Thriving Art

Happy T-Day Deskers!!  Thanks for stopping by, and if you came from Elizabeth, The Altered Book Lover , and enjoyed the walk through the Botanical gardens with her, then your right in time for tea.......ooops!  Looks like all my cups are dirty, hope you brought your own....LOL! As the title of this post says, we are getting the Playhouse back on the road again.  We are leaving tomorrow morning for Temecula, CA, about 4 hours south of here.....depending on how many stops we make along the way....grin.  This trip is an annual rally for the owners of Heartland RVs.  Last year was our first year to attend and we enjoyed all the people so much we are making it a longer stay this year.  PLUS it is right next to a Casino (this is on Indian reservation) and it is also in the heart of one of the southern WINE countries.......yay!  This is where we took Flat Susan last year (remember Neet's little world traveling friend?)   Needless to s...

  Making the 20 minute drive home, from Bakersfield, this morning I was thinking about the Journal 52 prompt for this week:   "Week 42: Magic For this week’s prompt, think of something magical. Maybe it’s a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, a magical place, mythical creatures, fairies, or even some magic potions for those of you ready for Halloween!" Well, I'm about finished with Halloween, maybe one more card to go with the book of spells. (see my last post)  So, my mind was wondering about what I wanted to do that would incorporate "Magic".  I kept going back to the Harry Potter movies (I'm a super fan of Harry Potter ya know) I loved the Sorting Hat in the very first movie and decided to go with that.  I had to look up some pictures on the internet to remember just what it looked like........I have slept since the last time it was on TV, even though I do own all of the Harry Potter movies, the internet was faster......grin! I st...

   Happy WOYWW deskers!  If you don't know what this is all about the info is HERE. Betsy is showing signs of the Halloween spirit this week.  I finished the step Halloween cards and a G45 book of spells for a friend.  There's my little addy book to t he left, a pile of Christmas embellishments all sorts of pens and pencils scattered about, an empty candy wrapper on the bright pink lid, large bottle of water, my cell phone and an envy I was getting ready to send the book in.  What's missing, cause the picture looks empty???  My glasses!!!  At the moment I was taking the picture, they were on my head holding back my hair.  I got it cut last week and this new style will not go into a pony tail any longer, yes, I finally got a grown up hair style!....LOL Here is a closer look at the step cards that were scattered all over Betsy last week.  The same, but different.   This is the front of the G45 book of spells....

For TEA this week I have a multitude of pictures to share.  We traveled to Ramona, CA for a cancer fundraiser that was put on for one of my son's employees.  It was discovered, early this summer, that he the had three cancer tumors, stage 4 in his head.  They could remove all but one, and he is right at the end of all the treatments and is doing quite well, for the circumstances.  So, with a multitude of bills, even though he has insurance, my son, friends and family put on this fundraiser. Of all the pictures I took and I didn't get one of Brian and his family, of course just trying to get them together FOR a picture was an other story.  His daughter and son were too busy having fun with all the rest of the kids.  I don't know how much was raised, but there were over 200 people at $20.00 a plate or $40. for a family.  Brian has kept a positive attitude and a smile on his face, and we are blessed to call him and his family our friends. So, now ...

  Betsy is silently waiting my return as this is how I left her Monday night, full of Halloween bits and pieces for a couple of step style cards.  All the die cuts were made on the Cricut using the Haunted Holidays cartridge.  There is the glass of dirty WATER, looks like milk this week....LOL  I'll have  to explain that one of these days.  Last week I said I didn't care for my new Ott light, that is the base there on the left.  It isn't the light itself, love Ott light, but the design of the thing.  As you can see, I can't see, according to the two pair or reading glasses laying there.  I always try to keep a pair on Betsy and happened to be wearing a pair when I came in to snap a picture of my cell phone.   This is the message that kept accruing on all cell phones as an "Alert" as I was procrastinating about joining the WOYWW gang this week.  Yep, procrastinating cause the Playhouse is sitting outside (most likely cove...

  Over the weekend I had a little "playtime" in one of my journals.  When I had finished the lettering I painted just the letters with Gesso, so the inks wouldn't soak in, and I could smear them around a little.  Then I went back and added the white gel pen.   Since I did not Gesso the whole Dream page,  the inks soaked through in spots on the back.  So I added the same ink sprays to this page and did a tangle, and again with the white gel pen, finished it. Thanks for stopping by. Inky Hugs Krisha

Happy T-day!  Yep, an other week has disappeared into the yesterdays, and it is once again time to link up with Elizabeth, the Altered Book Lover  to see what's being drank in Blogland.  If you didn't come by way of Elizabeth's blog then take a moment and dash over there.  She is hosting a great post about her neighborhood and their Safe Communities Event.   My "Today" journal has me drinking from a cracked cup....LOL.  I really do sometimes wonder just where my brain and MOJO take off to when I look back on some of these journal pages.  Absolutely hate the background on this.....oh well.....  Journal 52 week 41  has us working in mosaic this week.  So I did a little stamping and coloring, and spritzing and spraying and cutting and gluing and this is the finished page.  The Stamps are of course Jofy stamps   These are three "Quick" Christmas cards I slipped in and did one afternoon.  I had bought all the ...

