Pardon if my capital letters aren' t in the right place!
Another medallion stamped image from Just Rite stamps. Used the matching die, also from Just Rite, to cut the medallion. The white (behind the medallion) is a Marianne die, the red is Spellbinders labels 22 & the last one is lacy squares. All this is on black patterned paper embellished with the rose. Like the bitty blossom better. This is a bigger 'rose' die. The next four lavendar cards are for a ministry. This is a green cardstock base with a leftover green patterned paper, then the layered digital floral paper and lastly the lavendar frame from Cricut. It is embellished with flowers from the Cricut 'Flower Shoppe' cartridge. These can be just 1" in size. Really like the versatility of the cartridge. Lots of leaves included.

 

 

 

Easy card using three Labels 23 dies from Spellbinder in three staggering sizes. The verse is from Our Daily Bread Designs. And the paper used is a 12x12 'glitzy' paper pad from Micheals.

I used the same 'glitzy' patterned paper for this card. Added the Beaded oval, scalloped oval and petite die cuts from Spellbinders. The image is from Flourishes. Sweet peas. I used my copics to color.   The font size won't stay uniform... what fun. Thank you typepad..

 

One more lavendar card . This is a square card on a rhubarb base, then layered with an embossed paper and a smaller white. The dies are Spellbinders Fluer (square) and a regular circle in purple, then the Spellbinder with the Picot edge. There are lots of MS 'branches' punched around the flower. Did that make any sense??? Then I added tule with glizty stuff instead of the usual bow. The image is a flower from Fred she said. Yes, but run the name altogether and it is Fredshesaid. I love her digital stamps.

 

 

OMGoodness!

It has been a month since I posted. ... What can I say ?  All of March and already into April! Friday girls did some journaling. I worked on an existing book. I started to post it, but when I looked at the photos it was missing LOTS of 'stuff'. There was a ton of blank space! So I added to one page and here we go....The finished page first. W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The base 8x10 format is from a Teesha Moore tutorial. Okay, I see more places to add, although some 'white space does give the eye a place to rest!

Journal Page II

          This is going to be a really really quick post today, but I wanted to show the new 'serendipity' card.  To me, the technique 'serendipity' means using my scraps. Gives me great satisfaction to not throw away pretty bits of paper!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You remember one of those half done journal pages from the last post .... Use it for a card instead of a journal! The main idea is to enjoy the process. Loved making the backgrounds for a change.  Yes, I could've added solme color to the butterfly or maybe GLITTER!

One more thing... you could scan that 'journal page', save it to your computer,  print it on cardstock and use the design over and over!

Try something new!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Journal Pages

Last friday the girls and I had fun making journal pages.   

 This is my actual journal for the 1st of this year. It is covered in pink paper and embellished with silk ribbons, fiber, fiber beads and charms. Here is my point.... now the inside pages (by the spine) are all stained... yes, my ink leaked through. So maybe make your page and attach it to your beloved journal later!

The journal we followed a video we found on Pinterest... It is listed under my Art Journal board. It is simply gessoed paper, stamped, alcohol inked .... watch the video it is pretty cool!  This is a close up of  my page.   Used a combination of Painter pens and  Sharpie poster paints. Use the water based ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is Emilys journal done on a canvas. Think she said the words were hard to outline on canvas.Emily did this one on Friday.  She said she planned to use this for a book cover.

 

The 3 below are just barely started. They are on watercolor paper.

Typepad Typepad

Typepad can you hear me....My friends just let me say typepad reformats everything. The last post puts the last sentence in the middle of the page. The type size is even changed in the last paragraph. I didn't go re-edit this time, but know that the errors and (notice the card description) are not where they were supposed to be. I would rather share fun stuff that re-edit already good pages..... Just keep that in mind for further posts!

Lets do one more picture! These are the Just Rite Starburst Medallions 

One Simple Act

So this is going to be a rather long post and hopefully you will enjoy! I thought a long time about telling this, but decided that if I thought it was nice maybe you would too. It started at Christmas, I got a book from another 'Linda' that has been a friend since kindergarten! How many of us can say that and how wonderful that really is since we are 2000 miles apart. Let me insert here that yes, I have 3 friends named Linda! So Linda from Iowa sent me a book that just wasn't of interest to me. I like Follet, Grisham, Flynn and mysteries or biographies. This book is by Debbie Mac Comber, a romantic novelist. OK. With Lindas, glowing account, I decided to read One Simple Act. http://www.debbiemacomber.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=nnp&pageID=274 Here you can read the forward and some short excerpts from the book.  I was going to send the Amazon link, but this is the one that came up, so you can really get a feel for it.

So, I told a friend about the book. She got one AND put one on her kindle. Now she has bought more and sent them to her sisters-in-law.

I immediately wanted Friday girls to have one each. So I went to buy them at Amazon. Decided to check out Barnes & Noble. One was $7.99 and as I was taking it to the checkout, I found the 75% off table! They were $4.98. I bought several. I even mailed one to my 16 year old Grandson.  He usually reads war stories, yep, really complicated American history. Anyway, what is the chances of me finding this book at a discount in a big store?  In the book we talk about Gods 'nudges'. I believe that this was one of them.

These are from Just Rite botanical stamp set. I mentioned my addiction to these stamps before! So pretty. The 'Faith' scripture  is from Create with TLC.

They are digital images. I photoshop the size and put 3 on a page so I can use my spellbinders labels. http://createwithtlc-createwithtlc.blogspot.com/ Here is her link. Perfect for this. Also the wood mounted scripture stamps from Our Daily Bread design are wonderful. http://www.ourdailybreaddesigns.com/index.html 

Look for our Altered journal page next!





Oh the cards, these could be some of Gods nudges too. We've done cards for the nursing home for about 7 years now. Usually just Christmas cards. I have lots of pretty embellishments that just need to be on cards that could lift a spirit. So with my many scripture stamps and glittery paper, flowers, ribbons and jewels I am going to try a church ministry. My goal is 100 cards.... we'll see, then I'll try to fill a need.  Now that I said all this I am committed!