Photo Play

I sat down determined to get caught up on some photos I took last summer

(gasp!)

and when I saw this one, I knew I needed to do something with it.

This week's challenge at my beloved

The Three Muses is

PHOTO PLAY.

I thought this qualified.

I haven't been able to particpate in any challenges for quite some time now, and to be honest.

I thought my muse left town.

I hope not.

credit goes to Studio Rosey Posey and Cajoline

I hope you have the best year EVAH!

and I promise, I will be buy to see all my bloggy friends in the new year!

Hugs!

Electra

Out with the Old and In with the New!

Challenge #199 at

The Order of the Opus Gluei

is

OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW

Have you learned new technique?  

Taking up one you've forgotten?  

Show us what you have made with it!!!!

I interpreted our theme broadly
(which is what we do at The Order)
and created some digital art
using a couple of sunrise photos I took on my Christmas holiday.

credits:  Captivated Visions, Studio Rosey Posey, Dawn Inskip,
Kimeric Kreations, and Jopke Designs

AND...

 credits:  Studio Rosey Posey, Flergs, Dawn Inskip,
Holliewood Studios, Created By Jill, Amanda Frijo-Tobin

I also made a card using a thread technique that I haven't done for a very long time.

 I had forgotten how cool this is, I am going to have make more of these!


We hope you help us ring in the New Year
with something new!
And just a little secret,
at The Order of the Opus Gluei
our 200th challenge is coming up and
there just may be a giveaway in our future....

Come and play along with us,
we have lots of fun and very few rules!

(Rules are made to be broken anyways, right?)
See you there...

Red and Green

For this week at

Take a Word

 

credits:  Dawn Inskip, Crafty Button Designs, Eeana's Creations,

Xquisart. Rebecca Mcmeen, Tracy Martin Designs,

Cajoline, and Beth Rimmer

 

4 more sleeps, folks!

Use Your Stuff!

The last challenge of the year at

 

Use Your Stuff

is

Any thing Goes

 

I don't usually enter "Anything Goes"

themes, but these ladies work so hard all year, I simply

MUST send them off with a

THANK YOU!

I'll share a project that I really can't take total credit for,

since I did it in a class by

Jeannie of Scrapendipity

 

BUT, the day of the class, I had pneumonia and I have to tell you,

I didn't have a clue what I was doing. Hah!

Before the class ended, I gave up and went home.

 

When I was finally well enough to finish it, I had completely forgotten what I was supposed to do.\

So there are a lot of mistakes.

But I like it anyways.

That's it!

Except one day there will be snow on that tree...

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 



Holiday Ornament

I created this for the December Challenge at

Berry71Bleu

and  our Gecko Galz Papercrafting Facebook group

Holiday Ornament Challenge 

 

 

The image is by Gecko Galz ands the other fixins are from Mikey's

 

You still have time to enter, you know!

 

That is, if you're not too busy eating cookies...

Thanks for stopping by!

Festive Lyrics

for this week at

Sunday Postcard Art

credits:  Caroline B Designs, Holliewood Studios,

Heavens Gate Designs, Rosey Posey Studio, Stuido Tangie,

Dawn Inskip, Gecko Galz, Joanne Brisbois,

and Maya de Groot

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Retro Christmas

Since I am officially on holidays, I have nothing to do but make art.  

So I hope I am not overwhelming you with Christmas projects, 

it's just that there are so many awesome products out there to play with!

This one is for the

Stampendous December Challenge:
Holiday Happiness!

and all the credit goes to Gecko Galz and my stash.

(LOVE my stash)

What are you busy with today?

That Pesky Number Verification

This post is really about contributing this fun piece to

 Craftyhazlenut Christmas Challenge

The theme is Anything Goes

credits:  Bluesse, Mind Over Matter Collaboration, MCDesigns, JM Designs

 Having done that, I also want to take a quick moment to tell you how to get rid of the number verification that Evil Blogger has put on EVERYONE'S blog without telling us.

Go into your settings/posts and comments/ and "embed" your posts.
I learned it from a sister on Gecko Galz Design Team. 

And voila!  It is gone!

If you already have the Word Verification set up on your blog,

and now your visitors have to do this as well,

you may lose comments.

Besides, how many robots are there REALLY in the world, anyhow?

And don't the ones who do visit have a right to leave a comments????

Evil Blogger.

Have a funny day!

Electra, Over and Out.

Black Dress

for Collage Obsession

credits:  Hidden Vintage Studios, Studio Rosey Posey, Natali Designs

You can dress em up, but you can't take em anywhere.  lol

REINDEER

for Tag Along

I used a reindeer by Gecko Galz, and some papers and baubles by Studio Rosey Posey

Thanks for coming by!!

And More Winter

for Take A Word

credits:  Gecko Galz, Manuela Zimmerman, 

SusyQ Scraps, Cajoline

This is also for the Gecko Galz Papercrafting Challenge group:
Blue and Silver Colour Challenge

Stay warm and thanks for stopping by!

