Friday Fill Ins

1. Blue skies _are commonplace here._.

2. _This photo of my mother and grandpa  takes me down_ memory lane.

3. Kids, one of each, she told me_.

4. _No work_, _no deadlines_, _no things to see and do_;

these are some of the best things about vacation.

5. Love is _sometimes having to say you're sorry_.

6. _I wish I could participate in_ submarine races.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _getting out of the city_, tomorrow my plans include _a photo walk with other photographers_,

and Sunday, I want to _make stuff, lots of stuff_!

 

Have a super weekend everyone!

 

Friday Fill Ins

Fun Friday

Seriously?

Fun Friday

Wordless Wednesday

see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!

OK, I'm (almost) wordless, he's not.  But he didn't post this, I did.  So it counts.

See more Wordless Wednesdays here

WOYWWED

Yup, you see right.  It's an ATC orgy.

I'm a bit behind.

Sure am having fun though.  I wohn't apologize for the mess, that's the way I work best.

Take a peek at other's wonderful workdesks here!

Digital Interlude

Lately, I've been craving the feel of paper and touchable "ephemera" between my fingers and so I haven't been doing so much digital work.  I actually have been on an ATC binge this week. Now that the postal strike is over, I can get all my "on hold" swaps up and out.  It's so nice to go to the mailbox again and find treasures there.

Yes!  Already!  And they only went back to work yesterday!  Life is good!

Having said all that, I haven't posted any of my 

Digital Whisper 100 Themes work in quite some time.  So here you go:

1. Animal

2. Rain

3. Abandoned

4. Tower

and 5. Universe

That's it for today.

Thanks for stopping by!

Credits:

1. Deviant Art and Google images, brushes from Brusheezy and by Thao Cosgrove and unknown textures

2. Holliewood, Mizz D, Crowabout, Wish Bliss Studios and Laurie Anderson images,

 brush by digea and unknown textures

3. My own farm photo, Lisa's Altered Art woman's face, textures by Kim Klassen,

brushes from Brusheezy

4. Images by Mizz D,. Deviant Art, umbradenoapte, Brusheezy, hoshew and Lady Victoire brushes and textures

5. Images by Dezinaworld, background by Dianne Rigdon, Kim Klassen textures, unknown brushes.

See so much more awesome art at

Digital Whisper

The Cowboy

Never squat with yer spurs on.

Soartful Challenges

Giveaway!

To celebrate reaching 500 followers, June of Dezinaworld fame is having a splendiferous giveaway!

The prize is four sheets of her digital elements including:

Pop on over to Dezinaworld for all the deets.

And tell her I sent you, K?

The Colour of Money

The GC108 Colour Challenge is "The Colour of Money"

GREEN comes to mind right away,correct?

Well, in Canada, we have blue money, purple money orange money...you get the picture.

Some Americans like to call it "Monopoly Money"

but just a few short weeks ago it surpassed the US dollar in value, so stop that!  lol

We also have loonies and toonies.

And I heard on the radio this morning that the Royal Canadian Mint is now

churning out 50 and 100 bills that are coated with plastic.

I don't know what to say about that.

Except that I likely won't have any of those in my wallet, so it's really not an issue.

ANYHOO,

I wanted to make something colourful, to honour our psychedelic currency.

And I thought Daddy Warbucks, Richie Rich and the

Monopoly Man could help me make my point.

ANYHOO

I hope you visit Gingersnap Creations and take part in some (or all) of their challenges.  They are always fun, always challenging and always a great way to meet other artists!

See you there!!

Take A Word-Beach

Take A Word

Be there.

Or be square.

Treasure

This is for Dezinaworld's Spot Prize Challenge

Images are by Lisa's Altered Art, Deviant Art, Kim Klassen, Titoff77, and Dezinaworld!

Friday Fill In

1. Getting away _from it all_.

2. _Nachos are the perfect way_ to start your day off right.

3. Coffee, tea or _a glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice?_.

4. _Patience_ in place of _impatience_.

5. The lights _are on, but nobody's home_.

6. _The toucan of_ happiness.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _a road trip_, tomorrow my plans include _a Christmas Card workshop_ and Sunday, I want to _clean my house before my

company shows up for dinner.

 

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It's Fun Friday

at Dezinaworld

Any questions?

Woot Woot!

I am so excited to share some VERY BEEG (as Ed Sullivan used to say) news with you all today.

You've heard me speak of the illustrious Poobahs over at The Order of the Opus Gluei often, right?

(heads nod)

I lurves their blog.

So much fun, it really should be illegal.

Well,

(drum-roll)

I've been asked to be an honourary poobah!  Fledgling, really is a better word.

