Thriving Art

    Darnell at djkardkreations  is hostessing an event tomorrow!! Hit the link, find out all the fun and funny details and get ready for some laughs...........

This morning I am drinking my coffee out of a cup everyone has seen many, many times, so I'm using my Pinterest photo again.  I really need to look into actually buying a cup like this...if I cold find one for sale....LOL! It is a bit chilly ( for SOCAL) this morning, for being almost April.  We had some very threatening clouds roll over us last night, but no rain.....just a lot of wind! It is starting out to be an other busy week.  I had the GDs yesterday, the last day of Spring break, and that is why I'm a tad late for linking up with T- Gang .   Today, and possibly all week, I am going to help with a non-profit organization that helps women get back into the work field. Thank you to all that dropped by last week and left me comments on the cards I posted.  I hope I got back to everybody.  I'm trying not to spend so much time on the PC and just keeping it to a few hours in the morning......over my coffee.....and just a tiny bit of creativity time....*grin* "

Well, here we are at the end of an other week, the last Friday of March.......how can it be??? :o) This morning I was carousing the neighborhood, of Blogland, and stumbled on a challenge that looked like a fun one to try.  After hours of trying to "make" it happen......am I the only one?? I finally went a totally different direction, and making myself step out of my comfort zone......just a little.  I have had this stitched diamond die set for quite a while, but haven't really used them.  I don't do much with diamond shapes and was wondering "why?" I even bought them.......am I the only one?? I made diamond shaped frames and then in-laid them into the card base.  A die cut hello for the center.  The butterfly is a remnant of the first direction I was headed, I die cut and embossed it, then rubbed some gold over it. The comfort zone thing????  Well, I would normally center, I mean totally center, the diamond shapes!  I know, it wasn't a "bi

  Breath in deeply and breath out slowly......the weekend is nearly here!!   This is an other great stamp set from Stampendous that I have been playing with.  Yes, I know the chair looks all cattywampous, but it is the angle I took the photo.......honest!!!   I chose to put the marker to the stamp again, then blend and add some shading.  I am really liking NOT having the black outline on the images.  Makes more of a water color painting style....LOVE it! The inside of the card reads..." Fine a few moments to just sit back......rest your eyes".    I'm ready to hit the beach, dig my toes into the sand, sit and rest my eyes........how about you? But, in reality........the weather can't make up it's mind yet.........our Easter celebration is this weekend.....I need to get a place ready to plant some veggies..........the front flower beds desperately need attention...............and the house needs a good "spring" cleaning.....LOL!  

  Well, here it is "hump day", middle of the week and supposed to be down hill from here to the weekend.  Up hill, down hill......the weeks are just flashing by, with no intention of slowing down!   I have been enjoying this stamp and die set from Stampendous.  The images.....one is the flowers and the other is the mason jar....can be stamped and cut from snippets that are just begging to be used...*grin*  I used marker to stamp to create the image and then marker and water to blend it all in.....doing away with the black outline and the color book look.   Once it was dry and die cut I added it to an embossed, die cut piece ( which the GDs were all to happy to make me a pile of).  To pull it "off" the white card base a piece of designer paper was used.    There are two fantastic challenges that I am going to enter this card in.   Hiding in My Craft Room #243     Pixie's Craft Workshop #221     I encourage you to drop by bot

  Tuesday's card was inspired by all three of these challenges:    Inspire by All the Little Things #7   Hiding in My Craft Room #243 Just Us Girls Pixie's Craft Workshop #221 The stamp is an oldie but goodie, stamped on a snippet, then hand painted.  I fussy cut it all out and mounted it on a snippet (that just fit :))  The little brass dragonfly charm has been floating around my desk for months! Thanks for stopping by, Inky Hugs, Krisha

  Just a quick post, to get this week started, with this really quick and simple card, before the GDs arrive.  It is "Spring Break" so there is no school. (We used to call it Easter vacation). I used stamps from a new set of Recollections, that also included a stencil, but it was set aside.   I chose one flower, one sentiment and three colors of stamp pads.....that really is a purple and not a blue color. It was all stamped DTP.  My inspiration for this card came from: Just Us Girls   Fun challenge, and fun card to make.  This challenge runs this week so there is time for many more to join.   Must get ready before the girls arrive and our "Play Day" begins.   Inky Hugs Krisha         

A quick offering  of a card made with a new Stampendous stamp and die set.  I have to say this is really a great set, the dies fit the images perfectly.  You get the jar and the bouquet of flowers ( stamp and die) and a few sentiments in this set. I did a double stamp and cut the bouquet, then layered them to make a larger bouquet. All had been hand painted with marker ink.  I snippet of a paper doily was added to the ink pad swiped table top.  The Happy Easter stamp is an oldie but goodie . I am entering this card here: Stamping Sensations has a month challenge of "Flower Power" in progress for the rest of the month, so there is time for you to join in the fun too. Short and sweet (?) LOL!! Inky Hugs Krisha

  Are you here for the blarney? Or for T-day?.....or possibly both? Blarney: noun 1. flattering or wheedling talk; cajolery. 2. deceptive or misleading talk; nonsense; hooey: a lot of blarney about why he was broke. verb (used with or without object) , blarneyed, blarneying. 3. to flatter or wheedle; use blarney: He blarneys his boss with the most shameless compliments.   Well here is a no blarney fact: it is time to once again join   Elizabeth and the T-gang , so why does "Betsy" look like she is entering WOYWW?  Well.......this is how I am starting this week......yep!  What a mess and only 1 cup of coffee, but I was on my way for a refill when I grabbed the camera and took this photo......"grin"  I couldn't possibly even begin on just one cup of coffee, especially on a Monday morning!!   So what's been happening around here? Some of my flow

We all have them, some of us have hoards of them..........markers!!  Water based markers, alcohol markers, cheap ones and expensive ones and the list can even continue further. They were really the rage, years ago, just to color  a stamped image.  Now they have taken us down the artist road with all the colors for blending, and classes on HOW to blend to get those luscious shaded images.   I went back to a time to when using your marker to actually color the stamp was the thing to do.  All things old are becoming "new" again.....*grin*     I chose this delicate vine of flowers stamp, most people prefer to use a solid image, but I really like this stamp and have had it for years.  For those who have not tried this, it is rather simple........color your image with a water base marker.....now, we used to "huff" the stamp......huff??? Just means to give it a good moist breath of air.  I use a small misting bottle of water, these days, held about a foot aw