Winter

for Sunday Postcard Art

credits:  

Studio Rosey Posey, Natali Designs, Manuela Zimmerman,

Syndee Nuckles,Tracy Martins Designs

Thanks for coming by!

Show Us Your Best!

Challenge #197 at

The Order of the Opus Gluei

is to show us your most

fantabulous Christmas Creation!

 With the exception of the stylish tree and the penguin,

all images are by  Gecko Galz

This is also my contribution to the Holiday Decor Challenge at the

Gecko Galz Papercrafting Facebook Group

You have until December 27th to join up with us

simply by linking up in the comments.

Now put your elf shoes on and hop on over to

The Order of the Opus Gluei

See you there!

13th Day Of Christmas

Have you visited Gecko Galz

Tags of Christmas feature for this month?

Every day in December there are featured tags by members of our wonderful design team.
Today is my day!

Products Used:

Xmas Cuties

Xmas Icons 

Santa Claus Jewel It
Reindeer Games Collage Sheet
Embellishments (Recollections, Graphic 45)
Distress Ink-Festive Berries, Antique Linen (Ranger)
Double-sided tape sheets - Peel N stick - (Thermo-Web)
Seedless clear glass beads (unknown)
Red Stickles glitter glue (Ranger)
Glossy Accents (Ranger)
Gold Brad (unknown) 

How To Make:

Cut out tag shape from Xmas paper, Edge with Festive Berries distress ink;add a scrap of ribbon across the bottom
Print and cut out:  Reindeer, Vintage Toy advertisement, and little girl
Edge all pieces with distress ink:  Antique Linen
Cut hexagon shapes from scraps of Xmas paper; edge with Festive Berries distress ink
Layer embellishments on tag as desired; glue down.
Cut out Santa Face, punch out circle from double-sided tape and adhere to face.
Remove backing from tape and adhere mini seedless clear glass beads, rub on well
Add Santa face to tag
Add brad and embellishment to Vintage Ad on left side of tag
Add Glossy Accents to highlights bells on Reindeer and bow
Add red Stickles as desired

Products Used:

Holiday Ladies Collage Sheet
Dollar Store straws
White cardstock, gold patterned paper (unknown)
Distress Ink- Antique Linen (Ranger)
Pearl Embellishments (unknown)
Blue Stickles glitter glue (Ranger)
Flower Embellishments (Jolee's)
Blue rhinestones (Recollections)
Blank tag (Recollections)
Blue Glass, Cranberry Adirondack Embossing Powders (Ranger)
Snowflake Die (Tim Holtz)
Snowflake Stamp, wreath stamp (Recollections)
Xmas Ornament Embellishment (Bo Bunny)
Double-sided tape - (Sookwang)

Cut out tag shape from gold paper, emboss with wreath image in Blue Glass
Edge tag with  Antique Linen, add blank tag to front of base tag at an angle
Die Cut snowflake border
Emboss snowflake pattern with Cranberry Adirondack; Adhere to back of left side of tag;add pearls
Fussy cut woman.  Embellish dress, shoes and hair bow with pearls, blue stickles, and sign with blue rhinestones
Cut paper straws to size to frame outside of tag;adhere with Sookwang tape
Add ornament embellishment
Adhere woman with dimensional Pop-Dots
Add Jolee's bling to apron bow 

Are you making tags?

Christmas only comes once a year, you know.

I hope you come visit us at

Gecko Galz

Thanks for stopping by!

Signs of Christmas

Using one of my favorite Gecko Galz images, I made this card:

This is for

Jingle Belles

Unruly Paper Arts 12 Days of Christmas

The Cheerful Stamp Pad Signs of Christmas

and the Gecko Galz Facebook Holiday Card Challenge

Ho, Ho, Ho!

Thanks for coming by!

With Ol' St Nick

That's this week's challenge at the lovely

Lunagirl Moonbeams

I just made two simple ATCs.

I hope you like them. I am also linking up to the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge at

Unruly Paper Arts

Thanks for coming by and have a merry day!

Smile

for

Collage Obsession

Thanks for stopping by!

Red and Green

Yup, good old traditional red and green.

That is the prompt this week at 

Use Your Stuff

So I made some Christmas cards...

You can't go wrong with Red and Green!

Linking up today as well to
Unruly Paper Arts
Christmas Link Up Party!

Thanks for visiting!

Angelic

for Take A Word

credits:  Gecko Galz, Mind Over Matter Collection,

Akizo, Maya de Groot, Holliewood Studios

Linking up as well to
Unruly Paper Arts 12 Days of Christmas Party
 

Thanks for coming by!

Vintage Santa

I have a bunch of things to do today.

NONE of which I HAVE TO DO.

Hah!

So I made this for

Tag Along

He pretty much says it all, doncha think?

(Have YOU been good this year???)

Thanks for stopping by!

