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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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Showing posts with label Nikki Burnette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nikki Burnette. Show all posts

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Let's Hang Out

Halloween is quickly approaching and Come and get It Challenges has a challenge for you.  The theme is of course Halloween.  

Nikki Burnette is one of the sponsors and I have used their digital stamp called Witch Stamp - Zoe Version 2.



The  image was coloured with copics, designer paper was from my stash and the  sentiment "Lets hang out " is a die . 

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

Saturday, January 21, 2017

No Designer Paper Challenge


Great challenge at Come and Get It Challenges this week  The theme of the challenge is to create your card or project using no designer papers.

The sponsor this week of the challenge is Nikki Burnette and I have used her image called Mermaid Stamp Jayna.  Isn't a beautiful image. 

 I coloured her with my Copic Markers and pencil crayons.   The background paper was stamped with an old rubber stamp from my collection.

Hope you will join us this week at Come and Get It Challenges. 

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Purple, Green and Orange Challenge


Time for another great challenge at Come and Get It this week.  The theme of the challenge is purple, green and orange, perfect colours for a Halloween card.  Our sponsor this month is Nikki Burnette's  and I used this great digital image of Nikki's called Steampunk Stamp - Telsa.  


I coloured my image with Copic markers, collaged the background with several Halloween designer paper then added a sentiment, bat and spider. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Remember to pop over the challenge blog to see the inspiring projects of the design team. 

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Cleopatra Collage

I have been busy with my projects for Just Not Cards this week.  I used one of our sponsors, Nikki Burnette's image to create this Egyptian collage for my Art Journal.  The image is called Cleopatra . 


 I cut up pages of a national geographic Magazine to make the collage background then coloured the image with my Copic Markers, Gold Leaf pen and a gold Gel pen. 

This was a fun project.  I hope you will join us this week at Not Just Cards, pop over to the challenge blog to see the designs of the rest of the design team.  Thank you for stopping by. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

Anything But A Card - no cards -Fool's Gold
A Creative Need - Collage It
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Stempelsonnen Challenge - stamp as main focus - Anything Goes
DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge - Monthly Challenge Anything Goes 


Monday, September 15, 2014

Paper Bag Christmas Treat Bag


Christmas treat bag made from a paper lunch bag is my project this week for paper clips, the Not Just Cards Challenge. I used this cute Christmas image called Peppermint Christmas Fairy from Nikki Burnette, one of the great sponsors this week. 

I used several different dies to make the front panel of the treat bag and added some bling, sentiments, and lots of layers of paper from my stash. 

One more project made for Christmas, I am doing well this year.  Hope you will join us this week at Not Just Cards.  Stop by our challenge blog to see all the great projects created by our talented design team members and remember to take a look at all the prizes offered by ours sponsors. 

Thank you for stopping and have a very creative day.