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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, June 10, 2026

Crafty Gals Corner, Anything Goes with Optional Twist - Sweets for Dad


We have a great challenge this month over at Crafty Gals Corner. The theme of the challenge is Anything Goes with an optional twist of "Sweets for Dad" 

This is my card I made for this challenge with an 2007 stamp by Whipper Snapper Designs Inc and is called Stack o' B'day Cakes. I have not had it out for quite a few years'

   

 
I used everything from my stash making this card. I coloured my cake image with Copic markers, glitter, pencil crayon. The sentiment stamp is by Magenta. I have had this stamp for a very long time and I end up using it when the sentiment is running vertical on the card. 

We will be taking our Summer break during July.  The winners for this challenge will be announced in August, when we return. 


Thank you for stopping by.
I hope you will join us in August for our next challenge. 

Hugs Judy

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Creative Artiste - June Challenge - Our theme is always "Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Time for another Creative Artiste Project for June.

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 or Facebook entries. Only correctly linked blog entries please. 

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Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your entries. This is a mixed media challenge for cards and projects.



This is my June project. 


I have been playing with coffee and acrylic paint staining papers. I had taken a class and then I tried different variation of the staining at home. I used them in this project for my background. These are a few of the papers I was playing with the coffee staining. 




I got this idea for my project from one of my musical sheets that I was staining. I tried several different papers to stain and different strengths of coffee.

 The music sheet was for the song Rubber Duckie, a childhood favourite. I used instant Nescafe coffee for the coffee stains. I enjoyed this technique , I had only previously used tea bags for staining papers. 

 Along with the music sheets I added more background using with layers of stained paper. I completed the scene by adding yellow buttons, and a hand drawn rubber duckie. 

Thank you for joining us this month at Creative Artiste. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. I hope you will join us again soon Judy DT