Thriving Art

October 2, I had posted about the EERIE-Spooky ATC swap I had joined over at Unruley Paper Arts Yahoo Group..  Well, the mail came yesterday and here are the return ATC!! Such great art, please give these ladies a round of applause! (insert clapping sound here) I really wished the scan and/or photos would really show the great dimensional detail these have. Sharon Briss (our swap hostess) Cathy L. Calamas Electra Helene Huber Now don't YOU wished you had joined too? LOL If you haven't checked out this awesome group NOW would be the time to do so.  Where? Why HERE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Unruly/   Until later, Inky Hugs,

A couple weeks ago I had gone on about using up a bunch of scrap shapes that I just toss into a large baggie.  I started randomly gluing then to a journal page, then used gesso over the whole page. I used paint and ink to add some color.  I had dumped a small box of crayons on Betsy ( I have always loved NEW crayons, and just had to have a look at them LOL ) So there they were just laying there so pretty and new and screaming "Use Me! Use Me!".  What was I to do? I stripped the paper off them ( Oh no naked crayons !) grabbed my embossing gun and started to melt them onto my page, just through the middle.  Oooooh I liked that, looks like a rainbow puddle. Hence the sentiment written with a white out pen. WOYWW 177 Betsy displayed a journal page all gessoed and textured, ready and waiting.  I had bought some Modeling Paste at Hobby Lobby when we were on vacation.  I used a rather thick stencil and decided I didn't care for it, so I laid a pi...

Today was a good crafting/card making day, and this my second post of the day.  I had left Betsy full of things waiting last night and this morning, after visiting almost 100 blogs for WOYWW and drinking almost a pot of coffee, I got busy and started finishing some of the things.  Well, maybe it was the caffeine high that had me going.....LOL     Here is the color inspiration from Hand Stamped Sentiments.  So many rich autumn colors, as you can see it is challenge #141.  See web addy down below    Here is the sketch from Let's Capture These Sketches #36. Yes, this web addy will be below too.  I do love this sketch. Here is my finished card.  I have had this pumpkin stamp for eons, and it is still one of my favorite autumn stamps.  It is from Whipper Snapper. So on to getting the web addies for you.  These are both this weeks challenges so there is plenty of time to join in. For the Hand Stamp Sent...

Here is my take on the Sweet Sunday sketch challenge #170.  Since Totally Stampalicious has a color challenge of green, purple and black I decided to combine the two into one card.  There is still time to join both challenges, you can check them out here: http://totallystampalicious.blogspot.com/2012/10/winner-and-color-challenge.html and http://kgiron.blogspot.com/2012/10/sweet-sunday-sketch-challenge-170.html until later

So here it is Tuesday night US time and Wednesday UK time and that means it is WOYWW time!! http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2012/10/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-177.html  that's Julia's blog where all the happenings are going on, for what? you ask! Well for Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday, where you get to hop around the world and look at everybody works space. So this is Betsy this week, I was MIA last week and didn't get to play.  I got a new cutting mat while on vacation, it's so shinny and new.  To the left is an other piece of my vacation waiting to be decorated, card in the middle waiting for some type of sentiment and to the right is my art journal, prepped and also waiting for the next step. So tonight everything was left waiting....LOL  Now to start my journey around the world to see what is up with everyone else. Do drop by Julia's blog and join in the fun.......until later

Such a simple card that took me forever! I change color schemes over and over finally ended up with good ole black and white!  So today I finished this card and started a challenge card...........mojo is there, hands just aren't listening!  Also have a journal page all prepped and ready to start.......but do I DARE! Maybe I'll just straighten up Betsy a bit and call it a day for stamping, maybe get a couple of LOs finished for Dani's album.  I feel Father Christmas starting to breath down my neck and I still have half the album to get finished, and a memory quilt to get started on............I NEED AN AFTERNOON COFFEE!  Until later........today is Tuesday, so next post will be later tonight for WOYWW don't forget to check Julia's blog for great work spaces and stories LOL

  It feels so good to be home, even though it was a great trip.  Thank you to all that wished us well! So lots of pictures in this post, in case you want to skip them and go further down and see the new stash I won........ I got to see family while we stopped in Grand Junction for a night going to Denver and then again on the return trip. Grandma Krisha's new playhouse   So here is the new trailer we went to Denver to pick up. It has 2 slid-outs and a garage.I almost have everything moved from the OLD trailer to the new one, and I am ready to take 'er out for a trip!! This is at the dealership, and DH is contemplating pulling it over the Continental Divide and back to California.  It pulled like a dream, no problems!  There were still fall colors, but I missed the Aspens, up in the mountains by a couple of weeks.  There were a few down lower that still had leaves, but they were dropping fast. Only the first two p...