Deep in the Woods

Here are my last pieces for this month's

DEEP IN THE WOODS

collage sheets from

Rian Designs

I hope you've checked these sheets out-the possibilities are endless!

Be sure to visit the other members of the design team for more inspiration:

Wendy

Kaylene

and

Sim

Thanks for visiting and have a funny day!

Seasons

Sweet Rosemary at

The Order of the Opus Gluei 

has invited us to create something with the theme:

SEASONS

in mind.

And the Poobahs have put together some wonderful inspiration to get you started.

You know you have no legitimate reason to not play along with this one!

I did a Digital LO:

using photos I have taken which I believe exemplify 

the vast range of weather that we get, where I live.

But the possibilities are endless as to what you can create.

That's the wonderful thing about 

The Order of The Opus Gluei

The sky is the limit for your imagination!

I'll see you there.

You have until Saturday, August 11 to play along.

Three Buttons and A Circle

I just realized tomorrow is the cutoff for my piece for the current
Everything Wendy Vecchi group to which I belong.
So here ya go:

The stamps are of course, Wendy Vecchi, the crown is a Cuttlebug die 

I bought for some unknown reason,  the young lady is by Crowabout Studios.

I hope you like it.

Vintage Page Designs

This is my last project as guest designer for

Vintage Page Designs 

Vintage Pager Gentlemen Kit

It's a wonderful kit to work with and you can find all the deets on it

here 

Staps are by Studio 490 and Stampers Anonymous.

The gears are by Bead Landing.

I do hope you will check it out.

I would love to stay and chat, but the truth in, I'm sick and have been in bed for six days.

Waah.

Thanks for stopping by.

Messy

This week the theme at

Take A Word

is

MESSY

This canvas may not seem messy to you,

but believe me, making it WAS.

I asked a friend for his favorite photo of his little girl 

(who is now in her twenties and about to have a baby)

and without hesitation, he gave me this.

I'm in the process of starting up a new business, making canvases for folks, 

using their favorite photos and colour scheme of their choice

and I am making up samples for my new website.

So that's what this is.

I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Green Christmas (card)

or red.

But not both.

That's the current challenge at

Jingle Belles

Mine is green

Not red.

lol

Thanks for stopping by!

Where'd you get your SUNTAN???

When was the last time someone asked you that very question?

What, no one has asked you that lately?

They are all sitting in their basements trying to AVOID the sun?

Not our friend Gini, in the great land of rain, the UNITED KINGDOM.

(I hear even the queen has left her bikini at the Thrift Store)

No sirree, friends, Gini is thinking sunshine

AND LOLLIPOPS

ahem.

You are wondering what on earth I am talking about aren't you?

I am talking about the new challenge at

The Order of the Opus Gluei 

In honour of Gini's quest for sunshine, I've made a tag.

Not just ANY tag, but a tag with Gini showing us her lovely tan lines.

Well, it IS Gini, albeit the Gini in my imagination.

Or it would be Gini, if she weren't in England.

Where they rust, not tan.

If you look very closely, you'll see that 

I've even made a little towel for Gini to wipe the sweat off her fevered brow.

All of the papers used are from the new Authentique line.

Everything else is from my abundant stash, and

 my stack of (now depleted) kitchen dishtowels.

I hope you visit my friend Gini and all the other talented Poobahs at

The Order of the Opus Gluei 

and participate in our sunny challenge.

If you're not near a beach, Gini has a number of delightful suggestions for

your creating pleasure.

You'd be a fool to miss this one.

Really.

Even Sponge Bob will be there.

Ice Cream

Peggy at

Soartful Challenges

has given us a new theme of

COLORS OF ICE CREAM: STRAWBERRY, CHOCOLATE, VANILLA

Doesn't that just put a great big sloppy smile on your face?

Here's mine:

I pulled out an old LO from when my daughter was a little girl.

She and her best friend Kayla were in their own little world, each with their own cone, when I shot the bottom picture.  They didn't even feel the need to talk.

And the top photo?

Do I NEED to say anything?

Peggy has given us tons of ice creamy goodness for inspiration, 

so I hope you go over to 

Soartful Challenges

and link up with something summery and refreshing.

