Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Gardening

Well. not so much GARDENING as IN a Garden.

I think they'll be OK with that at

Collage Obsessions

credits:  Durin Eberhart, Berna Datema, Shalae Tippetts,

and Studio Maya

Thanks for coming by, I always love to have you visit.

Circles and Squares

Who knew such a mundane couple of simple words could be such a blast to work with!?!?

credits:  Durin Eberhart. Holliewood Studios,
Brandy Murry and Amanda Sok

Check out the other circle and square creations at

The Three Muses

You're sure to love it!

Thanks for coming by!

Tuesday Our World

That's a new photography challenge site I discovered while blurfing last week.

(It's a bad thing for me to have a week off work - lol)

Here's my part of the world this week:

In case you are wondering, those are the Rockies

and they are big.  That's why there is snow on them.

As long as it's not on my deck, I'm good with that.

Thanks for stopping by!

Dark

is the theme for the week at

Take A Word

one of my most favorite challenge sites.

credits: Gecko Galz, Miki Ferkul

See you over at
Take A Word

Thanks for coming by! 

Quotography - Blossom

Quotography

See you over there!

Celebrating Women

That's this week's theme at

Sunday Postcard Art 

Elements used are by Amanda Sok, Gecko Galz, Angie Briggs, and Karla Dudley.

Check out all the other tributes to women this week at

 Sunday Postcard Art

And thanks for stopping by!

The Weekend in Black and White

I stopped on the way home yesterday and shot the sky.
My lovely sky.
The Weekend in Black and White

Thanks for stopping by.
Check out this photography blog I found.
There is visual magic there.

Maps

is the theme for our new challenge at

Soartful Challenges for the month of August.

Our colours for the month are pastels, such as

light blue, yellow, ponk, orange, green...

There are some inspiration pieces over at our blog and

tons of maps on the Internet for you to find and use.

credits:  Cajoline, Amanda Sok, Lefkoi Lykoi,

Jen Yurko and Angie Briggs.

You have the whole month of August to join in our

Maps

challenge at

Soartful Challenges. 

Thanks for stopping by, I'll see you there!

Photo Art Friday

Bonnie has given us a challenge to create a piece of 

Flower Art with one of her

Pixel Dust Textures.

Easy Peasy, the only hard part was picing which texture to use, 

they are all so awesome.

I actually used three of her textures,

Fanciful, Antique Me and Mirror, Mirror.

Then I finished it off with an overlay frame by Amanda Sok. 

You can find Bonnie's shop at her blog

here 

AND you can play along with her challenge for

Photo Art Friday 

Thanks for stopping by, I love to see you!

Just Because

credits:  Hidden Vintage Studios, Bonnie Zeiman, 

Studio Laurie, Karla Dudley, Amanda Sok

Steampunk

for this month's challenge at

Lunagirl Moonbeams

The man who is (unwillingly) landing

is one of Lunagirl's images.  They have some amazing

images, and there are a whole bunch of cool ones 

on sale right now that are perfect for this challenge!

Other credits:  Plush Plossom, Rucola Desings, 

Kerry Klaasen Veale and Bonnie Zeiman.

I hope I see you over there!

And I hope you like my little diorama.

Thanks for coming by!

Hello Sailor

for The Three Muses

credits:  Finecrafted Designs, Beth Rimmer, 

Holliewood Studios and Berna Datema.

Thanks for stopping by!

Now that the wedding is over, I will be able to visit everyone's blogs again.

I'm really looking forward to it!

Summer

It was so chilly here last night, I considered wearing a parka.

OK, that's not "chilly", that's COLD.

Let's be honest.

At any rate, it was a perfect day for my darling 

daughter's wedding this past weekend 

and I'm really not complaining.

Really I'm not.

So SUMMER

IS THE THEME OF THE WEEK AT

Collage Obsessions

and I made this LO

Victoria is the place I grew up and a recent visit to the harbour made me

think of summers spent on the beach, with no worries and no supervision, when I was little.

It was a different time back then.

credits: Holliewood Studios, Imagic Reflections and Amanda Frijo-Tobin

Thanks for stopping by.

It's early in the week, so you have no excuse for not participating in this magical

summer challenge at

Collage Obsessions

Pink

is the theme at

Take A Word

this week.