Isn't that just the

COOLEST THING EVER!!?!!

I AM BESIDE MYSELF WITH EXCITEMENT.

See me beside me?

Not just me, mind you, but some very talented Glueites that

I always get a whole bunch of inspiration from.

And that's not the best news.

Although that too is pretty darn cool!

For our very first challenge we are partnering with the

Jingle Belles!

You HAVE TO check these ladies out.

They have come up with the brilliant idea to make one Christmas Card a week until Christmas and by then you would have, um, let's see,

takes her shoes off

52!  Christmas cards all ready to mail!

If you're a bit of a loner like me, that would last you 6 years!

Good deal!

But that's not all.

NO!

The Challenge at

The Order of the Opus Gluei

is to make a card and a tag.

Not too complicated.

I did it.  So can you.

Here's my card

and here's my tag

I had this lovely pink wintery paper that I got in
Whitefish, Montana last year, by Paper's Best

A couple of Tim Holtz Stickers,

Some bird stamps from Mikey's that I embossed in silver. And that was REALLY hard to photograph.  But it's very pretty.

Ribbon from my stash and Class-o-Peel sentiments from my Christmas bucket.

Strips of silver paper that I think I may have bought in Thailand 6 years ago

no, I don't hold onto stuff, why are you asking?

and some buttons and pine branches that

arrived from some Poobahs who shall remain nameless last Christmas.

It seemed only right.

The frames are digital, by diannerigdondesigns

Are you still with me?

WELL, the BIGGEST news is yet to come!!

Yes, boys and girls, there are two, count en, two giveaways happening to celebrate this momentous occaision

at least it's pretty momentous to us.

One at Jingle Belles

and another at The Order of the Opus Gluei

Come on, join us, meet the other pooblettes, say hi,
make something and maybe win some Christmas goodies.

And best of all, you'll have a Christmas card made. 
Today is exactly six months from Christmas Eve.

Well, you would want to send out your card before then,
ESPECIALLY if the Canadian Postal strike is still on.

If it is, I am going on record that I WILL get a dogsled team
and go out and find my swaps that are lost in mail hell somewhere.

I will too so!

You just watch me!

Anyways, I really hope you'll come. You know me, I wouldn't do something if it weren't fun. 
And all of these ladies away beyond fun.  I hope you stop by and make a card with us.

and a tag.

And lots more in the coming months.

It's a Jungle Out There

I'm not a card person.  Truly.

I like

getting

cards

but I'm not so good at

making

cards

Having said that, I must tell you  lean closer  that the Poobahs at

The Order of the Opus Gluei

have got me making cards.

Who'd a thunk it?

Their challenge this week was to make something somewhat wild.

I'm somewhat wild, but I didn't think you'd really want to see me dancin in my undies,

 trust me, you DON'T want to see that

so

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go out and find a small child who is having a birthday....

BBQ Time

in Canada

Dezinaworld Spot Prize Challenge.

It's about your homeland.

Check it out.

I'll bet it's warmer where you are.

(just kidding.)

WOYWWED?

Nothing much going on here, just getting some snail mail ready

for when when our postal strike is over.

See more interesting Workdesks at the Stampingn Ground

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

My fantasy

is...

Oh c'mon, I can't tell you THAT.

Get real.

In lieu, I've created a piece for this week's challenge at

Take A Word

Elements used are by Fidlette, Holliewood, Crowabout Studios, Createwings Designs,

Mumbojumbo89,Kim Klassen and Deviant Art.

Make of it what you will.

GC106-Spicy Supply

This month the theme at

Gingersnap Creations

 is

AT THE MALL

And the GC Challenge is

PACKAGING MATERIALS

I used the Peeled Paint Technique on the background tag.

The actual card is from the 1940's or 50's, I'm not sure exactly.  It was in my mother's stuff.

The young lady is asking a very important question:

What the heck is a santi-pantie?

She is asking this because on the back of this garter card, it is suggested you may use these garters for a "santi-pantie". 

I'll leave that to your imagination.

Or your memory.

whichever works for you.

The garter was on the card.

The corrugated cardboard was in my stash.

And I made a ruffle on the top and the bottom of the card with some plastic wrap from a stamp set I bought.

The young lady is a Stampotique stamp.

What do you think?

Santi-pantie indeed.

We've come a long way baby.

Friday Foto Collage

OK, I admit, there is a LOT of stuff on here.

This is the original image that inspired me

Isn't it pretty?

It was provided by Peggy Gatto at

Friday Foto Collage

I had a blast making this.

Other elements are by The Land of Nod, Paula Kesselring, and Cajoline