Thriving Art

Oh Ya , it's time for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday and we're linking up with Ms. Julia. It has been a busy day around here.  I finally finished scrubbing the outsides of all my kitchen cabinets and purging the insides.  I have hauled 4 large bags to trash and have three big boxes ready for the thrift store.  I had my shower and was in my PJs by 6:30 pm.  NOT having ANY craft time in FOUR days I was at the point of having to go to rehab for my with drawls....LOL  So I cranked up the Cricut, drop in a new program and started cutting Christmas ornaments.  There are many layers to these ornaments but I just wanted to get the basic shapes cut first, maybe layers tomorrow. Here is tonight's cuts on Betsy, on top of a TH Christmas pack of paper.  Also some good sale finds at the new Hobby Lobby they just opened here.  The place was PACKED with people, since it was the first week they were open, and I figure it will remain that way until after the holidays.  My plan of

Time for T with Elizabeth and Bluebeard because it is Tuesday once again!  New mug for today's T, or in my case coffee.  I saw this mug and had to have it, well, I really had to have two, the other one has a different sentiment on it, but that is for later.  I think they are for hot chocolate because they have a spoon that slides through the handle........ clever huh? Since we last met I have been busy, but unfortunately not in the crafting realm.  Our weather has finally taken a dip and has made me feel like getting some "good-deep" cleaning done. I have a large kitchen and have been cleaning out the cabinets, then scrubbing down the outsides.  Now that is 20 cabinets with doors and 10 drawers!  I will not say when the last time I did this was because it is very embarrassing, but there is a pile of stuff sitting at the end of the bar that is getting donated to the Goodwill store.  I mean, really do I need 25 flower vases?  I have every size from bouquets I have rece

This week starts a new challenge over at The Cheerful Stamp Pad, and it is a color challenge!  The sponsor for this challenge is Jelly Park Designs and the colors are, of course, purple and yellow!  For this first week I chose this pretty little flower arrangement and sentiment, and used water colors to color it in.  It is mounted on a dark purple (which never scans right) and then onto a white card base.  I went around the edges of the card with a yellow Gelato and added a stacked Tattered flower and leaf to the corner, with a purple pearl in the center. I am not a huge purple fan, in fact I usually only use it for challenges that call for it .  It was hard not to make this look like an Easter card, that is why it is mounted on a dark purple, and bright yellow around the edges. Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment and hop over to The Cheerful Stamp Pad and join the challenge. Inky Hugs Krisha

Smell my feet, give us something good to eat" LOL  I loved Halloween when I was a kid, or maybe it was just the candy, or the caramel apples one lady ALWAYS made and gave away.  Too bad children can't have those types of goodies unless they come from a family member. This stamp from Inkadinkado always reminds me of those times.  Nested on black glittered paper, then mounted on a copper shimmer rosette.  The spider web is dry embossed and grundged a little, and mounted to the same copper paper as the rosette.  The sentiment is a scrapbook boarder, trimmed to size.  This one went to one of the GDs. Thanks for stopping by. Inky Hugs Krisha

 Flat Susan and I took a drive into Bakersfield last week, so I could show her what this area is known for.  Bakersfield is about 20 miles from Shafter, but where I do all my shopping and business. This is the original sign that used to be across Union Ave. (old highway 99) coming into Bakersfield.  When it was still in it's original location you could walk across it.  Buck Owens bought the sign, from the city, and had it moved to the corner where his famous Crystal Palace is.  Buck was such a country music legend I doubt I have to explain who and what he was. This is the sign for the Crystal Palace.  It is a restaurant, bar, music and dance hall.  Great food and a lot of country western stars have performed here.  They also have a great Sunday buffet. Here is the Crystal Palace from across the street.  It hadn't opened yet, so we couldn't really get any closer because of all the traffic.  It is like a small museum inside with a lot of country music memorabilia

Goodness, these weeks are just flying by faster and faster.  Here it is time for WOYWW again, so hop over to the Stamping Ground , find out what it's about and join us. Betsy is cluttered again still, but this week it is with water paint projects that really need some attention.  We were gone, again, last weekend to a BBQ competition, but I'll hold that off for later this week. So all I have achieved this week is to get things out and ready.....sort of. To the right are card fronts, post cards and ATCs WC projects in the works, Halloween cards for the GKs (which have to be posted this week) my water color pallet, black permanent pens, my glasses on top of a tag I desperately need to get finished, spray bottle, stamps to finish the  WC projects, and clutter that really needs put away. Tomorrow (Wednesday here) will be rather busy, but I am going to try and make as many desks as possible. To all that have been leaving me comments, and I haven't returned the favor I do

