It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas!

I have been busy the last little bit readying things for Christmas. Such a busy time of the year, but oh so beautiful. I have a habit of clean, clean, clean, decorate a little, clean some more, do a little shopping, more decorating, write out Christmas cards (boy is that time consuming), more cleaning and try to stop myself from looking at another decoration. I always feel bad because honestly I never have time to make any Christmas cards but sure would love to one of these years. Maybe a person should actually start in February to prepare for the following December.

I thought I would share a little of my Christmas decorating fun with you, haven't posted in ages and didn't want you all to think I have fallen off the earth...lol...So here is a bit of what I have happening at my home for my family and friends.

A few goodies in my art room.



Next up are a few pretties in my dining room.

Gingerbread in the kitchen for sure.

Family room pretties.

My family thinks that I am a bit weird with this black tree, but I love it...

and I like weird, so there...hehehe..

Just a little collage that I put together digitally this morning. All elements from Rebecca McMeen.

at Scrapbook Graphics!

Blessings to all, happy decorating...

This is what happened at my local mall a few days ago...So awesome..enjoy!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

Get Your Whimsy On….

I am giggling to myself! I received a call from my sister the other day for my birthday. It was your regular birthday call. Happy Birthday to you, how are you, what are you up too and then whamo… She lit into me big time. Shocked yes, irritated????, oh yeah!!! Seems as though she had been visiting with my other sister a few days before the call and she just happened to have everything that I had ever made her laying out…lol…The first problem was a book that I had made for my sister, as I was getting it explained to me I couldn’t figure out what the heck she was talking about and as she explained more about it I figured it out. My sister had been married 30 years, ten years ago and I made this atc book for her and why would I make that for her when I know that my other sister would absolutely love it more…lol….I usually try to make something similar for each of them as my eldest sister is known to go into fits if someone gets something she thinks she should have, that is why I couldn’t figure out what she was talking about in the beginning of the conversation. Once I got it figured out, I told her to let me know when she gets 30 years in and I will be glad to make her a book..silence on the other end.
Then it was unto the next problem…hmmmm…we want to know why you don’t make us cards anymore, we love them and you just go and buy cards at the store the last few years. Oh really, like I have nothing to do other than worry about getting cards made for you, it is so much easier going to the store…well even Bryan thinks that it is crazy that you go to the store. Oh good, lets bring Bryan into this now.
I think the real reason, other than time was that I was never really sure if they did appreciate them or even like them. But hey, who am I too say, obviously they do like them. So with that being said, I got to thinking that I should probably make a few cards since my sisters,  my aunt and I are all hooking up next week for lunch. I forgot how much I do like making them. I pulled out some beautiful new papers that Caryl sent me for my birthday and of course my Paper Whimsy images and just played. Fun, cards finished and I can relax knowing that we won’t have a card issue while out for lunch.

  



 



 

 

Another Collage…YEAH!!!!

I was able to continue playing with all my fav things and actually got another collage put together. I am having fun and really like the way this one turned out. Isn’t she just the sweetest little Whimsy..

 

Back to Basics of glue and paper

I have been in a slump lately and just couldn’t get anything together. I would look around my play space and see all these products that I just had to have and have never used them. I guess you could say I am totally mad at me. I would get myself in such a funk that I couldn’t create anything. Do you ever have those days, weeks, months…. All that wasted money just sitting there, waiting to be played with.

 

I love collage and really haven’t been playing much with papers and glue. It is what got me started down this crazy road and what I so desperately wanted to get back to. Yesterday I finally talked myself into getting over all those must have things, setting it aside in my mind and brought out some of favorite Paper Whimsy images, papers, glues, some torn book covers, stickles, distress inks and just played. I found that I was happy and relaxed, good for the soul.

 

Here is the outcome of my playing.

 

Happy Halloween!!!!

 

Wishing you all a spooktacular day!

4x8 pages for Trinka

 

I have been working on my pages for Trinka the last few weeks. Trinka sent me some of her handmade paper a few months ago and I incorporated some of her paper in my collage. It was fun getting back to paper and glue for a change and getting my paints and stamps out again.

 

Hello!!!!

Hello!!!!! Oh my gosh, it has been almost a month since I posted or even came near my blog. Hope everyone is doing great. My computer crashed, sigh!!!!! My computer geek built me a new one and delivered it last weekend and I have been spending hours and hours getting everything the way I like it..LOL...Finally got the rest of my crap loaded on today so thought I would see how my photoshop was working. I was having fits not being able to play with it. I did a quick Halloween collage just to check it out and will share with you in this post. All images are from Deviant Art, a couple different kits.

So glad to be back in action and hope to spend a bit more time in blogland by the end of the month.

The Butterfly Effect

I am so happy to be a part of this beautiful and special project. A dear friend read about The Butterfly Project and couldn't resist being a part of it. You can either click on the Butterfly Effect link on my sidebar or visit Trudi's blog here http://twodressesstudio.blogspot.com/

Once Trudi read about the Butterfly Project mandate to remember the 1,500,000 innocent children who perished as a result of the Holocaust and collect 1.5 million handmade butterflies she entered into this project  and has sent a call out to all of her artist friends and anyone that reads about this to send their butterfly creations to her and she will ship them all off to the Holocaust Museum for a breath-taking exhibition in Spring 2013.

