Good Morning Everyone......I feel like I've been in the dark ages!!! We had the wonderful winds from Hurricane Ike roll through Robards, KY yesterday and knocked out our power from about 10:00 a.m. til 8:15 p.m. last night......I felt like my arms had been cut off!!! I can so feel for the poor souls that were so much more impacted then my slight inconvenience.......I was never so excited as to see my reach to the world come back on last night!!! :)


However I DID have a very productive Saturday....I had much fun playing with paper and wanted to share with you all what I created!!!! I had several swaps I'm signed up for in a yahoo group I belong to.....as I needed to get these completed so I could create some ART for my store I had to get busy.....Just thought I would share with you what I created!!!!


First is a "Folded Pocket Card" Swap with Tags......I created my own 2 sided paper and printed...using the paper also in my tags.....as well as the matching flowers...also incorporated some of my crayon papers in the leaves...also used rubber stamps and gold metallic pen and ribbons! I'm sharing the tags as well as the holder....


The next item I want to share with you is for an "Anything Goes" Swap.....I decided to make a Post-It Holder.....I'm wanting to make some of these for my store and I thought I would try out my idea on this swap.....Again I printed my background papers I wanted to use so I could have them compliment each other......Using yet again some of my crayon papers in the leaves....I cut a bunch of grapes from the image sheet covered with versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder.....I glued the inside and outside designs together...of which I had printed onto cardstock to give the holder some substance....I used velcro fasteners to close.....You can also noticed that I embossed with my sizzix the front flap and the top item on the holder.....trimed each layer with my gold pen...This worked out rather nicely and I will be making more....

The next these was "Tag" swap......You know how I LOVE IF....so I used my sissiz with a flower die cut the aperature from the design I had printed......then I did my IF technique with some decorative papers I printed.....cut the paper to the desired size and trimed the top to give it a tag shape...I layered it over cardboard and then backed with the same paper......added ribbon with a charm at the bottom, the embellishments at the top and complimentary ribbon.....I love the effect.....I also included a close up of the IF for you to see!!!






The last creation I made was for a "Halloween - Purple, Orange & Green" swap.....The base of the card is black, then I layered with a green background design I printed, then with a purple designed paper, then orange that I added a web graphic to each of the 4 corners.....I trimmed each of the layers with a gold pen....the image is a fun graphic that I printed and ran through my sizzix to emboss and trimmed with gold pen, layered over a piece of black cardstock and OF COURSE added some of my crayon leaves.....I layered 3 different colors of ribbon on each other and put the ribbon under the image layer.....I love the look of the card and think it looks very fun!!! I also made a matching envie to accompany the card!!


So, now that I've gotten to share with you I feel much better!!! I missed my connection to the world!! LOL


I also completed an order I had for 2 cards and 2 book thongs.....so I was a busy bee...I will defiantely be in my ART Studio when I get home from work today......and I'm excited to say I've received an order for 5 cards and a book thong!! Yippie for me!!! So a creating I go!!!


I can't tell you how much I truly appreciate you stopping by to visit with me!!! I pray each and everyone of you have an amazingly blessed day!!! Be safe and I'll visit with you later!!! Until next time!!!!

IT'S FRIDAY!!! Yippie!!!!

Good Morning everyone......BOY did I have fun playing with paper last night!!!! I've decided I need to get my butt in gear this weekend and work on Christmas cards for my store.....but...first, I have several swaps I need to get complete to free up my time.....So I decided when I got from work yesterday to do just that and only that...LOL, I even forgot to eat dinner... :) So anyway...here's my first ATC I came up with yesterday...It's for the ATC_World group I belong to and the challenge was "Black & Orange".......I printed a black & orange checkerboard pattern for the very back layer...then printed the black two tone floral print on transparency and layered over the bottom layer......I also printed a black design as well as some orange designed papers...I used my sizzix dies to cut the corner pieces....my flower punches to make the flower and also some of my crayon papers...
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then I took some scrap orange scrapbook paper and cut it into lengths took 3 rubber stamps and made a design to fill the paper and stamped the work Passion in the middle...tore the edges stippled Stazon black ink around the border........Didn't it turn out pretty!!! Not bad for black and orange and it's NOT a pumpkin!!! :)


Ok...my next swap for the ATC_World group was "Tag, You're It", the challenge was to make an ATC sized tag or your interpretation....just some where on it had to be a tag.....So, I took some library cards and cut them down to the required size 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"....used one of my favorite rubber stamps I have and stamped the library card...cut the angles on the top...stippled 3 different colored inks on the card, the I put a strip of lace on....I remember using the technique of rubber stamping stickers and laying them out on the card so I decided to do that with a butterfly rubber stamp....colored with colored pencils, then stippled with 3 different inks....transfered to my ATC...I added some corner embellishments and flower accent and fibers to the top!!

