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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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Monday, August 31, 2015

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas



I made this Christmas gift tag for this weeks Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge's "use a die challenge".  Our sponsor this week is Dr. Digi's House of Stamps and I used their Lonely this Christmas image for the tag. 


I used several different circle dies for my tag, coloured the image with Copic Markers , added a ribbon, sentiment and a metal clip to hang the tag with. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Do not forget to pop over to the Holly Jolly Challenge blog to see the beautiful creations of the rest of the design team. 


Cookie Jar




It is an anything goes challenge at Incy Wincy Designs and our sponsor this week is Scribbles Designs

Scribbles Designs

I used a cute digital image called Bakery for my design.  I used a cut down cereal box for my cookie container and covered the size with cardstock and added my Bakery image that I had colored with Copic Markers.  Once I had my box bottom the way I liked it I made a lid for the box, added some glittered washi tape and a wooden knob that I painted white.  the box is now ready to add some cookies or cakes to for a gift for a friend.  Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 


Saturday, August 29, 2015

Get Well Soon


This week at Come and Get It Challenges it is a Get Well themed challenge. I used this lovely digital image from one of our sponsors, The Stamping Boutique called Princess Jennifer - Sick In Bed

 http://thestampingboutique.com/

To create my card I used the following products:

Stamp by Katie and Company
Stamp by A Muse ArtStamps
Punch - Stampin Up
Punch - EK Punches
Punch - Marth Stewart
Copic Markers
Darcie Embossing folder

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a creative day.  Pop over to the Come and Get It Challenge blog to see the other cards created by the design team to inspire you. 

Monday, August 24, 2015

Happy Birthday Matey






It is another great challenge at Incy Wincy Designs this week. The theme is birthday wishes and our fabulous designer this week is All Dressed Up. I used one of their fabulous children's designs called a  A pirate's life

Grab button for All Dressed Up

I layered the papers, coloured my image with Copic markers and Diamond Glaze. I added a sentiment, anchor and a banner to complete my card.   Hope you will join us this week at Incy Wincy Design. Thank you for stopping by. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations - (Week 2) Anything Goes 
Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes
Love to Scrap - digi or real stamping - Anything Goes
Not Just Cards - Always Anything Goes
Ooh La La Creations - One for the Boys

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Black and White and Another Colour



We have a great challenge this week at Come and Get It Challenges.  The challenge is to use the colours black and white with one additional colour. I have made my card with our sponsor Time for Tea's unicorn image for my card.  


This was a very simple card to make.  I coloured my image with Copic Markers, layered my paper, added some black and white flowers, brads, and a birthday die cut sentiment. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

Monday, August 17, 2015

Snowflakes and Sparkles


There is another great challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges this month called Snowflakes and Sparkles.   I used a digital image from Stitchy Bear called in the meadow we can build a snowman. 


I coloured my image with Copics and a glitter pen. I added a large snowflake die, glitter and and created my sentiment on the computer.  To complete my card I added some gems for more sparkles. 
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join in our challenge this week.  

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Little Claire's Designs - Christmas in August
Inspirational Challenge - Melt
Crafty Girls Corner -  Any Holiday
Love to Scrap -  Anything Goes

Tic, Tac, Toe Challenge



It is a Tic Tac Toe challenge this week at Incy Wincy Challenges. Here is the challenge Tic Tack Toe board.


I chose to use the the center line, buttons, bows, free, and flowers for my card.

I used this beautiful digital image from A Day for Daisies for my card. The image is called Summer Breeze .

A Day for Daisies

The products that I used to make my card are

Day for Daisies image
Buttons
Ribbon
Copic Markers
Stampin Up sentiment
Lacey Flower Punch

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers - Warm Summer Colours
Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
Stamp and Create - One for the Girls
2 Creative Chicks - Anything Goes

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Explore Tag


I have been playing with my Brusho's and decided to make a tag out of one of my some of my scraps left over from another project. All of my stamped pieces are stamped on brusho coloured paper.  

The products I used for this tag are:

large stitched circles stamp for the background
 letters from a large alphabet stamp set 
Explore sentiment by  Inkadinkado
assortment of Tim Holtz stamps
jupe cord
gell pen and sharpie
Brusho Inks

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

I am entering my tagin the following challenges:

Pattie's Creations - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too- Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes
Crafting with an Attitude -Anything Goes 

Make a Wish


Come and Get It has a round thing theme is week.  Create a card or project that has some round things in it or make a round tag or card. I used this great image from Sassy Studios for my card called Madam Honey.  

