Stripes

Only time to do a drive-by post this week.

for

The Three Muses 

The theme is stripes.

The steampunk birdman is by Sum of All Crafts, 

and the rest is just a drug-induced frenzy of colour.

("drugs" being sinus medication)

Thanks for looking.

Recipes

This week's challenge at

Take a Word

is

Grandmother's Recipes

The clearest memory I have of my grandma is of

her in her kitchen, bending over, taking cookies out of the oven.

I would have been about 6.

Which would have been 1960.

However,

I like the 50's and that was the era in which I started out,

so that what I went with.  The 50's.

(Well, and the 40's, a bit)

To be totally honest, I'm not very happy with this, but

I'm also not willing to start over.  :-)

Images were googled, border is by Carole Neale 

and I used a couple of textures by

Shadowhouse Creations.

Be sure to check out all the fantabulous art at

Take A Word 

Red, White, and Jul

for Jingle Belles

(They rock, you know, those Belles)

We have been invited to create something 

based on the Scandinavian image they have posted for us.

What's that?  You don't know what the image is?

Well, what are you waiting for?

You'll find it here:

Jingle Belles 

and then you can join in.

I'll see you there!

SPA-Coffee Time

Sunday Postcard Art

has invited us all to creat a postcard with the theme of Coffee Time.

I hope you visit them, Marie (Ozstuff) is the host and she

always inspires greatness in the artists who join in!

Thanks for loking.

All elements are by Cajoline.

Glitz, Glamour, Bring on the Bling!

Challenge #149 at

The Order of the Opus Gluei 

is just that

Sparkle your way to happiness!

I had to make three ATC's for a

 "He loves me, he loves me not" swap, so I thoought I would have some fun

and make blingy backgrounds.

For the first, I covered cardstock with double sided 

Sookwang tape and foiled it using a stencil from Stencil Girl.

Then I took the stencil off and filled the negative spaces with glitter.

The image is by sum of All Crafts and a little Stickles finished it off.

Here's the second, using another Sum of All Crafts image.

 I can't actually give credit to anything else I used here,

 it's all old stuff from my stash.

And the last,

I sued some old (from my stash again) blingy cardstock,

a piece of gold ribbon, heart by Martha Stewart, 

another gorgeous image by Sum of All Crafts,

and some hearts by Love, Elsie.

I hope you visit

The Order of the Opus Gluei

and join us in our 

Glitz, Glamour, Bring on the Bling!

challenge.

You'll be glad you did!!

Quotography-Water

Check out

Quotography

and play along!!

Twinkle, twinkle, little star!

Sunday Postcard Art

Thanks to Fiddlette, Dawn InSkip, and Pugly Pixel

for the use of their elements.

Now is the Time!!

to make something for the current challenge at

Soartful Challenges

You have until February 2nd, to create something with the 

colours Pink/Neutral and/or the theme Time.

C'mon, you don't have time NOT to do this!

This is an ATC and card I made for an ATC swap with the same theme:  Time.

Funny how that works, eh?

See you at

Soartful Challenges

Friday Photo Art

ON FRIDAY, NO LESS!!!

I only say that because I was totally too late

last week to include my photo for

Friday Photo Art 

Well, duh.

I posted it anyways.

Cus I'm in my own little world.

It's OK.

They like me here.

This week's challenge is

Entrances/Exits 

and I found the coolest door one day in my travels.

With the addition of two of Bonnie Zeiman's textures

(which you will find at Pixel Dust Photo Art)

called Cobblestone Road and Old Master Dust

I ended up with this:

I hope you come visit.

You'll be glad you did.

January 2013 Reader Art Quest 1

at

Unruly Paper Arts

is 

Fleur de Lis

How could I NOT take part?

The base is some packaging I've had for quite a while.  I used a Prima stencil and some silver paint, then stamped a Hero Arts flourish on top of that with black Staz-on ink.

The dress is an Inkadinkadoo stamp.

I used a Tim Holtz doilie die cut, behind the film strip and the film strip-

I'm not sure.

The hanger is Maya Arts (I think) and there are a few beads from my stash.

