Vintage

for Take A Word

credits:  Holliewood Studio, Hidden Vintage Studio,

Studio Tangie, Studio Maya, Crafty Buttons Designs

Thanks for coming by,

I will be off to see you as well!

SPA-fish

credits: Lorie Davison, Joanne Brisbois, Tangie Baxter, Freubel

Back from Alaska,

best trip evah!!

If you are interested,

scroll down for some pics.

I would suggest you watch them full-screen.

Nice to jump back into digital heaven with

Sunday Postcard Art

Home from Alaska!!

It hardly seems I have been home for a week!  have not even turned on my puter,

and I sure had better make some art today

or I will forget how

For those who asked, 

I posted on the idebar

some pics from the most amazing trip!!

Butterflies

 First of all, in 6 hours, 

I will be winging my way to a cruise ship to Alaska.  

Woo Hoo!

(A dog sled and a helicopter are also involved!)

That has nothing whatsoever to do with

this week's theme at

Sunday Postcard Art

which is

BUTTERFLIES

(but I am beyond excited!! tee hee!)

I settled down just long enough to make this.

Credits:  Sissy Sparrows, Joanne Brisbois.

Won't have any computer access while I am away,

but lots of pictures will come back with me.

See you later!!

It's Circus Time!!

at Gecko Galz!

and we have a brand new Customer Challenge

for you to join!

I made a few samples, just

LOVING the images this month!

featuring:

Clowning Around Jewel It Sheet, and complimenting

that gorgeous image with other elements by 

Berna Datema, The Nifty Pixel,

Courtney's Designs and Cryztal Rain

This awesome image is one of Gecko Galz'

Curiosity Shop Digital Stamps, the background is

one of their Gypsy Market papers, and I finished it with a plastic frame

by Dido Designs.

This piece features the new

Up, Up and Away Digital Collage Sheets,

and a Circus Time Digital Stamp.

I also incorporated one of the 

Colour Me Ombre Papers and a Berna Datema Frame

Are you sick of me yet?  

Lots going on in this one, right?

Well, would you believe I only used a few

products?

Curiosity Shop Paper Pak

Clowning Around Digital Collage Sheets

Circus Time Stamps

Curiosity Shop Stamps and Icons

All Gecko Galz.

I topped it off with a frame and overlay by

Joanne Brisbois and Tangie Baxter

(I had so much fun with this one and lost

an entire evening - lol)

Here is my project for the 

Life is a Circus Challenge

These were so easy to make:

Background papers from the Life is a Circus Time Paper Pak

Cut out individual images from the
Clowning Around Jewel It

To up some words on your computer, cut apart, add a little trim 

and bling from your staff and VIOLA!!

To thank you for sticking with me through all these words and samples,

I have a free stamp for you to play with.

All you need to do is right click and save it to your computer.

And here is a piece featuring the stamp and a Gecko Galz paper,

to help get your creative juices flowing:

You can get all of these wonderful Gecko Galz products

at the Etsy Shop
I hope you have fun with them,
as you can see, I surely did!

Thanks for coming by!

More Cookies Please!

That is the current challenge at

Jingle Belles

the funnest Christmas Card Challenge blog in the blogiverse!

I haven't had time to make anything lately,

but,

when I saw the theme,

I knew I had to drop everything

and dig out one of my most favorite stamps.

About naughty Elves. 

I used some very old wrapping paper 

I had for the background and happened

to find some broken cookies.

Go figure!

I hope you are playing along at

Jingle Belles, cus

come December,

you will be wishing you had!

Thanks for coming by and

have a funny week!

Blue and White

 This is mainly Blue and White, right?  :-)

Credits:  Gecko Galz, Amanda Sok, Syndee Nuckles, Akizo

The Three Muses

Thanks for coming by!

Spirits of Christmas Past

well, not TOO past, actually.

We are talking MY past here.

The current theme at

Jingle Belles

is RETRO

I am RETRO.

sigh.

So I used an image by Gecko Galz to show you a little bit of my childhood...

We led exciting lives back, then, we did.

Thanks for coming by!

Black and White

OK, I rarely do this,

but I am going to walk you briefly through the process of how

my piece for this week's

Take A Word 

Last night I sat down at the computer

and thought to myself,

I'll bet I can make a cool photo mask.

Why do I buy them, it must be simple.

And I did.

(I was right, it IS simple) 

So long story short,

I made a mask,

Made a background with it,

made a layout,

and then changed it up so

I could use it for this week's

 Take A Word 

Here is the version before I adjusted it...

and then...

To tell you the truth,

I like them both!

credits:  Rebecca McMeen, Bonnie Zeiman,

Berna Datema, Cryztal Rain

Thanks for stopping by~!

Marie

credits:  Gecko Galz, Lara's Digi World, Bleuesse,

Manuela Zimmerman, Bonnie Zeiman, and Crafty Button Designs

This is for the current challenge at

Digital Whisper

I Hope you like it.

Thanks for coming by!

Collage Obsession

credits:  Gecko Galz

for Collage Obsession

See you there, have a great weekend!

Ohh La La!

It seems like I am just not getting a clear picture today.

Oh well, it is what it is.

 Tag Tuesday

which has some of the best artwork around each week.

Thanks for coming by!

Retro Summer

Interestingly enough, Lunagirl has chosen this same image

of hers to feature on her challenge this time!

(That's cus it's so great.)

Other credits:  

Studio Rosey Posey

Lunagirl Moonbeams 

Thanks for coming by!

Sea Life

Take A Word

credits:  Finecrafted Designs, Bonnie Zeiman, 

Beth Rimmer, Shadowhouse Creations

Thanks for coming by!

Go Messy!

Sunday Postcard Art

Summer of Colour-Last Week!

I am so glad I found Summer of Color and played along!

It's been a lot of fun and forced me to get my sorry tired butt in gear each week

and make something just for it!

This week's colours are Orange,Orange and Blue, and I made this journal page.

I hope you had as much fun as I did!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Street Art

This is actually, highway art, I suppose.

On a road trip last summer, 

we stopped and discovered some ruins of an old bridge or something 

and it was full of glorious graffiti.

So my grandson is yelling to get an echo and

I am just plain happy.

credits:  Itkupilli, Dido Designs, Studio Tangie, Dawn Inskip,

Crowabout Studio and Eena's Creation.

The Three Muses

Thanks for coming by!

Take A Word-Wings

credits:  Holliewood Studios, Tumblefish Studios, Studio Tangie, 

Far Far Hill, Bonnie Zeiman

for Take A Word

Thanks for coming by!

Seaside ATC's

As promised, here are a few

of the ATC's I made using the Gecko Galz Collage Sheets.

.

 I think the images are gorgeous

I sure had a good time with these!

Thanks for coming by!

Belles are Ringing!

This week, the challenge at Jingle Belles

is to create a card with either silver

or bells on it.

I am silver-challenged,

so I made this card... 

Now it also just so happens, that over at

 Fripperies and Butterflies

the challenge is

Christmas in July

and we are invited to use one of the free images she has available

for download on her page.

So I did just that.

AND I used a background from Gecko Galz.

Easy-Peasey.

How are your Christmas cards coming?

Are you done?

Only  167 days until Christmas.

Ya better get a move on!!

Thanks for coming by today!