Die cuts, stamps, Distressed inks and acrylic paint   Getting in the spirit of autumn and October "fun" with a couple of journal pages. Colored pencil and markers   Keeping this post SHORT, 'cause it's gonna be an other busy day for me. I really thought I would start slowing down, but I guess there really isn't any rest for the wicked.....grin   New sign for Betsy, only today it should say The Witch is OUT...LOL   I am even scheduling this post, as I am at my GDs soccer game this morning......grin Thanks for stopping by...............let me know you came by and I will return the visit........as always   Inky Hugs Krisha

  "For this week’s prompt, experiment with a new technique you haven’t tried yet. It can be something you’ve found on Pinterest or watched on YouTube or just trying a new medium you haven’t worked with yet." say the head master of Journal 52.   If you have been here before (my blog) you know that I am always trying something I've seen here or there (usually You Tube and Pinterest since these seem to be my favorite haunts).  So there really isn't much, if anything I haven't tried, except playing with the wax media.....which I am not interested in at all.  That left me with what?????  I decided to work with alcohol inks on WET Gesso, to start with....grin. I used a brayer and mushed it all in, added more alcohol and used an acrylic roller with rubber bands wound around it, that had been inked with a water base ink.  I even tried using  some Sharpie markers, then hitting them with alcohol spray (since these are alcohol base pens). ...

Linking up with Julia for WOYWW and keeping it short and sweet this week.  What's on Betsy?  Well for starters a new Ott light, not as crazy about this one, but I have duel lighting again.  There is my Journal 52 page to the left, glass of dirty water (no it's not juice....grin) My whatch-a-ma-call-it roller, acrylic roller with rubber bands on it, my glasses, stamps I've been playing with, autumn journal page in the center and bits and bobs around the edges.  Neither journal page has been posted yet, so I guess I should have thrown something over them, but that's what's on Betsy this week. Thanks for stopping by Inky Hugs Krisha

Linking up with Elizabeth, the Altered Book Lover for Tuesdays drink sharing.  This is the next page of my "Today" journal, all about tea, coffee, and other drinks.  When I finished playing with the inks the colors reminded me of the brightly colored ceramics we saw in Mexico some years back.  So the cup was designed with that in mind. If you follow my blog you will notice that I have not posted anymore of  31 days of journal pages.  I found I wasn't really as interested once we got going on it.  There is also a time factor, I really didn't want to just throw something onto a journal page just for the sake of saying I did a page......know what I mean? This is the time of the year when the sun comes through the patio door in such a way that it illuminates this early in the morning.  Coming into the kitchen, for that first cup of coffee I catch the sight of this.  It always makes me happy, like a promise that this is going to be a GOOD day. ...

What a challenge, die cuts only!  Autumn, mmmm, my favorite time of year.  So what could be better than to combine the two....right? To keep this post short, cause you know how the images were made, I'll just tell you which challenges I'm entering this in.   Unruly Paper Arts October RAQ My Time to Craft challenge 261 Die Cuts ONLY The Cutting Edge   form inspiration photo Allsorts Challenge  Autumn Now I'm off to link up this card, get ready to head to the gym, get some chores done, and be back in time to link up with Elizabeth, the Altered Book Lover for Tea on Tuesday. Have a creative day Inky Hugs Krisha Life is too short to act normal!!!!

Well, it is the time of year (around here) that the harvests are going on.  They are shaking the almond trees and sweeping up the nuts, making it a very dusty time of year!  Having dark wood furniture you can really see how bad it is, especially if you are slow in dusting.....like  me...LOL  Actually you would have to dust your furniture at least twice a day, if you have any open windows.  My motto is "I don't care if you write in my dust, just don't date it!" So on to the card.  I have had the pumpkin and sentiment stamps for a long time, and tend to be my favorites for harvest time.  The wheat shafts have been around for a while but they fall into the NBUS category, until now...grin.   The background papers are all from the stash pile , I really need to concentrate on getting that pile whittled down to maybe just a stack.   How do you use your scraps? I am entering this card in a couple of challenges. Less is More wee...

Happy Monday Blogland!  It is a nice cool morning here in southern California, but will warm up as the day progresses.  We are experiencing (hopefully) the last hooray of summer with temps getting into the mid to upper 90' (F) toward the end of the afternoons.  But the nights and morning are wonderfully cool, and the AC is only getting used in the late afternoons now.......yeah! Sunday I had some good ole play time at Betsy making some cards for a few challenges that I had jotted down.  Seems like ages since I made cards....just for the fun of it!  This card shows a little stencil play along the edge of a cream based card, using TH Clock stencil, and Distressed walnut brown ink, then a boarder of brown Washi tape and a sentiment from Recollections.  Quick and simple does it for this one. I am entering this card in the following challenges: Addicted to CAS challenge 49 Use a Stencil This is a 2 week challenge that has just started and the...

Day two we were to "write a small page about one of the best memories or favorite past times spent with family or friends, using photos, drawings and etc."  I did a rough sketch of the cabin we used to have when our boys were young.  I was going to clean it up and use a marker, then changed my mind.  This was a very rustic cabin, that had been built originally for a forest ranger.  It sat on a hill side, where the back of the cabin was on the ground and front porch was on wood/log posts and that was the foundation.  We would drop a marble on the floor and never knew which direction it would roll....grin!  There was a "snow" pole that had to be in place early in the fall, incase there was an early snow, so the roof would stay over our heads. We cooked and heated the place with wood burning stoves, and the wood had to be hauled in.  We eventually added a "wood" shed to the right of the porch so we could stock it during the warmer months.  Unti...

  Imagine that you have been delivering mail door to door, house to house year after year. Seeing one bland, plain, boring mailbox after another bland, plain, boring mailbox. Now picture yourself as the homeowner, picking up your mail day after day from your very own bland, plain, boring old mailbox. What if you could decorate your mailbox in any way you wish?   October 1st, yesterday, began the 31 journal pages in 31 day challenge and here is my first page.   I do know my mail carrier personally, and I think she would get a good laugh it I were to really do this to my mailbox.   In posting these to my blog, they will run a day late.  We don't get the prompts until THAT day, which for me in early in the morning.  This is a Facebook group and is linked up with Art Journal Junkies FB group.  Once this challenge is complete I am thinking of dumping FB, just too much garbage on it anymore.......and most of it is reposts from other sites, ...