More of 100 Themes

I need to post some more of my digital pieces for the Digital Whisper 100 Themes challenge, cus my desk is overflowing with little pieces of paper........never mind, I just need to........

Oh, wait!  I will say before I begin that I figured out how to make my own photo masks!

Whistle, Clap, Cheer, Electra!!!

EYES

Heaven

Soft

Male

Home

Time

and Happiness

OK, I'm done.

Now for the little scraps of paper:

Eyes-my own photo, word art by Amanda Sok, swirls and flower brushes by Coby17, assorted unknown textures

Heaven-my own photo of our Mormon Tabernacle (and no, I'm not Mormon), Internet image of Jesus' eyes (and no, I'm not Christian), wings by k2idlo, hearts and wings by Syndee Nickles, assorted unknown textures

Soft-image of woman by MissCarriage, border by correensilke, background by Vinnie Pearce, bubble brush by titoff77, and I made my own photo mask out of a frame by House of 3.

Male-male images by Dezinaworld, Lisa's Altered Art and Google, image of fighting men painted by Dante, theatre and valance by Holliewood, unknown texture

Home-my own photograph, family by Lisa's altered Art, lantern, shelf, lamp, bear, and coffee table-unknown, couch by cajoline, unknown frame, pant and pear by Holliewood, some unknown textures and some textures by Kim Klassen, valance by Fiddlette, background by Catherine Designs

Time-my photo, my negative, clock brush by charlie54, brush stamp by Fiddlette, paper by Amanda Sok, unknown bird brush

Happiness-my photo of girl, mannequins by Beth Rimmer, background by Createwings Designs, unknown birds, bluebird and sequins by the Gilded Bee, wordart by Danielle Donaldson

Whew.

Inchies

I've been making inchies.  Inchies for swaps, inchies for gifts, inchies for fun, inchie, inchie, inchies.  It's my friend Jana's fault.  She invited me to an inchie swap group and my life has never been the same since.  Thanks Jana!

No, I mean it,

THANKS, JANA!!

I thought it would be a good idea to suck you into my inchie-hell and perhaps you'll get bitten by the inchie-bug as well.  I'll give you Jana's home phone number. 

Tell her I sent you.

1. Animal Inchies

2. Vintage Inchies

3. Spring Inchies

4. Valentine's Inchies

5. Still More Vintage Inchies

6. Tim Holtz-ish Inchies

Please don't ask me to give you sources for any of these elements. I would have to have a drink in front of me to even contemplate doing that.  And I don't mean water.

Suffice it to say, I use the Internet a lot.  And my stash.

(Well, actually, feel free to ask me, just send me an email.)

Hey, did anyone on the news tonight about Skippy The Raccoon

who had a peanut butter jar stuck on his head?

No?

Never mind.

I'm checking myself into an inchie-treatment program tomorrow.

Write to me, will ya?

And send inchies.

Just disguise them as ATC's.

Blooms-this week at Take A Word

As I said, this week you have the next seven days to play along with us at

Take A Word

one of the way-coolest challenge blogs in the blogiverse!

credits:

Background-Fidlette Designs

Parachute-Wish Bliss Studio

Little Girl-Lisa's Altered Art

Overlay-Correensilke

Toadstool-sherried

Flowers-LBrewster

Flower hat and skirt and jewel-chez ZaZa

Multi-Coloured Embossing

This is a Glitz stamp that I used this cool technique on.

Don't yo think it turned out great?

I do.

tee hee

I don't want you to think

I only do digital.

Heaven forbid.

I like to swap too.

ATC's.

LOTS.

I just completed a TURQUOISE AND RED VINTAGE KITCHEN ATC SWAP.

Isn't that wild?

I grew up in a TURQUOISE AND RED VINTAGE KITCHEN

only it wasn't vintage when I grew up in it.

Well, I didn't actually grow up IN it.

There was a house around it.

So the ATC's I received are so wonderful, I want to show you.

