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Monday, January 26, 2015

January birds card

Good morning everyone!

I hope you all had a great weekend!

My card today...

The background paper is from

My Artistic Adventures Damask digi paper collection

and the image is from

Gecko Galz...the January Newsletter freebie!

I used black cardstock to make the card and mat my images.

I also mounted the die cut, from my Cameo, and fussy cut around that!

The bird images were added with pop dots and I added a bit of grey & white twine around the larger image.

Below is a picture of the inside of my card...

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The theme is LOVE!

Also dealing with love

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Hope you have a great week!

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Inspiration Wednesday #2

Good morning everyone!

I have another Art Journal project to share today

inspired by

Donna Downey's Inspiration Wednesday

This one is a second attempt!

Attempt #1 was an epic fail in my eyes!

After a couple things were glued down

I covered it all back up with bunch of gesso and started again!

I'm so happy I did that because I am so much happier with it this way!

Collage is something that I usually shy away from

I have a hard time covering things up!

I guess after my failed attempt doing the collage got a little easier.

The picture below may be my favorite part of these pages.

I love the layers and texture as well as the color!

I'm so happy I decided to join in this Art Journal Inspirational fun!

Always nice to step outside of your box!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hope you're having a great weekend!

Friday, January 23, 2015

Kissing Booth tag

Good morning everyone!

My tag today is easy peasy!

I started with the paper from Gecko Galz Seeing Red paper collection

Cut that in the shape I wanted for the tag.

I mounted that on black cardstock and used my

Perfect Layers mini rulers to cut the border.

I added my Love Potion #9 Icon (kissing booth tag)

and finished with a couple of poppies that I fussy cut off of a scrap of Graphic 45 Oz papers (on pop dots).

I also added the glitter to the poppies and made the bow with my bow-it-all!

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You still have a couple days left to join the challenges at.....

My Artistic Adventures...

The theme is LOVE!

Also dealing with love

is the Gecko Galz customer challenge...

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Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Teepee card

Good morning everyone!

I don't often make teepee cards, but I do love them,

so when a friend asked me to make a card for her daughter for her 5th birthday I decided what better card to make!

I used three papers from the

Paper Doll paper pack by K&Company

(I would venture a guess it's discontinued now..I've had it a while)

The papers are so cute and girlie!

I'm pretty sure the adorable stamp is by Sherri Baldy

I've had a couple of computer changes since buying this so I have to do some serious searching to see if I can find it again...

I got lucky and had this one printed already!

I colored her with Spectrum Noir markers and added some glitter because

a girls gotta sparkle,

especially if she has wings!

The sentiment was added to a die cut (from my Cameo)

The bling, pearl string, #5 thicker, trims and glitter are all from my stash.

Below are a couple of angled shots...

This next one you can see her sparkling wings!

I kept the sides fairly plain with just a little glitter and bling because I wanted the front to be the star of the show!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hope you're having a great week!

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Cherub Heart card

Good afternoon!

I have a quick card I put together for

Gecko Galz cross promotion with Poppy Seed Graphic's stamps.

The heart with cherub is from Gecko Galz Love Potion #9 kit's Icons,

I added a bit of gold marker around the edge of the heart then topped it with some gold shimmer gel pen for more sparkle.

The ribbon with hanging hearts is the stamp from Poppy Seed Graphics,

I colored it with Spectrum Noir markers and added a little red shimmer gel pen around all the stamp lines of the ribbon.

The doily is one I cut with my new Martha Stewart circle puncher,

I took the same gold gel pen as one the heart edges and added a little to the doily.

Below is a picture at a slight angle so you can hopefully see the shimmer from the gel pens.

I had thought I was finished with the card before adding the gel pen sparkle but I'm so glad I added it! It added so much more than I expected to the card!

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My Artistic Adventures...

The theme is LOVE!

and

Gecko Galz customer challenge...

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Love Potion # 9 kit

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Have a great day...stay warm!

Friday, January 16, 2015

My Artistic Adventures Challenge...

Woohoo!

Challenge # 2!

(sorry couldn't help myself...I'm a poet and no one knows it! heehee)

The theme is.....

LOVE

Create any NEW tangible item, Card, tag, ATC, Layout, altered art piece, Banner, pretty much anything you can come up with that is tangible using some of My Artistic Adventures digital images (and or others).

(Sorry no digital entrees)

Please remember you can use other images

to play along & win the "Top three badge"

but

in order to win the Random Draw (a free collage sheet)

and

Designer's Choice (chance to Guest Design and receive free images)

you must use one of our images.

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I love being on this Design Team!

There are a lovely bunch of girls to work with
(make sure you check out their inspiration pieces...such talent)

and

we all get to play with the wonderful digi creations that Heather comes up with!

For this challenge I used one of the 6 new paper packs that she has recently designed!

Here is my card.....

I love this paper!

The little hearts are so cute!

I kept it simple

I added a strip of heart ribbon ,

a bow,

a rub-on sentiment,

oval doily (cut on my Cameo)

and

a couple of fussy cut roses from another collage sheet (pictured below)

A close up of the mini heart paper below...

Here's a look at the full Bitty Pack...

