Digital Whisper #17

Hi y'all!  I have to go to work shortly, but I spent the morning making a LO for the Digital Whisper challenge this week.  It's digital.  (duh)
I only say that because I started out putting together a paper LO and then remembered, it's DIGITAL Whisper, dum dum!  Here is the image we were given:

And here is my digital LO:  (tee hee)

If you have, ahem, somewhat more "mature" eyes, like I do, you may want to click on the picture to make it larger.  It works so much better than pressing your nose up against the monitor.

Art Creations Friday Challenge 87

Art Creations Friday

gave us this image this week:

AWWWW, isn't he ADORABLE?  Although, the look on his face tells me all is not tickety-boo in his world.

Here's why:

May your weekend be full of health, prosperity and happiness.

And may you happily skip over to Art Creations Friday  and join in the fun!

Alphabet Soup

The Poobahs over The Order of the Opus gluei at have challenged us this week to put together something wonderful which brings to mind the alphabet.  Where do they come up with these ideas anyways?  Well, you would know the answer to that question if you ever visited them.  lol 

Here is my ATC.

Here's what they have to say to us:

Here in the USA the schoolchildren are dragging themselves back to the classroom and getting back into the swing of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

In honor of their noble efforts,

your challenge this week is to use letters!

Now, it's important (to me at least) for me to tell you that here in Canada we send our children to school too.  But never mind that, I'm so relieved they didn't suggest we pay homage to

arithmetic

cus I was always (and still am) seriously arithmetic-challenged.  Back in my day (do you ever catch yourself saying that?) we didn''t have calculators (or copiers, or cell phones and underwire bras) and we had to actually count.  With our fingers!  Yeah!

Ask a young kid nowadays to do that!

(OK, I just realized I'm off on another tangent and worse than that, it's a old-lady one.  So I'm done)

But I would have come up with something for arithmetic, I want you to know.

Anyhoo,  The alphabet it is and I had another fun time with it (like I always do with the Gluei-girls).

Now here's another REALLY important reason for you to blurf on over to The Order of the Opus Gluei because you won't want to miss their inchie blog header.  That's right, I said INCHIE BLOG HEADER!!

Have you ever?

It is SO COOL.

Go on.  You know you want to.  I'll see you over there.  Maybe doing next week's challenge with us.  I hope so, anyways.

Did I tell you it's supposed to snow here tonight?

I feel so sad.

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En Francais, s'il vous plait

PS:  This is a late addition to my original post.  My buddy who was experiencing the same thing told me exactly how to stop the French from happening.  I switched my language settings from Canadian to American.  So now I have dual citizenship.  Lol  and I suppose the only things that could go wrong now is that my 'puter may switch to Spanish?  Hmmm.  Maybe I should go take some night classes....
OK, I HAVE to tell you this.  Right now.  I was blurfing over at a friend's blog a few moments ago and reading what she wrote and look at this:
Can you believe itÉ I sure couldn``t...god damn french keyboard! I fricken hate Windows 7 sometimes.Do you see the "E" where a question mark should be?  That's FRENCH.  THAT's what happens to me too.  Out of the blue, when I least expect it, all of a sudden, my puter will refuse to type things like question marks (which are English) and in their place give me stupid accented French letters.

For those of you who have talked about my "unusual" comments about my puter, and I know you are out there, this is proof positive that I am not a lunatic!  So go back to all your friends at the coffee shop who you mentioned your crazy friend Electra to, and tell them, "Electra is not nuts!"

It must be a Canadian thing.

And for those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, never mind.

Compendium time!

Over at Studio L3 Linda has posted Challenge #14:  Masks Basics for her awesome Compendium of Curiosities Challenge  And I've made something.  I should warn you,

 it's not very Tim-ish, not at all.  but I think Mr. H would be OK with that.  I followed his directions to the "T" and then some.  Here it be:

This isn't the WHOLE thing, I'm easing you into it.  I was in the mood for something girly and I think I've achieved my goal.

OK, here is the rest of it.  Ready?

Told ya, not Tim-ish at all.  But I like it.

The digital elements are by Laurie Ann.

I did my thing with one of Tim's masks, Concerto, to be specific, I printed out the elements, cut them out and glued them where I thought they should go and I outlined the music score and especially the treble clef with Lemon Ice Stickles.  And finished it all off with a little bling by Recollections.

