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Okanagan, BC, Canada
Welcome to my crafting blog. After retirement, my husband and I moved to a beautiful location in the Okanagan area of British Columbia. I love all paper crafts including mixed media, journaling and cards. I also dabble in papermaking, photography, fibre art, and altered books. I am an active member of several card and mixed media groups and on the design team of several challenge blog. I love the world of blogging, it has opened many doors for me. My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” I hope you join me in my search for my creative side. Thanks for stopping by!

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #265 ~ Fill in the blank - Fairy Tale _____


We have another great challenge happening at Crafty Gals Corner this month. 


The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Fill in the blank - Fairy Tale _____ ~
(fairy, princess, mermaid, leprechaun, etc.)

 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 
(listed in alphabetical order)



Prize ~ 3 Digital Images




Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

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This is my card for the challenge 
and I have filled in the blank with "Believe  in the magic of Fairytales". 


The beautiful image I used for my card is Luna Moon from 
Colour of Love

The produces I used to make my card along with the beautiful image of Colour of Love are:

Copics
Die Cut Flowers
Wink of Stella
Pencil Crayons
Pearl Gem
Nuvo 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting us and generously supplying us with beautiful images. 
Join us this month. We would love to see your beautiful projects. 
Create your project and enter it here

Friday, March 7, 2025

Creative Artiste Challenge Blog - Anythin Mixed Media Mixed Media

  Time for another great challenge over at Creative Artiste

Our theme is as always 

"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your projects. Please respect that we do not currently accept Instagram or Facebook entries. 

The term “mixed media art” is a broad definition that covers many forms of arts and crafts, including collage, assemblage, altered objects, handmade greeting cards, artist trading cards (ATCs) tags and art journaling  as long as you use different mediums.

The “mixed media” used includes paint, paper, pastes, sprays, powders, textural elements, clay, resins, fabrics, found objects, photos, metal, inks, pencils, markers and pastels to name just a few.

This is my March project for Creative Artiste. 


Creating my collage. 

I had started this mixed media board but did not care for it so I decided to re-think my plan and add some collage details. 

I used a combination of papers, acrylic paints, stencils, molding paste and a mixture of papers from my stash.  I love the sentiment Richelle Goodrich, it was the inspiration for the collage along with the butterflies I collected in my stash. To complete the collage I added orange cord to the sides of the frame. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to view the different projects of our creative design team. Hope you will join us this month.  Just create your project and enter it here

Sunday, March 2, 2025

A Place to Start - MARCH, 2025 - ANYTHING GOES w/OPTIONAL TWIST: FAIRY TALES

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Time for another great challenge at A Place to Start.  As always the theme of the challenge is Anything Goes and the Optional this month is Fairy Tales.

This is my card I made for this challenge. 



I purchased the last time I was at the craft store some of Tim Holtz's Distress Oxide products and used them on this project.

To create the card I used the following products:

Distress Oxide Ink pads
Distress Spritz
Distress Oxide Sprays
Prism Studio - white smooth media paper
Versa Fine Black Ink
Reach for the Stars rubber stamp by 
Art Impressions

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join our March challenge.
Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.



Saturday, March 1, 2025

613 AVENUE CREATE -MARCH 2025 - ANYTHING GOES W/ OPTIONAL TWIST ANY OCCASION

  
Welcome back to another great challenge at 613 Avenue Create. 

The theme of this challenge is as always anything goes and this month's twist theme is to create something with the optional twist of "any occasions". 

I chose to make a birthday card for my grandson who will be 16 this month. 



I decided to make him a card with a drum theme since he has been teaching himself to play the drums. I found this drum set on Esty and it went very well with my collage paper with a music theme I had in my stash.

Products I used in my card are:

Digital drum set by LucidDigitalDesign

Collage designer paper - designer unknown

Musical cutting dies

Wooden 16 from my stash

Cutting die - Musical Happy Birthday 


It was a fun card to make and I hope he enjoys it.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Hope you will join our challenge this week. 


Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Crafty Gals Corner - Challenge #264 ~ Fill in the blank - Pink_____ (2/12/2025)


Another great challenge is happening over at Crafty Gals Corner


The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Fill in the blank - Pink_____ ~

 Our generous sponsors for this challenge are: 

(listed in alphabetical order) 



Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

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Prize ~ 3 Digital Images



This is my card I made  for this challenge.  I filled in the blank with Pink Flowers.

Using: Abigail
LeAnn's World 101
for the image on my card


I love this cute image from LeAnn's World 101 so I decided tp make to make a birthday card for my niece. 


Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Hope you will join us this month in this pick challenge. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.

Friday, February 7, 2025

Creative Artiste February 2025 - Mixed Media Challenge Blog

 Time for another great challenge over at Creative Artiste

Our theme is as always 

"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Welcome back to our first Challenge Blog at Creative Artiste for 2025. Hope everyone had a very  Happy Holiday Season. I am really looking for to crafting with all of you this year.

Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your projects. Please respect that we do not currently accept Instagram or Facebook entries. 

The term “mixed media art” is a broad definition that covers many forms of arts and crafts, including collage, assemblage, altered objects, handmade greeting cards, artist trading cards (ATCs) tags and art journaling  as long as you use different mediums.

The “mixed media” used includes paint, paper, pastes, sprays, powders, textural elements, clay, resins, fabrics, found objects, photos, metal, inks, pencils, markers and pastels to name just a few.

This is my project for February. I have created a mixed media wall hanging using pieces I have accumulated in my stash over the years.



 

Product I used for this wall hanging are:

a door knob plate

parts of a large belt made some different shaped metal decorations

another belt  that was made of many with different metal circles

Crackling paste

metal corners

several different ink and waxes

Dollar store gems




Thank you for stopping by and have  a creative week. Hope you will join us this month, we would love to see your mixed media projects. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

613 AVENUE CREATE - FEBRUARY 2025 - ANYTHING GOES W/ OPTIONAL TWIST: LOTS OF LOVE

 Time for another great challenge at 613 Avenue Create

As always the theme of this challenge is Anything Goes and for February
the optional twist, "Lots of Love"

I made this card for my husband for our 35th wedding anniversary. I looked through my mixed media scraps for a background paper that was not traditional for an anniversary wedding card. 

I like to surprise him with something totally different than he was expecting. Along with the mixed media scrap of paper I used

an Italian love poem, love and a heart die cut from my stash, a round paper clip and a bow.


Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Hope you will join this challenge this month. Just create your project and enter it here. 

Remeber to pop over to 613 Avenue Create to view the  projects of our talented design team.