First, by Betsy Lute, who also coordinated this swap:

Then, by Julie Abercrombie, the mixer,

and by Carol Raven, the fridge.

Brilliant!

I love each of them.

And it's only fitting that I show you mine too:

You should swap too.  It's a blast!!

Soartful!

I forgot last week all about Soartful Challenges which I LOVE!

Boo Hoo.

Can't believe it, WAY too much going on in my life right now.

HOWEVER, I did today's challenge.

Jeanette presented us with this lovely image

BIG Wow.  I really like this. 

And she talked about Thailand, where my girl and I went a few years ago. 

The trip of a lifetime, it was.

So it was easy for me to root around on my hard drive and come up with something that fit.

At least I think it fits.

I started with this:

It's one of my favorite images from the whole entire trip.

And this is what I did to it.

Unfortunately, I can't give you any credits, as I used a bunch of unknown brushes and textures that I found on the Internet ages ago.  And I painted. 

And I layered on some also unknown papers.

I'm getting better at making sure I have identifiers on everything I get now, but I ain't there yet.  Not by far.

I hope you like it.

Soartful Challenges.

I have a routine now.

Saturdays I try to do up some fun challenges.  That's what I did today, after spending 5 hours in the great outdoors taking 400 (count em) 400! photographs.  It is to-die-for gorgeous out there today.  Not warm-gorgeous, PRETTY gorgeous.  See?

Look at the size of this hoarfrost!

Is that cool or what???

I have to tell you tho, I had on two pairs of pants, three tops, my coat, hat, scarf, gloves and boots. (and socks and underwear, but you don't need to know that)

OK, back to my routine that I came to tell you about.

I got some things made today.

1. At Friday Foto Collage

Peggy gave us this AWESOME image:

I LURVES this image.

So I proceeded to make something with it, nothing particular in mind.

I also have this great image by frozenoverstock of Deviant Art:

Are you with me?

So I played around and eventually, the eggs disappeared and

kind of melted into the other image. 

But I don't have a picture of that.  :-(

THEN I decided that since Peggy mentioned

EGGS

in her post, I thought I should do something eggy.

which led to the Easter bunny coming around the corner. 

I don't have a picture of that either. 

 :-(   But the Easter bunny is by Lisa's Altered Art.

THEN I thought there should be a big egg.  And a chicken sitting on it. 

 I don't have a picture of that either.  :-( 

Is anyone sensing a pattern here?

Both the egg and the chicken (or it may be a rooster, I don't know) are by Lisa's Altered Art.

And since I was on a Lisa's Altered Art roll, I added one of her little boys, who is not convinced. 

Convinced of what?  you ask.

I DO have a picture of that.

And THAT, my friends, is what I made for Friday Foto Collage

I never meant to tell you the whole story, otherwise I would have had pictures. 

Oh well, you get the picture.

Friday Fill Ins

1. Why does it _matter, really?_.

2. _tablespoon_ is equal _to 2.5 teaspoons, I think_.

3. My favorite breakfast includes _Nachos and cheese_.

4. _Orange is the new black_ was the last book I read _and it was really interesting_.

5. I am SO glad _this week is almost over_.

6. _A back rub and come to think of it, a foot rub_ would make me feel better right now.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _some crafting_, tomorrow my plans include _more crafting_ and Sunday, I want to _craft_!

I need some crafting for my soul.

See more Friday Fill Ins here

Gingersnapper Spirit Blog Hop-Part 2

OK, I'm home now and can post the creations I made for this wonderful blog hop.

FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE TALENTED ARTISTS AT Gingersnap Creations!!
(I was so frazzled this morming, I forgot to say that!)

See? 

I really made something!  These ATC's are a bit less "busy" than my usual stuff, but I like them a lot.

The backgrounds are made by chalking and using distress ink and an unknown stamp on watercolour paper.  The shells are made with Dreamweaver stencils and paste, using a technique I haven't done for ages.  I'm so glad I found the fixins when I cleaned my studio.  lol

And the rest of the elements are from my stash.

Thanks for looking and if you've come back after my original post, THANK YOU!