In case you're still not feeling cooler, here's a shot of my sweet little grandson,

modelling his surfer look:

 

Aloha!

Fencing

This is my before photo for Bonnie's

Photo Art Friday 

this week.

Here theme is

FENCING

I'm behind on posting it, but fo a good reason.

My darling daughter has been here for the week, with my adorable grandson.

Could life be any better?

The transformation is thanks to Bonnie's Splash of Gold and Gauze Sheers textures.

Bonnie's textures always bring my photos to life!

I hope your weekend is great!

Deep in the Woods

This is my second piece for the new collage sheets at Rian Design

It's such a fun theme and the elements are awesome!

Be sure to check out the other Design Team contributions:

Sim

Marja

Wendy

Kaylene

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

(ADD-ON-NOT Wordless)

The picture is just something I found on the Internet.

It only FEELS like it's been that hot.)

Birds

The Three Muses Challenge

Background is by Suhura, Birds are by Crowabout Studios

other elements are TYJulia, Fidlette, Finecrafted Designs

and Coreen Silke.

Hope you're staying cool!

My lovely Vintage Gentlemen

You know I"m a lucky Guest Designer for 

Vintage Page Designs, 

this month, right?

Well, I am and I am so lucky to had the chance to play with this gorgeous 

VINTAGE GENTLEMAN KIT

before the rest of you!!!  lol

It's OK, it's available in Ali's shop now.

You can find it here

You'll love it like I do, it's full of all sorts of wonderful vintage ephemera, 

three colours of lovely vintage seam binding,

a Cabinet Card and lot of other treasures. Many of them!

Here is my second creation for the month:

It's a journal.

Perhaps I shall write in it about all the men I've loved.

Maybe not enough room...

I made sonme book jewelry, and used a little bit of the vintage pages to create some beads.

How cool is this??

Look at the vintage handwriting!  I've also used a copule of Tim Holtz and Basic Grey papers.

You have to SEE this!  Smith's COMPUTER!!  

How many gigs do you suppose it has?  lol

And finally, just waiting to be filled:

The ties along the front and back, for closing the book are made of the gorgeous Linen fabric ribbon which arrived in the kit and some of that mahvellous seam binding,

The brown bow at the top (also of seam binding) is also quite wonderful, don't you think?

I do hope you'll check out this and Ali's other amazing vintage kits in  

The Vintage Page Design Store

AND, join in the challenge that is running over there at Vintage Page Designs

AS WE SPEAK!

And you will definitely want to be a part of that.

See you over there!

Blue

This is for the new challenge at

Take A Word

The photo is my own, the wordart is by Lynn Marie Favreaux

I added a few textures by Bonnie Zieman and Shadowhouse Creations and used

some papers by Lefkoi Lykoi and Keri Schuller as textures as well.

Is it hot where you are?

Do you know how difficult it is to blog and eat a popsicle

 at the same time without dripping on yourself?

Oh, you do?

OK.

Stay cool.

New Sheets from Rian

and our talented Design Team!

The theme this month is Woodland" and

these wonderful sheets present a million possibilities!

You can find them here!

Here is my first for the month:

I'm blessed to be part of a very special International Design Team 

and I hope you will visit their blogs to see what they have created for this theme.

 Marja

Sim 

Wendy 

and

Kaylene 

Each of these talented ladies has a style all her own and you'll love their individual takes on this month's theme!

I hope you enjoy all of our creations and check out the collage sheets

at

Rian Designs

Architectural

This week at

Photo Art Friday

Bonnie has invited us to participate with the theme

ARCHITECTURAL

in mind.

I pulled this photo out:

   sharpened it a bit, added two of Bonnie's textures:

Old Ornate Linen and Medieval Magic

and you now have:

to be perfectly honest, I really liked this pic before the editing.

But now I REALLY like it.

I hope you'll check out

Photo Art Friday

and maybe even play along!

Mermaids

That's the theme at 

Collage Obsession

this week.

I have to be honest and tell you that I didn't have time to create something SPECIFICALLY for this challenge, so I'm cheating.

Well, not REALLY cheating, exactly.

Here's the thing.

I'm getting ready to send off some ATC's for a swap and it just so happens that the theme for that swap is

MERMAIDS!

