Thriving Art

Joining Elizabeth, the Altered Book Lover  for a second look on the 2nd day of the month.  Here is a re-post from 2010.   Friday, November 5, 2010 One for LO-LO That means one for Lori, she calls me LA-LA, ya know, the first two letters of our name, guess ya need to be here! She is the one person that got me back into stamping again, just a year ago, plus a couple of days. All she said was "Why don't you stamp anymore?" So I made her a funny little card, which she has on her desk at work. Just to show her I have come quite far this year ( thanks to all my blogger/stamper friends and their inspirations ).This card was created for her. A new stamp from, you guessed it INKADINKADO was the inspiration for this card. As it lay there, unopened, next to my elbow as I was finishing up the last two projects it kept saying "Use me with the old lady, use me with........well ya get the idea. LOL She is a stamp from Idlwild, and is very used and loved de...

  Here we go AGAIN meeting up with the Tuesday T-GANG over at E's  I did take some time last week and tried to get caught up on some J52 pages and some 12 pages in 12 months.  I have fallen way behind, but I AM determined to get them caught up. ....(grin).  This is a page from the 12 in 12 journal, the prompt for May was "early Morning, comfort and the bonus challenge was collage.  I painted the background and cup with some inks I made from Easter egg dying kits.....the kind kids use to color eggs with.  I like to sit on the patio in the mornings, have my coffee, enjoy my flowers and watch the sun come up.    In cleaning up all the journal mess.......and it was a frightful mess.......I started looking for the supplies for when the 8 year olds would arrive.   Wellllllll, that ended up in a HUDGE......MASSIVE cleaning of the craft area.......but I now have my lap top on a lower counter and can keep it set up all the time, ...

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   ...