Now I am going to go admire all the other artwork and then go to bed.  Travelling makes me tired.

Gingersnapper Spirit Blog Hop

Gingersnapper Spirit Blog Hop

ARRRGGGHHH!

I made this self-portrait when my hair was ginger-colooured.

See the dumb look on my face?  That's how I look right now.

This is Not what I made for the blog hop. Nosirree.

THAT is on my jump drive on my desk about 3 hours south of the hotel room I am currently sitting in.

I forgot to bring it.

So in lieu of that, I give you this:

  It is ginger and rust-ish and I pulled both of these from earlier posts on my blog.

But it is not what I had planned to show you.

I am so sorry!

Please go visit the other artists at the the Gingersnapper Blog Hop

You'll find some awesome work there!!

(Please forgive me)

Yoo Hoo!  I've returned home from my trip and posted my planned projects for this wonderful event in my next post!

Wordless Wednesday

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Friday Foto Collage

Have you been there yet?

Well???

If not, why not?

Listen.  You can go there now.  I'll hold your cookie while you're gone.

Honest.

I will.

FINE! 

NEVERMIND.

Your loss.

I, on the other hand go there every Friday.

And I like to take part in her challenges.

So there.

Each week Peggy gives us some photos to play with.  That's why it's called Friday Foto Collage. (duh)

Photos like this one:

which can then be turned into this

Now I originally downloaded this house from the Internet, intending to use it for the "Colour" theme for Digital Whisper's 100 Themes.

 But it accidentally morphed into what you see here.

I KNOW

you want to go visit Peggy at Friday Foto Collage

AND

Kimmie at Digital whisper 100 Themes

Right?

Hey, while we're at it, I'll show you a few more of the pieces I've been working on for the 100 Themes Challenge  I wouldn't want you to think I'm not doing anything, after all.

Motherhood

Past Days

Revolver

and to bring you down from the last one,

Tranquil

Voila!

For those who are interested, credits:

Motherhood-Internet image, techno brush and wordart by Amanda Sok, other brushes from Brusheezy, textures by Kim Klassen

Past Days-image and ephemera by Dezinaworld, clock by Laurie Anderson, white flourish and lace, and butterflies by Amanda Sok, overlay by Gypsy Chicks, unknown photo mask and textures

Revolver-Internet image, microphone by DCWV digital, paper by Doris Castle, unknown brushes and textures

Tranquil-background paper by Chris ford, patterned paper, lantern, and Japanese word by Numbumm, overlay by Gypsy Chicks, my own crystal ball photo.

Whew!

Need to go find some chocolate now.

(That's why I wanted to hold your cookie.)

Architexture

I know.

It's spelled wrong.

Don't care.

I like it better this way.

This week's word at Take A Word is "Architecture".

I thought I should spell it correctly for that, cus they did.

And I was majorly stumped.  I tried a few different things and they all looked like ca-ca.

I decided to give up and skip this week.

But my OCD would not let me do that.

So...

It's an ATC.

I took an Internet image of blueprints.

Then an Internet image of some rolled up paper building plans.

Then an Internet image of "Caution" signs.

Then a quote by Ayn Rand that seemed to sum it all up perfectly.

(in my brain anyways)

And some textures.

And a tire track brush.

And we're done.

In case you're wondering why I'm posting 47 times this evening, I could tell you it's because my sleeping pill hasn't kicked in yet.

Or I could tell you, it's cus I have a 16 hour day tomorrow and then am going out of town for a few days.

Or I could tell you, "Cus I feel like it".

Pick one.

They all work.

Have a funny day tomorrow.

Unless of course, you have other plans.

It's getting cold again.

There is a commercial currently on TV where they sing something like "We Canadians like to canoe and run around in our snowshoes".

WTF????

Which Canadians would that be?

There is another one that says some (really stupid) stuff such as, "No self-respecting Canadian would say, 'Let's wait until it's warmer' and 'Braving the cold is a Canadian past-time'.

ARE THEY KIDDING ME? 

