Thriving Art

  I'm ending my posting, today, with this expanding card made for my oldest GD......like her G-ma, she loves sparklies....LOL!!   Again I am entering this card in these challenges....they are new challenges so why not join me?? Allsorts Challenge #348: Bring on the BLING My Time to Craft challenge 314: Love is all round Hiding in My Craft Room challenge 236 Freestyle Inky Hugs Krisha

  Yes, I'm on a roll today with an other Valentine card.  This is an expanding card, where the front pulls away from the back.....kind of a honeycomb effect.   I am also entering this card in these fabulous challenges. Allsorts Challenge #348: Bring on the BLING My Time to Craft challenge 314: Love is all round Hiding in My Craft Room challenge 236 Freestyle Inky Hugs Krisha

Welcome ladies an gentlemen, children, dogs and cats to the LAST day of January 2016! With February breathing down on us, everybody seems to feel the "love" in the air, as Valentine's Day is quickly approaching..........can it be already??  I got those Christmas cards down just in time to put up Valentines........LOL!!   Today I have a couple of box cards, that I finally finished, who knew this little buggers would take so long to make.  Well, construction was a breeze......it's all the decorating that take the most time, but my GKs are all worth it.....*grin*   around the bottom As you can see I did have some fun with sparklies, feathers and glittered foam hearts, along with a LOT of die cuts.  Minnie is an old Disney stamp I have had for YEARS!  She was stamped, colored and fussy cut before being mounted on a clear plastic strip ( so her feet would show) There are quite a few challenges going on right now that these would fit into: Allsorts

I'm back this evening with an other Art Impressions Stamp card.  I do love these two laughing gals, they remind me of so many of my friends.....and at our ages we do the bowing, crossed legged stance when we laugh this hard......anyone else do this??? I stamped the image on a flesh colored cs, fussy cut it out, then stamped the image over and over again on the designer papers and fussy cutting everything out...................what else was there to do on a Friday morning?......besides clean and cook. (I did make dinner in the crock pot as I was making some breakfast for DH and myself) BAM! Done!.......LOL  The cleaning will still be there tomorrow......and probably the day after that....LOL!!! This was a fun card to put together using my nesting, stitched dies, glittered foam hearts, a lace cut out and some die cut flowers.  I did dig out some pearls for the centers of the flowers and for the blonde's earrings.  Everything, but the image, was just kinda laying on Betsy s

As promised on Tuesdays post here are the box cards and the expanding card.  Cindy at Plant's List  is the one that inspired me for the box cards......but I had to go to You Tube to get it explained to me.....LOL!! If your interested, all you have to do in the search box is type in "box cards" and a number of videos will pop up.   The first three are for our GKs in San Diego.....not worried about them seeing this....they have 3 kids 5 and under....no time.....LOL!!    This first one is for my only Grandson, Taylor.....who is almost 3 years old and is so very, very into trucks and going to work with his Dad.  Our son has a ready mix plant and trucks, and Taylor is in love with ALL of it....*grin* So his box card Valentine has ready mix trucks and dump truck mixed in with hearts. Since his is nearly 3, I kept his BC in primary colors as much as possible.    The bottom photo shows how the card folds flat and will fit into the envelope.  I also decorated around

  Welcome back T-Gang and hello to anyone else dropping by.  Today's post is about a new place DH and I stopped and had lunch at today (Monday here).  We had heard it had some descent BBQ and thought we would give it a try...........being BBQ competitors.....and loving OUR BBQ.....it is sometimes interesting to eat it at a restaurant.........sometimes!!!   Pit BBQ is always the best.....in my book....and the windows bragged on it being pit BBQ!   We were almost finished with our lunch (it was huge...both plates) and I have to admit......IT WAS GOOD!!  I will defiantly go back to Dickey's BBQ.  Everything was cooked perfect and the taste was spot on.  We each had a beer......gasp!  Yes, a beer just sounded good with BBQ.....we also had small glasses of water.  The drinks are for Elizabeth and the T-gang for T stands for Tuesday     I had the rib plate with green beans and coleslaw sides.......I was finished by this photo....LOL  DH had a 3 meat plate...

  It is midway through the More Mixed Media challenge and the challenge for this month is "Blue".... a nice winter color don't you think? All though our weather is more gray than blue, since the fog has rolled in.   This journal page started with some scraps of blue prints that I had die cut flowers from.  Gesso and blue paint were added then some of the left over die cut flowers (TH Tattered Flower die)  Once it all dried I took some Pitt pens and doodled all over it.   With DH home (way more than usual due to the rain) I have been relaxing on the sofa, in the evenings, watching the programs HE likes to watch (which he tapes then watches)  I'm not too much into some of the reality ( or should I say "almost" reality) programs he watches......but I digress. It dose give me time to just sit and doodle and spend time with him.......I do have to comment once in  a while.....LOL!!   I was scanning this page and putting it through MS Digital Phot

  Good Tuesday morning! Time to link up with E and the T-gang .  I was MIA last week.......just didn't have anything to say write about.  Ever have times like that?? But I'm back with my favorite coffee picture, since I am having my coffee out of the same boring cup you've all seen over, and over.   We've been having relatively nice weather for the past couple of weeks, then the rain started again yesterday........go figure.....I had planned a picnic at the playground for the GDs, who were here due to a school holiday!  We ended up messing about the house watched a movie, played cards and taught them a new board game.  They also took a turn at painting.....sorry no photos.....just didn't think about it....LOL! Next time I'll have a plan B!!!   Last night was my second paint night, with Brush and Blush this time.  I really liked their venue....not so many people.  It was at a wine and beer store called Imbibe.  So this is what we painted.....er...

  Well, I got the photo taken for yesterday's "On the screen" but just didn't follow through and get it posted. Ended up helping DH with the lights on the big truck.......well, helping might be an exaggeration....but I did have to stand there and tell him when the light came on.....LOL  His "Can you help me a minute" translates into ALL DAY!!   The prompt for today is "Unusual".  Last summer we had to remove an old tree (it was sick).  I was walking around the yard and discovered ........................ mushrooms!  OH NO! A fungi in my yard!    This has never happened before, but the rains must have kept that spot damp enough to grow these.     They seem to growing one on top of an other.    A little research proves me right........that spot has stayed damp, and it is over the old dead roots of the tree.... From: Weekend Gardener web site "Why Mushrooms Form Mushrooms found in lawns often develop from buried