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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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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Anything Goes Challenge - Through the Craft Room Door

 

Welcome to another great anything goes challenge at Through the Craft Room Door. Our generous sponsor this week is Sherry West Arts

The prize this week is two images from the shop. 

This is my card for this week using one of Sherry's cute images.  It can be found here 




I coloured my image with copics, pencil crayons, distress inks, panpastels and added a fence, butterflies, flowers and a sentiment to complete the card. 

Hope you will join us this week create your card and enter it here.

Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.  Thank you for stopping by.  

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

CD Sunday Plus Challenge - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge - Anything Goes
Perfect Time to Create - Anything Goes

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Make It Green

 Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner and the theme for this challenge is Make it Green.  Show us lots of green on your project.

Our sponsor for this  challenge are


Bugaboo Digital Stamps
Prize ~ $12 gift certificate


Prize ~ 3 Digital Images


Prize ~ £8.50 Gift Certificate

This is the card I made for this challenge using our a digital image from Bugaboo called St. Patrick’s Day Circle - Theodore


I coloured my image with Copic markers and Nuvo, layered the image with gold paper and used a St Patrick's Day and acrylic paper to construct my card. 

More views of the project





Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Join us this moth in the Make it Green challenge. 

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Hole in one Hal


Time for another great Anything Goes Challenge this week at Through the Craft Room Door.

   Our generous Sponsor this week is ……….

Dr Digi House of Stamps

                                                    

                                        The prize this week is ……..

2 images from their store

This is my card I made for this challenge using an image called 

Hole in one Hal


I love this image.  It is a great card for a birthday. I coloured the card with copics, added a sentiment and golf themed background paper. 

Thank you for stopping by. Hope you will join us this month over at Through the Craft Room Door. 

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Anything Goes Challenge (optional twist - Slider Card) at 613 Avenue Create

Time for another great Anything Goes Challenge over at 613 Avenue Create.  Our optional challenge this month a slider card. 

I made this card for the challenge.  It had been a long time sign I had made a slider card and I had to practice the mechanics of the slider portion.   


 I found a YouTube video that had directions for a slider that I thought I could use the images that I wanted to use to make the card.  This is the video by Bibi Cameron that I used. You can find the video

I used a Tim Holtz Crazy Bird stamp, and dies, a City scape stamp by Art Impressions (a old stamp from 2005 I found in my stash), Copic markers, and paper by Authentique. 

It was a fun project and I challenge everyone to try making a slider card.  Pop over to our challenge blog to view the inspiring cards by our talented design team.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges


Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
The Sisterhood of Crafters- Anything Goes

Friday, March 5, 2021

My Town - Altered Chipboard House


It is already March and time for another great challenge over at Creative Artiste this month. 

Our theme this month is as always,  Anything Mixed Media. Please make sure you use Multiply mediums in your project. 

This is my project for this month.  I am calling this project My Town since I  tried to make each section another street  in the town. 





This is the lovely chipboard house from A Vintage Girl Shop on Esty I used. You can also find them on facebook under A Vintage Girl Junkies. 



More Pictures  and closer look

Front of Book


Fashion Avenue







Welcome to our house






Walk in Nature






Industrial Lane






To decorate my book I went through my stash looking for findings for my pages.

Here are some of items and products to create my book.

Chipboard Gears
Metal Gears
Pages from an old drafting book
Pages from my husband's school note book 
Scrapbook paper from my stash (ladies)
Acrylic paint
Tim Holtz stain
Pentart - Rust Effect
Die Cuts
Stamperia Mold
Rubber stamps
Sewing pattern paper
Felt Pen
An Assortment of Inks
Ribbon
Stencils

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to visit our challenge blog to  be inspired by our talent team of designers.
Hope you will join us this month. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges

Mix It Up Challenge Blog - Anything goes
Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes