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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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Showing posts with label Forever Dark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forever Dark. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Trust the Timing of Your Life



I made this mixed media art  journal page for this month's  Forever Dark's challenge.  Ike's Art is the sponsor of the challenge and I have used his Professor Owl for my page. I love the different images that you can find in Ike's collection of digital stamps. 


To create my background I used a combination of spray inks, rubber stamp, acrylic paint and stencils. The owl was coloured with Copics and a charcoal pencil. 

This is the last challenge of 2015 for at Forever Dark.  Hope you will be back in 2016 to join in challenges in 2016.  Happy Holidays to everyone. 

Monday, November 2, 2015

The Strange Things


This week at Forever Dark Challenges Shadow Clocksy  is the sponsor of our challenge and I used an image called Litith Digital stamp for my art journal page. 

I used a print of none of my gelli plate images for the background then I printed on top of the image a digital paper that was a picture of wire mesh. Lilith was coloured with Copics, watercolor crayons and a gell pen. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join us at Forever Dark this month.  Hop over to our challenge blog to see the creations of our other design team members.  

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

Try It On Tuesday -  Lots of Layers 
Altered Eclectics - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly Anything Goes
Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Purple & White
Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes


Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Dead Men Tell No Tales



I am back with my assemblage creation for this month's challenge at Forever Dark.  Ike's Art is the sponsor of this anything goes challenge (must be dark) and I used an very interesting image called the Dentist




My image is colored with Copics and PanPasels.  I also added some diamond glaze, clock and sentiment to create my assemblage. The sentiment I created on the computer.  To complete this dentist scene I added a skull, tooth and some teeth.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join us this week at Forever dark.   It is a great time for you to show us most of your scary Halloween creations. 

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Having Tea in the Woods and Scary Spiders

It is time for an inspirational challenge at Forever Dark this month and this is my project for the challenge. 




I found this wood picture at the thrift store and thought it would make a base for my project. 


I took the wood picture apart and painted a background to accent my digital image that I was using for this month's challenge. The image I used for the project is by Jade Dragonne our sponsor this month.  I also added a moon, fence, raven, bats and some skeleton heads to complete the project. 




This is my second project for this challenge and I used another image from Jade Dragonne , our sponsor this week. 



I coloured my image with copic markers, glitter pen and PanPastels. I added my image to some spider pattern paper from my stash and added a spider  to complete the card. 


Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join us this month at Forever Dark.  Pop over to their challenge blog to see the inspiring projects of the design team.   

I am entering my project in the following challenges:


Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes
Not Just Cards - Always Anything Goes
That Craft Place Mixed Media Anything Goes
We Love 2 Create  - Anything Creative / Mixed Media/ Inky Goes
Hiding in my Craft Room - Anything goes
Mix Media World - Gorgeous Textures
Our Creative Corner - Shades of Autumn
Altered Eclectics - 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



    Tuesday, July 7, 2015

    One Scary Night


    This is my second project for Forever Dark this month using a Lacy Sunshine image called Lucille.   Lucille can be fore in Lady Heather's  Curiosities and Peculiarities shop


    Along with colouring my image with my copic markers I added some rubber stamped cats, and bats and die cut spiders to to the card. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Hope you will join us this month at Forever Dark. Pop over to our challenge blog to see the other projects that the other design team members have created to inspire you.   Please remember that these are dark side projects only. 

    Let the Music Begin

     This is my first project for this month's challenge at Forever Dark.  


    Kenny K Downloads is the sponsor of this challenge and I used their image called Madame Axe

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    This is the front of my tri-fold card


    This is partly open. The front and inside paper was made with acrylic paint, inks and my gelli plate. 


    This is a closer look at the fabulous image.  I used a rubber stamp from my stash of unmounted stamps for the background of the centre of the card. 




    I used baker twine, die cut stars and music to complete my card. 

    Thank you for stopping by and have a creating day. Hope you will join us at Forever Dark this month. 

    I am entering this card in the following challenges:

    Kenny K Krafty Crew - Anything Goes 
    Creative Card Crew  Die Cuts 
    Papertake Weekly  Anything Goes
    Through The Craft Room Door -  Always Anything Goes
    Tuesday Throwdown -  No Patterned PaperMix Media World - Masculine
    Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Anything Goes (Mixed Media Altered Art)
    Card Mania - Anything Goes