The Shabby Chic Rose Tag set

Below I've added a link to the to the other new paper packs.....

Damask

Honey Bees

Snowflakes

Sweater Hearts

Circus Dots

Aren't they all wonderful?

I've used the Damask and LOVE it

and I will be using the Snowflakes pack soon as well!

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Starting today and running through Feb 14th if you purchase $20 or more Digital Collage Sheets, you can receive the collage sheet set to create this banner below for free!!

(just mention it in a comment when making your purchase and it will be sent to you.....

Heather will be out of town Jan 16-19, so if you buy during that time you will get you the set as soon as she gets home)

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Please remember, for the challenge, you can use other images

to play along & win the "Top three badge"

but in order to win

the Random Draw (a free collage sheet) and

Designer's Choice (chance to Guest Design and receive free images)

you must use one of My Artistic Adventures collage sheets or papers.

Link up your creation HERE

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I'll be linking up with.....
Really Reasonable Ribbons Hearts & Ribbon challenge

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Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Fripperies & Butterflies challenge

Good afternoon everyone!

I'm posting a bit later in the day than usual today.

A few days ago I got slammed by my seasonal depression.

It sucker punched me and I've been fighting it ever since,

trying to keep ahead of it!

I don't know that I am winning but I'm trying!

I'm really not in much mood for crafting these days,

I've been doing a lot of cleaning, organizing and whatever else I can think of to keep busy,

anyway,

before I got slammed I had finished a couple of pieces and today I want to share one with you!

Over at Fripperies & Butterflies Leeanne posted a cute image to use in the challenge...

you can find it here

Here is what I did with it.....

I had a bunch of images printed already from Gecko Galz new

Love Potion #9 kit so I decided to use up some of them as well.

I also got out a bunch of ribbon scraps to use up.

When finished collaging them all together I made a card.

Below is a close up of the image from IRALAMIJA

that Leeanne supplied for everyone to use.

I will be linking up at

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Thanks for stopping by!

Hope you all are feeling well and enjoying the New Year!

Monday, January 12, 2015

Playing with paints.....

Good morning all!

As I said in an earlier post,

here,

I want to play a little more with paints & textures this year so,

once again,

taking inspiration from a couple of Donna Downey video's,

I came up with this!

Actually the plan was to do a journal page but the journal I was working with at the time was not cooperating very well so I took a deep breath got out a canvas and

ta da!

I love what I ended up with!

It feels Italian to me....

No, I'm not Italian and I've never been to Italy!

Love Italian foods though!

Thanks for stopping by!

I love your visits!

Have a great week!

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Get Well Soon Little Monster

Good morning everyone!

Today I have a quick little card I made for a little guy who had his adenoids out recently.

I've had these little monster stamps forever but I think this is the first time I'm using them!

I've taken them out and looked at them from time to time

but for one reason or another they didn't fit what I wanted.....

until now!

I stamped the first then stamped it again on another piece of paper to make a mask to cover it up so I could stamp the other guy over it to look like he's standing behind the first.

Then finished with a little monster dragonfly.

I used tumbled glass, crushed olive & scattered straw distress inks for the stamping

and some tumbled glass dabbed on the sides of the die cut.

As excited as I am to use my monster stamps

I am also excited to share with you a new set of papers designed by my BOLB (Best OnLine Buddy)

Heather Hudson from My Artistic Adventures!

(click on the image to go to the Etsy store)

I love these Damasked papers!

I used the chocolate with aqua damask & cream polka dots.

There are several variations of colors in the set and I like them all!

The blue polka dot ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon,
also new, I won this last month in the blog hop!

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Just a reminder

My Artistic Adventures Anything Goes Challenge is got a few more days to it!

Create any NEW tangible item

Card, tag, ATC, Layout, altered art piece, Banner, pretty much anything you can come up with

that is tangible using some of My Artistic Adventures digital images (or others)

Link up your entries HERE

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I'll be linking up to these challenges...

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Lookie What I Got with Ribbon

Thanks for visiting!
Have a wonderful day!

Friday, January 9, 2015

My Artistic Adventures Inspiration...

Good morning everyone!

Today I have a couple of cards I made for a little mid-challenge inspiration.

Just a reminder the challenge is

Anything Goes

The first one...

I used one of the Valentine Angels & text boxes,

a Music Note tag as well as a Paris Bird tag,

and

one of the Sweater Heart Papers.

The little tag that I had tucked in behind the angel is from Gecko Galz

It is from the Love Potion #9 kit's Icons.

and the second...

I got out all a bunch of pieces I had cut last year

from

the Conversation Hearts collage sheet,

the Valentine Cherub Focals collage sheet

and

the Spring Pink Fancy tags

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Here is a look at the collage sheets...

you can click on the sheet you like and it will bring you to the sheet at

My Artistic Adventures Etsy store...

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Please remember
you can use other images to play along & win the "Top three badge"
but in order to win the Random Draw (a free collage sheet)
and
Designer's Choice (chance to Guest Design and receive free images)
you must use one of My Artistic Adventures images.

I hope you liked my inspiration!

I can't wait to see what you create!

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