I thought the image was perfect for round things with her gold loop earrings and crystal ball.    I used the following products on my card

Copics
PanPastels
Diamond Glaze
Modelling paste
Stencil
Die Cut Sentiment 

Hope you will join us this week at Come and get It Challenges.  Remember to pop over to their challenge blog to see the other great projects that the design team have created to inspire you.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - one for the girls 
Bloggers  Birthday Card
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Crafting-With-Friends Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes (W2 of 2)
Daring Cardmakers - Touchy Feely (use lot of texture)
Pattie's Creations - August - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes
Crafting with an Attitude  
Anything Goes 

Friday, August 14, 2015

I Love Feathers



This is my card for this week's Crafting with Friends challenge .   The theme of the challenge is Anything Goes and I chose to make this card using our sponsor Lacy Sunshine's image called Franny Feathers Nifty Bitches .


The products that I used to make this card are

distress inks
PSX feather stamp
Lacy Sunshine image
ribbon
A Muse ArtStamps
Feather Earring
Copics
PanPastels
Ribbon

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Pop over to the Crafting with Friends' challenge blog to see the inspiring creations of the other design team members. 

Monday, August 10, 2015

Sea, Sun and Sand



Sea, Sun and Sand is the theme of this weeks challenge at Incy Wincy Designs.  I have used a lacy Sunshine digital stamp for my project.  Lacy Sunshine is the sponsor this week.  They have so many cute images.  

I have used an image called  Summer Emile Hippie.  I used a few different projects to make my card including PanPastel, Copics, sentiment, sand, several die cuts and some bling. 

This was a fun card to make.  Pop over to the Incy Wincy Designs to see the beautiful cards the rest of the design team created to inspire you. Have a creative day. 

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Altered Puzzle Game Piece


Thought I would try something different for this weeks challenge at Come and Get IT Challenges and decided on a altered puzzle piece. The theme of the challenge is to feature a critter and I decided to use this digital  image from All Dressed Up called Pirate Puppy


This was a fun project to make and once I had painted it with gesso I painted the game piece with Acrylic paint. My next step was to add some stamped images from my collection of stamps to create a collage.  I used Distress Ink on the edges of the piece and Copic Markers to colour the images.  To complete the puzzle I added some die cut clouds and a little shell I had made out of shrink plastic. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.   i am entering my project in the following challenges:

2 Creative Chicks -Anything Goes
    Artistic Stampers -Anything Goes
    Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes

    Tuesday, August 4, 2015

    Happy Fright Night


    Time for another challenge at Forever Dark this month. I am using Odd Ball Art's image, one of our sponsors this month called Creepy Cute Big Eye Girl w/Tombstone ~ Fran Tick N Dave the Bat


    I used some digital papers from  Lisa Altered for the background of my card and added a couple of Halloween themed dies, some rubber stamped images from an old set of Stampin Up stamps, grass, and creepy eyes from my stash . My images were coloured with Copic markers.  

    Thank you for stopping by. Come join us this month at Forever Dark . Pop over to our challenge blog to see the other projects of our talented design team. Have a very creative day. 

    I am entering this card in the following challenges:

    Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
    Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes
    Not Just Cards - Always Anything Goes

    Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes
    Digistamps 4 Joy Anything Goes 
    World Wide Open Design Team Challenge Anything Goes



      Winter Angel


      This is one of my project for this week's challenge at Forever Dark.  I made my canvas art board with the image I used from Poppy Seed Graphics called Winter Angel


      To create my art board I first glued squares of thin card board packaging on to my board then I painted it all with white Gesso.  The next step was then to glue snowflakes painted with white Gesso on a random pattern on my board. I used 2 colours of purple ink sprays on my board and some silver acrylic spray paint .   Once I had my bard the way I liked it I then added my image that I had coloured with Copics and glitter. I also used purple flock on  the shawl collar . 

      Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. 

      I am entering my project in the following challenges:

      Scrappers Delights   Always Anything Goes 
      Crafting By Designs  August Anything Goes 
      Rhedd's Creative Spirit  Anything Goes

      4 Crafty Chicks  Anything Goes
       
      Altered Eclectics - Anything Goes
      613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
      The Mix Media Place - Anything Goes

      Monday, August 3, 2015

      Mix Media Butterflies



      I have been playing with my Brusho colour crystals this week and I decided to join in the Mix Media Card Challenge this month.  The theme of the challenge is butterflies. 

