Thriving Art

I'm here for Tea with Elizabeth and the T-gang a littler later than usual, since it is already Tuesday and I usually get my post ready on Monday night.   DH and I spent the weekend about 110 miles west of here at an RV resort (fancy name for a RV park....grin) in Paso Robles.......not quite to the beach, but a place we have never stayed before.  We have been to Paso Robles for the Mid-State Fair and for wine tasting and a few other misc. things, but we have never actually stayed here.  We stayed at The Vines RV Resort, fairly new place, very nice and clean and very picturesque.   I took over 170 pictures with my camera and probably as many with my phone.......no, I didn't post them ALL.......LOL   I was lucky enough to meet the artist that did the sand blasting on the window pictured above.  The first night they had wine tasting and a couple of venders, and she was one of them.  Very nice person to talk to...............and ...

The current challenge over at Always Playing with Paper is an inspirational photo (see below).  Many blogs challenges are using photos for inspiration these days. At first I wasn't fond of using them, but then after thinking about the photos, I realized there are SO many ways to draw inspiration from the photo.  There are the shapes, colors, and themes.........so what's not to like????  HERE From this photo my eyes were drawn to the yellow and to the daisies. My daisy is stamped on a yellow plaid vellum and colored with markers.  Easy Peasy!!! I adhered the vellum to the card base with pastel green pears and also used them for a little detail on the image.  The sentiment is a die cut. There is still time to enter this challenge........what inspires you in this photo? Inky Hugs Krisha 

Well, here we are on Tuesday (actually Monday here) once again, how the weeks are just flying by......before long it'll be time to put up "C" decorations again........OMG!!!   LOL!  But in the meantime I'll just link up with T-Gang   again.   Been a really crazy week around here, and it usually is the week before a BBQ competition, thank goodness this first one is in our own backyard.....so there was no traveling.......and some of us got to come home and sleep in our own beds! The making of the rubs (seasonings) for the brisket.  I make sure I stay totally out of his way.....of course there is no room left for me anyway......LOL   AND he dropped my coffee grinder and broke it!. On to the BBQ itself......lots of pictures....but I'll keep it short. The morning of the BBQ the sky looked like this.......it had poured rain the night before......no I'm NOT kidding.......rain HERE in May?????? But it all burned off and was a beauti...

    I couldn't just leave, or trash, all the Washi tape leftovers from my earlier post ( you can see it HERE)   .  What I used for this card was the Washi tape stripes I cut the shapes out of and the white die cuts from the faces of the cards.  I used all the same steps, from the last post, to inlay the shapes.   Once all these steps were done, I mounted it on black cs.  Using the same colors of Washi tape, I covered the front of the card and mounted front to it.  A couple of small sentiments.......from the stash, completed the look.   Oh, yes, then there were the circles that were laying there (once again see the last post) The top two rows are embedded in the card and the bottom row is just the outline, glued to the front, with a very old sentiment added. I want to thank Shop Our Stash  for giving me MUCH NEEDED inspiration with this challenge. There is still time to join this challenge, so get out that old W...

I've been in a real "funk" for some time, no real desire to make cards, no desired to blog, only keeping up with the   T-Gang on Tuesdays . I have been making bottle tags ( Bottom of post HERE ) till it suddenly has become a JOB and I DON'T want a job.........I'm retired and want to stay that way....LOL  So, while taking a break, and browsing my dashboard.........I came across a challenge that really INSPIRED me............OH! AND IT FELT GOOD......(grin)     Washi tape, die cut and embedded in card.   The challenge is over at   Shop Our Stash , and it is to use old Washi tape.  ALL my Washi tape is old...LOL.....so that was a "no brainer".  I had bought some dies, a long while back, or as my youngest son used to say ......"far, far ago."   The negative parts of card one.   I dug them out and had a really "good" play, and here is how it went......... Stripes of tape on card stock   ...

    Is it just me, or is the month of May on a FAST track? Here it is Tuesday once again and as I look back at my last couple of post, they are all T-days with Elizabeth .  Makes me wonder...."Just what have I been doing with my time????"   This last weekend was Mother's Day, here in the States.  DH and I attended a Mother's Day Brunch at our favorite winery , Le Cuvier.  It was a beautiful day with warm sunshine and just a slight breeze. They served the brunch out on the patio, under a huge old oak tree. (I know that looks like a ton of wine glasses, but they set a glass for each wine and for plain or sparling water)   I forgot my camera, at home on the bar, so I took pictures with my cell phone.......thank goodness for technology!!!  Here people are beginning to arrive, the brunch was at 11 a.m., we were each greeted  with a spectacular Chardonnay wine.    The whole menu was centered around ...

  Iced tea started for the party   Here it is Tuesday once again, cannot believe how fast this spring is just slipping away.  Do you feel summer bearing down on you too?    Well Tuesday means it is time to link up with Elizabeth, the Altered Book Lover and join the T-gang for a thirsty hop around the world.   Saturday was our GD, Megan's, 5th birthday.   The night before the birthday party Megan's Aunt Virginia and I made this center piece.  They are supposed to be, or represent bottles of fingernail polish.  They are frosted marshmallows ( more sugar on top of sugar) with a tootsi rolls for the tops of the bottles.......LOL what a riot these were to make, and it wasn't long and the two 8 year olds were helping.  Lord keep us off of Pinterest!!!!!!   The birthday party was great, even though it really got hot that day.  Lucky there was a pool to cool the guest down after all the festivities....

Hello my friends, it is once again the second day of a new month, and time to join Elizabeth the Altered Book Lover  is sharing something a " Second " time.     I was roaming through all the pictures in Pica's Web, where all my blog pictures get automatically stored, and came across this little wall hanging I made 5 years ago.  Since I am on my lap top these days, I don't have all my blog posts at my fingertips so I can't just re-post the post........LOL   I do know this was made 5 years ago, because this is my birthday month, and this month I'll celebrate 65 years........yes, I really am THAT old.   The scan of this hanging isn't very good, rather grainy looking, but that was as good as I got with the old scanner/printer.  At that time my camera wasn't much better..........LOL!!       It is rather entertaining to go "back" through the past posts, or just the pictures that have been shared, to find something y...