Along the bottom is some stash lace, and the gorgeous Fleur-de-Lis, which is the point of the whole exercise and which I adore, is by

Bead Landing.

Now swing on over to

Unruly Paper Arts

and check out the other creations en francais!

Fishes

for Collage Obsession

Thanks to Finecrafted Designs, Beth Rimmer, Lisa's Altered
Art, Bonnie Zeiman, and Rian Design for the use of their elements.

And thanks to you YOU for coming by!

Check out more fishes at

Collage Obsession

Photo Art Friday

This is for Bonnie Zeiman's

Photo Art Friday

The photo is one I took on our last trip to Montana, these metal sculptures welcome you to the nation.

I added Bonnie's Brown Rice Paper Texture, twice.

Once, hard light and once, overlay.

Then an edging by Amanda Frijo-Tobin

Unfortunately, I got this done too late to include it in the challenge. 
But I like it anyways.  :-)

Thanks for looking!

Just Because

We're tough, we Canadians.

 'specially when you consider it's 

38 degrees below zero outside.

 

Vive le France!!

Sunday Postcard Art

Have I told you how happy I am that I have found SPA?

Well I am.

I really really am.

Credits for the elements used:

Cajoline, Syndee Nuckles Vinnie Pearce, and Amanda Frijo-Tobin

Thanks for stopping by!

Challenge #148 at the Gluei Ball!

PINK!!!

PINK!!!

PINK!!!

PINK!!!

PINK!!!

PINK!!!

Won't you join Marie and I

at

The Order of the Opus Gluei 

That's where are the cool pink chicks go.

 

Look What Santa Brought Me!

OK, Santa didn't really bring me 

anything that I used on this card, 

that's just the title of the very first challenge for 2013 at

Jingle Belles 

BUT 

they said we could pull out something we hadn't used before and while I was wandering around in my Christmas stash I found this great stamp which I'm almost positive I have not used before.  

At least not this year, anyways. 

At the time of this posting, 

there are already 67 participants in the

challenge, you could be number 69!

(after me, of course)  

Jingle Belles 

 

 

Walking

This week's theme at

Quotography

is

Walking

I knew right away which photo I wanted to use,

and then it took me AGES to find it.

I really need to get on top of that.

I added a texture by Lost and Taken and 

Wordart by Anna Aspnes. 
It really isn't much of a quote, 
it's just what I thought of when 
I looked at this photo of two best friends. 

Check out more Quotography at

My Whisperings

Fantasy

for

http://takeaword.blogspot.ca/

credits:  Amanda Frijo-Tobin, Coreen Silke, 

Gene Pressler, and Doris Castle

Thanks for stopping by!

Art

Art makes my life worthwhile.

Take A Word

Credits:  Crowabout Studios, Wish Bliss Studio, Amanda Sok

Thanks for stopping by!

January

I love the way winter looks.

NOT, I hasten to add, how it feels.

In fact, if I could stay indoors whenever it gets below zero, I would be very happy.

Having said that,

the challenge for this week at

Quotography

is "January"

And the theme for this week's challenge over at 

Sunday Postcard Art

is Winter Elegance.

I think my photo art fits both challenges.

I hope you visit both sites to see some amazing artwork!!

Isn't it pretty?

This was across from where I work, one day

 and I had to leave work and go over and take some photos of it.

See, winter is pretty.

But too cold.  :-)

Time

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to our first challenge of 2013 at

Soartful Challenges

Our theme for the month of January is

Time

and the colour pink or neutral colours.

 I have used elements by Rucola Designs, Createwings Designs,

Bleuesse, Phenomenon 1859, Kerry Veale, and my own texture.

I hope you will visit us at

Soartful Challenges

and see the wonderful work our design team has put together for us,

and that you will make time to be Soartful!

Circles for Three Muses

Elements used are by Shadowhouse Creations,

 Crystal Rainz, Anna Aspnes, Bonnie Zeiman,

Miki Furkel,  Magic Moonlight,

Amanda Frijo-Tobin, and Rebecca Mc Meen

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to wander over to

The Three Muses

for more inspiration!