Oh yeah, some Worn Lipstick, Mustard Seed, Dusty Concord (did you know I hate purple grapes?) and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks were involved as well.

And VOILA!!

We have a card for the next sweet little girl who skips into my humdrum life.

And like I do every Tuesday (It IS Tuesday, right?)  I'm going to these parties.

I hope you'll come along.

 

Stamp-tember Hop!

My buddy Lori over at  I been thinkin'...'bout inkin' told me (and about 150 others) a secret the other day.  The secret is that the challenge blog Simon Says Stamp is having a blog hop!

The grand prize is a $100.00 gift certificate for their Simon Says Stamp Store.

How can I not hop along with the best of them?  I visited all the blogs and have to say, there are some really amazing cards artists out there! (and this comes from a SEVERELY card-challenged chick.) At the end of the hop, you are supposed to link to a project you have made about Holiday Fun.  Here is my ATC celebrating Halloween:

The background is by Holliewood Studios.

The three witches, good and evil, as well as the "Haunted" sign are from

Lisa's Altered Art.

The boat, waves, and the chains the evil witches intend to use to incapacitate their prey are by Pixelworks, who are actually closing shop in two days.  :((

I cannot tell a lie.  I don't remember where I found the the mummy, keeper of the crypt, nor the frame, nor the barbeque.

Somewhere in that vast warehouse we call The Internet.

I hope you'll join the blog hop-you'll find lots of inspiration along the way.

That would be about it.  the little sailor suspects nothing, wouldn't you say?

tee hee

Compendium of Curiosities-Week 13

Over at Studio L3 it's Week 13 of the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge.  Now I would like to tell you that I haven't been participating in this particular challenge because I just haven't been in a position to get Tim Holtz' CofC book right now.  BUT (you won't believe this) one day not too long ago, I opened my mailbox to find a parcel and in it was Mr. H.'s book and some tags to get me started.  How AMAZING is that??? 
My own personal angels who played Santa and sent me this awesome gift are Linda Ledbetter of Studio L3 and Daisy Sparks of Eclectic Paperie.  I can't adequately express how absolutely thrilled I am by their kindness!
So, OF COURSE I'm now taking part in Linda's most excellent challenge.  Still not over whatever bug I have, this LO is the only thing I've gotten done in the past two days, but get it done I did!

Here are my flowers:

I cut them out of grungepaper, sprayed them with Airondack Color Wash and Glimmermist, painted them with sparkling H20's and finished them off with stickles and a pearl.

And here is the LO I put them on:

Oh my.  I THINK the papers rub-ons and brad are from the Bayberry Cottage line by PinkPaislee,

the cardstock is dotted swiss by I-don't-remember-who (you likely have some of their product in your stash).  And the felt is from the same manufacturer.  We'll call it IDRW.

There's some tulle too, from the pile of little-girl stuff I used to use when my daughter was little and it was raining.  Oh yeah, there are three sitckled butterflies from the Graphics 45 new line that I love, love, love.

OK.  A HUGE thanks again to Daisy and Linda and now I'm goin' back to bed.

The world's scariest license plate

Gotta love her.  You could try to pass her, but I wouldn't honk

Isn't She Lovely

Over at Soartful Challenges they have give us a (lovely) image entitled "Isn't she lovely".  I understand this lovely woman was drawn by Arthur Jule Goodman around the mid to late 1800s.  she's so elegant, don't you think?  Not much around today that is elegant like this.

Of course, I need to rattle her up a little bit.  To tell you the truth, I think these Hoity-toity la-de-da LADY-typed from days gone by, must have had some pretty good times,when no one was looking.  How could they not?  I mean, they're just like you and me, except they wear about 60 more pounds of fabric than we do.

Here's the real deal:

All of the elements I used are from Scrapartist, who are going out of business in four days.

Phooey.

I won!

a beautful clock from mb Art Studios, through a giveaway on one of my favorite blogs Kind Over Matter  It's a "Goethe" quote that I chose, but I realized I can't tell anyone about it cus I don't know how to pronounce "Goethe"  Do You?

I would be eternally grateful if you could help me.  Then I can brag to my friends.  My face-to-face friends.  My friends here, well, YOU, don't actually hear me talk so you can't tell if I'm from the back woods or not.

Mary Burrows' art is really lovely, you can go see more of it here!

