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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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Sunday, July 31, 2022

Place to Start - AUGUST 2022 CHALLENGE: ANYTHING GOES w/OPTIONAL TWIST: BY THE BOOK

Time for another great challenge at A Place to Start

AUGUST 2022  CHALLENGE: ANYTHING GOES w/OPTIONAL TWIST:  BY THE BOOK


I love our optional twist this month - by the book.  If you are playing along with the twits your project must be book related. 

I decided for the twist to do an altered book cover for a note book I had in my stash.

This is the front cover that I altered



This is what I started with

More views of my project.

Front cover


I used the following products on my book cover. 
Kroma Crackle 
along with an assortment of acrylic paint
and stains
gold leaf pen
assortment of layered papers from my stash
ribbon
metal embellishments
lace
walnut  distress ink
Tim Holts Vintage people
rubber stamps

 
Back Cover



Inside  of cover


I like how my book turned out and I am going to use this book to store my assortment of sentiments, inspiring quotes that I have been saving to use on upcoming projects and inspirations.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  I hope you will join us this month.  I love to see what by "the book" means to you. Remember to visit A Place to Start to be inspired by the projects of our talented design team. 

I am entering this projects in the following challenges:


Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Christmas in July Challenge at Crafty Gals Corner


 Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner

The theme for this challenge is: 


~ Christmas in July ~

Our sole sponsor for this challenge is  

Prize ~  $10 Gift Certificate

My Project for this challenge


I used an image from Beccy's collection called Holly Jolly Digital Stamps.
You should  check out her digital stamps.  The set has 5 stockings and 5 sentiments which could make lots of different card tags and sets. 


Closer look








My tags were cut with a die from Graphic 45.  Love this die, it has been used many time and on many different projects. 

I coloured my images with Copics, cut the tag bodies out of my scrap Christmas paper.  I also used scraps of tape and ribbon. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Hope you will join our Christmas in July challenge. Pop over to our challenge board to be inspired by our creative design team. 

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Anything Goes Challenge at Through the Craft Room Door - Time for Music

Time for another anything goes Challenge at Through the Craft Room Door.  

Our generous Sponsor is ……….Twinkle Lane Designs


The prize for this challenge is

£8 voucher for the store.


This is my card I made for this challenge.  The image I used is called Time for Music. 




Along with the beautiful digital image I used from Twinkle design I added several die cuts. The music frame is called the Sound of Music by Amy Designs.  Unfortunately I do not know who made the other musical dies. 

The image was coloured with pencil crayons, Copics and a gel pen. The sentiment is a rubber stamp by Stampendous. 


Closer look




 



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

Sunday, July 3, 2022

A Place to Start - Anything Goes with Optional Twist Balloons and Flowers

A Place to Start has a wonderful challenge this month, along as usually the challenge of anything goes the optional twist is  balloons and flowers.  Lots of possibilities.
     



Conie Fong Art and Design is our generous sponsor. 



This is one of my project I made using one of her images .  I love her selections of digital  images, so many to chose from that I actually made two cards with different images. 

The image I used for this card is called Dragon Bouquet Bundle


 This set from Conie Fong along with the images contains many sentiments.

This card I used using an image called Garden and Bootfil Bouquet




To make both of my  cards I coloured the images and balloon  with Copics Markers, gold leaf pen,  pencil crayons, Nuvo, geli pens and a Wink of Stella. I used an old  rubber stamp sentiment from my stash by  Rubber Stampede (1992) for the sentiment. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.    Remember to stop by our challenge blog to see the inspiring projects of your design team. Conie Fong is also offering a discount on her digital images, check out the details on our challenge blog.

Check out Conie's Face Book group 




Friday, July 1, 2022

Creative Artiste Mixed media Challenge July - Creativity

Time for another mixed media challenge at Creative Artiste this month. This is my project for this month, a page for my art journal.

Our theme is always

"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your projects. Please respect that we do not currently accept Instagram entries. Only correctly linked blog entries please. 


My inspiration for this page was a quote that I wrote in my book years ago. I am not even sure where I found it.  I used a gel print that I had made awhile ago along with an old 
Stampin Up rubber stamp form my stash and a rubber stamp new to my collection by Art Stamp. Along with acrylic paint, I used markers, white metal pen and a sharpie.

Closer look



Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Pop over to our challenge board to be inspired by our talented design team. Hope you you will join us this week.