I love the look, cause to me it's soft and elegant!!! Isn't it pretty!


Ok....the last swap I worked on for the night was also for ATC_World and it was called "Indian Summer"...Hummmmm, what to do here I thought.......didn't take me long to think of how I am LOVING leaves at the moment and felt that would make for a perfect medium.....SO, I found a bacground image I felt said Fall and printed it on to photo paper....used one of my die cuts and cut out the leaf pattern.....then I used MY crayon papers to do the iris folding.....I just LOVE LOVE LOVE the look of Iris Folding...it looks so intricate!!! before I did the IF on the back I edged the leaf with a gold Marvy pen.....Ok, then I took some more of my crayon paper and punched some leaves....large and small.....


With the large leaves I used some letter rubber stamps and stamped out the work FALL and punched a hole in the top of each leaf and took some copper wire, twirled the edges and ran through the leaves...gives it a nice effect don't you think.....


Lastly I edged the ACT with my gold Marvy pen and whoala!!! Complete....Simple but very impactful don't you think!!!!


I gotta say I had just the BEST time making a mess with paper in my ART Studio and am looking forward to doing more of it tonight!!! I must go to the grocery at some point this weekend, then I have SEVERAL swaps for the Paper Follies group I belong to......ONCE those are completed then I need to gear towards Christmas!!! It's going to be here before we know it!!!


Ok, guess that about does it for me this morning!!! I pray Ike leaves you wonderful people in the south safe and unharmed!!! As usual, I want to THANK YOU for stopping by to visit with me.....have a wonderful Friday and a blessed weekend!!! Until next time!!! ;)

Good Evening...

Everyone....Hope you all had a wonderful Thursday....it was a very very nice day here...not too humid or hot!! I sense fall is around the corner!!! Yippie!!! :) Well I was able to have more fun playing with paper while working on an ATC swap with ATC_World@yahoo.com that I belong to....it's titled Favorite Color Swap.....My favorite color is purple/burgandy....this is my ART interpretation....

I really had fun creating these....ATC's are a passion of mine and I really enjoy doing them.....It also feels great to have an avenue to share my ART and the joy it brings me....I also, through inspiriation from a friends studio decided to have some friends ART on my Studio walls to help to inspire me when I feel a block coming on....It's amazing how viewing ART creations can lift my spirits and allow my mind to soar with ideas!! One day when I get the Studio tweeked just right I shall share pictures of my space so you can see where I create from...I think it's fun to check out ARTist's spaces to see where they get inspired...don't you?? Maybe it's just me and I'm weird!!! Who knows....BUT I do appreciate you stopping by to visit with me....I hope you have a safe and blessed evening....I'll be chatting with you later!!

Just Clicking Along...

Good Tuesday Evening Everyone....I hope this post finds everyone doing well tonight!! I had a wonderful weekend of ART creating this past weekend!!! Was able to spend most of Saturday and all of Sunday in my ART Studio and I just loved it...very relaxing....

I was working on 2 swaps I'm involved in on 2 different yahoo groups! The first was an Iris Folding swap with the theme being Breezy Dress....here's my creation if interested!!!

The 2nd Swap I'm involved in is a House ATC....this one was very challenging for me but I truly

enjoyed it once I figured out my design in my head!!!

Monday sure came quickly!! I can't believe Summer is just about over...though I must admit I am ready for Fall.....I'm invisioning brisk days with me in my ART Studio with my coffee, sweatshirt, houseshoes and ART supplies....ahhhhhhh, how relaxing that sounds...ooops...guess I do need to add in there some time for hubby and my boys!!! :)

Can't believe in 1 week from today my baby will be starting High School!!! My how time flies!! Seems just yesterday I brought him home from the hospital!!! A couple of weeks ago we celebrated his 14th birthday with a group of his friends and one of his favorite teachers from middle school "crashed" the party as she said!!! Here's a pic of the majority of the kids that came to the part and their favorite teacher!!!

My baby is the 3rd from the left!! They had such a blast and what a wonderful group of kids!!!

Well, guess that's about it for me tonight...I want to thank you for stopping by..come again soon please...until then, have a wonderful evening and terrific tomorrow and a blessed life in Christ!