Art Creations Friday #86

I have a few days off work.  Can't seem to shake this virus, so I hope this does the trick.  I slept most of the last 24 hours, and now I'm up, but I'm too weak to stand up and scrapbook, which is how I scrapbook.  So I'm doing some digital.

Here are the images provided for us over at

Art Creations Friday

And here is what I've done with these images:

Now I ask you, would you argue with this woman?

Opus Gluei Challenge #70

Fair-Well Summer!!

Have you gone over to The Order of the Opus gluei yet?  What?  Why not?  I told the Poobahs  you would be coming.  Yeah, right, like you've been too busy.  Well, all I can say is you're missing the funnest challenges in the blogoverse.  Your loss.

Digital Whisper Challenge #16-Palm Trees

I have to apologize to Digital WHISPER for calling it Digital WHISPERS on my last post.  I do hope you'll accept my apologies.  I can't imagine how choked I would be if someone got the name of my blog wrong, like Wishin I knew how to burp, or Wishin I knew how to get my mother in law to come visit me less often.  I'm sure there are blogs that deal specifically with those types of issues, (or at the very minimum, a You-Tube Video) but this aint it.  Ya know?

I like their challenges.  Wandering retroactively through their achives, it's obvious to me that some careful and artful thought goes into the selection of the images. And I appreciate that.  Here is this week's image:

Lovely, isn't it?  I'm humming a song called Fly Away With Me....what?  it's not a song?  Well, it could be.  And I'm going to keep humming it.  If it bothers you, go visit a football team's site or a shoe store.  Cus I'm still humming it.

And heeeeeeeeeere's mine!

All images except the background and the mermaid on the hammock are from Lisa's Altered Art

The mermaid I found on the Internet.  She's the nanny.  Keeping an eye on this watery playground.

I think they should have a place like this in Disneyland. Or -World.  Or something.

But chances are good that it will remain in my mind.  Oh well, it's a great diversion when work gets too crazy and I can just zone out for a few moments.  I do that a lot lately.  Go to my happy place.

But that's a story for another day.

I hope you go see them over at Digital Whisper  It will make you smile.

What's on your Workdesk Wednesday #66?

Over at What's on your Workdesk Wednesday you can peek in people's windows and see what they are up to in their creating areas.  I've always loved to peek.  Never been arrested for it though.  I feel it's important you know that.  Here's what I've got going on:

Oogedy-boogedy.

Halloween is near.

Soartful Challenges-Time

I blurfed my way over to Soartful challenges and thoroughly enjoyed her site and her challenges.  So I decided to play along!
This is the image we were provided with:

It's a great image, I think, don't you?  What's now to love about time? 

Except that there is never enough of it.

And here is my contribution:

Now, "What does this have to do with time?" you may ask.  I might answer "Nothing at all".  Or I might answer, "Well, that's kind of a silly question, isn't it?..."

I cannot lie.  All I could come up with is Time to Hide.  From the evil gargoyle.  Whose owl, the little fairy girl ripped off when he wasn't looking.

What's that you say?  Not good enough?

Fine. The truth is, I just loved the image.  I completely forgot the theme was Time.

There.  Are you happy now?  You've made me cry.

You're not my friend anymore.

But I had lots of fun making this.  So there.

I'll bet the people at these parties won't make me cry....

They're too busy.

Luv u!

Zip Lines

I promised I would post a bit more about our Montana zipline adventure. FINALLY, I'm doing that.
It was such a blast, I would recommend anyone give it a try.  I did them in St. Lucia a few years ago, but this time was WAY more high-tech.  There, a big guy was waiting to catch you at the next treetop.  Here, they have springs and pullies.  The only drawback to that is that as you hike up the moutain, you have to carry twenty pounds of gear.  Darn near killed me, that did.  The ziplines themselves were a piece of cake after the hike.

1.  Training

The Torpedo:

(To go fast.  Like I want to.  Not.)

The Starfish:

(to slow yourself down) 

Cute guy, huh?

2.Ready To Go!

3.  Going Higher

Pretty, eh?

Now keep in mind, I've never been on a chair lift (is that what it's called?)

THAT scared me.  I thought I was going to break my neck getting on.  Or getting off.  Or in the middle.  Geesh.

4.  the Adrenaline.

Now, keep in mind, we've completed the CLOTHESLINE,

which was 800 feet long and 25 feet above ground.

As we were hiking Up, Up, Up, we noticed a couple of power lines above the trees.  With those orange disc-y things to keep planes from running into them.