Krampus

I think that stands for  "Creepy Christmas".

I should really look it up,

but I am just impressed with myself that I actually

got something made.

At any rate, that is this week's theme at

Sunday Postcard Art

OK, you may want to go get a cuppa,

to read all the credits:

Pavlinka Designs, Octopode, Tangie Baxter, Gecko Galz, 

Rucola Designs, Exquisart, Hidden Vintage Studios, Bonnie Zeiman, and Cajoline.

Thanks for coming by!

Doors

Well, ONE door, actually

for Take A Word

credits: Eena's Creation, Cemerony, Bethany Hart

 

Thanks for coming by,

I keep trying to come and visit you all, but I am working

too many hours right now,

And I MUST make art!

 

I'll make it up to you, I promise.

 

Thanks!

It's a brand new month at

Gecko Galz

and their holiday sheets are

a-ma-zing!

I had SUCH a good time playing with the new images,

here are a couple of smaples I made for you:

Products used: Xmas Time digital stamps

From Russia with Love
Red Cardstock
Amanda Sok Photo Mask
Unknown Border

Very Victorian Art (woman)

Fairies Digital Stamps
Just Words Digital Stamps
Robyn B Merry Wishes Paper
Dido Designs Photo Mask
Berna Datema Border

This month our Cross Promotion partner is

Robyn Gough Designs

and the image and papers are lovely!

The lovely lady is by 

Gecko Galz 

from the Angelic Jewel It Collage Sheet

and embellies, earrings and background paper are by

 else is by

Robyn.

What do you think?

Also, don't forget about our

December Christmas Customer Challenge!

You can find all the deets

Here 

Thanks for coming by and wherever you are,

remember to be merry!!

Snow!

Challenge #197 at
The Order of the Opus Gluei 

is SNOW!

We have snow in Canada.

MOST of the year, it seems.

Naah, that's an exaggeration.

Some folks south of us think we live in igloos
(honest!  I was asked that once!)

But we have real houses.

Some with fireplaces.

God bless the fireplaces.

credits:  Gecko Galz, Pavlinka Designs.

You have until December 13th to link up with us

in the comments

 The Order of the Opus Gluei

Hope it is warm where you are!

Silhouette

for The Three Muses

credits: my own photo, Maya de Groot, Joanne Brisbois

Thanks for coming by!

Stencilled Skyline

The theme for the week at

Tag Tuesday 

is

SKYLINES

and the theme for this week at 

Tag Along 

is

STENCIL IT!

So, I stencilled a skyline!

using a Balzer stencil, a Gecko Galz birdie and faires

from Lisa's Altered Art.

The rest of the stuff is stash.

 

Why the birdie?

I didn't have a large gorilla.

Thanks for coming by!

Organic

for Take A Word

credits:  Joanne Brisbois, Rebecca McMeen, Marta Van Eck, Holliewood Studios

Thanks for coming by!

Christmas Joy!

That is the theme for the

Gecko Galz November Challenge

CHRISTMAS JOY/!

I think this tag fills the bill..

.The sweet little guy is from the

Christmas Cutie Collage Sheet.

I just love his jammies...

YOu can find all the Gecko Galz images

Here

You stilil have time to enter the November Challenge, check it out!

Gecko Galz November Challenge

Christmas Feast

for Jingle Belles

Are cookies a "Feast?"

I think so.

Hah!

All my christmas cards are made!

(Now to address them and send them out...)

Headdress

This is for Collage Obsession

I am such a Happy Camper today, making art to my heart's content.

credits:  Emka Designs, Itkupilli, Out With The Fairies,

Tumblefish Studios, Courtney's Designs, Bella Gypsy, 

Kimeric Creations, Berna Datema, Joanne Brisbois

Thanks for stopping by,I hope you are having as much fun as I am!

Mouse-tache

for Sunday Postcard Art

My first Christmas Project!

Hi folks!

It's been weeks since I created anything and let me tell you, 

I AM FEELING IT!

Not a good feeling, either.

So it seemed like the perfect way to get back 

into the swing of things by being a 

Guest Designer for

My Artistic Adventures 

Challenge #13

with a Christmas Theme!

I made some fun ATC's:

The bases for the ATC's are Heather's 

Vintage Victorian Chic Shabby  

Christmas Bingo ATC Cards

and can be found

here 

Those adorable trees are her 

Non Traditional Christmas Tree tags 

and are available 

here in her awesome Etsy shop!

The sweet little girls are from the

Christmas Joy Collage Sheet

and can be found in the

Gecko Galz

Etsy shop

Here are my ATC's in more detail:

Aren't they fun??

(if a little bit blurry)

While we are talking, I don't want to forget to let you know about

an exciting GIVEAWAY 

at Artistic Adventures!

All the deets can be found

HERE!

Thanks for coming by today,

 I hope to be up and about in blogland 

real soon and to stop by and see you!

Have a funny day!