       I coloured my background with my brushos by sprinkling water on my card and blowing the colours around with a can of air. Once I had my background the way I wanted I stamped my clematis  and butterfly stamps on my card.  My next step was to added more Brusho colour to my butterflies with a paint brush and finish the card off with a ribbon, threaded pearls and a sentiment.  

      Products I used to make my card:

      Stampendous Butterfly rubber stamp
      PSX Clematis rubber stamp
      Stampin Up sentiment rubber stamp
      Brusho Crystals 
      White ribbon
      Threaded Pearls 

      Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  I am entering this card in the following challenges:

      Mix Media Card Challenge - Butterflies
      Cheerful Stamp Pad - Anything Goes
      2 Creative Chicks - Anything Goes
      Paradise of Stamps - Anything Goes

      Feathered Friends Christmas




      All Dressed Up is one of our fabulous sponsors this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges and I created this card using their Christmas Owl image. 





      To make my card I used the following products

      Christmas Paper from my stash
      Christmas owl
      Star border punch
      Digital sentiment from my stash
      Copic Markers

      Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

      I am entering this card in the following challenges:

      Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
      Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes
      Not Just Cards - Always Anything Goes
      Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - Anything goes as long as it is Christmas

      Mad Hatter Art Journal Page




      The book Alice in Wonderland turned 150 years old this month and I thought it was fitting that I create am art journal page using this great Mad Hatter digital image from SLS Lines, one of our sponsors this month at Not Just Cards

       https://www.etsy.com/shop/SLSLines

      To make my journal page I added several different colours of acrylic paints to my background and used a brayer to mix the colours. I added my Mad Hatter image to the page and colured the image with my Copics, gell pen and a glitter pen.  To complete the journal page I added a coordinating piece of ribbon, washi tape and a sentiment that I created on my computer. 

      Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Join us at Not Just Cards this month.  Just create your project and enter it here

      I am entering this art journal page on the following challenges:

      Scrappers Delights   Always Anything Goes 
      Anything but a Card Anything Goes
      Crafting By Designs  August Anything Goes 
      Rhedd's Creative Spirit  Anything Goes
      Our Creative Corner  Mexico Moods

      Scrappers Delights   Always Anything Goes 
      Crafting-With-Friends  Anything Goes
      4 Crafty Chicks  Anything Goes
      Anything but a Card Anything Goes
      Crafting By Designs  Anything Goes 
      Rhedd's Creative Spirit  Anything Goes
      Altered Eclectics - Anything Goes
      613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
      The Mix Media Place - Anything Goes

      Party Invitation


      This is my last project this month for Not Just Cards.  I have so much fun creating here. We a new sponsor, DiddyBag and I have used their digital images called Mexican Boys for this party invitation. They are so cute.  There are e little boys in the set and I chose these two for the invitation.  

      I coloured the boys with Copics, and then added a stamp sombrero to the background, and cut one out for the front of the invitation.  The sentiment is from my stash and I punched out some music note to complete the project. 

      Thank you for stopping by and have a very creative week.  


      Cherub Gift Box


      This is another of my projects for Not Just Cards this month.  I made this gift box using a digital image from Delightful Digis'  Angel and Cherub collection.    



      Here are additional views of the gift box.




      I started my project by painting a kraft box with a couple of different colours of grey paint and edging the sides with Soot Distress Ink. My next step was to rubber stamp a flourish image all over the box giving the box an old look to it.  I coloured my Cherup image with a light colouring of Copic Markers and then applied sugaring to the complete image.  

      To complete the project I added a die cut "love" and a fabric sweater enclosure to the front to the box.   I like the antique look for the box.  I think it is a nice effect to go with the image.   Thank you for stopping by and I hope we have lots of creativity today.   

      Birthday Party Gift Bag



      I made this Birthday Party bag for the anything goes challenge at Not Just Cards this month.    I used a cute image from Milk Coffee.  The image is called Fairy Princess.   I think she is just perfect for a little girls birthday. 

      I made the gift bag by folding a paper lunch bag in half and decorating it with stars, doilies, flowers and a sentiment.  I coloured the image and accents with glitter glue, Distress Ink and Copic Markers.


      Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a creative month.  Please join in our challenge this month, just create your project and enter it here.

      I am entering this project in the following challenges:

      2 Creative Chicks Anything Goes 
      Creative Craft Cottages Anything Goes
      Digi Galore Anything but a Card
      Digistamps 4 Joy  Anything Goes
      Paper Creator's Crafts Dies or Punches
      Stemplegarten Happy Birthday