I posted a couple of them a while ago and just finished the other two I need, so...

OK, that's it.

Thanks for looking!

And have a funny day.

Unless of course, you have other plans.

Flower Art Friday

Yes, it is, it's

Flower Art Friday

and while I SHOULD be doing a bazillion other things, I made something for it.

I used textures by Bonnie Zieman:

Painterly, Mauve Threads and Abstract Elements to give it this soft look.

You can find Bonnie's awesome textures here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have Yourself A Vintage Little Christmas

Are you humming along?

Fine.

I thought it might help you cool off.

Cus I hear it's hot where you live.

Not here.

Nosirree.

Sat on the hill and watched the fireworks last night and

I wore my parka.

Sigh.

Jingle Belles 

Merry Christmas!

 

Just Because

Thanks to Crowabout Studios for the twinkling lady!

And thanks to you for stopping by!

Vintage Page Designs

I'm thrilled to be a guest designer for

Vintage Page Designs

this month.  Their theme is

VINTAGE GENTLEMAN

She will be releasing her new kit this week 

and I'm one of the lucky one who got to create with it before everyone else!  :-)

I found this little box in a thrift store the other day and 

realized I could make it into the new recipe box I have been needing.

I covered it with pieces of the vintage pages that were in the kit 

and distressed it a bit using Ranger's Rusty Hinge distress Ink. 

 That colour matched the lovely fabric ribbon that was included in the kit 

PERFECTLY!

The flower on top was also made with some of the vintage paper, 

punched out and sprayed with Tattered Angels mist 

and inked a bit with some more Rusty Hinge.

I also interspersed a couple of punched layers of blue cardstock.

I painted the metal details on the box with Plaid Folk Art acrylic paint.

(That was NOT such a good idea, as it was a major pain

 covering the box around those little tiny details)

On the front are some words from one of the pages

and I used a font by Finecrafted designs to make the "RECIPE" heading.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with the way it looks on my kitchen counter!

You have the entire month of July to participate in their 

Vintage Gentleman Challenge

and can find all the details here.

(and don't tell anyone, but you'll have a chance to win a $25.00 gift

certificate to Ali's wonderful shop!)

I'm excited to see what you create!

Music

has always been an important part of my life.  One of the things my birth parents requested was that I be raised with music.  So music was very present in our home and I learned to play a number of instruments.  In fact, I even won a scholarship to the International Peace Gardens Music Camp when I was 13!

Normally for the

Take A Word Challenge 

I do something digital.  

Not today.

'This is a real honest to goodness paper LO.

It's a picture I took of the sky one day and every time I look at it I think of music.

I think the quote says it all.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have music in your soul.

Sepia

for 

SPA 

That's it.

Just sepia.

I Am Canadian.

That's the first line in a song, which goes on to point out all the silly things we Canadians are.

Like too polite. How we have free health care.  And have "Monopoly money"

(I was in Tijuana and gave a bill to a poor person who was begging for money 

and she threw it in the garbage.  So it's purple.  You can still buy food with it.)

And how we say "roof" when the Americans says "roof".  (I've never understood that one)  

I was in a mall once, somewhere in the States, and the clerk said "You're from Canada!"  

 I couldn't figure it out - I had just asked where the washrooms were.  

She told me that's how she knew.  I asked where the washrooms were. 

She called them "bathrooms"  Huh?

I didn't want to take a bath.

Anyways...

WHEREVER YOU HOLD ALLEGIANCE
is the newest challenge at
The Order of the Opus Gluei

In other words, if you are celebrating July 4th and live in the United States,
create something for that.
Or maybe you're from the UK, or New Zealand, or "South Africa or
well, you get  it, right?

I didn't want to be too red and white.  Even though our flag is red and white.  So I did this:

but then I felt guilty, so I did this:

See?

Canadian.

Too polite.

Don't want to offend anyone.

The photos are my own and the other elements are by Paislee Press 

and Monti's Pixel Playground.

Not bad, eh?

For a Canadian.

:-)

I hope you come visit us at 
The Order of the Opus Gluei
to see the wonderful work the other Poobahs have created for this challenge and of course, 
to play along with us! 
 

Happy Canada Day.  Or whatever you are celebrating in your neck of the woods!