Please feel free to join all of us in this beautiful project and visit Trudi's blog for all the information.

WATCHING!!!!

I have been playing around with my weirdness the last couple of days and came up with this digital collage that I call Watching! I like it lots, but it is kind of weird.

Image credit to

Crow About - Deviant Scrap - Rusty Backgrounds

Tumble Fish Studio- Snappy Dressers & Angels

Shabby Pickle - Hocus Pocus

Saturday Digital Play!

I have been having lots of fun playing in Photoshop with  a few new goodies from Tumble Fish Studio! I love her bright and beautiful colors. I used images from her East is West, Going Geisha & EW Miscellany sheets. Gotta love those fortune cookie hats!!!
Have a great weekend!

WOO!!!!!! WOO!!! Happy September....

Wow!!!! I actually found some time to play last night and this morning. So fun to be able to do something we love to do. I found this awesome kit over at Deviant Scrap called It's All Greek to Me by Finecrafted Designs. I love her kits, absolutely gorgeous. Thanks to Trudi for the heads up on this wonderful product as I read about it on her blog over at http://twodressesstudio.blogspot.com/

Here is what I came up with for my first run at this beautiful kit, enjoy!!!

Time Keeps on Slippin'.. Slippin...

Hope everyone is well! I have taken a bit of time the past couple of weeks to finally look at my Digital Magic class. WOW!!! I have really been enjoying it. Marie is an awesome teacher and has so many wonderful techniques. You can find the class info on my sidebar.

I decided to play with a bit of Halloween goodies and ended up with this Bewitched Digital. I have used imgaes from Lisa's Altered Arts, Shabby Pickle, Tululipki, and Christina Renee.

Counting the days to get to have more playtime! Have a great weekend.

Fun playing with 4x8 pages

I found some time to play with my 4x8 pages for Trudi's book the past few evenings. I know Trudi loves playing digitally so I decided to make her pages digital. I forgot to write down where all the different elements came from as it is hard to keep track when you are flipping from one album to another collecting images to use but I believe alot of them are from Hocus Pocus and Dark City over at Shabby Pickle and the little girl and vintage ladies are from Lisa's Altered Art. I have to add a few embellishments and they will be on there way to Trudi. I love the sweet little girl so much I have enlarged a copy for myself.

side one for Trudi

side two for Trudi

Hello!!!

My goodness, I can't believe I haven't blogged for so long. I have missed visiting all of my fav blogs and following along with all of you. We have had a very busy month here and I just couldn't get to the computer to play! I have a couple more busy weeks and then hoping things will get back to normal the first part of September. I can't even imagine all the fun and beautiful things I have missed but it would be impossible to try and catch up now.  Hope everyone is having a great summer, (hot for sure)  and I will be back playing with all of you soon.

I haven't had much time to play but decide I needed to do something a few weeks back so I played with photoshop using images from my sweet girl Jodie at Everything Vintage, Dark City by StarLight Designs, Hocus Pocus from Shabby Pickle and clock face by Elegia.

Another week was here and gone!!!

My goodness I do not know where the time goes around here. Seems like I was just as happy as could be as my days off roled around and here it is late Saturday and back to work tomorrow. BLAH!!!! I stayed up late on Thursday night so I could get everything done around the house and have Friday and Saturday to play but that never seems to work out. LOL... I am already on the count down of weeks left to work and I am sure it is 15. Isn't that sad when one would be on the count down for fall to arrive and the end of October to get here so she can stay home and have lots of art time. Geesh...

I didn't have time to get my glue and paper out this weekend but wanted to get something accomplished so I sat down and messed around in photoshop. I am not sure where this even came from because I really didn't have anything in mind except to play. I knew I wanted to use the doll head and that is all I knew. So I guess it has ended up as just one of those days. It is fun to play with photoshop as there isn't a huge mess to clean up when your playing comes to an end.

Happy Summer!!!

I can't believe I am actually posting. It has been such a busy and hot, hot summer for me. I haven't really been able to do any fun things for a few weeks and haven't been feeling well all this week, slowly getting back to normal today. I am way behind on everything to do with my blog. I have made up my mind that I am going to visit each and everyone that joined WWC and the Sorority Girls, so if I haven't made it to your blog yet I will eventually get there. I only have a couple hundred to visit...lol...but I will get there. I have been trying to catch up on all my past due things today, maybe that will make me feel lots better. I enrolled in the Digital Magic Class and haven't had time to do one lesson yet. I think lesson 5 is going to be posted tomorrow but I will eventually make it to class also. I was to have Caryl's Essence of Dreams pages done in June and finally completed them today, so that makes me happy. She will forgive me though, as she knows I am way behind on things and she loves me. Caryl do you still love me?????

It has been well into the 100's for most of this week with the humidex and I am totally sick of it. This is far hotter than we are used too and I am hoping it moves out and stays out for the rest of the summer. Not a huge summer fan to begin with, love fall!!!

I will share my Dream pages for Caryl with you as they have been posted on the group site. Sorry to be so far behind on visiting all of you, next week should catch me up and I will be back to normal. Hope I haven't missed too much.