I love pink. 

In fact the woman who fills my 

coffee cup at McDonalds Drive Thru 

every morning before work comments 

on how much I like pink.

(That's a useless bit of trivia for you.

There may be a test, so pay attention.)

Lots of credits for this one:

Lisas Altered Art, Websters Pages, Digital Whisper, Kristen Aagard,

Dawninskip, SusyQscraps, Tumblefish Studios, and Syndee Nuckles

Thanks for looking.

Now scurry on over to

Take A Word

to create something pinkly wonderful.

C'mon, you love pink.

You know you do.

I'll see you there.

Don't be Such a Beach

Challenge number 162 at 

The Order of the Opus Gleui

is

 Don't be Such a Beach

 I made these for my good friend Sonya 

and mailed then off to her, 

without getting the name of the first paper I used.  

I THINK it was Anthropology

The second uses papers by Graphic 45.

OLD papers by Graphics 45.

Perfect for this challenge, don't you think?

Will you join in?

It's such a fun theme.

You have until the end of August 10th to create 

your beachy piece and link up with us.

 The Order of the Opus Gleui

C'mon, don't be a beach.

Weekend Reflections

I'll bet you have some photos with a reflection in your picture files.

Why don't you play along with us at

Weekend Reflections?

Thanks for coming by, I'll see you over there!

Just Because

credits:  Studio Rosey Posey, Gecko Galz and my cat Crystal.

(She wanted me to say "Hi".)

Always Remember

It's been a sketchy kind of day.

I'm officially on holidays and have taken some time to do some digital art.

Tomorrow, I head south, to go to my darling daughter's wedding 

(Woo Hoo!)

I did the July Canadian Scrapbooker Sketch Challenge

credits:  Cryztal Rain, Egiovanni, Studio Rosey Posey,

Coreen Silke, Cajoline and Monika Design.

BTW, did you know I was published in

Canadian Scrapbooker last month?

Another Woo Hoo!

But not as big a one as for my girl's wedding.

This is the LO

I can't remember if I showed you this.

And now I have!

credits: Amanda Sok, Brandy Murry

Thanks for coming by!

Insect

I was creating this LO for the

Scrapbook Paradise July Sketch Challenge

when I realized,

Hey, Electra, there is an insect in your photo.

(well, duh, that's the whole entire point of the photo)

and then I realized,

Hey, Electra, Insects are the theme of the week at

The Three Muses 

How cool is that?
Here is the sketch provided:

 

Here is my Layout:

credits:  Amanda Frijo-Tobin, Berna Datema, and Clementine Designs

Thanks for stopping by, your visit always makes me happy!!

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Ephemera

for

Sunday Postcard Art

credits:  Lisa's Altered Art and Dezinaworld

Thanks for stopping by.

I have my daughter and her fiance and the little one here

 and I managed to escape into my studio for a few minutes.  

My reprieve is over though...

Quotography - Clouds

for Quotography

Thanks for stopping by.  

You're looking good!

Weekend Reflections

for Weekend Reflections

and have a great one!!

Black, white and Red. And Digital Piracy.

The black, white and red part is for this week's challenge at

The Three Muses

Thanks go to Beth Rimmer, Holliewood Studios, Bleuesse,

and Hidden Vintage Studios.

NOW, for the 

DIGITAL PIRACY part.

Some smarmzy person name JanRogers

stole my good friend IndyBen's digital artpiece

and posted it under her (his?) own name.

That is SO IGNORANT.

However, what goes around comes around.

Did I spell Smarmzy right?

Nuff said.

:-(

Thanks for your visit, I really appreciate it!

 

Digital Backgrounds

for the new challenge at

Lunagirl Moonbeams

Now if that isn't a fun challenge, I don't know what is!

I started with this paper:

I got it years ago from Digifusion, a site that no longer exists.

Then I jazzed the basic paper up with elements by

Sissy Sparrows,  Captivated Visions, and Holliewood Studios

Easy Peasy.

I used a couple of brushes by Amanda Frijo-Tobin and Sissy Sparrows

Added the woman and words by Holliewood Studios, a texture by Bonnie Zeiman,

and a background paper for a frame by Kim Jensen and we're done!

I hope you visit

Lunagirl Moonbeams

not just to participate in this awesome challenge, 

but to check out their gorgeous digital images.