Except they weren't power lines.  They were our ziplines.

1862 feet long. 300 feet above ground.

5.  We're up next.

I love you Kaitlin!  I love you Mommy!

(I can't tell you what I said after that.  This is a family blog.)

5.  ACTION!!

Now before you watch this, I have to warn you, it ain't that easy to make a movie as you're trying not to die.  You'll need to cock your head to the left at the beginning, and a couple of times again, and as we're coming in for a landing, but hey.  You can pretend you're actually DOING the Adrenaline with us!!!

That was ne in the red helmet. Notice my perfect torpedo form.  Not being silly like the videographer.

6. We Survived!

I look a bit hysterical.  I know.

7.  The Highline

(yeah, right)

This one was so fast, they tied a purple parachute to my a$$.

We have a video of that, but I'll spare you.

As we neared the end of this one, I was thinking to myself.  THIS is going to hurt.

And it did.  I was shaking so hard, they had to hold me up.

8.  The Finale

What can I say?

It's kind of anti-climactic.  I admit it.

Compendium-of-Curiosities

This is my first attempt to take part in Linda's world-famous Compendium-of-Curiosities challenge over at Studio L3.  Our task was to follow Tim's Chipped enamel technique and I've done it on the heart on this piece.  I like the way it turned out.  Now I just have to figure out what to do with this.  I just realized I may be too late to participate in this week's challenge, but if I am, Oh Well, I've had fun doing it!

Studio L3.

Go see the amazing talent showcased there.  You'll be as inspired as I am!

Thanks for looking!

Still Playing

OK, I admit it.  I didn't get very far in my blurfing.  I got to this awesome site Digital Whispers which I've visited before and I got stuck.  Love their challenges.  Decided to play.  No more blurfing.  What can I say?  I've been art-deprived.  I have to make up for lost time.  HAVE TO!  Never you mind.  I had to.

Here is the image provided:

And here is what it ended up as:

There is some amazing work on this site, I hope you go over there:  Digital Whispers

I should probably go to bed now.  Maybe...

Playing

I need some colour in my life.  So I did this LO.  This is a little girl we met in Montana, she gave us a tour through her yard and showed us all of her dad's (amazing) artwork.  I asked her if I could take her photo, and I'm going to send it to her parents as a thank you gift, along with some photos I took of his artwork.  He was building a house for his family, after their original house burnt down in a fire not too long ago.  I'm guessing he must have lost some of his work too, although all the kids were fine, and that's all that matters.  Anyhoo, she is sitting in a gazebo he built, which was decorated with Thai prayer flags.  How cool is that?

Her name is Luna.

...and this next one I made for my daughter, who is having dog challenges at her new house down south this weekend.  First her new dog ran away, the second day in their new place, and then she came back, like, five days later.  HOWEVER, my girl is babysitting a couple of other dogs and now Zoe is pissed off and so she's peeing everywhere.  And the girl had to miss her first shift at her new job, thanks to this evil canine.

I love you girl, this too shall pass.

As I write this, behind me, the TV is showing Stephen Hawking's "Into the Universe" and he is theorizing about alien life forms.  I can't turn around and watch it because I'm in the midst of a Dean Koontz novel about the war of the worlds (and our world is currently losing) and I'm too freaked out to look.  I turned around once but got really scared, so I won't look again.  I'll just listen.  It's very interesting.  Really.  Maybe I'll just make another LO.  Or Blurf!!  That's it, I'm going to visit my bloggy friends!!  Bye now.

Art Creations Friday

Art Creations Friday has been on vacation this month and now they've returned!  So I immediately had to play along and make something with their (as always) lovely image.  Here is the image we are to  use:

and here is what I've come up with, using this image:

What do you think?  I think I feel AMAZING to be making stuff again, after far too long doing without.

All of the digital elements I used are from Die Cuts With A View's CIAO BELLA collection.

Hey, If I can do it, you can do it.  check it out - Art Creations Friday!

Friday Fill In

1. Family is the centre of my universe.

2. It feels like these past two weeks have been back and forth.

3. I love a comfy bed.

4. Making a reservation always makes a good meal.

5. I've got the grandaddy of all flus right now.

6. I know this is spelled incorrectly,

but some people have no cou: wth!!!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to R&R, tomorrow my plans include seeing how long I can stay up and out of bed and Sunday, I want to craft, if I'm up to it!

A Happy Labour Day Weekend to you all!

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