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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, September 28, 2020

Shabby Chic Card Challenge


Time for another Crafty Cardmakers challenge this month and the theme is Shabby Chic.


I made this cards from rubber stamps from my stash.  Bella is an unmounted stamp which I think was from a collection of stamps I bought years ago and still love and I think the company was from Vancouver and is out of business now. 

 I tore the edges to give the card pieces and inked to give the card an aged look,  The ribbon was tea dyed.  I used Copic  and pencil crayons to colour my image. 


Here of another view of the card. 



Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Hope you will join us in this challenge. 
Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to view the art work of our talented design team. 


Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Delight in Life


Time for another great anything goes challenge over at  Through the Craft Room Door.

Our generous Sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps.


The prize this week is $12 Voucher for their online shop.
I have used Bugaboos digital image

This is another view of the card which I coloured with Copics, Wink of Stella, and pencil crayon. 
another view of the card.



To complete the card I added some butterflies, a Stampin Up sentiment stamp  and ribbon.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to stop over at our challenge blog to view the cards of our talented design team, 

 

Monday, September 14, 2020

Crafty CardMakers Recycle an Element


 I am hosting the challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers this week and I chose the theme of using a recycled element in your project.  For a friend I created this notebook using part of a cereal box for the core of the book.


I cut all of the pages, cover and core etc with a large round die cut .  For the cover of the notebook I  decorated it with Lavinia fairy stamps along with some other stamps from my collection. I used Distress Inks for the background along with gel pens, posta pens, Pentart glitter and Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Once I had created my cover I added some scrapbook paper from my stash on the back cover, the next step was to decide where to place my hinges on the from and then cut the front cover to allow the book to open.  I did not have the right colour of hinges so I painted the hinges with gesso and then with the purple colour to match the cover. 

For the pages for the book I used regular typing paper and glued them at the top of the page and then glued them to the top of the back cover.  I decorated the pages with some few small fairies. 

Added glue above the line to all of my pages and glued the pages into my notebook.



Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Fall Colours Challenge


Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner this week  

The theme is Fall Colours. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is:




My image for this challenge is called  HeidiShe is so cute and perfect for this challenge.I love the fall and all it's rich colours.  

Here is another look at the card.

I coloured the image with Copics and pencil crayons, then I added some wooden leaves that I coloured.  The last thing I added was an autumn sentiment.  



Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to pop over to our challenge board to be inspired by our creative design team. 

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

It's My Party


Time for another great anything goes challenge over at Through the Craftroom Door

Our generous Sponsor this week is Oddball Art 

The prize this week is $10 voucher for their online store

 

The image I used from our sponsor is called I Will Cry If I Want To.  She is so cute. I coloured my image with mainly fluorescent  Copics Marks. I also used Nuvo, Pentart Glitter pen, and Gel pens. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to stop by our challenge blog to view the inspiring cards of our design tea, 


 

Friday, September 4, 2020

Altered Halloween Clock


Time for another great challenge over at Creative Artiste this month. 

Our theme is always
"Anything Mixed Media Goes"
Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your  projects.



 I have made an altered Halloween clock.  I used an old clock that I took this body out of the clock and  made a collage of from some paper napkins I had in my stash along with other Halloween papers for my stash.

This is the napkin I used for the main part of the collage.



Additional views



I used crackling paste,texture paste and an antiquing solution to give the clock an antique look. 


I added leaves to the outside of the clock and added a Wink of Stella and glitter to the collage for sparkle. 





Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to stop by our challenge blog to be inspired by our creative design team. 
Hope you will join in the challenge this month.