You won't be disappointed!

Thanks for stopping by!

Incongruous

for

Collage Obsession

One of these things does not belong with the others.

Or More.

You decide.

Credits:  Beth Rimmer, Finecrafted Designs, Rian Desings, 

Holliewood Studios, Berna Datema, Bonnie Zeiman.

I'll see you at

Collage Obsession

Isn't this a cool theme?

Thanks for coming by!

Hats

Hats.

I love hats.

And apparently, so does

Take A Word

cus that is their theme for the week. 

I had lots of fun with this one.

credits:
Crowabout  Studios, Holliewood Studios,  Flergs,

 Rachael Scraps,

Sissy Sparrow and Cottage Arts.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the hats everyone presents to us!

Aren't you?

Fairies of the Sea

for Sunday Postcard Art

Swim your way over to

 Sunday Postcard Art to see what thr other artists have created this week!

And thanks for stopping by!

credits: Beth Rimmer, Findcrafted Designs, Bluesse, and Art By January

Challenge #161 - Weddings!

The current challenge at

The Order of The Opus Gluei 

is 

WEDDINGS

I know this, cus I'm hosting the challenge. 

And the reason it's Weddings is cus my darling daughter 

is getting married this very month.

How awesome is that?

I scrapbooked two of her engagement photos, for this challenge,

cus I don't have any wedding pics yet.  

(obviously)

The photo is by Fly Free Photography

and the rest of the elements are by

Elisha's Art, Brandy Murry, Microferk,Susy Q Scraps, and Kim Klassen.

With another wonderful photo by Fly Free Photography,

Elements are by Vera Lim, Amanda Sok,

and Captivated Visions

If you visit our blog at

The Order of the Opus Gluei

and be inspired by the more wedding-y creations by the Design Team.

You have until the end of Saturday, July 27 to link up with us.
I know cus that's the date of my daughter's wedding.
We look forward to seeing what you create!

The Twelve Days of Cardstock

Fa La La!*!

The current challenge at

Jingle Belles is to create a Christmas card with cardstock only.

For this chick, that was a hard one.

I tend to put everything I can possibly fit on the card, on the card.

But I restrained myself.

Simple.

Pure Christmas Cardstock.

Thanks for looking!

Weekend Reflections

Weekend Reflections

Just Because

credits:  Angie Briggs, Egiovanni, Robyn Meierotto, Karla Dudley and G. Miller

Fish

for Take A Word

credits: Land of Nod, Tumblefish Studios, Crowabout Studios, 

Finecrafted Designs, and Holliewood Studios

I hope life is being kind to you today.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sing Your Heart Song

for this week's

Sunday Postcard Art

 

credits, Cajoline, Eliysha's Art, Captivated Visions,

Bonnie Zeiman

Thanks for coming by!

Weekend Reflections

Weekend Reflections

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

HAPPY JULY 4TH, 

MY AMERICAN FRIENDS!!

My Vacation, Reality of Fantasy - Red, Yellow and White

There is a new challenge at

Soartful Challenges 

Peggy has invited us to create something with a vacation theme in mind.

It can be fantasy or reality, your choice.

The optional colours are Red, Yellow and White.

I created my fantasy dream spot, with a whole bunch of colours:

I call it my ABH place.

( Anywhere But Here) lol

You know when my daughter and I were travelling in Thailand,

we had a code word SWA

It was a jam-packed adventure and we didn't always have enough time for enough sleep.

So we did something we called Sleeping While Awake.

I can't really explain it any more than that.

It worked for us.

Credits for my piece are Beth Rimmer, Holliewoods Studios, Sissy Sparrow,

Amanda Sok, Eeana's Creation and Dido Designs.

Now create something for your vacation in your mind or in the real world and link it up with us at 

Soartful Challenges

There are lots of Design Team Pieces to inspire you there, as well!

Thanks for visiting.

Just Because

Home Sweet Home

for The Three Muses

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Which is better?

I'm not exactly sure.

It's when times are tough that you find out what your community is made of.

Grass grows back

Love lasts forever.

Thanks for stopping by.

United States of America

for Collage Obsession

credits:  Graphics Fairy, Sande Kreiger, Bonnie Zeiman,

and Holliewood Studios.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Canada Day!