Thriving Art

Well, it's been over a week since my last post.....and what a week it was.....but that's irrelevant. What I have to share today is more of a customer complaint/Friday smiles.....huh????  Let's just go back to yesterday (Thursday)..............   Having some time on my hands, before getting a back adjustment, I stopped in at Michael's Craft Store.......just for some spray adhesive.......     Here is a silly card that depicts my reaction (Friday Smiles)......AGAIN, since it isn't the first store I've walked into, that has it ALL out (customer complaint).  The ONLY defense, I could give them, was all the Halloween/Fall stuff was 70% off.......LOL.......and did I partake?  For sure!!   While wondering down the art supply isle, I started a conversation with a very nice lady that was looking for some good colored pencils.......as she had two adult coloring books in her arms.  She was gathering something to do while she go...

"Seems it never rains in southern California. Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before. It never rains in California, but girl, don't they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours" ( lyrics from It Never Rains in California) Those of you who are old enough to remember this song will most likely hum it for awhile.....LOL  It was definitely running through my mind  last Thursday, while taking these photos. Standing on my front porch,  I wish you could hear it, lots of thunder and lightning, even though the sky looks blue in this photo. Rain running off the roof....looking west   In a matter of minutes it was running down the street The low spot in the back yard, as the rain ran off the roof of the patio Same spot 15 minutes after it stopped pouring......yep, even though we do get to water the lawn, it is still dry enough to soak up the rain. The storm is passing.   Wednesday night, before this storm, we had a thunder and light...

Rather chilly here is southern CA this morning, only supposed to get to about 70' (F).......don't smirk....it was 102' (F) last Sunday....LOL  The temp will climb back up into the 80's this next week, but for now I'm enjoying a little "autumn" weather, and thinking about pumpkins........I'm so ready for pumpkin pie.......are you? With pumpkins on the brain, Halloween right around the corner and a new Cricut Explore Air, I gave making a pop-up card a try. This is the front of the card, the black is a very glossy paper and the pumpkin was cut out of an orange glitter paper.   It opens up to this........lots of die cuts......and so much fun.   A few close ups.   I am entering this in these challenges: Dies R Us challenge 35: ghoul friends     Order of the Opus Gluei challenge: Halloween       613 Avenue Create chalenge: Anything Goes   Just Us Girls challenge: color week     ...

Yep, this week I and going to take you through the weekend happenings.....backwards!!   Sunday Hannah, G-ma Carol and I went to the Antique and Peddler's show.  It was held outside at Pioneer Village, a museum of OLD Kern County buildings.   It was a HOT day, but we weathered through it.....*grin*  There were some very pretty tea set for sale, but we just admired them, then, to be silly, we all plopped on a hat and took a selfie!!!  I think Hannah was having a lot of fun having both her G-mas all to herself for the afternoon. We were about to walk by this tree, when Hannah pointed it out how different it was, so we took pictures, and I know Carol and I have been here many time and have never noticed it before.  We have seen many Sycamores, but none that have bark quite like this one, and even looked them up on the internet.............. guess what I found out????     Platanus racemosa California Sycamore.   ...

Just a quick post this morning to share a card I made, and had sitting in "draft" mode, waiting to be posted.  I bought this stamp sometime ago and have used it for many different things.  It is rather large, but I have even managed to put it on an ATC........well not the whole image.....LOL!!  It is a C.C. Design rubber stamp. The image was colored with Inktense and an aqua brush, then fussy cut and mounted on a scrap of "old" designer paper.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts. I am a sucker for sunflowers, even had my kitchen decorated with them, until I set the kitchen on fire........but that's an other story for later. Please let me know you came by, even if it's just a "Hi" Inky Hugs Krisha

A little Wednesday/Hump Day humor for you today, before getting ready to dash out the door.   I went on a small card making spree a week ago and got around to making up cards with images that were colored......but stuck in a pile......oh yes, I do have one of those.  I got them all loaded and waiting in the "wings" for days like today, when the afternoon will become very busy in about an hour. I do love my Artist Impressions stamps, especially all the girlfriend ones. This image actually has them sitting on a bench, but I trimmed that away while fussy cutting it all out.  I have had these embossed picture frames for ages.............way back from when I was really, really into scrapbooking.  I sat the GFs on the rim of the frame, with their legs hanging down.  Some very old plaid paper for a mat and then onto the card base.  The sentiment ( from Paper Smootches) just "jumped" onto the card, seemed to fit so I left it.....*grin* So now, I must ...

  Hello T-gang and friends, time to take the whole world in a single cup......cause it's Tuesday once again!! Time to grab your drink and see what's going on with the T-gang.    I've had all the coffee I can handle for today and now I'm drinking my protein shake......yummmmmmm!!  It has 1/2 banana, 1/2 cup blueberries, 1 scoop protein powder and some fizzy flavored water, and ice to make it a cold slushy shake.  Here we are, last Friday night, making cheer posters for the Spartan's football team.  Three 9 year old girls each had to make two posters.  I had Cricut all the letters and numbers.  The helmets and large football were hand cut.  They had bought some other die cuts to add to them too. The top one is the first one Jalynn made and the Bottom one is Hannah's......at this point they were laying out the letters and gluing them down The top poster is the one Rachel is working on The Moms got in the way o...

A LITTLE REMINISCING   FROM LAST YEAR   Monday, September 22, 2014 This is not what this page started out to be.......but isn't that just the way it goes at times? If this had been my intentions as I started this page I wouldn't have glued down all those scraps of paper first, or at least left the center smooth to paint on......LOL  All the color is acrylic paint, the leaves, along the edges are modeling paste (note to self: Need to get more made ASAP) The falling leaves with the rhyme are die cuts from TH Tattered leaves.  I haven't drawn, or painted a Snoopy in y-e-a-r-s!!  Always loved that little mutt!   Inky Hugs Krisha