Which Canadian would that be?

I'm Canadian and frankly, I'm waiting for them to come out with an i-scarf for the i-phone.

Give me strength.

Anyways, in the spirit of the first day of spring, I give you

A CANADIAN WINTER:

And finally

Are ya warm enough yet?

Happy Spring!

Oh yeah.

Did I mention I'm Canadian?

Springtime in Paris

Or fall, or winter, or even for that matter, summer.  Over at the Order of the Opus Gluei, they have asked us to create something with this theme in mind: 

Springtime in Paris.

It just so happened that I was putting together an envelope for a swap and my partner mentioned that she loved

ANYTHING TO DO WITH PARIS!!!!

Perfect!

So I ignored the "springtime" part,

(although I understand today is officially the first day of spring)

and I made her a card a la gay Paree!

(Take note, Electra is making cards now)

I hope she likes it.

See, that's the really cool part of the Opus Gluei challenges, you can do whatever part of the theme you choose, or even go off on a tangent totally unrelated (like I sometimes do)

if that's what turns your crank and they

still love you!

hah!

That's so great.

It's the last challenge from

Art Creations Friday!

How sad it that?

although I totally understand how much work it must be to run these challenge blogs.

I'm still sad though.

Here it is.

My last one.

C'mon, be sad with me, K?

and join me in sending a huge THANK YOU! to

Wil

Hermine

Femmy

and

Petra

for their generosity over the past 2 and a half years!

My new heart!

in my mailbox!

courtesy of Karan from Adventures of the Art Junk Gypsy!

I was one of the lucky winners of her gorgeous work from the

One World, One Heart Magic Carpet Ride!

Am I lucky or what?  (Big Grin)

Friday Fill Ins

1. I love to go to the bathroom really often_ because _I'm getting too old._.

2. It's not the quantity,_ it’s the quality!

3. The last thing I had to eat was a homemade cheddar biscuit-Yum!_.

4. Bowing to me_ is no longer essential.

5. Please take a moment to _consider the words that are about to come out of your mouth._.

6. _Street smarts and a strong survival instinct_ have brought you this far.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _spending time with a friend_, tomorrow my plans include _meditation_ and Sunday, I want to _do some paper scrapbooking_!

 

Have a great weekend and vist many more Friday Fill Ins here.

March Artful Bag

I am so charmed and amused with myself tonight!  Hah! 

That's not ego talking, it's how delighted I am to have completed my March purse for the Artful Bag Challenge, after staring at the thrift store purse I bought what seems like YEARS ago.

OK, maybe not years.

but it sure seemed like it.

I swear the bag was taunting me.

You know what that's like.

It is,as I said, a bag I found at the local Bible For Missions store.  So I feel very altrusitic having given my three dollars to a good cause.

The green "lace" was in a garage sale at my local scrapbooking store and because the store owner knows me she said, "You realize that it's faded?"  and I said, "I don't care, there is

A MILE

of it."  for $1.00.

A purchase I later reconsidered.

You know what that's like too.

The other ribbons came from my ribbon jars, the buttons came from my button box and the flowers came from my flower drawer.  The bling?  Guess.

That's right!

My bling stash.

You're one on my smart friends.

WOO HOO!  LIke I said, I'm pleased with myself.  lol

Faux Wood

Drunken Stampers got my attention.  they said "Play with wood!"  and I have a stamp that is all about wood that is one of my most favoritist stamps!  So I had to play.  it would have been wrong not to.  Right?

It was hard to photograph.  The woodgrain stamp is by Cornish Heritage Farms,  the large butterfly stamp is by Inkadinkado

I white embossed the wood grain and distress inked it.  I tried something else, but it didn't work so we won't discuss that.  I stamped the large butterfly on acrylic and coloured is with alcohol inks and stickles.  The little butterflies got the same treatment and were punched out with a Martha Sterwart punch. the flower is by K&Company.  The sentiment came from my sentiment stash.That's about it.  Thanks for looking!

Wordless Wednesday

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