Surprise!! I do own a tea cup and I actually have tea in it, and I still have Flat Susan with me. SO, we are linking up with Elizabeth of Altered Arts for T stands for Tuesday. A weekly trip around the blog block to see what everybody has in their cups, glasses or what ever they are drinking out of.  This is a spiced herbal tea, that I picked up at the store, now everybody knows I am a coffee drinker, but this sounded good.  A little bit on the sweet side for me, but I have enjoyed a couple cups of it in the evenings.  Since last we had Tea, I was super busy getting the Playhouse loaded and all the BBQ stuff gathered to make it to Lancaster, CA for an other competition over the weekend.  More will be posted about that later this week.  But I did grab my camera on one trip into Bakersfield, so I thought I'd share some of my stomping grounds with you, and what some of the things this area is known for.  So grab a cuppa and stroll along with me.  (Actually I drove LOL) This p

I started with a postcard size of water color paper then water colors for this base of this, with black and white pens making the frame.  I used the stencil (pictured below) and distressed ink for the image and a sentiment from Inkadinkado. This is the second week of the "Let's Stencil" challenge over at The Cheerful Stamp Pad, so there is still plenty of time. I am a tree and leaf lover, not a hugger, just a lover......LOL  I could not pass up this stencil when I saw it way last spring, and knew I would be using it this fall. What is your favorite stencil? Get it out and come play over at The Cheerful Stamp Pad. Inky Hugs Krisha

It's almost Halloween and I am in the mood for witches and spiders and bats, oh my!  LOL This is week my Rogue Redhead Designs DT card us using an image from the Milliner Misses Plat RRD007  .   She didn't want to miss the fun so I gave her a black hat ( with a little bling ), and some green make-up and she was happy........  I'm so glad I kept the back ground in a drab gray color then pop the image with the orange and black die cuts.  Glitter bat and framed skeleton are gifts from Lynn Stevens of Trash to Treasure . Fun card to make, and something a little different.............but that's me! Inky Hugs Krisha

What game you ask?  Why the game of Blog hopping called WOYWW, brought to Blogland by Mrs. Julia over at the Stamping Ground Betsy and I have been absent for about 5 weeks, doing what?  Well I took a photography class at the local JR. College.  It was really more of a "learn to work your camera" class. That was Wednesday afternoons from 2-4 PM, then it was straight to the back DR. for an adjustment, then straight to GD swim lessons...... Now that the class is over and swim lessons have come to an end  I ready to play again. As you can see Betsy is loaded and rather messy as I just got back from an RV trip and planning an other this next weekend, so things were dumped, left behind, left in the middle of things, well you get the picture (LOL)  Lower right corner are some ATCs that I had been working on this last RV weekend. (better view in last post)  A blue ribbon rosette I had just picked up off the floor, along with the angled piece from paper folder thing ( not real tec

I’m linking up with Elizabeth for T stands for Tuesday again this week, and late as usual. LOL Here is Flat Susan giving water color painting a try, if you came by for my last post it is the same picture from the adventures of FS.  You can see it HERE if interested. Over the weekend we were in Temecula for an RV trip, which was also posted yesterday.  Since I am an early riser I always take some crafty thing to work on while all is still quiet.  This trip I cut some water color paper into ATC size, post card size, and card front size.  With a permanent marker sketched different things, very loosely, then painted them with water color paint. Here are some ATCs I did for today.   TEA CUPS!  Different stages and different designs, all hand sketched and hand painted. There are still a few touch ups to be done and some lettering, or stamping.   As I said above they are all loosely sketched and NOT perfect, but VERY fun to make. I got the idea from a Strathmore video.  It is one

My guest for the past week has been Flat Susan, world traveler.  She arrived last Monday afternoon after a very long postage trip. She was frightfully hungry, so I made us some fried eggs on toast, which she devoured her share, but did complain about having it with coffee.  LOL Flat Susan is a tea drinker! Wednesday was the last photography class and FS wanted to tag along, here she is sitting on the edge of my camera case, ready to jump in. Unfortunately, we had weather that day, very strange for us at this time of the year.  We drove up to the college in blowing dust, then it rained, then the dust blew again.  So I figured it was safer if FS didn't come out of the camera case. Thursday I told FS to pack her bag we were going to head for Temecula first thing Friday morning.  She was very inquisitive about the trip, so I printed off a map so she could take a look, then it was get the Playhouse ready for the trip.  Temecula is about 3 hours south of where we live and is